KRISTEN THANK YOU. AND THE CHAOS FROM THAT DAY STILL RESONATES WITH THOSE WHO RESPONDED TO THE SHOOTING, INCLUDING THE DIRECTOR OF EMERGENCY SERVICES FOR BUTLER COUNTY. AND HE IS REFLECTING ON THAT FATEFUL DAY WITH PITTSBURGH’S ACTION NEWS FOUR REPORTER CARLOS FLORES. SUNDAY WILL MARK ONE YEAR SINCE THE ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP HERE IN BUTLER COUNTY. IT’S ONE OF THE BUSIEST DAYS THAT PLACES LIKE THE BUTLER COUNTY 911 CENTER HAS EVER SEEN. THERE ARE TIMES WHEN IT FEELS LIKE IT WAS LONGER. BUT BUT, YOU KNOW, IN MEMORY IT WAS YESTERDAY. STEVE BISWAS WITH BUTLER COUNTY EMERGENCY SERVICES WAS ONE OF THE MANY OFFICIALS ON SITE AT THE BUTLER FARM SHOW GROUNDS WHEN 20 YEAR OLD THOMAS CROOKS OPENED FIRE, INJURING PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP. 57 YEAR-OLD DAVID DUTCH, 74 YEAR OLD JAMES COPENHAVER AND KILLING 50 YEAR OLD COREY, COMPARATOR. OFFICIALS WITH BUTLER COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT SAY THEY HELPED MORE THAN 200 PEOPLE THAT DAY. MOST WERE RELATED TO HOW HOT IT WAS THAT DAY IN JULY. BISWAS SAYS THE MOMENT THE SHOTS RANG OUT, THERE WAS NO HESITATION FROM FIRST RESPONDERS, FROM THE PEOPLE IN THE 911 DISPATCH CENTER TO FIRST RESPONDERS THERE ON SITE. HE SAYS THE FOCUS WAS HELPING PEOPLE IN NEED. ROBERT MCCLAFFERTY, WITH BUTLER COUNTY 911, SAYS THERE IS ONE MEMORY THAT HE REMEMBERS VIVIDLY. OUR COUNTER ASSAULT TEAM WENT RIGHT TO OUR COUNTER ASSAULT FORCE, WENT RIGHT TOWARDS THEM, OR ESU RUNNING TOWARDS THE DANGER, STARTING TO MITIGATE THAT DANGER AND TO SEE THAT REALLY STICKS WITH ME. COMING UP ON PITTSBURGH’S ACTION NEWS FOUR AT FIVE, WE’LL HEAR FROM MORE FIRST RESPONDERS ABOUT WHAT THEY REMEMBER ABOUT THAT DAY ONE YEAR LATER. COVERING BUTLE
Report: Secret Service warned of threat against Trump days before Pennsylvania assassination attempt
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Updated: 4:28 AM CDT Jul 13, 2025
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A report released by the Government Accountability Office says the United States Secret Service received information of a threat against Donald Trump just days before an assassination attempt at his rally in Butler. Video above: First responders in Butler, Pennsylvania, reflect on Trump assassination attempt one year laterU.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, released the report Saturday, stating that "senior-level U.S. Secret Service (USSS) officials received classified intelligence regarding a threat to President Trump’s life ten days before the rally in Butler, but failed to relay the information to federal and local law enforcement personnel responsible for securing and staffing the event."The report also identified a "litany of USSS procedural and planning errors, including misallocation of resources, lack of training, and pervasive communication failures, all of which contributed to an unsecure environment and ultimately allowed for Thomas Matthew Crooks to fire a near-fatal shot at President Trump and take the life of a spectator."The report comes after six U.S. Secret Service members were issued suspensions for failures connected to the July 13, 2024 rally, which injured two rallygoers and killed local firefighter Corey Comperatore. Then-presidential-candidate Trump suffered a graze wound to the ear as a result of the shooting. The gunman was later identified as Thomas Crooks, 20, of Bethel Park. He was shot and killed on the scene by U.S. Secret Service personnel.Read the full report by viewing the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary's website here.
A report released by the Government Accountability Office says the United States Secret Service received information of a threat against Donald Trump just days before an assassination attempt at his rally in Butler.
Video above: First responders in Butler, Pennsylvania, reflect on Trump assassination attempt one year later
U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, released the report Saturday, stating that "senior-level U.S. Secret Service (USSS) officials received classified intelligence regarding a threat to President Trump’s life ten days before the rally in Butler, but failed to relay the information to federal and local law enforcement personnel responsible for securing and staffing the event."
The report also identified a "litany of USSS procedural and planning errors, including misallocation of resources, lack of training, and pervasive communication failures, all of which contributed to an unsecure environment and ultimately allowed for Thomas Matthew Crooks to fire a near-fatal shot at President Trump and take the life of a spectator."
The report comes after six U.S. Secret Service members were issued suspensions for failures connected to the July 13, 2024 rally, which injured two rallygoers and killed local firefighter Corey Comperatore.
Then-presidential-candidate Trump suffered a graze wound to the ear as a result of the shooting.
The gunman was later identified as Thomas Crooks, 20, of Bethel Park. He was shot and killed on the scene by U.S. Secret Service personnel.
Read the full report by viewing the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary's .
