Trump assassination attempt: Secret Service failures were ‘preventable’, Senate panel finds [Video]

WASHINGTON –

Multiple U.S. Secret Service failures ahead of the July rally for former U.S. president Donald Trump where a gunman opened fire were “foreseeable, preventable, and directly related to the events resulting in the assassination attempt that day,” according to a bipartisan U.S. Senate investigation released Wednesday.

Similar to the agency’s own internal investigation and an ongoing bipartisan House probe, the interim report from the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee found multiple failures on almost every level ahead of the Butler, Pa. shooting, including in planning, communications, security and allocation of resources.

“The consequences of those failures were dire,” said Michigan Sen. Gary Peters, the Democratic chairman of the Homeland panel.

Investigators found that there was no clear chain of command among the Secret Service and other security agencies and no plan for coverage of the building where the shooter climbed up to fire the shots. Officials were operating …