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One year after Secret Service security failures led to an assassination attempt against President Trump… Project Veritas on Monday released text messages from a Secret Service Agent inviting a stranger to the White House, disclosing operational details, and disparaging President Trump. Without knowing her identity, Secret Service Agent Marc Hendrickson invited a female Project Veritas journalist to the White House. The undercover journalist expressed her hatred for President Trump to which Hendrickson replied, “Yeah, he’s doing a lot of whacky shit right now.” Via Project Veritas: Text messages with Hendrickson reveal this agent engaging in egregious violations of Secret Service...

Had that information been shared, federal and local law enforcement in Butler, Pa., could have provided heightened security for the president.. A new report on the Butler, Pa., assassination attempt on President Trump reveals that the Secret Service received classified intelligence regarding a threat to Trump's life 10 days before the rally, but failed to share the information with other key agencies. The damning report comes from the federal Government Accountability Office (GAO) one year after a gunman's bullet grazed Trump's right ear during a campaign rally speech. The shooter, Thomas Crooks, killed attendee Cory Comperatore as he was protecting...

Six Secret Service agents connected to the Trump assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania, last July have been suspended, according to Fox News host Jesse Watters. WATCH:

Former Acting US Secret Service Director Ron Rowe has finally resigned from the agency. Earlier this year President Trump announced Sean Curran, one of the agents who surrounded him following the Butler assassination attempt, as the new Secret Service Director. Ron Rowe who served as the acting Secret Service Director after Kim Cheatle resigned last summer remained on payroll as a “senior advisor” for several months. Rowe is a typical Washington bureaucrat who led the bureau before the second assassination attempt on Trump’s life during the 2024 Campaign. Director Rowe also was caught in a blatant lie after President Trump...

Two career criminals – one an ex-con and high-risk sex offender who served time for rape – were charged with attempted murder for allegedly shooting an off-duty NYPD cop while apparently trying to swipe his neon green BMW his Queens over the weekend, police said Monday. Denzel Brown, 29, and Marvin Dankwah, 26, also face charges of first-degree robbery and criminal possession of a weapon in the 6:30 a.m. Sunday violence that left the 25-year-old officer with a graze wound on his leg, according to authorities and sources. Investigators are probing whether the arrested pair were attempting to carjack the...

A phony Queens doctor left one of his patients brain-dead after a botched attempt to remove her butt implants inside his illegal home clinic, sources and court papers said Wednesday. The 31-year-old woman visited Felipe Hoyos-Foronda’s unlicensed liposuction clinic on 35th Street near 20th Road in Ditmars Steinway to have what sources said were butt implants removed around 1 p.m. Friday. During the bungled procedure, Hoyos-Foronda — who claimed he was a doctor in Colombia — administered lidocaine to the victim through a syringe, causing her to go into cardiac arrest, according to a complaint filed in Queens Criminal Court.

A federal whistleblower has come forward with allegations that Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro was involved in the July 13, 2024, assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania. The whistleblower, identified as Hadassah Feinberg, a former Pennsylvania State Police employee, filed a criminal complaint on February 7, 2025, detailing claims that Shapiro conspired with other officials to orchestrate the attack as part of a political scheme. ... According to the complaint, President Joe Biden made frequent visits to Shapiro in the weeks leading up to the Trump rally to discuss what was described as an “obstacle” faced by...

UFC President Dana White shared President Donald Trump’s defiant response after the UFC chief begged the then-candidate to quit politics following the attempt on his life in Butler, Pennsylvania, in July. “Why are you doing this stuff? Stop,” White told Piers Morgan on a recent episode of Uncensored. “I told him to stop so many times. It’s just like, ‘You have such a good life, and you could do all these other things’. But the thing is, with President Trump is, he believes in God, and he’s very religious…He believes that, to his core, that God has spared his life...

Liberal media has been uninterested in investigating the couple involved in shooting dead a U.S. Border Patrol agent in Coventry, Vermont near the Canadian border on inauguration day. Why? Both in the duo are leftist trans militants. One of the deceased armed militants is a German believed to be in the country on an H-1B visa. The duo is allegedly connected to a trans terror cell. Federal law enforcement had been surveilling German man Felix "Ophelia" Baukholt and Seattle @UW student Teresa "Milo" Youngblut (xe/xem/xyrs) after staff at a Lyndonville, Vt. motel reported seeing them with black tactical clothing, weapons...

‘I refuse to believe this was just a series of unfortunate accidents and incompetence,’ Davis said. ‘It’s just not.’ Federalist CEO Sean Davis dropped some stunning details about the July 13 assassination attempt on Donald Trump’s life in a Friday conversation with Tucker Carlson on “The Tucker Carlson Show.” The conversation explored how, six months after the shooting, despite a congressional investigation, little is known — or has been released — about the shooter, and the incident quickly fell out of the news cycle. Davis began the interview by describing three critical things the American people need to know: the...

