Several U.S. Secret Service agents are reportedly on leave amid the agency’s investigation into the Donald Trumpassassination attempt in Pennsylvania.
Among the agents who are no longer clocking hours … the head of the Pittsburgh field office … according to a report Friday, citing a source familiar with the matter.
Trump, as you know, was holding an outdoor rally July 13 in Butler, PA when Thomas Matthew Crooks scaled the roof of a nearby building and squeezed off 8 shotsat the former president … grazing Trump’s ear, killing a man in the crowd and wounding 2 others.
Videos show Crooks casing the building, walking around the fairgrounds and taking up a position on the roof … only a few hundred yards from Trump.
Crooks also flew a drone over the event, and was on law enforcement’s radar … but somehow he evaded cops and the Secret Service. In other words, this was a massive security failure.
Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatleresigned in the wake of the assassination attempt amid mounting calls for her to step down … and a Congressional investigation into what went down in Butler.
Separate from Congress, the Secret Service’s internal affairs department continues to probe the would-be assassination.
Trump returned to holding outdoor events this week … including a rally in North Carolina where he took the podium from behind bulletproof glass.
