A Senate Homeland Security Committee report released Wednesday shows that the U.S. Secret Service denied at least nine requests to increase former President Donald Trump's security leading up to the assassination attempt on July 13 in Butler, Pennsylvania.
Although the additionally requested resources would have been helpful, the assets were denied "at times without explanation," according to the report. As a result, 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks nearly assassinated the former president when he fired shots at Trump from a rooftop positioned just 130 yards from the rally stage, killing an attendee and injuring others.
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