Congress launches bipartisan investigations into Trump assassination attempt

Published July 15, 2024 6:19pm ET



Lawmakers in both the House and Senate are launching a sprawling multicommittee investigation into the Secret Service’s security failures that resulted in the assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump at a rally in Pennsylvania over the weekend. 

The Senate Homeland Security Committee announced it will launch a bipartisan investigation looking into the series of security failures that allowed a shooter to scale a building hundreds of feet away from a stage where Trump was standing, where the former president was grazed by a bullet, one person was killed, and at least two others were injured.

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