Party leaders in the House named a group of bipartisan lawmakers on Monday to serve on a task force investigating the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump.
As previously reported by The Dallas Express, the attempted assassination marked one of the biggest security failures in the history of the Secret Service, prompting the agency’s director to resign from her post.
Revelations about the remarkable lapses in judgment continue to surface, with one recent report indicating that the shooter — 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks — was able to use a drone to conduct reconnaissance at the campaign rally in the hours before he fired several shots at the former president from an elevated position some 400 feet or so away.
Here’s some of what Fox News reported about the task force:
After House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., and Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., named their nominees to the Trump assassination attempt incident task force, the panel’s members expressed a bipartisan willingness to get to the bottom of how the historic tragedy was able to happen in the first place.
Rep. Mike Kelly, the Pennsylvania Republican whose district includes the Butler Farm Show grounds where the attempt on Trump’s life occurred, was named the panel’s chairman.
Rep. Jason Crow, D-Colo., was named its ranking member. Crow served as a U.S. Army Ranger in the Mideast, and several other panel members have law enforcement or military backgrounds.
Rep. Lou Correa, D-Calif., who toured the Butler site last week, said the incident transcends party lines and that after his visit to Pennsylvania, he recognized where issues likely occurred:
“In the wake of the attempted assassination of former President Trump, I visited the site with a bipartisan group of my colleagues. It appears there were a number of security lapses—and it appears that this may not have been the first major security lapse for a national political candidate,” Correa said.
“This is unacceptable. I’m committed to working with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to get to the bottom of what actually happened that day and develop policy solutions to ensure we never face a close call like that again.”