Homeland Security investigates Secret Service WFTV [Video]

The Homeland Security inspector general has opened an investigation into the Secret Service into the handling of the assassination attempt of former President Donald Trump.

Trump was wounded in the shooting in Butler County, Pennsylvania on Saturday. One rally attendee was killed and two others were injured, The Associated Press reported.

The inspector general’s website was updated Wednesday morning with the notice that the investigation is to “Evaluate the United States Secret Service’s (Secret Service) process for securing former President Trump’s July 13, 2024 campaign event.”

According to the inspector general’s account on the social media platform X, the office’s job is to “provide independent oversight of @DHSgov.”

No date was provided when the investigation was started, the AP reported.

President Joe Biden called for an independent review of what led up to the shooting of Trump by Thomas Crooks, 20, who was able to get within 135 meters of the former president with …