Secret Service Investigating Why Threat of Trump Gunman Wasn’t Communicated, Director Says

‘We are still combing through communications and when communications were passed,’ she says.

Secret Service snipers return fire after former President Donald Trump was shot at the campaign event. Gene J. Puskar/AP Photo

Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle told a House Oversight panel Monday that her agency is still investigating questions about why a Trump rally was allowed to continue even though members of the crowd saw Thomas Matthew Crooks on the roof of a building.

“We are still combing through communications and when communications were passed,” Ms. Cheatle said, adding that the Secret Service would have stopped the rally if they knew there was an actual threat to former President Donald Trump on July 13.