MIRIAM NNOLI 
Following the assassination attempt on the former United States (US) President, Donald Trump, lawmakers investigating the Pennsylvania attack criticized the Secret Service’s failures during their first hearing on Thursday for a series of security lapses that allowed a gunman to open fire on the Republican presidential nominee.
New Telegraph recalls that the Secret Service initially blamed local law enforcement over the July 13 attack at Trump’s campaign event in Butler, which left one man dead and the ex-president nursing a bloodied ear where a bullet grazed him.
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But members of a cross-party House task force set up to investigate the incident heard that the agency, which protects US political leaders, communicated poorly over securing the nearby building that gunman Thomas Michael Crooks scaled and took aim from.
The panel was set up days after the shooting and has carried out two dozen interviews with local police met with federal agents and received more than 2,800 pages of documents from the Secret Service.
