Secret Service believes failures related to Trump’s firing could merit disciplinary action

The Secret Service launched its Thursday independent report regarding the first assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump and concluded that failures by certain agents could justify discipline.

The United States Secret Service (USSS) conducted its own internal investigation into the alleged failures that led to the shooting at a Trump rally in Pennsylvania on July 13. The shooting killed Corey Comperatore and injured three others, including the former president.

The internal review concluded that there were communication problems within the agency, which led to confusion about some of the duties of certain Secret Service personnel. There were also planning failures leading up to and during Trump’s rally, according to Fox News.

“(The investigation) identified multiple instances of conduct and acts by multiple employees that warrant review for corrective counseling and, potentially, disciplinary action,” a summary of the report said. “All Secret Service employees are held to a high standard of conduct in the performance of their duties when providing protection to those who entrust us with their well-being and the safety of their families.”

The report claimed that the Secret Service did not have adequate control over radio communications at the rally and that some personnel who were interviewed for the rally did not feel adequately prepared due to a lack of training.

Unspecified agents also failed to transmit certain important information via radio communications, but did signal some of the information via text messages and phone calls.

The service also failed to send adequate personnel to the building from which the gunman, Thomas Mathew Crooks, fired even “after learning of a suspicious person with a rangefinder” an hour before the shootings.

The report also noted that a lack of coordination with the Trump campaign led to security personnel being diverted to respond to requests for medical assistance at the scene. There were more than 200 medical issues that day, which featured temperatures in the high 90s.

The rally was a “Secret Service failure,” the report concluded, which justified “several operational, policy, and organizational changes, some due to the mission assurance inquiry’s findings and recommendations, and others made proactively following the Incident in July 13.”

The full report will be sent to Congress.

Misty Severi is an evening news reporter for Just The News. You can follow X for more coverage.