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Shooter's motives still unclear despite extensive investigation into the attack that nearly changed American history.. As the one-year mark nears since the attempted assassination of President Donald Trump, questions remain unanswered; notably, why did Thomas Matthew Crooks carry out the attack, and how did he get so close? Despite the year's passage, the mystery endures surrounding the 20-year-old Pennsylvania native’s motivation. Fox News Digital spoke with two former federal officials about the lingering questions. Former FBI agent John Nantz said Crooks did not fit the profile of a politically motivated extremist. "Crooks looked not so much like an ideologue, not...

The Secret Service abruptly halted the security clearance renewal for former Director Kimberly Cheatle. Secret Service Director Sean Curran reversed course and decided against renewing Cheatle’s top-level security clearance after RealClearPolitics brought up Senator Ron Johnson’s opposition to the agency. RealClearPolitics reported: The Secret Service was moving forward with renewing former Director Kimberly Cheatle’s top-level security clearance but reversed course after RealClearPolitics inquired about a key senator’s opposition, according to multiple sources in the Secret Service community. Sen. Ron Johnson, a Wisconsin Republican who chairs the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations and previously chaired the full Homeland Security panel, argued that...

The Secret Service blocked the renewal of former Director Kimberly Cheatle’s top-level security clearance, RealClearPolitics reported Friday. Agency officials reportedly paused the process after being asked about Republican Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson’s opposition, according to the outlet. “Following the security debacle in Butler, the former director of USSS made the right decision to resign,” Johnson told the outlet. “I see no reason for her security clearance to be reinstated.”

Six agents were suspended by the U.S. Secret Service for failures connected to last year's attempted assassination of then-presidential candidate Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, an official told ABC News. The personnel moves were confirmed four days shy of the anniversary of the July 13, 2024, shooting incident that left Trump's ear bloodied. Corey Comperatore, a firefighter attending Trump's campaign rally that day, died in the attack. Countersnipers in Trump's Secret Service who were on-site killed the shooter, identified by the FBI as 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks. In the aftermath of the shooting, an independent review by the Department of...

A preliminary report by the House Task Force on the attempted assassination attempt of Donald Trump provides new detail about the lack of coordination between the Secret Service and state and local law enforcement officers that contributed to Trump nearly being killed and the murder of rally-goer Corey Comperatore. The report, released early Monday, also asserts that a local law enforcement officer said he fired at shooter Thomas Crooks before the Secret Service counter sniper fired the shot that killed him, and that this first shot may have caused Crooks to stop shooting. But House Task Force investigators concluded that...

Several high-ranking Secret Service agents are stepping down just before the public release of an internal investigation into the failures that led to the assassination attempt on Donald Trump in Butler, PA on July 13. Among the findings of the report is the revelation that agents did not instruct local police to secure the rooftop of the building where the gunman positioned himself, two anonymous sources have revealed to the Washington Post. Mike Plati, the assistant director of the Office of Protective Operations, officially retired on Friday, according to a statement from the Secret Service. John Buckley, a senior executive...

John Solomon @jsolomonReports Rep. Comer: Secret Service turned down security recommendations for Trump ahead of Penn. rally From justthenews.com 8:03 PM · Aug 14, 2024

Former Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle and others in top agency leadership positions wanted to destroy the cocaine discovered in the White House last summer, but the Secret Service Forensics Services Division and the Uniformed Division stood firm and rejected the push to dispose of the evidence, according to three sources in the Secret Service community. Multiple heated confrontations and disagreements over how best to handle the cocaine ensued after a Secret Services Uniformed Division officer found the bag on July 2, 2023, a quiet Sunday while President Biden and his family were at Camp David in Maryland, the sources...

Acting Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe was directly involved in denying additional security resources and personnel, including counter snipers, to former President Trump’s rallies and events – despite repeated requests by the agents assigned to Trump’s detail in the two years leading up to his July 13 attempted assassination, according to several sources familiar with the decision-making. Rowe succeeded former Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle, who resigned last week after bipartisan calls following her widely panned testimony before the House Oversight Committee. But both Rowe and Cheatle were directly involved in decisions denying requests for more magnetometers, additional agents, and...

