The Secret Service failed to prevent the assassination attempt against Donald Trump last year at his Pennsylvania campaign rally, according to a Senate committee report, which accuses the agency of a botched operation snarled by communication fumbles and the repeated denial of extra security assets at a time when the former president faced heightened threats on his life.

“This was not a single error. It was a cascade of preventable failures,” the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee said in its report Sunday, marking a year since the shooting in Butler.

The committee, which is chaired by Sen. Rand Paul (R-Kentucky), conducted 17 interviews with Secret Service staff and reviewed more than 75,000 pages of law enforcement documents during its investigation over the pa

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