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The Secret Service is making changes in the wake of the failed assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump, the agency’s new acting director announced on July 30.
Acting Director Ronald Rowe Jr. said he had traveled to the site of the July 13 rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, where the former president was shot, allegedly by a man who fired from the roof of a nearby building.
Mr. Rowe said what he saw while lying in a prone position on the roof of that building made him feel “ashamed.”
Police snipers noticed Thomas Matthew Crooks at the site of former President Donald Trump’s July 13 rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, nearly two hours before the assassination attempt on Mr. Trump, newly released text messages reveal.
Military veterans and former prosecutors are among the members of a special U.S. House of Representatives task force that plans to probe the attempt to assassinate former President Donald Trump.
Rep. Mark Green (R-Tenn.), a former U.S. Army major and and emergency room physician; Rep. Michael Waltz (R-Fla.) who served in the U.S. Army Special Forces; and Rep. Glenn Ivey (D-Md.), a former prosecutor, are three of the members tapped by House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) to serve on the body, the leaders announced on July 29.
Former President Donald Trump will sit for a voluntary interview with the FBI regarding the probe into the assassination attempt against him at a campaign rally earlier this month, according to a special agent.
“We want to get his perspective on what he observed,” Kevin Rojek, the special agent in charge of the FBI’s Pittsburgh field office, said in a call with reporters on July 29.
While the agency said it hasn’t yet determined the motive of the would-be Trump assassin, his actions showed extensive planning ahead of the July 13 rally, Mr. Rojek told reporters.
Around two weeks after the failed attempt on former President Donald Trump’s life, new details are emerging about the shooting and the days leading up to it.
The perpetrator, Thomas Matthew Crooks, who authorities say acted alone, was fatally shot within seconds of opening fire.
According to FBI Director Christopher Wray, at least 700 FBI agents are involved in the investigation into the matter—the first attempted assassination of a U.S. president in more than four decades. Two other reviews into the Secret Service’s security failure are ongoing.