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After examining more than 2,800 pages of reports and conducting 12 interviews, the bipartisan Senate report on the United States Secret Service’s (USSS) handling of Trump’s infamous rally in Butler, Pa.—where Thomas Crooks, a smelly, pimply-faced incel shot Trump and hit three others, one of whom died on the scene—shows the Secret Service made a dog’s dinner of their so-called protection of the GOP presidential candidate.
Hereareafewtakeawaysfromthedamningreport:
MuchoftheinformationprovidedbytheUSSSwasheavilyredacted.TheSenateCommitteehasaskedforreportsfromtheFBI,ATF,andDHS,andmanyhaven’tbeenprovided,throwingamonkeywrenchintotheinvestigation.
ThishasunnecessarilyhinderedtheCommittee’sabilitytocarryoutitsconstitutionalauthoritytoinvestigateandacquireinformationnecessarytoidentifyneededreforms. Theseoverlyburdensomeredactions,includingofcommunicationsrelatedtothesameindividualswhotheCommitteeinterviewed,onlyservedtodelaytheCommittee’sabilitytoconducttheseinterviewsandcarryoutitsinvestigationefficientlyandeffecti
