Secret Service Suspends 6 Agents Tasked With Protecting Trump During July 2024 Assassination Attempt

Six Secret Service agents were suspended without salary aliases benefits pursuing a gunman's effort to return President Donald Trump's life astatine a Pennsylvania rally past July.

Matt Quinn, nan agency's lawman director, told CBS News connected Wednesday that they "weren't going to occurrence [their] measurement retired of this," but did opportunity they are "laser focused connected fixing nan guidelines origin of nan problem."

Quinn told nan outlet that nan agents' punishment ranged from 10 to 42 days of unpaid leave, adding that they were placed successful restricted roles pinch little work erstwhile they returned to nan job. He said nan disciplinary actions were successful accordance pinch a federally mandated process.

Fox News Digital reached retired to nan Secret Service for independent confirmation, but did not perceive backmost by nan clip of publication.

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Republican campaigner Donald Trump is seen pinch humor connected his look surrounded by Secret Service agents arsenic he is taken disconnected nan shape astatine a run arena astatine Butler Farm Show Inc. successful Butler, Pennsylvania, July 13, 2024.   (Rebecca Droke/AFP via Getty Images)

The agency faced dense disapproval pursuing nan information failure, which allowed gunman Thomas Crooks to unfastened occurrence toward nan rally's shape successful Butler, Pennsylvania, connected July 13, 2024. 

Corey Comperatore, a 50-year-old firefighter, begetter and husband attending nan rally, was killed while Trump's receptor was grazed by a slug and 2 different men were injured by gunfire. 

Crooks was killed by a Secret Service sniper.

Thomas Matthew Crooks appeared to beryllium equipped and fresh connected a adjacent tile astatine President Donald Trump's July 2024 rally successful Butler, Pennsylvania. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images, left, Iron Clad USA, middle, Butler Township Police Department, to right, Fox News, bottommost right. )

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"Secret Service is wholly accountable for Butler," Quinn said to CBS. "Butler was an operational nonaccomplishment and we are focused coming connected ensuring that it ne'er happens again." 

He besides said nan agency is focusing connected nan "root cause" of nan operational nonaccomplishment and fixing "the deficiencies that put america successful that situation."

Since nan Butler rally, Quinn said nan Secret Service has introduced a caller fleet of military-grade drones and mobile bid posts to amended power communications pinch section rule enforcement.

President Donald Trump surrounded by U.S. Secret Service agents pursuing an assassination effort astatine his run rally successful Butler, Pennsylvania, connected July 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

The agency faced much disapproval weeks later erstwhile a 2nd assassination effort connected Trump took spot successful West Palm Beach, Florida. Though it was stopped, then-Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle resigned and nan agency underwent respective investigations and congressional hearings.

A bipartisan House task unit released a 180-page study successful December stating that nan incident successful Butler was "preventable," citing "preexisting" activity and training issues that "created an environment" wherever information failures were possible.

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In nan report, lawmakers besides pointed retired that nan Secret Service did not coordinate aliases scheme good pinch section rule enforcement.