We Just Learned Chilling New Information About the Attempt on Trump’s Life In Pennsylvania

Okay, fair warning. This will make your blood boil, especially if you’re a dyed-in-the-wool MAGA supporters.

While Thomas Crooks was perched on a rooftop 155 yards from Donald Trump with a rifle, taking aim at a man who would become President of the United States again — a Secret Service counter-drone operator whose entire job was to prevent exactly this kind of threat was typing a search query into Google.

Not radioing local law enforcement. Not alerting the protective detail. Not doing any of the dozens of things a trained federal agent is supposed to do when a suspicious man with a weapon is spotted on a rooftop overlooking a presidential rally. Googling. The location of the building. That local law enforcement had already called in. Two minutes earlier.

Corey Comperatore is dead because of what happened in Butler, Pennsylvania that day. A retired volunteer fire chief who threw himself over his wife and daughter to shield them from the gunfire didn’t make it home. Two other men were gravely wounded. Donald Trump took a bullet to the ear and survived by a fraction of an inch. And now, nearly two years later, a Department of Homeland Security inspector general report has confirmed what many Americans already suspected: the security failure in Butler wasn’t just bad luck. It was a cascade of inexcusable, preventable, jaw-dropping incompetence at every single level.