Members of ex-President Donald Trump’s Secret Service detail have lodged complaints that they were not informed that local cops were tracking a suspicious person at the Pennsylvania rally where a gunman shot him in the ear, according to a report.
The detail complained to agency brass that it was not included in multiple alerts sent in the 25 minutes before Thomas Matthew Crooks opened fire on the Republican presidential nominee, three insiders told The Washington Post.
The detail members were also disastrously kept out of the loop when local counter snipers lost track of Crooks and when another local officer saw the 20-year-old perched on the roof of a nearby building with a gun, they claimed.
One audience member — a firefighter who shielded his family from the bullets — was killed and another two were seriously injured. Trump, the gunman’s target, suffered a graze wound to the ear.
Investigators are still working to determine whether anyone relayed the information about the suspicious person to Trump’s security detail or other Secret Service operational teams, as Col. Christopher L. Paris, head of Pennsylvania State Police said was the case during testimony before the House Homeland Security Committee on Tuesday.
According to Paris, a trooper stationed in a command center with Secret Service agents verbally relayed the suspicious person’s report to the agents, who then requested the warning to be forwarded to a phone number.
Secret Service spokesman Anthony Guglielmi declined Saturday to comment on The Washington Post’s questions about radio communications Trump’s security detail received at the Butler rally. --->READ MORE HERE
The Secret Service detail for Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump are reportedly concerned they were given no advance notice about the tracking of the suspicious threat 25 minutes before the would-be assassination attempt July 13.
After Trump himself raised questions about why the Secret Service did not keep him from — or take him off — the stage with the shooter lining up a shot from under an estimated 150 yards, Trump's closest protectors and advisers are complaining about the lack of warning that should have been given as details continue to be revealed, sources told The Washington Post.
"As it relates to communications at the rally, the Secret Service is committed to better understanding what happened before, during, and after the assassination attempt of former President Trump to ensure that never happens again," Secret Service spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said in a statement, responding to the Post's report. "That includes complete cooperation with Congress, the FBI, and other relevant investigations."
There were local countersnipers who labeled the eventual shooter suspicious, Pennsylvania state police Col. Christopher L. Paris told the House Homeland Security Committee this week.
That local detail relayed the "message verbally to the Secret Service" in the security command center but was told to send the message to a cell phone of the Secret Service's "tactical asset," according to Paris. --->READ and WATCH MORE HERE
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