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Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump is escorted to a motorcade following an attempted assassination at a campaign event in Butler, Pa., July 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)

A year after assassination attempt, Secret Service discipline ‘far too weak,’ Senate report says

By Lindsey McPherson - The Washington Times

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump is surrounded by Secret Service at a campaign event in Butler, Pa., July 13, 2024. A senior FBI official says the gunman in the assassination attempt of former President Donald Trump searched online for events of both Trump and President Joe Biden and saw the Pennsylvania campaign rally where he opened fire last month as a “target of opportunity." (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)

One year since assassination attempt on Trump in Butler, ‘The American people don’t have answers’

By Lindsey McPherson - The Washington Times

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump is covered by U.S. Secret Service agents at a campaign rally, July 13, 2024, in Butler, Pa. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Mysteries emerge in attempt on Trump’s life; no rationale for bullet hole in hat

By Lindsey McPherson - The Washington Times

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump is helped off the stage at a campaign event in Butler, Pa., July 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)

House task force says Trump assassination attempt on July 13 was ‘preventable’

By Lindsey McPherson - The Washington Times

Members of the Secret Service Counter Assault Team assemble ahead of the arrival of Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump before the scheduled walk-through on the third day of the Republican National Convention on Wednesday, July 17, 2024, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Who shot Crooks? Medical examiner found one bullet wound, and it didn’t come from Butler cop

By Lindsey McPherson - The Washington Times

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump arrives for a campaign rally, July 13, 2024, in Butler, Pa. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) **FILE**

Sniper-trained lawmakers say Trump should not go back to Butler

By Lindsey McPherson - The Washington Times

Police snipers return fire after shots were fired while Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump was speaking at a campaign event in Butler, Pa., July 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar) **FILE**

FBI accused of impeding Senate’s probe of Trump assassination attempt amid bullet trajectory mystery

By Lindsey McPherson - The Washington Times

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump is covered by U.S. Secret Service agents at a campaign rally, Saturday, July 13, 2024, in Butler, Pa. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Thomas Matthew Crooks update: Everything we now know about Donald Trump’s would-be assassin

By Lindsey McPherson - The Washington Times

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump is helped off the stage at a campaign event in Butler, Pa., on Saturday, July 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

FBI releases new information on Trump assassination investigation, contradicting lawmaker reports

By Lindsey McPherson - The Washington Times

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump is surrounded by Secret Service at a campaign event in Butler, Pa., July 13, 2024. A senior FBI official says the gunman in the assassination attempt of former President Donald Trump searched online for events of both Trump and President Joe Biden and saw the Pennsylvania campaign rally where he opened fire last month as a “target of opportunity." (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)

Gunman in Trump assassination attempt saw rally as ‘target of opportunity,’ FBI official says

By Eric Tucker - Associated Press

Police officers stand at a road leading to the site of the Trump rally, where access is closed, as investigations into the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump continue, in Butler, Pa., July 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki, File)

Body camera footage shows local police anger at Secret Service after Trump assassination attempt

By Alanna Durkin Richer and Claudia Lauer - Associated Press

Police snipers return fire after shots were fired while Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump was speaking at a campaign event in Butler, Pa., on Saturday, July 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar) ** FILE **

Butler rally was the first time Secret Service provided its own countersnipers to protect Trump

By Lindsey McPherson - The Washington Times

Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, listens as U.S. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle testifies before the House Oversight and Accountability Committee about the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump at a campaign event in Pennsylvania, at the Capitol in Washington, Monday, July 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr.)

Secret Service and FBI officials will testify about Trump assassination attempt in latest hearing

By Eric Tucker - Associated Press

U.S. Secret Service acting Director Ronald Rowe, left, and FBI Deputy Director Paul Abbate are sworn in before they testify before a Joint Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs and Senate Committee on the Judiciary hearing examining the security failures leading to the assassination attempt on Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump, Tuesday, July 30, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)

Acting Secret Service boss says he ‘cannot defend’ why roof in Trump rally shooting was unsecured

By Eric Tucker - Associated Press

The Butler Farm Show, site of a campaign rally for Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump, is seen Monday July 15, 2024 in Butler, Pa. The gunman who made an attempt on Donald Trump's life used a drone to survey the Pennsylvania rally site possibly days, or even hours, before he took aim at the former president. A Republican senator said Thursday that the Secret Service "repeatedly denied" an offer by a local law enforcement agency to fly a drone to help secure the site of the Trump rally on July 13. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

Would-be assassin flew drone over rally site before firing on Trump

By Matt Delaney - The Washington Times

A home believed to be connected to the shooter in the assassination attempt of Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump, Monday, July 15, 2024, in Bethel Park, Pa. Investigators are hunting for any clues about what may have driven Thomas Matthew Crooks to try to assassinate Trump. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

Would-be Trump assassin was a sharpshooter, gun range classmate says

By Matt Delaney - The Washington Times

Law enforcement block a street in Bethel Park, Pa., that they say is near a residence of Thomas Matthew Crooks, the suspected shooter of former President Donald Trump, Sunday, July 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel) **FILE**

Would-be Trump assassin hinted at making his ‘premiere’ before rally shooting

By Matt Delaney - The Washington Times

This aerial photo of the Butler Farm Show, site of the Saturday, July 13, 2024 Trump campaign rally, shown Monday, July 15, 2024 in Butler, Pa. On Saturday, Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump was wounded during an assassination attempt while speaking at the rally. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

Three days after attempted assassination, Trump shooter remains an elusive enigma

By Michael Biesecker, Martha Bellisle, Jim Mustian and Peter Smith - Associated Press

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump is surrounded by U.S. Secret Service agents as he leaves the stage at a campaign rally, Saturday, July 13, 2024, in Butler, Pa. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Secret Service leader says her team was ‘totally responsible’ for Trump’s near-assassination

By Matt Delaney - The Washington Times

This aerial photo of the Butler Farm Show, site of the Saturday, July 13, 2024 Trump campaign rally, shown Monday, July 15, 2024 in Butler, Pa. On Saturday, Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump was wounded during an assassination attempt while speaking at the rally. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

Three police snipers were inside the building used by would-be Trump assassin

By Matt Delaney - The Washington Times