The U.S. Secret Service had numerous security breakdowns on the day that a would-be assassin opened fire on former President Donald Trump at a political rally in Pennsylvania, according to senior U.S. officials leading the investigation into the agency’s failures that day.
The Washington Post reported that the officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said that the Secret Service had an “alarmingly slipshod strategy” to protect Trump that day from being shot at.
Secret Service officials planned to use flags to block anyone from having a clear line of sight on the former president as he spoke on stage in Butler on July 13. However, the resources that were deployed were not used to position the flags in a way that would block a line of sight on Trump.
Investigators found that there were significant discrepancies between how the Secret Service operates for political…
