The House Assassination task force released its final and longawait report on Tuesday.
The 180-page report claims the deadly shooting at Donald Trump‘s Butler, Pennsylvania, rally on July 13 was ‘preventable and should not have happened.’
It was released just days after its final public meeting last week where Acting Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe got into a screaming match with Rep. Pat Fallon (R-Texas).
Rowe did acknowledge at the hearing the agency’s ‘abject failure’ in the July shooting.
The 13-member panel was created by a House vote shortly after the first assassination attempt over the summer. And a few months later they were asked to also look into the second incident.
The group concluded that there was no single failure that allowed shooter Thomas Matthew Crooks to fire at Trump, but ‘various’ decisions and moments that created an ideal situation for the assassination attempt.
The Task Force on the Attempted Assassination of Donald Trump released a series of recommendations it feels will help prevent future incidents.
Members of the task force visited both sites where men tried to take out the former – and now future – president.
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