After the evasive House testimony of now-former Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle and FBI Director Christopher Wray’s shortlived suggestion that Donald Trump may not have been hit by a bullet, one man alone may help allay Republican fears that the Biden administration will not conduct a forthright investigation into the attempted assassination of Trump last month: Joseph Cuffari. The Trump-appointed inspector general for the Department of Homeland Security has already opened two investigations into the U.S. Secret Service, which is under the purview of the DHS, related to the agency’s handling of the July 13 shooting. But some Republicans are...

Secret Service counter-sniper assets were routinely denied to the USSS Donald Trump Detail if the locations weren’t within “driving distance” of Washington DC. This is a shocking piece of information that Acting-Director Ron Rowe should immediately have to answer for. A trusted whistleblower sent this shocking piece of information during my show on Rumble yesterday. ... they did everything in their power to make this happen ... like they wanted this to happen. Pathetic. ... 100% inside job. ... This was intentionally done and they did it in such a way that it could be brushed off as incompetence. ......

BUTLER, Pa. – Whistleblowers have told Republican Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley that a law enforcement officer who was assigned to monitor the roof of a building that would-be former President Trump assassin Thomas Crooks fired from on July 13 left their post because it was "too hot." [cut] "…He or she was too hot and just thought it was unnecessary to be out there." — Josh Hawley The same whistleblower told Hawley that multiple law enforcement personnel were also assigned to patrol the perimeter of the building "to make sure that somebody couldn't just jump up" onto the roof, possibly...

U.S. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle, who came under scrutiny for the agency's failure to prevent the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump, has resigned, according to two sources familiar with the decision.

VIDEOHow very very convenient. The DEI Director of the Secret Service Kimberly Cheatle stated during her questioning by a Congressional Committee that the Secret Service has NO radio communication recordings from the day of the assassination attempt upon President Trump on July 13. Remember that Cheatle was appointed as Secret Service Director right in the middle of the scandal in which it was discovered that the Secret Service deleted all their J6 text messages. Yes, a J6 coverup which under Cheatle has now become a J13 coverup. Apparently the leadership of the Secret Service has become as CORRUPT as the...

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., questions Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle on the perimeter established at the Pennsylvania rally and calls for transparency from the agency. #foxnews (Video at Excerpt link)

Representative Mike Waltz (R-FL) questions Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle in a House Oversight hearing Monday on the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump at a July 13 campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.Representative Waltz points out “the dog that didn’t bark.” WATCH: ♦ Where are the official 10:00am press briefing updates every day on the investigation?♦ Where are the official press conferences from the Secret Service, FBI and law enforcement answering questions and providing information from the prior days investigative results?♦ Where are the organized and official updates to let the American people know what has been found out...

VIDEOSitting two rows behind the highly evasive DEI Director of the Secret Service Kimberly Cheatle as she avoided answering questions put to her by frustrated members of Congress, was the mysterious Snack Bar Nosher. His antics were not limited to simply noshing on a snack bar in a most disgusting manner. Watch the the full video of the incompetent Cheatle desperately trying to hang on to her job despite bipartisan calls for her to resign immediately and you will see the somewhat revolting antics of the Snack Bar Nosher for the first three hours. After that the cameraman probably got...

Tennessee Sen. Marsha Blackburn slammed Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle for prioritizing a cocktail party over an investigation into the attempted assassination of former President Trump. Cheatle ducked a fuming group of senators who wanted to discuss security lapses that nearly cost Trump his life, but Blackburn and several other lawmakers confronted the embattled security boss Wednesday at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee. "For her to say her priority was to make certain that people had a nice evening, that people had a nice party, that they were able to enjoy that luxury suite, and she did not have...

U.S. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle: “That building in particular has a sloped roof, at its highest point. And so, there’s a safety factor that would be considered there that we wouldn’t want to put somebody up on a sloped roof.”

The local police officer who was hoisted up to the edge of the roof and spotted former President Donald Trump’s would-be assassin is not to blame for the carnage that unfolded, Butler Township Commissioner Edward Natali said during an appearance on Breitbart News Daily, explaining that the mainstream media are not accurately telling the story of what actually happened. The news has been inundated with stories of an unnamed local police officer who encountered the Thomas Crooks prior to the shooting, largely placing blame on that officer. But Natali said that is not fair, nor is the story accurate. He...