Assassination attempt on Donald Trump | A year later, a report denounces “inexcusable” errors

(New York) A year to the day after the assassination attempt against Donald Trump, a parliamentary report denounces the “inexcusable” errors of the Secret Service on Sunday, responsible for protecting the high American political figures.

On July 13, 2024, a man shot Donald Trump during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. The candidate then got away with a slight ear injury, but a spectator was killed and two were injured, before the shooter was shot.

“It was not a simple fault, but the result of a cascade of avoidable errors that almost cost the life of President Trump,” said the US Senate Commission document. “What happened is inexcusable. »»

The report does not return to the shooter of the shooter, still as vague, but accuses the police of repeated failures for not having spotted in time this 20 -year -old man, Thomas Crooks, who managed to get on a roof and aim for the candidate.

“The Secret Service did not react according to reliable intelligence” and “did not coordinate with the local police,” wrote Rand Paul, the republican president of the commission.

“It was a security failure at all levels, made possible by bureaucratic indifference, the lack of clearly established protocols and the refusal, shocking, to act in the face of direct threats,” he adds.

And, “despite these breaches, no one has been dismissed,” said the senator, calling for some accounts and reforms are set up.

Ten days after the assassination attempt, the director of Secret Service Kimberly Cheatle had resigned, and six police officers were notified disciplinary sanctions.

In October, an independent commission of inquiry called for “in -depth” reform of secrecy, evoking “systemic problems. »»

Donald Trump had reused the images of this day, his raised fist and his blood in blood to mobilize his troops for the November election.

During a second attempted assassination allegedly, in September, a man armed with a rifle was spotted near Donald Trump while playing golf in Florida. The man had been arrested and charged.