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ABC News reports: The United States Secret Service director told Congress on Monday that the attempted assassination against former President Donald Trump was the “most significant operational failure at the Secret Service in decades” and took full responsibility for the lapses in security that day. She has faced calls from multiple Republicans and Democrats to resign after the former president …

USA Today reports: Embattled Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle is scheduled to testify before the House Oversight Committee on Monday about the agency’s missteps in the assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump at the GOP nominee’s campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Tenn., said Americans “demand answers” from Cheatle. The director, in excerpts from her prepared …

“Right now the president of the United States – the former president, and hopefully soon-to-be present of the United States – is alive not because of what Secret Service did, but because he providentially turned his head. That’s the truth. “The fact is the American people are sick of it. They are sick of Lloyd Austin still having a job …

The New York Post reports: Donald Trump’s 20-year-old would-be assassin allegedly used a drone to aerially scope out the Pennsylvania fairgrounds ahead of the Republican presidential nominee’s speech as part of his sinister plot last weekend, according to a report. Shooter Thomas Matthew Crooks programmed the drone to fly over the Butler Farm Showgrounds hours before his assassination attempt on …

CBS News reports: U.S. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle will testify to the House Oversight Committee on Monday amid calls for her resignation or firing in wake of Saturday’s attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump. “Americans demand answers from Director Kimberly Cheatle about the Secret Service’s historic security failures that led to the attempted assassination of President Trump, murder …

CNN reports: The Trump rally shooter searched online for information on the arrest of a Michigan mass shooter and his parents, who were prosecuted in a 2021 high school shooting. He visited websites for how to build explosives. And in the minutes before he fired shots in an attempted assassination of Donald Trump, he screenshotted a picture from a livestream …

The New York Times reports: When the F.B.I. was able to finally access Mr. Crooks’s cellphones and other electronic devices, agents could see that he had searched for images of Mr. Trump as well as President Biden, Attorney General Merrick B. Garland and even F.B.I. Director Christopher A. Wray. Mr. Crooks also typed in “major depressive disorder” and searched for …

NBC News reports: The U.S. Secret Service said Wednesday that it stood by its female agents and was appalled by some of the criticism they’ve received on conservative social media since Saturday’s attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump. The Secret Service, in a statement to NBC News, said that the criticism from pundits and influencers was baseless. The agency …

The New York Times reports: Republican senators, including a member of the Senate’s leadership, accosted the director of the Secret Service in a suite at the Republican National Convention on Wednesday night, demanding that she resign or provide a full explanation for the security lapses. Senators John Barrasso of Wyoming, the third-ranking Senate Republican, and Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee aggressively …

Politico reports: House Speaker Mike Johnson is joining calls for the Secret Service director to resign. “I think it’s inexcusable. Just beyond the classified parts, the things that we all understand, her explanation to the media that there was a slant on the roof so there were safety concerns — come on. I mean, it doesn’t wash,” Johnson said. “I …

“I’ve been very outspoken, in terms of the people on that stage — I’ve probably said this ten times now — the people on that stage love him. They would take a bullet for him. And they demonstrated that. “One of the females on the stage, she’s with me for three years. I know every thing about her. She would …

Axios reports: House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) is set to subpoena Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle to appear at the panel’s July 22 hearing, a committee spokesperson tells Axios. The spokesperson characterized Comer’s move as a bid to head off any attempt by Cheatle to backtrack on her appearance at the hearing, which will examine federal law enforcement’s …

The Daily Beast reports: Police found two items beside the body of 20-year-old Thomas Crooks after he was shot during an assassination attempt on Donald Trump Saturday at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania: a remote detonator and a cellphone. A picture of the scene was published by local news station WPXI as part of a report chronicling the movements of …

CNN reports: US authorities obtained intelligence from a human source in recent weeks on a plot by Iran to try to assassinate Donald Trump, a development that led to the Secret Service increasing security around the former president in recent weeks, multiple people briefed on the matter told CNN. There’s no indication that Thomas Matthew Crooks, the would-be assassin who …

CNBC reports: Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will receive Secret Service protection at the direction of President Joe Biden as a result of the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said Monday. “In light of this weekend’s events, the president has directed me to work with the Secret Service to provide …

Axios reports: A bipartisan pair of House members said Sunday they plan to introduce a bill to enhance Secret Service protections for President Biden, former President Trump and independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. “As reports continue to emerge, it’s clear that more protection is needed for all major candidates for president,” Reps. Mike Lawler (R-N.Y.) and Ritchie Torres (D-N.Y.) …

Axios reports: House Republican leaders said Saturday they will hold a hearing with the U.S. Secret Service and other federal law enforcement officials after former President Trump was shot in the ear at a rally in Pennsylvania. “There are many questions and Americans demand answers,” Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), chair of the Oversight Committee, said in a statement. “I have …

ABC News reports: Former President Donald Trump was swarmed by Secret Service agents and rushed off stage as possible shots were heard during at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on Saturday. There appeared to be blood on his right ear as he was being taken off stage, as Trump was seen mouthing “fight” and pumping his fist. A shooter is …

The Washington Post reports: A motorist died after crashing a speeding car into an outer gate on the White House complex late Saturday, the Secret Service said. The crash occurred shortly before 10:30 p.m., the Secret Service said. Unspecified “security protocols were implemented” and the vehicle was cleared by Secret Service officers who tried to render aid. The driver, identified …

The New Times Times reports: The Republican Party sent a letter to the Secret Service on Friday urging the police agency to keep protesters farther away from the venue for the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee in July. The three-page letter, signed by Todd R. Steggerda, counsel to the Republican National Committee, objected to the placement of an area where …