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Former President Joe Biden's U.S. Secret Service received a credible threat on President Donald Trump's life 10 days before last July 13's Butler, Pennsylvania rally, but chose to leave the assigned details for Trump and the rally in the dark. "This past weekend, the Government Accountability Office produced [to] me its report on the July 13 assassination attempt," Grassley told the Senate in a floor speech Monday night. "The Government Accountability Office's report starts by stating, 'The U.S. Secret Service failed to implement security measures that could've prevented the assassination attempt on then-former President Donald J. Trump during a July...

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...

Former Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle responded to the GAO report on the Butler assassination attempt released by Senator Grassley. On Saturday, just one day shy of the one-year anniversary of the assassination attempt against President Trump, Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) released a report highlighting some of the Secret Service failures. As TGP reported earlier, a new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report revealed that the Secret Service during Biden’s presidency did not alert the team responsible for securing Trump’s July 13, 2024, rally. The report revealed the Secret Service, under then-Director Kimberly Cheatle’s leadership, knew of a threat...

Today, U.S. Senator Rand Paul, Chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee (HSGAC) released the Committee’s final report regarding what can only be described as stunning failures by the United States Secret Service (USSS) that allowed then-former President Donald J. Trump to be shot on July 13, 2024, in an attempted assassination in Butler, Pennsylvania. One year later, the facts remain as chilling as ever: a former President of the United States and major party candidate was shot in the head at a publicrally by an individual who was reported as suspicious and carrying a rangefinder to...

Today is the first anniversary of the shooting of the Republican presidential candidate while on stage in Butler, Pennsylvania. Once it became clear that the hit had not succeeded, the awful corrupt American media lost all interest in the story, which remains the most under-investigated presidential assassination attempt of the last hundred years. Curious. Here is the column I wrote a year ago with a few annotations twelve months on: Let's cut to the chase - the US Secret Service: In on it? Or just totally crap? To get that out of the way: At the bare minimum, the Secret...

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...

In an emotional interview on Saturday, Helen Comperatore, the wife of Corey Comperatore, reflected on the murder of her husband at a Trump rally during the failed attempt on President Trump’s life on July 13, 2024. Would-be assassin Thomas Crooks was able to climb on top of a roof next to Trump’s Butler, Pennsylvania rally and put Trump in his scope. A bullet grazed President Trump’s ear on July 13, 2024, during his Pennsylvania rally. Corey Comperatore was fatally struck in the head. Two other rally attendees were wounded, one critically. Comperatore dove in front of his family to shield...

A new report from the federal Government Accountability Office (GAO) outlines the U.S. Secret Service's security failures during the first attempted assassination of then-presidential candidate Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Butler, Pa., one year ago. The report, ordered by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, 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. It also identified a series of procedural and planning mistakes, including "misallocation of resources, lack of training and pervasive communication failures" that led...

Still reveling in his political comeback after surviving two near-miss assassination attempts, last December, then-President-elect Trump stopped by the Christmas party of the Secret Service detail that was responsible for both saving his life and the failures that nearly ended it. Trump, at the time, responded to the mixed feelings in trademark fashion: He regaled the agents gathered for some light-hearted celebration after a turbulent few months but didn’t mince words for one junior agent who was charged with leading security for the Butler and he appeared to hold responsible for some of the most glaring failures. “As you guys...

President Trump banned a Secret Service agent connected to the Butler assassination attempt from getting anywhere near him, according to RealClearPolitics reporter Susan Crabtree. Trump told his Secret Service detail about his concerns about the unidentified junior agent at a Christmas party for the agents last year. “As you guys can see, that person is no longer welcome here,” Trump said to the agents at the Christmas party at Mar-a-Lago, according to RCP.

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...

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...

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:

A 23-year-old Texas man was arrested early Tuesday morning for trespassing after he scaled the wall at President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate, a federally protected property. Anthony Reyes told police he jumped over the wall so he could “marry” President Trump’s 18-year-old granddaughter, Kai Trump. President Trump, who was in DC at the time of the breach, has been briefed on the incident. This is the second time Anthony Reyes has been caught trespassing on the Mar-a-Lago property.

SECRET SERVICE SCOOP: ROWE FINALLY OUT AT SECRET SERVICE -- WILL IT MARK AN END TO DEI PRIORITIES? Former Acting Secret Service Director Ron Rowe said he planned to resign and retire in February but has remained on the payroll as a "senior adviser" for more than four months into the Trump administration, collecting paid leave. Rowe's last day was Friday, according to a knowledgeable Secret Service source, and many agents are hoping his departure will sweep out the DEI policies and lowering of standards that led to two assassination attempts against now-President Trump. After years of DEI hiring priorities,...

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...

video of the fight between two women Secret Service Uniformed Division Officers outside former President Obama's residence last week after one officer called a supervisor to come before "I whoop this girl's ass."

It appears DEI is still alive and well in the US Secret Service even though there has been a change of guard. Two female US Secret Service Uniformed Division officers got into a physical fight outside of Barack Obama’s DC residence at 2:30 am on Wednesday. It is unclear if anyone was injured or disciplined over the fight. Per RealClearPolitics reporter Susan Crabtree:

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/05/top-trump-aide-dan-scavino-calls-james-comey/President Donald Trump’s close aide White House Deputy Chief of Staff Dan Scavino, Jr., called out former FBI Director James Comey for posting “a plea to bad actors/terrorists to assassinate the POTUS’ while traveling internationally” with his now-deleted “8647” Instagram post. A short while later, Scavino (not so) cryptically posted, “FAFO.” President Trump is in the midst of an historic Middle East trip to Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates that wraps up Friday. The government of Iran was caught plotting to assassinate Trump last year as he campaigned for president.Trump fired Comey from his FBI director post...

Things got crazy for Ivanka Trump, the eldest daughter of President Donald Trump, and her husband, Jared Kushner, when the two tried taking a night out on the town in South Beach, Florida, on Sunday, May 4. What happened was a strange man rushed at the couple, leaving the Secret Service to intervene and clobber the potential attacker. The incident was caught on tape by RealClearPolitics’s Susan Crabtree. A correspondent for the outlet, she caught a video of the first daughter and her husband walking to their waiting car as a crowd formed around them, which is what precipitated the...