Secret Service failed to discipline agent at the heart of security breakdown in Trump assassination attempt, report finds | 13 July 2025 | The U.S. Secret Service failed to discipline the agent at the heart of the security failures that allowed a gunman to take eight shots at President Trump during the July 13, 2024, campaign rally, according to a damning new Senate report. That agent was allegedly warned by local cops about would-be assassin Thomas Crooks 25 minutes before Trump was shot -- but did not relay that info to the agents on the ground in Butler, Pennsylvania, the report found. The investigation into everything that went wrong at the rally -- published on the anniversary of the attack -- concluded that the Secret Service suffered "multiple, unacceptable failures." The leaders at the center of the scandal have never being appropriately punished, said Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), chair of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.