Trump assassination attempt task force to be led by Republican from Butler, Pennsylvania

Published July 29, 2024 2:48pm ET



Rep. Mike Kelly (R-PA) will lead the 13-member bipartisan task force charged with investigating the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump and exposing the security failures that led up to it at his Butler, Pennsylvania, rally.

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) announced the seven House Republicans and six Democrats who will make up the panel on Monday. The task force will look into communication errors between federal and local law enforcement that allowed a 20-year-old man to climb onto a nearby building and take shots at rally attendees, leaving one attendee dead and three, including the former president, injured.

Kelly, whose hometown is Butler, represents the district, and he is the author of the resolution that established the task force when it passed last week.

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