The U.S.Secret Service "missed multiple opportunities" to prevent or disrupt the July 2024 assassination attempt on Donald Trump as he spoke to supporters during a campaign rally in Pennsylvania, the Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General said in a report released Thursday.The 64-page document detailed several lapses in security that allowed Thomas Matthew Crooks to get a line of sight to Trump as he stood on stage in Butler, Pennsylvania, during the July 13, 2024, event."The Secret Service’s overall lack of policy and processes coupled with limited intelligence sharing and poor collaboration and communication with protectee staff and state and local law enforcement set the conditions that led to missing opportunities to prevent and detect the attempted assassination," the report states.Among the OIG's findings were a failure to warn Trump's protective detail that Crooks had a range finder, a long gun, and had climbed onto the roof of a nearby building due to a lack of communication between the Secret Service and local law enforcement.TWO MEN SHOT AT TRUMP'S BUTLER RALLY SUE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT OVER SECRET SERVICE 'PREVENTABLE FAILURES'Then-Republican candidate Donald Trump is seen with blood on his face surrounded by Secret Service agents as he is taken off the stage at a campaign event at Butler Farm Show Inc.
in Butler, Pennsylvania, July 13, 2024.A Homeland Security Office of Inspector General report released Thursday detailed several mistakes made by the U.S.
Secret Service that could have prevented or disrupted the shooting, officials said.(Getty Images/Rebecca Droke)Instead, they operated out of separate locations 257 yards apart with intermittent and highly limited radio connectivity between them.As a result, the Secret Service missed 102 radio transmissions regarding an increasingly intense search for a suspicious individual, including alerts that the suspect was on the roof with a long gun.A flag is displayed as attendees look on, ...