What took place in Butler “was not just a tragedy — it was a scandal.”

Senate final report on Butler describes ‘cascade of preventable failures’

Secret Service during Trump assassination attempt in Butler

The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee released a report July 13 about the United States Secret Service’s (USSS) multiple failures to prevent the assassination attempt made last July against then-former President Donald Trump at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, that injured multiple people and killed firefighter Corey Comperatore.

The report, announced by Committee chairman and Republican Sen. Rand Paul, KY, in a July 13 press release, comes exactly one year since the attack, which was perpetrated by a shooter identified as Thomas Matthew Crooks. While Trump was speaking onstage at the July 13, 2024 rally, Crooks took several shots from a rooftop about 150 yards from the rally. Crooks was then reportedly killed by a USSS sniper.

After the attack, the Senate Committee and the US Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations launched a joint investigation into the USSS’ failures related to the tragedy by conducting 17 transcribed interviews with USSS personnel and reviewing more than 75,000 pages of related official documents, according to the final report. A preliminary report on the investigation was released in September 2024.

The Committee’s 22-page final report released this week details eight key findings from its investigation, including that “USSS agents failed to communicate crucial information regarding the suspicious individual to President Trump’s shift detail, which had the ability to prevent him from taking the stage.”

Read about the key findings