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Secret Service suspends 6 agents assigned to protect Trump during Butler assassination attempt
NY Post ^ | July 9, 2025 | Victor Nava

Posted on 07/10/2025 10:03:11 AM PDT by Twotone

Six members of the Secret Service have been suspended for failures related to last year’s assassination attempt against President Trump at a rally in Butler, Pa.

The suspensions for the six agents ranged from 10 to 42 days, and they won’t be paid while on leave, Secret Service Deputy Director Matt Quinn told CBS News on Wednesday.

The agents will not be fired, but upon return to work, they will be placed in roles with diminished operational responsibility.

“We aren’t going to fire our way out of this,” Quinn told the outlet. “We’re going to focus on the root cause and fix the deficiencies that put us in that situation.”

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A scathing Senate report on the assassination attempt released in September determined that “multiple foreseeable and preventable planning and operational failures by [Secret Service] contributed” to Crooks’ ability to carry out the deadly shooting.

“These included unclear roles and responsibilities, insufficient coordination with state and local law enforcement, the lack of effective communications, and inoperable [counter-unmanned aircraft] systems, among many others,” the damning report read.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: assassination; butler; secretservice
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1 posted on 07/10/2025 10:03:11 AM PDT by Twotone
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To: Twotone

They need to install a “must be this tall” chart on the wall


2 posted on 07/10/2025 10:05:17 AM PDT by albie
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To: albie

Three crucial truths that are all but buried.
1. They knew there was a guy on the roof with a rifle and a clear view.
2. They let Trump take the stage
3. They let the guy take the shot.


3 posted on 07/10/2025 10:06:05 AM PDT by iamgalt
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To: Twotone

I hope the little two legged donut queen that couldn’t reholster her weapon is included. She will eventually get someone hurt !


4 posted on 07/10/2025 10:08:20 AM PDT by cquiggy (Ck)
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To: Twotone

Only about a year too late.


5 posted on 07/10/2025 10:12:54 AM PDT by rottndog (What comes after America?)
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To: Twotone

First, just 6?

Sexond, try, sentence, execute. These people wanted him to be assassinated. They worked very hard to get it done. They were thwarted by local SWAT taking out their patsy on a roof that was unguarded with a clear line of sight.


6 posted on 07/10/2025 10:15:18 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Twotone

The Secret Service picked the lock on a salon to use the bathroom and continued in and out traffic, that is criminal and charges need to be filed and firings done.

People who would casually do such a thing are people who have gotten out of control and forgotten their place in the world, and these were federal law people.

“””early that morning, a female Secret Service agent put duct tape over a Ring security camera at the salon”””

“Secret Service apologizes to salon owner over break-in, bathroom use during Kamala Harris event”
https://nypost.com/2024/08/11/us-news/secret-service-apologizes-to-salon-owner-over-break-in-bathroom-use-during-kamala-harris-event/


7 posted on 07/10/2025 10:17:13 AM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: cquiggy

“””I hope the little two legged donut queen that couldn’t reholster her weapon is included. She will eventually get someone hurt !”””

A lot of SS agents do mostly mundane tasks like looking at counterfeit money and such. Their greatest risk of injury is a paper cut. I expect that is where the chubby chick came from and was promoted to guard Trump as a DEI thing. The head of the SS that quit wanted something like a 35% increase in female agents.


8 posted on 07/10/2025 10:17:19 AM PDT by shelterguy
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To: Twotone

“A” people hire “A” people. “B” people hire “B” and “C” people. The Biden Administration was full of “B” “C” “D” and “F” people. The results were predictable.


9 posted on 07/10/2025 10:19:20 AM PDT by Enterprise ( These people have no honor, no belief, no poetry, no art, no humor, no patriotism.)
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To: Twotone

Jill Biden was at a dinner in Pittsburgh at the same time Trump was speaking in Butler. Did the Secret Service have to man Jill’s dinner, taking away from Trump’s protection.


10 posted on 07/10/2025 10:21:22 AM PDT by FreedBird (p)
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To: albie

They need to assign those agents to doing manual labor on slanted roofs.


11 posted on 07/10/2025 10:21:28 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: Tell It Right

Always investigations but nobody goes to jail.


12 posted on 07/10/2025 10:24:59 AM PDT by FreedBird (p)
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To: albie

My thoughts exactly.


13 posted on 07/10/2025 10:27:37 AM PDT by Huskrrrr (Alinsky, you magnificent Bastard, I read your book!)
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To: rottndog

Yeah, everybody up the chain of command involved needs to go, too.


14 posted on 07/10/2025 10:29:37 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: cquiggy

Secret Service BBQ? For sure, probably herself.


15 posted on 07/10/2025 10:30:07 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Twotone

Better late than never I guess.


16 posted on 07/10/2025 10:30:47 AM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: Twotone

How about those sloped roof rangers.


17 posted on 07/10/2025 10:50:13 AM PDT by Noumenon (You can evade reality, but you cannot evade the consequences of evading reality. KTF)
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To: shelterguy
A lot of SS agents do mostly mundane tasks like looking at counterfeit money and such. Their greatest risk of injury is a paper cut. I expect that is where the chubby chick came from and was promoted to guard Trump as a DEI thing.

'Fumbelina' might be a heroine here. She's apparently a U.S. Marshal who volunteered for that duty because the Secret Service was so short staffed.

Knowing that, I'd forgive her for not being used to wearing a holster in a pantsuit.

18 posted on 07/10/2025 10:52:37 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: T.B. Yoits

So maybe she was a US Marshal DEI hire. Did they have all the good SS agents covering Hunter? Jill? I can’t think of anyone who is higher risk than Trump for the last 10 years. He beat Hillary, that can be deadly.


19 posted on 07/10/2025 11:00:53 AM PDT by shelterguy
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To: T.B. Yoits
'Fumbelina'

😂😂😂

20 posted on 07/10/2025 11:08:40 AM PDT by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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