A new transcript of more than seven hours of communications on the day a would-be assassin shot Donald Trump at a Pennsylvania rally last month reveals that communication between the Secret Service and the police was at times nonexistent and led to the failures that almost cost the former president his life. The Washington Post, the outlet that obtained the transcript, reports that even though authorities had the shooter on their radar and knew there was a danger, they lost sight of him for 20 minutes.
The transcript and accounts provide the clearest picture yet of the minute-by-minute hunt for [the shooter] Crooks, and show how he evaded police and climbed onto the roof of a nearby building undetected. Police lost track of Crooks for 20 minutes after he was seen with the range finder, the transcript shows. When he was spotted again, walking toward the area where he would gain…
