Six Secret Service Agents Suspended Over Security Shortcomings In Trump Assassination Attempt

Six secret service agents faced suspension in connection with last year’s attempted assassination on President Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, according to multiple reports.

The disciplined agents, who included both supervisory and line agents, faced suspensions ranging from 10 to 42 days, according to ABC News.

Thomas Matthew Crooks, who was shot by Secret Service Counter Snipers after firing at Trump from a rooftop, took the life of firefighter Corey Comperatore and injured several others on July 13, 2024. The then-presidential candidate was struck in the ear by a bullet as he was speaking to supporters.

“We aren’t going to fire our way out of this,” USSS deputy director Matthew Quinn said, according to CBS News. “We’re going to focus on the root cause and fix the deficiencies that put us in that situation.”

The suspended agents were placed in restricted roles when they returned, Quinn told CBS News.

The Secret Service did not respond to a request for comment.

Kimberly Cheatle, the Secret Service director at the time of the incident, resigned ten days after the attempt on Trump’s life.

Trump told Daily Caller White House Correspondent Reagan Reese on July 5 that he is “very satisfied” with the FBI’s investigation into the assassination attempt.

A four-person Department of Homeland Security (DHS)-appointed panel found in October that the Secret Service “does not perform at the elite levels needed to discharge its critical mission,” writing that an incident like Butler can happen again if critical reforms are not made.

“The Secret Service has become bureaucratic, complacent, and static even though risks have multiplied and technology has evolved,” the review panel wrote in its report.