WASHINGTON—The House Task Force on the Attempted Assassination of Donald J. Trump will hold its final hearing on Dec. 5.
The panel, which is investigating the United States Secret Service (USSS) missteps that led to two attempts on President-elect Donald Trump’s life, will hear from USSS Acting Director Ronald L. Rowe Jr, who previously addressed the panel in a Sept. 26 hearing.
The hearing comes in the wake of an interim report by the task force that listed a series of “stunning security failures” likely to take front stage during the hearing. A final report is expected around Dec. 13.
The attempt on Trump’s life in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13 marked the agency’s first lapse from its “zero-failure mission” since 1981. A second attempted assassination in West Palm Beach, Florida, only intensified questions about the agency’s ability to protect presidents and candidates….