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Gunners try to take six Secret Service agents without pay or benefits suspended President Donald Trump Life at the Pennsylvania rally last July.
Matt Quinn, deputy director of the agency Tell CBS News They “will not open fire on Wednesday [their] Get out of the situation, “but it does say they are “the root cause of laser focus on solving problems.”
Quinn told the media that agency fines range from 10 to 42 days of unpaid leave, adding that they were appointed to restricted roles after returning to work with less responsibilities. He said disciplinary action is in line with federal mandatory procedures.
Fox News Digital contacted Secret Service with independent confirmation, but did not hear it at the time of publication.
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Republican candidate Donald Trump on July 13, 2024 at Butler Farm Show Inc., Butler, Pennsylvania. (Rebecca Drek/AFP via Getty Image)
The agency faces serious criticism after security failure, which has caused gunman Thomas Crooks to fire on the stage of the rally Butler, Pennsylvania, July 13, 2024.
Corey Compperatore, a 50-year-old firefighter, father and husband Two other men were injured by gunfire in a rally, killed while Trump’s ear was grazed by bullets.
Crooks was killed by a special service sniper.
Thomas Matthew Crooks appears to be armed and ready to prepare on the rooftop near the July 2024 rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images, left, Iron Clad USA, center, Butler Town Police Department, right, Fox News, bottom right.)
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“The Secret Service is totally responsible for Butler,” Quinn told CBS. “Butler is an operational failure and we are focusing today on making sure it never happens.”
He also said the agency is focusing on the “root causes” of operational failure and addressing “the deficiencies that put us in this situation.”
Since Butler’s rally, Quinn said the Secret Service has introduced new military-grade drones and mobile command posts to improve radio communications with local law enforcement.
Donald Trump campaigned on July 13, 2024 in Butler, Pennsylvania, surrounded by U.S. Secret Service agents. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
The agency faced more criticism a few weeks later when Trump made a second assassination attempt in West Palm Beach, Florida. Despite the cessation, Kimberly Cheatle, then director of secret services, resigned and the agency conducted several investigations, Congressional hearing.
The bipartisan House Task Force released a 180-page report in December, calling Butler’s incident “preventable”, citing “established” leadership and training issues that “create an environment where failure can be safely”.
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Legislators also noted in the report that the Secret Service did not coordinate or plan with local law enforcement.
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