DHS report: Secret Service missed alerts at Trump shooting

A Department of Homeland Security inspector general report released on Thursday concluded the U.S. Secret Service missed multiple opportunities to detect and disrupt the July 13, 2024, assassination attempt on then-presidential candidate Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. The 64-page report detailed a cascade of security failures that allowed gunman Thomas Matthew Crooks to fire eight shots from a nearby rooftop, grazing Trump’s ear, killing one rally attendee, and wounding others.

The report found that local law enforcement first notified a Secret Service communications room of a "suspicious person" on the roof of the American Glass Research International complex at 6:09 p.m., just two minutes before Crooks opened fire at 6:11 p.m. Despite increasingly urgent radio transmissions from police, the Secret Service protective detail guarding Trump was never warned. The agency missed 102 such radio transmissions because it operated from a separate location 257 yards away and had failed to establish a joint communications room with local authorities.

Instead, Secret Service personnel received only five phone calls and three text messages about the suspect, which...