“Put simply, the evidence obtained by the Task Force to date shows the tragic and shocking events of July 13 were preventable and should not have happened.”
Those stark words are contained in a damning House Task Force report about the Butler, Pennsylvania, assassination attempt against former president and current Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.
The preliminary report, released on Monday, reveals the abundance of scrutiny that the US Secret Service has faced since Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, in plain sight, opened fire on the Trump rally from a rooftop just outside the event’s security perimeter, killing one attendee and injuring two others in addition to the former president.
The task force’s final report is expected by December 13.
The task force not only found that Crooks “had been under scrutiny by the Secret Service’s state and local partners” for roughly 40…
