This Sunday marks the one-year anniversary since an obviously government-trained assassin shot President Donald J. Trump on the campaign trail in Butler, PA. The Secret Service has now confirmed to multiple outlets that six agents have been suspended for their failures that day.
They were suspended without pay for six weeks and then reassigned to much less important jobs than serving on protectee details.
Despite having volumes of evidence, including hours of cell phone footage and police bodycam footage, we still have no clear picture of what happened on July 13, 2024. The FBI, which is really not having a good year with Kash Patel and Dan Bongino at the helm, has closed the case. They’re not going to discuss it further, despite a deep public interest in the subject and a mountain of unanswered questions.
First, here’s Jesse Watters on Fox News reporting these recent suspensions:
🚨BREAKING: Six Secret Service agents suspended over the Butler, PA assassination attempt on President Trump. pic.twitter.com/TJNZr3z6qJ
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) July 10, 2025
This is part of the “mistakes were made” narrative that the intel agencies started spinning immediately after Thomas Matthew Crooks’s assassination attempt failed. Yes, mistakes were made. But that doesn’t explain why so many of those mistakes just so happened to fall in Thomas Crooks’s favor.
Between the Secret Service, the Butler Township Police Department, the Butler County Emergency Service Unit, and the Pennsylvania State Police, there were more than 100 law enforcement officers on duty that day. How did a 20-year-old kid manage to fly a drone over the site twice and weave in and out among all those armed officers before climbing on a roof and shooting at a historic presidential candidate from the exact perfect spot?
The “lone gunman” theory about Thomas Crooks is almost funny when you think about it.
In June 2023, someone from Thomas Crooks’s household made a random, out-of-the-blue trip to Washington, DC. It was either Crooks or one of his parents. We know this from cell phone GPS data. That person parked a block away from FBI Headquarters in DC and spent the day in that area.
Immediately after that, Crooks started going to the gun range and practicing with his AR-15 every day. He was a community college student. His only job was preparing food for the elderly at a nursing home, which probably paid minimum wage or close to it. How can a 20-year-old kid afford to go to the gun range every single day for more than a year? Ammo is expensive.
The gun range where Crooks trained for more than 370 days straight is the same facility where the Department of Homeland Security trains all its agents. Tuck that fact away for a second.
On the day when Trump was nearly killed, the former boss of the Secret Service—Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas—pulled all the good Secret Service agents off of Donald Trump’s protective detail. Mayorkas sent them to protect Jill Biden during a small indoor event in Pennsylvania, in a tiny room with pre-screened donors. Meanwhile, Trump was being protected in a massive outdoor area where Crooks would make his assassination attempt.
While the talented agents were protecting Jill Biden, Mayorkas sent a bunch of untrained DHS girls who didn’t even know how to use their firearms to protect Donald Trump. The members of the “Ponytail Brigade” were all about 5 feet tall, and Mayorkas sent them to “protect” the 6’3” Donald Trump.
Why does Alejandro Mayorkas have what appear to be so many of his fingerprints all over this assassination attempt?
After Joe Biden lost the debate to Donald Trump on June 19, 2024, he defiantly refused to drop out of the race. His campaign’s internal polling showed that he was going to lose in a 400+ electoral college landslide because the whole world suddenly knew that he had a potato for a brain.
Did Biden know the attempt on Donald Trump’s life was going to take place? Did he expect to sail to reelection without an opponent? It sure looks that way.
Biden was completely defiant and insistent that he was going to stay in the race, until the assassination attempt failed. That sucked all the wind out of his sails. He dropped out a few days later. Did he know? Did he order it?
We’ll probably never know the answers to all these questions now. Six Secret Service agents received a temporary suspension. Because “mistakes were made.”