Secret Service knew Thomas Crooks was on roof TWO MINUTES before he shot at Trump, bombshell intelligence report reveals

By BREANNE DEPPISCH, US SENIOR POLITICAL REPORTER and SHAWN COHEN, US SENIOR REPORTER Published: 22:16, 2 July 2026 | Updated: 22:26, 2 July 2026  Secret Service agents knew Thomas Crooks had a rifle and had made his way onto a rooftop in Butler, Pennsylvania with a clear shot at Donald Trump— and never issued a word to the president's own protective detail.  Those details were revealed in a damning and newly unredacted report released Thursday the DHS's Office of Inspector General.  According to the report, the Secret Service missed multiple opportunities to detect, prevent, and disrupt Thomas Crooks’s attempted assassination of then-former President Donald Trump during the July 13, 2024, campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.  'The Secret Service’s overall lack of policy and processes coupled with limited intelligence sharing and poor collaboration and communication with protectee staff and state and local law enforcement set the conditions that led to missing opportunities to prevent and detect the attempted assassination,' the report said. The OIG report made seven recommendations for the Secret Service to improve its processes for securing events.  This is a breaking news story. Check back soon for updates.  The comments below have not been moderated. The views expressed in the contents above are those of our users and do not necessarily reflect the views of MailOnline. By posting your comment you agree to our house rules. Do you want to automatically post your MailOnline comments to your Facebook Timeline? Your comment will be posted to MailOnline as usual. Do you want to automatically post your MailOnline comments to your Facebook Timeline? Your comment will be posted to MailOnline as usual We will automatically post your comment and a link to the news story to your Facebook timeline at the same time it is posted on MailOnline. To do this we will link your MailOnline account with your Facebook account. We’ll ask you to confirm this for your first post to Facebook. You can choose on each post whether you would like it to be posted to Facebook. Your details from Facebook will be used to provide you with tailored content, marketing and ads in line with our Privacy Policy.