As America eagerly awaits the upcoming inauguration of Donald J. Trump as the 47th US President, it is now under a second invasion: after the mass illegal hordes, the mysterious drones. The first basic question in everyone’s mind is: who is doing this? There are two major possibilities: they are either US military/Space Force drones, or else they are foreign, potentially enemy craft. (For me, the ‘alien’ origin in this case can be completely discarded.) Given the fact that the US has not unleashed its assets to deter this phenomenon – that started over New Jersey but now has spread...

Former F-18 U.S. Navy fighter pilot Lt. Ryan Graves said he dismissed the involvement of commercial contractors in drone sightings reported around New Jersey in recent days."Based on my analysis of the situation and the statements made by the Pentagon and the legislative branch, I cannot believe that this is our own government acting in such confusion. God help us if so," Graves told Fox News anchor Martha MacCallum Thursday on "The Story.""It's the same for commercial contractors," he continued. "There's zero benefit, all risk for operating these things so close to the ground, especially if it's some type of...

In the wake of the second assassination attempt against Donald Trump that occurred on Sept. 15, a Secret Service agent who spotted the gunman and immediately fired at him was lauded for his quick reaction. “The agent’s hyper-vigilance and the detail’s swift action was textbook,” Secret Service Acting Director Ronald Rowe said at a press conference later that week. While Trump’s agent may have reacted swiftly, he may not have been the best aim. According to the House Task Force investigating the Trump assassination attempts, the agent was as close as five feet away from alleged gunman Ryan Routh, and...

General Michael Flynn joined Steve Bannon on Wednesday following President Trump’s massive victory in the 2024 presidential election on Tuesday. Not only did President Trump win reelection, but Republicans also took the US Senate and the US House of Representatives. On Wednesday morning, Steve Bannon invited General Michael Flynn on The War Room to discuss the election results and the important next steps for President-elect Donald Trump. In 2017, General Flynn, President Trump’s former National Security Advisor, spoke with his old friend Steve Bannon, who was President Trump’s Chief Strategist in 2017 when Trump entered the White House. Little did...

President-elect Donald Trump harked back to the assassination attempts against him this summer, contending that God spared him for a reason those fateful days. “Many people have told me that God spared my life for a reason,” Trump proclaimed during his victory speech in the wee hours of Wednesday morning. “And that reason was to save our country and to restore America to greatness, and now we are going to fulfill that mission together. We’re going to fulfill that.” “The task before us will not be easy, but I will bring every ounce of energy, spirit and fight that I...

Florida sued the Biden-Harris administration’s Department of Justice (DOJ) Wednesday for allegedly blocking the state’s investigation into the second Trump assassination attempt. Federal officials almost immediately began “taking steps to halt the state’s investigation” into Ryan Wesley Routh, who was indicted for attempting to assassinate former President Donald Trump at his Florida golf course in September, the lawsuit states. “Every day that Florida is prevented from investigating, the State’s case becomes harder to prove at trial,” the lawsuit states. “By contrast, the federal government suffers no injury from Florida investigating state law crimes, as the State has no intention of...

BUTLER, Pa. — An undaunted former President Donald Trump returned Saturday to the Butler Farm Show grounds in Pennsylvania to finally finish the rally where he came within a quarter inch of death three months ago. “A very big thank you to Pennsylvania. We love Pennsylvania, and as I was saying —,” Trump said to a thunderous applause, while standing in front of bulletproof glass at the exact spot where he was shot nearly three months ago. “Tonight, I return to Butler in the aftermath of tragedy and heartache to deliver a simple message to the people of Pennsylvania and...

Ryan Routh planned to assassinate Donald Trump outside his Florida golf club — and thankfully, he failed. Blaze News investigative journalist Steve Baker has done some digging on the would-be assassin, and he isn’t thrilled with what he’s found. “What we’ve uncovered is more questions that are not being answered,” Baker tells Jill Savage and Matthew Peterson of “Blaze News Tonight.” “Was he there by luck of the draw from three different courses that President Trump could have played that morning?” “They could answer all of these questions right now. They could also answer the question about whether that GoPro...

Prosecutors on Tuesday filed the charge of attempted assassination of a major presidential candidate against Ryan Wesley Routh, the man they say camped outside of Donald Trump’s West Palm Beach golf course for hours on end, armed with a rifle that he pointed through a chain-link fence with a clear shot to the next hole where the former president was headed on September 15. Routh, allegedly “stalked” Trump in Florida for more than a month, prosecutors told a federal magistrate judge on Monday, with cell phone data allegedly placing Routh at the golf course as well as Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence...

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A federal officer says a man arrested at a Donald Trump rally in Las Vegas told authorities he tried to grab an officer's gun so he could kill the candidate. A complaint filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Nevada charges Michael Steven Sandford with an act of violence on restricted grounds. It cites a report by Special Agent Swierkowski, whose first name was not included, saying Sandford told officers he drove from California to kill Trump and went to a Las Vegas gun range the day before to learn to shoot.