WATCH: Hearing Left Stunned After Acting Secret Service Director Exposes The Security Failure During Trump Assassination Attempt

On Tuesday, the acting director of the Secret Service, Ronald Rowe, Jr., testified before the Senate Judiciary and Homeland Security committees and condemned his agency's failure on July 13 when a gunman was able to evade security and take eight shots at 45th President Donald Trump, grazing the Republican candidate's right ear, killing one supporter, and seriously injuring two others.

During his testimony, Rowe pointed out that local law enforcement was stationed in the AGR International building and was responsible for covering the roof from where the gunman, 20-year-old Matthew Thomas Crooks, fired. As previously reported by the DC Enquirer, the local law enforcement posted on the second floor of the building, a countersniper team, had seen Crooks more than an hour and a half before the shooting took place at 6:11 PM. 

Beaver County Emergency Services Unit officers took a picture of Crooks at 5:38 PM and asked for the Secret Service to be notified. "Kid learning around building we are in. AGR, I believe it is. I did see him with a range finder looking towards stage," the text sent 31 minutes before the shooting, reads. "FYI. If you wanna notify SS snipers to look out. I lost sight of him," the text says. "Also a bike with a backpack sitting next to it in rear of building that was not seen earlier. Call it in to command and have a uniform check it out."

According to Rowe, the notification of the Secret Service never occurred. "The only thing we had was that locals were working an issue at the three o'clock – which would have been the former president's right-hand side – which is where the shot came. Nothing about man on the roof, nothing about man with a gun. None of that information ever made it over our net," Rowe told the committee.

The acting Secret Service director also displayed images for the senators that showed just how close the shooter was to the local law enforcement stationed in the building parallel to the roof. "Looking left, why was the assailant not seen?" Rowe asked. "I cannot understand why there was not better coverage or at least somebody looking at that roofline when that's where they were posted."

While Rowe placed some blame on local law enforcement, he ultimately blamed his agency for the failure. "This is a failure of the Secret Service," he said.

Wow - Acting Secret Service Director just lit up his own agency’s failures in a Senate hearing

He believes there is no excuse for this shooting to have happened

He angrily calls for answers the same way we are and I believe he thinks there was serious malfeasance that day by… pic.twitter.com/4JLoRr4goP

— DC_Draino (@DC_Draino) July 30, 2024

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