by Frank Holmes, reporter
More than a year after a crazed gunman wounded then-presidential candidate Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, an explosive government report has blown the Deep State’s cover-up wide open.
The Biden administration had information that could have prevented the the near-fatal assassination attempt last July—but it buried the details, it said.
“The U.S. Secret Service failed to implement security measures that could have prevented the assassination attempt on then-former President Donald J. Trump during a July 13, 2024, campaign rally,” said a newly released, 98-page report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO).
With that, one of the most respected agencies in the federal government just dropped a bombshell on Washington.
“Prior to the July 13 rally, Secret Service received information from the Intelligence Community about a threat against President Trump’s life,” revealed Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, in a blistering speech on the Senate floor Monday night.
After the Secret Service learned about credible plans to kill one of their highest-value targets, agents under the Biden administration kept it to themselves—locked down tight, thanks to the Deep State.
“The lead advance agent did not share the general threat information with all Secret Service advance team members responsible for securing the rally, such as the Pittsburgh Field Office Special Agent in Charge, site agent, or local law enforcement partners, because she believed the information might have been classified,” reported the GAO.
Why would she think that? Two reasons.
First of all, the officials who got the tip-off declared the information was “not considered an imminent threat to life.”
As usual, the “experts” turned out to be wrong—dead wrong.
Most importantly, officers on the ground did not receive all the facts, because the Deep State conspired to hide the potentially life-saving details from them.
“According to Secret Service officials, this information was not more broadly shared across the Secret Service because in part, the information was highly classified, and the Intelligence Community did not include information at a lower classification level to share,” said the report.
After all, sharing the facts could have helped rank-and-file agents protect the Republican presidential candidate. “Once those officials reviewed the intelligence, they could have then requested that personnel within their chain of command be briefed on the specific information,” the report explained.
… And across-the-board, officers and security officials told Congress, if they knew about heightened assassination threats, they would have taken extraordinary efforts to protect the president’s safety. “The Pittsburgh Special Agent in Charge…reported that if he had received the threat information, he would have requested additional assets, such as ballistic glass, additional drone mitigation, and a full counter sniper advance team, among other assets.”
Most law enforcement officials, including those in the Secret Service, want to do their job and protect innocent people. But instead, the “Intelligence Community” scuttled and classified the facts, so “the Secret Service had no process to share classified threat information” with the law enforcement agents who could have stopped it.
We all know what happened next.
At 6:11 p.m., shots rang out, fired by 24-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, who lay on his belly, like on snake, on the roof of the AGR building just across the clearing.
If President Trump hadn’t consulted a chart on the number of illegal aliens admitted under the Democrats’ open borders’ policies, the then-presidential candidate could have gone the way of JFK.
Just two months after that near-miss, he would suffer a second assassination attempt by a radical left-wing activist who tried to recruit soldiers for the Ukrainian army.
A year later, the pain that grazing bullet inflicted on the commander-in-chief hasn’t gone away—emotionally or physically.
“I do get that throbbing feeling every once in a while,” President Trump told Fox News host Will Cain at the shooting’s anniversary.
But he’ll be the 47th president will be the first to tell you, he’s not the person who suffered the most after providence thwarted the first of his two assassination attempts.
🇺🇸🙏 President Trump says his ear still hurts from last year’s assassination attempt — and he points to the sky, giving thanks to God for saving him. True strength, true faith. pic.twitter.com/6tjDobcIRO
— Victoria Byrne (@Thevictoria76) July 13, 2025
The Biden administration’s negligence and the Deep State’s hatred also cost one life: Corey Comperatore, a Butler Township fireman struck down in the prime of his life, at age 50.
“Everything I knew for the 24 years of my life got taken away in an instant,” the slain hero’s youngest daughter, Kaylee, told her hometown newspaper, the Butler Eagle. It’s been very hard trying to pick up the pieces and accept that my life will never be normal again.”
“I had to learn how to live without my best friend,” said Comperatore’s widow, Helen. “We haven’t been apart in 34 years; (forever’s) a long time to go without your mate.”
The family’s pain at their tragic loss is real and lasting: The Comperatores’ comments came just last week.
The Deep State’s conniving ways and desire to protect their own in a cloak of darkness has proved just as enduring.
The lead senator overseeing the ongoing investigation into the shooting said he and his colleagues are “not an inch closer” to getting any answers.
“When President Trump won, I think my assumption was that his FBI, his Department of Justice, would certainly hop on this, investigate it, and produce the result,” said Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wisc., who chairs the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. “That hasn’t happened.”
Even now, Sen. Johnson says his investigators are “not getting access to Secret Service personnel.” Johnson has said he’s frustrated by unanswered subpoenas demanding to see “body-cam videos,” “cameras within vehicles,” and data from the Pennsylvania State Patrol. “We know they’ve got information that they have not been forthcoming with.”
President Trump is now waged in a life-and-death struggle to control the Deep State bureaucracy—a war he needs to win, for the sake of the Comperatore family and any future presidential candidate who comes too close to destroying the Deep State’s hijacking of the U.S. government.