At This Hour With Dan Thomas

4 hours ago A new report by the Secret Service calls into question a number of decisions ahead of a July assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump. The Report lays out a litany of missed opportunities to stop a gunman who opened fire from an unsecured roof. A five-page document summarizing the Secret Service’s key conclusions finds fault with both local and federal law enforcement, underscoring the cascading and wide-ranging failings that preceded the July 13 shooting at a Butler, Pennsylvania, campaign rally where Trump was shot in the ear. Those include an absence of clear guidance from the Secret Service to local law enforcement, the failure to fix line-of-sight vulnerabilities at the rally grounds that left Trump open to sniper fire and “complacency” among some agents. The report raises more serious questions about why no law enforcement were stationed on the roof the would-be assassin climbed onto before opening fire. A local tactical team was stationed on the second floor of a building nearby. Multiple law enforcement entities questioned the effectiveness of the team’s position, “yet there was no follow-up discussion” about changing it, the report says. And there was no discussion with Secret Service about putting a team on the roof, even though snipers from local law enforcement agencies “were apparently not opposed to that location.”