Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, announced an investigation Wednesday into the “monumental security failure” that enabled the July 13 assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump.
In a Tuesday letter to Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle and Department of Homeland Security Director Alejandro Mayorkas, Grassley wrote that “the lack of information from your agencies is unacceptable. You owe Congress and the American people full and complete transparency on how this tragedy could possibly occur.”
Grassley sent letters to the Secret Service, DHS, DHS Office of Inspector General, Department of Justice, and FBI to request “records and responses” about the assassination attempt against Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania that wounded the former president and two attendees and killed one rally goer.
Biden’s security agencies paved the way for the gunman to shoot Trump, as The Federalist and others have reported, by allegedly refusing to beef up his thinly stretched security team, diverting resources to a nearby Jill Biden event the same day, excluding the would-be assassin’s post from the security perimeter, keeping law enforcement from the shooter’s post because the building’s roof was “sloped,” and leaving a clear line of sight from the shooter to the former president.
Demanding Records from Secret Service and DHS
“Reports and photos that day indicate that witnesses saw the gunman in advance and later on the roof and attempted to warn law enforcement officers of his position prior to him opening fire, but it’s unclear when, if, or how these messages were communicated to Secret Service agents
