The new report largely echoed the findings of other investigations that have faulted poor communication between the Secret Service and local law enforcement helping out that day and the agency's failure to prevent nearby vantage points.
The report revealed that several US Secret Service agents have been using the Strava fitness app, even in the weeks following two assassination attempts on Trump.
Vem Miller, 49, was arrested at a security checkpoint near Trump's rally in California and multiple loaded firearms, multiple passports and a fake license plate were found in his possession. Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco claimed the suspect had Trump in his crosshairs.
Republican Mike Kelly from Pennsylvania, blamed a cascade of failures by the Secret Service that allowed the gunman, Thomas Michael Crooks, to gain access to the roof of a nearby building and open fire on Trump.
An apparent attempt on Donald Trump's life was made this month in Florida. The first was made in July this year when the former US President survived by a whisker.
Ryan Routh, 58, has been charged with two gun crimes after he allegedly pointed a rifle through the tree line on September 15 while the Republican presidential candidate was playing golf at his course in West Palm Beach, according to a criminal complaint. He has not yet entered a plea.
After facing huge backlash on social media, Musk deleted the post and wrote, "Well, one lesson I have learned is that just because I say something to a group and they laugh, it doesn't mean it's going to be all that hilarious as a post on X."
Ryan Routh, the reported suspect in an apparent assassination attempt on Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Sunday, stayed in Kyiv in the summer of 2022 to encourage people to fight for Ukraine, he told a news outlet that year.
The business tycoon, Musk, on X, wondered, "And no one is even trying to assassinate Biden/Kamala". The insensitive post came in response to a query from an X user with the handle @cb_doge, who asked why the former President was being targeted.
Investigators, who have conducted nearly 1,000 interviews, have yet to determine a motive for why 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks shot at Trump during a July 13 campaign rally.
Pakistani national identified as Asif Raza Merchant was arrested on July 12, shortly after he met with the hit men, who were undercover law enforcement officials, while he was preparing to leave the US.
US Senate lawmakers are set to question the acting director of the Secret Service regarding law enforcement failures leading up to the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump. This hearing marks the latest in a series of congressional inquiries focused on the incident.
A local officer photographed 20-year-old Thomas Crooks and shared the image with other law enforcement officials present at Trump's rally that day. Approximately 30 minutes later, the officer reported that SWAT team operators observed Crooks using a rangefinder and browsing news sites.
"Christians, get out and vote, just this time. You won't have to do it anymore. Four more years, you know what, it will be fixed, it will be fine, you won't have to vote anymore, my beautiful Christians," Trump said in a Florida rally.
The search, recovered from a laptop tied to 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, is a reference to Lee Harvey Oswald, the shooter who killed President John F. Kennedy from a sniper's perch in Dallas on November 22, 1963.
Kimberly Cheatle, who had served as Secret Service director since August 2022, had been facing growing calls to resign and several investigations into how the shooter was able to get so close to the Republican presidential nominee at an outdoor campaign rally in Pennsylvania.
US Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle appeared before a House of Representatives Oversight Committee hearing on the security lapses that allowed an attempted assassination of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.
On Sunday, there was a political earthquake when US President Joe Biden unexpectedly withdrew from the presidential race and threw his support behind Vice President Kamala Harris as the Democratic candidate to face former President Donald Trump.
The former Republican president made these remarks to the network shortly after Biden's announcement. Trump later criticised Biden on social media, asserting that Biden was unfit to remain in office as president.
Harris, 59, appeared to be the natural successor, in large part because she is the only candidate who can directly tap into the Biden campaign’s war chest, according to federal campaign finance rules.
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