Due to their actions during the Trump assassination attempt, six Secret Service members were suspended.

ABC News first reported on Wednesday that six U.S. Secret Service personnel were disciplined for their actions related to the assassination attempt on President Trump at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, last year.

The overall picture: The troops were placed on leave due to operational shortcomings in the July 13, 2024, rally shooting, and their bans ranged from 10 to 42 days as part of a federally mandated disciplinary process, USSS deputy director Matt Quinn told CBS News.

“We aren’t going to fire our way out of this,” Quinn told the magazine, adding that the suspended members were assigned to jobs with less operational responsibility or placed on restricted duty upon their return.

“We’re going to focus on the root cause and fix the deficiencies that put us in that situation,” he stated. “Secret Service is accountable for Butler,” he stated. “Butler was an operational failure and we are focused today on ensuring that it never happens again.”
Zoom out: After the Trump rally shooting, which she called the “most significant operational failure of the Secret Service in decades,” Kimberly Cheatle resigned as director of the Secret Service in response to growing bipartisan condemnation and resignation requests.

The shooting, according to a report by a bipartisan congressional task team, was “preventable and should not have happened.”

But it concluded that the Secret Service’s response to Trump’s second assassination attempt in West Palm Beach, Florida, last September, “demonstrated how properly executed protective measures can foil an attempted assassination.”
The “fantastic” response from the USSS was also commended by Trump.
“Given the shocking security failures that day, this is the absolute bare minimum,” stated House Oversight Committee member Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) in a post to X.

Requests for comment from Axios on Wednesday night were not immediately answered by USSS representatives.