One Year Later...

This Sunday, July 13, we remember the assassination attempt made against President Trump. Fortunately, whether you like him or not, had he died, another stain would have been would have blotted America's reputation.

Since then, an investigation started immediately after the event, resulted in the top tier supervisory staff being dismissed from their positions.

Yesterday, six additional members of the Secret Service have been suspended for failures related to last year’s assassination attempt against President Trump at that same rally in Butler, PA.

The suspensions for the six agents ranged from 10 to 42 days, and they won’t be paid while on leave, Secret Service Deputy Director Matt Quinn reported to the media. The agents will not be fired, but upon return to work, they will be placed in roles with diminished operational responsibility.

“We aren’t going to fire our way out of this,” Quinn told the outlet. “We’re going to focus on the root cause and fix the deficiencies that put us in that situation.”

Seems like these agents are fortunate to have found their supervisors in an magnanimous mood,  to be suspended,  rather than being outright fired.

And lest we forget, firefighter Corey Comperatore was killed shielding his family from Crooks’ bullets, and two others were left with severe injuries before the 20-year-old gunman, with a clear line of sight to Trump, was taken out by a Secret Service sniper.

A scathing Senate report on the assassination attempt released in September determined that “multiple foreseeable and preventable planning and operational failures by [Secret Service] contributed” to Thomas Crooks’ ability to carry out the deadly shooting.

“These included unclear roles and responsibilities, insufficient coordination with state and local law enforcement, the lack of effective communications, and inoperable [counter-unmanned aircraft] systems, among many others,” the damning report read.

Quinn insisted that the Secret Service is “totally accountable for Butler.”

In addition, he said, “Butler was an operational failure and we are focused today on ensuring that it never happens again.”

Finally, the official noted that the agency now has a new fleet of drones and mobile command posts that let agents communicate over radio directly with local law enforcement.

Some good has come out of what could have been a very terrible event.