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The Secret Service botched its job to protect Donald Trump at a July 13 rally and is responsible for a series of stunning failures leading up to the event, according to a bipartisan Senate report released Wednesday.
Among the interim report’s findings are that the Secret Service failed to sufficiently coordinate with state and local law enforcement, failed to adequately cover the building where Trump’s attempted assassin fired from, failed to address line-of-sight concerns, denied requests for additional resources, and failed to pass on to other law enforcement that there was “credible intelligence” of a threat.
A Secret Service sniper who saw law enforcement running to the building where the shooter would fire from also failed to tell Trump’s security detail to get him off the stage, the report said.
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