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An inexperienced Secret Service agent was stuck on a drone helpline during the attempted assassination of Donald Trump at a rally, a Senate investigation has found.

Multiple Secret Service failures during the July rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, were “foreseeable” and “preventable”, according to the bipartisan report released on Wednesday.

The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee inquiry found multiple failures on almost every level, including in planning, communications, security and allocation of resources.

Senator Hawley is making new accusations against the Secret Service following the recent attempt on President Trump’s life, saying that a whistleblower has informed him that the protective agency denied resources Trump’s campaign requested ahead of a rally in Wisconsin.

The Secret Service has yet to respond to the allegation.

Man charged with attempting to assassinate Trump at Florida golf club

A man accused of lurking outside Donald Trump’s south Florida golf course on 15 September with a gun – and allegedly writing about his desire to kill him – was charged on Tuesday with attempting to kill the Republican presidential candidate.

Ryan Wesley Routh, 58, was indicted on five counts in south Florida federal court: attempted assassination of a major political candidate, possessing a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence, assaulting a federal officer, felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition, and possession of a firearm with an obliterated serial number. He was first charged with federal firearms crimes after his arrest.

The media are desperate to make us forget Crooks and Routh.

Prior to their respective assassination attempts targeting Trump, Ryan Routh and Thomas Crooks had extraordinary proximity to U.S. Intelligence, demonstrated foreknowledge of Trump’s schedule and security, and acquired skills that intelligence agencies have a history of sharing with assets.

The GOP-led House Judiciary Committee announced Friday that it has launched inquiry into Iran’s hacking of the Trump Campaign to support the Biden-Harris campaign.

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) revealed in a joint statement Wednesday that “Iranian malicious cyber actors in late June and early July sent unsolicited emails to individuals then associated with President Biden’s campaign that contained an excerpt taken from stolen, non-public material from former President Trump’s campaign as text in the emails.”

Breakdowns in communication with local law enforcement impeded the Secret Service’s ability to competently address the first attempt on former president Donald Trump’s life at a Pennsylvania rally in July, according to a preliminary report released Friday.

Secret Service acting director Ronald Rowe, who replaced Kimberly Cheatle following her resignation due to fallout from the attempted assassination, laid the blame on complacent Secret Service agents, who he vowed would face unspecified consequences.

“Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?”, asked Henry II in 1170, to no one in particular. He was referring to his fractious Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Becket; in turn, some of Henry’s knights took his remark as their cue to murder the Archbishop.

This is hardly the last time incendiary language has, however indirectly, prompted violence in the real world. Nine centuries on from Henry II, Donald Trump’s characteristically florid turn of phrase has been repeatedly linked to real-world threats to public safety. Then just last week, his repetition of a rumour about Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio, eating local pets sparked a media furore — and reported bomb threats in Springfield itself.

Speaking of which …

BREAKING: Ohio Governor Mike DeWine is refusing to identify the foreign actors who called in the majority of hoax bomb threats in Springfield, Ohio. This is outrageous. The public has a right to know which foreign nations are meddling in our elections. pic.twitter.com/M61hCg50mn

— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) September 17, 2024

As the investigation into the attempted assassination of Donald Trump enters its second day, a number of questions remain unanswered.

Chiefly, how could suspect Ryan Wesley Routh have known where the Republican candidate would be? And why would he have decided on such a drastic course of action?

There are many questions circulating about the second assassination attempt of Donald Trump in two months. Yet one that will particularly set conspiracy theorists abuzz is whether Ryan Wesley Routh, the alleged suspect in West Palm Beach, made meaningful contact with any foreign governments.

Social media is already lit up with people comparing 58-year-old Routh to Lee Harvey Oswald, who at one point defected to the Soviet Union, met with Soviet officials at the embassy in Mexico shortly before the shooting of President John F. Kennedy, and allegedly mingled with Cuban intelligence. These facts are highly credible, but are often used by less credible members of the tinfoil hat brigade in colourful ways.

President Trump just dropped the RECEIPTS on every single Democrat who has contributed to the hateful rhetoric against him which led to two assassination attempts pic.twitter.com/QEn2wZ7Lvs

— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) September 16, 2024

In the wake of two assassination attempts, the existential “threat to democracy” rhetoric and abject mistruths about President Trump must stop. ⬇️ pic.twitter.com/7t9OkQF7lx

— Kayleigh McEnany (@kayleighmcenany) September 16, 2024