WASHINGTON—The U.S. Secret Service is facing multiple congressional investigations into its actions surrounding a failed assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump on July 13.
Former President Trump was speaking at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13 when, at 6:11 p.m., he was shot at by Thomas Matthew Crooks from the roof of a nearby building. One bullet grazed former President Trump’s right ear and caused visible bleeding immediately afterward as he was rushed off the stage by Secret Service agents, while another attendee was killed and two were wounded.
Mr. Crooks was immediately shot and killed by Secret Service counter-snipers. The incident was the first time in more than 40 years that a U.S. president was wounded in an assassination attempt since John Hinckley Jr. shot President Ronald Reagan on March 30, 1981….