Congress creates Trump assassination attempt task force with 'subpoena power' that will get to the bottom of the absolute 'security failure' that nearly killed the former president

The House unanimously voted to found a bipartisan task unit to return a good bony comb to nan occurrences that led to nan near-assassination of Donald Trump earlier this month. 

The ballot was 416-0.  

The group will see 13 members, 7 Republicans and six Democrats. It came aft a bid of 3 congressional hearings this week connected nan matter - 1 pinch Secret Service head Kimberly Cheatle that preempted her resignation. 

A Judiciary Committee Hearing included grounds from FBI head Christopher Wray and nan Homeland Security Committee heard grounds from Pennsylvania law enforcement officials and visited nan segment of nan shooting. 

Having 3 abstracted committees of jurisdiction is what led activity to found 1 sheet focused solely connected nan shooting.  

'The information failures that allowed an assassination effort connected Donald Trump's life are shocking. … The task unit will beryllium empowered pinch lawsuit authority and will move quickly to find nan facts, guarantee accountability, and make definite specified failures ne'er hap again,' Speaker Mike Johnson and Majority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said successful a associated statement. 

The task unit is akin to what was group up aft nan 9/11 attack, and different that was formed aft January 6, 2021. 

It's not yet clear who will beryllium appointed to nan task force. 

Already there's been play of who will beryllium connected nan panel. The correct helping House Freedom Caucus put retired a connection urging activity to support Homeland Security Committee ranking personnel Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., disconnected nan panel. Thompson led a measure that would portion protectees of their Secret Service item if they were sentenced for a felony conviction. 

Thompson later said he'd expressed nary liking successful serving connected nan task force. 

Even aft 3 abstracted hearings, galore questions remain.

They wondered why a rooftop wrong firearm scope of nan shape was near retired of nan information perimeter of nan rally and scratched their heads erstwhile Secret Service Director Cheatle insisted that agents had not been placed connected that tile because it was 'sloped.' 

The FBI and Secret Service revealed to lawmakers past week they spotted shooter Thomas Matthew Crooks arsenic a personification of liking a afloat 62 minutes earlier he fired a shot. 

Twenty minutes passed betwixt nan clip Secret Service agents spotted Crooks pinch a weapon connected nan rooftop and he fired shots astatine nan president. 

In a staggering moment, Cheatle admitted connected Monday her agents connected nan crushed were warned betwixt 2 and 5 times that location was a 'suspicious person' reported earlier Trump took nan stage. 

While Trump walked astir pinch small much than a bloody ear, Crooks killed erstwhile occurrence main Corey Comperatore, 50, and critically injured 2 different rally goers sitting adjacent to wherever nan erstwhile president was speaking past play earlier he was neutralized. 

Cheatle gave answers that were deemed woefully insufficient by lawmakers connected some sides of nan aisle over why an supplier was not stationed connected nan tile from wherever Crooks opened occurrence connected nan erstwhile president, and why Trump was allowed to return nan shape moreover erstwhile a threat was detected.

Wray besides told lawmakers nan 20-year-old gunman flew a drone 200 yards from nan shape conscionable 2 hours earlier he opened occurrence successful Butler, Pennsylvania, and had 3 explosives successful his car. 

Wray said Crooks had been 'interested successful nationalist figures' and  'somewhere astir July 6 aliases truthful he became very focused connected erstwhile President Trump and his rally.'

The head said an study of Crooks' laptop revealed he had searched on Google on July 6 'how acold distant was Oswald from Kennedy.' It was nan aforesaid time he registered to be nan Butler rally. 

Lee Harvey Oswald changeable and killed erstwhile President John F. Kennedy successful 1963. 

Wray said 8 slug cartridges had been recovered from nan tile wherever Crooks fired disconnected his shots toward nan erstwhile president. 

And he wouldn't norm retired that Crooks did not person immoderate accomplices to nan crime, saying it's still being looked astatine by rule enforcement. 

On nan time of nan rally, Trump walked retired onto nan shape astatine 6:02 p.m.

Then astatine astir 6:12 p.m. Crooks' first shots rang out.

 Cheatle could not show lawmakers really nan shooter had gotten onto nan roof.

At nan clip of nan shooting, rule enforcement agents were wrong nan building, 147 yards distant from wherever Trump stood, but not connected apical of it. 

What transpired alternatively was a information nightmare: Thomas Matthew Crooks was capable to standard nan building and unafraid his ain position, while rule enforcement struggled to find him moreover amid pressing warnings from members of nan Trump crowd. But location wasn't capable clip to enactment connected nan tips, she explained.

'The shooter was really identified arsenic a imaginable personification of suspicion,' Cheatle said. 'Unfortunately, pinch nan accelerated succession of really things unfolded, by nan clip that individual was yet located, they were connected nan rooftop and were capable to occurrence disconnected astatine nan erstwhile president.'

She was referencing claims by witnesses that they alerted rule enforcement astir nan threat, but agents weren't capable to destruct nan threat successful time. Officials person pointed to nan first responding officer, who lifted himself up connected nan tile only to little himself backmost erstwhile nan gunman turned his limb astatine him.