Trump Rally Shooting

After the Secret Service announced the suspension of six staffers over failures that led to the attempted assassination of President Donald Trump last year in Butler, U.S. Rep. Mike Kelly commended the Secret Service’s new leaders for working to reform the agency. “I applaud Director (Sean) Curran and Deputy Director...

A Butler County man claims in a federal lawsuit that Iron Mountain, one of the nation’s biggest record storage companies, fired him after he wore a sun visor emblazoned with its name to the rally where President Donald Trump was shot in July. Images of Clarence Stamm in the visor...

A task force led by a Republican congressman from Southwestern Pennsylvania on Tuesday capped a monthslong investigation of the attempted assassination of President-elect Donald Trump at a Butler County campaign rally in July by releasing dozens of recommendations to improve the U.S. Secret Service after widespread criticism of the agency....

Released 911 recordings from the July 13 assassination attempt on Donald Trump in Butler County depict a chaotic scene, with callers frantic and confused. “We are at the Trump assembly, and there’s a guy shooting. He’s been shooting up the place,” a female caller told dispatchers, according to The Intercept....

Helen Comperatore still is processing the death of her husband, Corey, 50, who was shot and killed two months ago during a campaign rally for former President Donald Trump at the Butler Farm Show grounds. “I think it’s the trauma of it all,” Helen Comperatore said. “I think that’s something...

As a congressional task force hearing Thursday dissected the security breakdowns that plagued Donald Trump’s July rally in Butler County, one member worried about the future. “We have (former) President Donald Trump going back to Butler in the next few days,” said U.S. Rep. Lou Correa, a California Democrat. “Are...

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump will return to the Butler Farm Show grounds for a rally on Oct. 5, nearly three months after he was grazed by a bullet in an assassination attempt there this summer, his campaign said Wednesday. Trump has campaigned heavily in Pennsylvania since that assassination attempt,...

WASHINGTON — Communication breakdowns with local law enforcement hampered the Secret Service’s performance ahead of a July assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump, according to a new report that lays out a litany of missed opportunities to stop a gunman who opened fire from an unsecured roof. A five-page...

Pittsburgh’s police chief said Thursday that a lieutenant overstepped his authority when he approved at least a dozen members of the city force’s motorcycle unit to provide security at the Butler County rally at which former President Donald Trump survived an assassination attempt. Pittsburgh police Chief Larry Scirotto said he...

The FBI said Wednesday that federal investigators have not identified a motive or found evidence of a second shooter in the July 13 assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump during a rally in Butler County. “All the rounds have been accounted for. We have zero reason to believe there...

Controversial claims and conspiracy theories have proliferated in the six weeks since the July 13 assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump. On Monday, the conservative Heritage Foundation hosted an event at which some Republican lawmakers claimed the Secret Service might have been criminally negligent and pushed the notion that...

Former President Donald Trump will return to Western Pennsylvania on Friday to rally with supporters in Johnstown, his first visit back to the region since an assassination attempt injured him last month in Butler County. Trump is scheduled to speak late Friday afternoon at 1st Summit Arena in downtown Johnstown....

Members of a House task force investigating the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump will tour the shooting site in Butler today. Butler County Rep. Mike Kelly, the Republican chairman of the bipartisan task force, and other members will meet with local officials and tour the site of the...

He’d warned them. Butler Township police Officer Drew Blasko paced angrily along the AGR International building, where just minutes before a gunman had clambered atop the roof, aimed an AR-15-style rifle at Donald Trump and fired, striking the former president. As Blasko and other officers stood guard near a loading...

Butler County Commissioner Leslie Osche said Wednesday that the July 13 rally for former President Donald Trump appeared to be “underresourced” — a problem she attributed to a fellow commissioner’s request that the Butler County Sheriff’s Office work under a contract for the event. The sheriff’s office reportedly provided seven...

Autopsy reports for firefighter Corey Comperatore and would-be assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks showed both died from a single gunshot wound to the head. Butler County Coroner William F. Young III said Wednesday that the Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office completed the reports for both men who died at the July...

Most major congressional investigations come with a trail of doubters and parallel sleuths. Already, the task force investigating the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump has drawn criticism from U.S. Reps. Cory Mills, R-Fla., and Eli Crane, R-Ariz., ex-snipers who were left off the panel. Mills has pledged to...

As the saying goes, the show must go on. On Sunday evening, hundreds packed into the Butler Farm Show grounds to fulfill an annual routine, just three weeks after tragedy struck those same grounds. Less than a month after the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump during a campaign...

Less than a half-hour after getting set up at the Butler Farm Show grounds for former President Donald Trump’s July 13 campaign rally, the Connoquenessing Volunteer Fire Company received its first call for a heat-related issue. About 250 people were overcome by the heat, but whoever was counting might have...

Most Americans have doubts about the Secret Service’s ability to keep presidential candidates safe after last month’s attempt on former President Donald Trump’s life, a poll from the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research finds. Only about 3 in 10 Americans are extremely or very confident the Secret Service...

The Butler County Emergency Services Unit pointed out potential vulnerabilities — including the rooftop where a gunman fired shots from during the July 13 campaign rally for former President Donald Trump — to the U.S. Secret Service after touring the Butler Farm Show grounds on its own the Wednesday before...

Five days before Donald Trump took the stage at the Butler Farm Show grounds for a rally, the Secret Service was busy rolling out its strategy to protect the nation’s 45th president. The advance planning was hardly unusual as part of the agency’s mission to guard the nation’s current and...

Butler-area officials said they have not heard from the Donald Trump campaign about an announced second rally in Butler County. The first Trump rally in Pennsylvania since the assassination attempt will see the former president in Harrisburg in Dauphin County on Wednesday. The rally will feature U.S. Senate candidate Dave...