Secret Service missed opportunities to prevent Trump shooting: watchdog

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Source: USA Today

Updated July 2, 2026, 9:08 p.m. ET


WASHINGTON – The Secret Service missed several opportunities to detect, prevent and disrupt a 2024 assassination attempt on President Donald Trump, who was then a candidate, and the agency was significantly understaffed that year, according to a pair of watchdog reports released July 2.

The findings largely echoed previous internal and external investigations of Trump being shot in the ear as a candidate in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13, 2024. The Secret Service agreed with the critiques and said that it had remedied several of the problems cited in the reports from the Department of Homeland Security’s inspector general.

"The U.S. Secret Service today is a stronger and more capable agency than it was in 2024, thanks in part to significant institutional reforms and investments in technology, personnel, and protective operations," the agency said in a statement.

The assassination attempt had already led to an overhaul of Secret Service leadership after Trump was shot and a spectator was killed at his campaign rally before a law enforcement sniper killed the gunman.

Read more: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/07/02/secret-service-trump-assassination-attempt/90788035007/

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Link to DHS OIG REPORT (PDF) - https://www.oig.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/assets/2026-07/OIG-26-13-Jul26-Redacted.pdf

[dave99]

1. Why wasn't it shot ?

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2. Trump's Department of Homeland Security put this out four days ago?

Hahahahahahaha....

[Scrivener7]

3. Secret service allowed maga kid, dressed in black and carrying a gun, to lie on top of a white building

deep within the security perimeter. They did nothing about the kid for at least 20 minutes after they knew he was there, despite being told again and again he was there by police and rally-goers.

That 20 year old maga kid worked in the kitchen of a retirement home. Somehow, I guess that was the right training to teach him how to outwit the entire United States Secret Service.

Then the United States Secret Service violated all of their own protocols to allow a photo op. The photo op was possible because ANOTHER Secret Service agent ushered photographers to the exact spot where the Secret Service agents surrounding the target of the assassination would inexplicably violate all their own protocols and allow the target to pose. The pose happened before the possibility of a second shooter could possibly have been ruled out.

How did the Secret Service who ushered the photographers know where to usher them to? How did he know exactly where this extreme breach of protocol was going to happen? How did he know THAT it was going to happen?

Nothing to see here. Nothing at all.