Six Secret Service agents have been suspended for their conduct in connection with the assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania, against President Donald Trump during a campaign rally in 2024.
During Fox News’ “Jesse Watters Primetime” on Wednesday, the host announced that six Secret Service agents who were connected to then-presidential candidate Trump’s Butler assassination attempt “have been suspended.”
Six Secret Service agents assigned to President Trump during the assassination attempt in Butler, PA have now been suspended.
Given the shocking security failures that day, this is the absolute bare minimum.
The American people are not dumb. What happened to the burner phones?… pic.twitter.com/2qlBF8bklF
— Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (@RepLuna) July 10, 2025
Watters pointed out that the news comes just days shy of the first anniversary of the shooting that left one person, firefighter Corey Comperatore, dead and Trump with a bloody ear wound after he turned his head moments before the shot would’ve hit him.
ABC News reported that:
The discipline against the six agents was issued in recent months, and the agents were given the right to appeal. The suspensions ranged from 10 to 42 days, according to the official, who was briefed on the agency’s actions.
The positions of those suspended ranged from supervisory level to line agent level, a source familiar with the agency’s decision told ABC News.
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Matt Quinn, Secret Service deputy director, spoke to CBS News and confirmed the suspensions.
“We are laser-focused on fixing the root cause of the problem,” Quinn said about the shooting that left one person dead and two others injured after the suspected shooter, Thomas Crooks, was killed by a Secret Service sniper.
“We aren’t going to fire our way out of this,” he added. “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,” Quinn continued. “Butler was an operational failure, and we are focused today on ensuring that it never happens again.”
As my RedState colleague Bob Hoge recently noted, the country had seen an attempt on a president’s life before that day in Butler, but it was Trump’s reaction to it that changed the course of history in modern days.
— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) July 13, 2024
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He wrote:
He stood up, seconds after taking a bullet to the ear—millimeters from his brain—and shouted, “FIGHT!”
If anyone doubted the man’s spirit before that, they were fully awakened in that moment.
From that moment on, it seemed assured that he would become president again, and indeed he did.
As of late Wednesday, there’s been no official press release from the Secret Service or the White House about the suspended personnel.
This is a developing story; updates will be posted as they’re available.
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