In another development on the swirling morass of information around the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump, now the local SWAT team is speaking out. Monday, on ABC’s “Good Morning America,” members of that team talked about the events of that day and blamed failures in communication and planning for the campaign rally.
Team members said that the day of the rally, they had no contact with the agents on Trump’s Secret Service detail.
“We were supposed to get a face-to-face briefing with the Secret Service members whenever they arrived, and that never happened,” said Jason Woods, team leader for Beaver County’s Emergency Services Unit and SWAT sniper section.
“So I think that was probably a pivotal point, where I started thinking things were wrong because it never happened. We had no communication,” Woods said. “Not until after the shooting.”
By then, he said, “it…
