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Six secret service agents were suspended without pay or benefits after the attempt of a gun to take President Donald Trump’s Life in a Rally of Pennsylvania last July.
Matt Quinn, Deputy Director of the Agencies, He told CBS News Wednesday that “they were not going to shoot [their] Capital of this, “but they said they are” laser focused on fixing the root cause of the problem. “
Quinn told him at the exit that the penalty of the agents varied from 10 to 42 days of unpaid license, and added that they were placed in restricted roles with less responsibility once they returned to work. He said that disciplinary actions agreed with a federal mandatory process.
Fox News Digital contacted the secret service for independent confirmation, but did not receive a response at the time of publication.
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Republican candidate Donald Trump is seen with blood on his face surrounded by secret service agents, since this task outside the scenario of a campaign event at Butler Farm Show Inc. in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13, 2024. (Rebecca Drug/AFP through Getty Images)
The agency faced strong criticism after the failure of security, which allowed the armed man Thomas Crooks to open fire to the stage of the rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, On July 13, 2024.
Corey Comeradore, a 50 -year -old firefighter, father and husband Attending the demonstration, was killed while Trump’s ear was grazing by a bullet and two other men were judged by shots.
Crooks was killed by a sniper of the Secret Service.
Thomas Matthew Crooks seemed to be armed and ready on a nearby roof in the demonstration of President Donald Trump in July 2024 in Butler, Pennsylvania. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images, left, Iron Cad USA, Police Department of Middle, Butler Township, to the right, Fox News, down to the right).
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“The secret service is totally responsible for Butler,” Quinn told CBS. “Butler was an operational failure and today we are focused on ensuring that it never happens again.”
Hey also said that the agency is focusing on the “root cause” of the operational failure and fixing “the deficiencies that put us in that situation.”
From Butler Rally, Quinn said that the service has introduced a new fleet of military grade drones and mobile command stalls to improve radio communications with the local police.
President Donald Trump surrounded by US secret service agents. Uu. After an attempt to murder in his campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
The agency faced more criticism week later when a second murder attempt at Trump Tok Place in West Palm Beach, Florida. Although he stopped, the then Secret Service Director, Kimberly Cheflet, resigned and the agency underwent several investigations and Congress audiences.
A task force of the bipartisan house published a 180 -page report in December that indicated that the Incident in Butler was “preventable”, citing “pre -existing leadership problems and training that” created an environment “where security failures were possible.
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In the report, legislators also indicated that the Secret Service did not coordinate or plan well with the Local Police.
