Local law enforcement officials from Pennsylvania told a House panel Thursday that they got little guidance on security at the rally site where former President Donald Trump was shot in July—and a former Secret Service agent said the lack of planning was highly unusual.
Chairman Mike Kelly, R-Pa., opened the first hearing of the House Task Force on the Attempted Assassination of Donald J. Trump by blaming the Secret Service for an “entirely preventable” tragedy at the campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
Kelly said the task force’s investigation identified three key factors to the security failures that could have left Trump dead rather than clipped by a bullet in the right ear.
“First, Secret Service planning, or perhaps more accurately, their failure to adequately plan, created confusion among the agency’s law enforcement partners,” Kelly…
