‘Cascade of Preventable Failures’ Contributed to Trump Assassination Attempt: Senate Report

‘Despite those failures, no one has been fired. And we only know what little discipline was handed out because I issued a subpoena,’ the committee chair said.

Then-presidential candidate Donald Trump gestures with a bloodied face while he is assisted by Secret Service personnel after he was shot in the right ear during a campaign rally at the Butler Farm Show in Butler, Pa., on July 13, 2024. Brendan McDermid/Reuters

The Senate released a report on July 13 detailing the critical missteps that allowed a gunman to climb a building and open fire on President Donald Trump during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, in 2024, and faulted the Secret Service for its discipline and “pattern of denials, mismanagement, and missed warning signs.”

The report, released by Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, investigated the events leading up to and after July 13, 2024, when a 20-year-old gunman climbed onto the roof of the American Glass Research building during a Trump campaign rally at the Butler Farm Show and opened fire on Trump, who was running for reelection at the time.