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‘Inexcusable’: US Senate report faults Secret Service for Trump shooting

The Secret Service itself found that communications, technical and human errors led to the assassination attempt on US President Donald Trump [File: Spencer Platt/Getty Images via AFP]

A United States Senate inquiry into an attempt to assassinate President Donald Trump at a campaign rally last year has blamed the Secret Service for “inexcusable” failures in its operations and response and called for more serious disciplinary action.

The report, released on Sunday, a year after a 20-year-old gunman opened fire on Trump, accused the presidential protection service of a pattern of negligence and communications breakdowns in planning and executing the rally.

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