'Absolute bare minimum': Calls for more action after Secret Service agents suspended for security failure
Following the suspension of six Secret System agents tasked with protecting President Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Butler Pa on July of last year growing calls for accountability are sounding on social media GOP Rep Anna Paulina Luna of Florida called the suspension the absolute bare minimum Given the shocking precaution failures that day this is the absolute bare minimum Luna wrote on X SECRET FUNCTION SUSPENDS AGENTS TASKED WITH PROTECTING TRUMP DURING ASSASSINATION ATTEMPTRepublican Sen Mike Lee of Utah posted the news on his personal account and recounted one user in a thread that he intends to find out why the Secret Operation agents had been suspended instead of fired Why didn t this happen a long time ago urged a user to his post The Deep State is deliberately slow Lee replied in the thread Retired FBI agent Jennifer Coffindaffer mentioned the move to suspend the agents involved was expected Coffindaffer wrote in an X post that the Secret Service's incompetence cost a life referring to Corey Comperatore a -year-old firefighter father and husband who was shot and killed that day The assailant -year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks fired eight shots from an AR- style rifle from a rooftop approximately feet from the stage where Trump was speaking One bullet grazed Trump's right ear while another fatally struck rally attendee Comperatore who shielded his family CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP The Secret Arrangement agency authenticated to Fox News that the disciplinary action occurred in February The revelation comes ahead of a Senate overview outlining the assurance failures in Butler Following the July affair the agency faced additional criticism when a second assassination attempt on Trump took place in West Palm Beach Florida The second occurrence prompted then-Secret Operation Director Kimberly Cheatle to resign
