Secret Service suspended 6 personnel without pay or benefits after Trump assassination attempt

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Source: CBS News

Updated on: July 9, 2025 / 7:53 PM EDT


Washington — Secret Service suspended six personnel without pay as the agency faced intense scrutiny after the assassination attempt against President Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, nearly a year ago.

Matt Quinn, Secret Service deputy director, told CBS News that their penalty ranged from 10 to 42 days of leave without pay or benefits. The personnel were placed into restricted duty or roles with less operational responsibility upon their return.

"We are laser-focused on fixing the root cause of the problem," said Quinn, who defended the agency's decision not to dismiss anyone after the security failure on July 13, 2024, in which a gunman opened fire during a campaign rally and a bullet grazed Mr. Trump's ear. One person was killed and two others were wounded while the alleged gunman, Thomas Crooks, was killed by a Secret Service sniper.

"We aren't going to fire our way out of this," Quinn said in an interview Wednesday. "We're going to focus on the root cause and fix the deficiencies that put us in that situation." "Secret Service is totally accountable for Butler," he said. "Butler was an operational failure and we are focused today on ensuring that it never happens again."

Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-assassination-attempt-butler-secret-service-suspension/

[bucolic_frolic]

1. It is increasingly difficult to eject incompetents from any profession.

That has become the American norm. Not a political observation.

[IbogaProject]

6. Remember they had to agree to put their lives at jeopardy to protect Tangerine

So that pool wasn't the most qualified to start with.

[live love laugh]

8. I disagree. People are fired all the time. Govt was that way tho until now.

[rampartd]

9. i disagree i saw several oeople fired for cause.

cause

[creon]

2. I think

I think that the secret service has problems with selection of agents.
There was a prostitution scandal in Cartagena Columbia

And Bongino. A RWNJ with no sense, common or otherwise.

[Tetrachloride]

3. secreted secrets. discrete cretes. the cree

one good rhyme out of three

[azureblue]

4. More CYA

Since Felon Don's ear was not hit by a bullet. And the "Blood" trails from his ear don't match what a normal bleed pattern is.
And the accused gunman was killed, even though the SS knew where he was before the event.
Yeah, the whole things stinks of a staged event.

[chouchou]

5. I just woke up and saw the headline about the FBI people ..and thought that perhaps..

...that some of the agents were being punished because Trump was still alive.

[mdbl]

7. I know. They are being fired for keeping him alive?

Of course it makes as little sense as the rest of this administration.

[turbinetree]

10. I have an idea why are you protecting a 34 count convicted fraudster that inflamed an insurrection.............

did you ever hear or say the term pound sand..................just a thought.........

[Bayard]

11. Disciplined because they let trump be fake shot

Someone has to take the public blame.

[Buddyzbuddy]

12. I for one, believe in 2nd chances.