The Senate is launching an investigation into the assassination attempt on former President Trump and the security failures that led to it.
After a shooting at a Trump rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on Saturday night, Trump was injured in his right ear and bleeding, Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee (HSGAC) Chairman Gary Peters, a Michigan Democrat Peters will lead the investigation.
An aide to Peters told Fox News Digital that the committee has requested that members be briefed as soon as possible.
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Peters will lead the Homeland Security Committee’s investigation into the Trump rally shooting. (Getty Images)
Fox Digital News has learned that the chairman will speak with Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Sunday.
Also on Sunday afternoon, committee staff will get their own briefing from the Department of Homeland Security.
Peters’ aides said the investigation is expected to include a series of steps including hearings.
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Former President Trump leaves the podium during a campaign rally on Saturday, July 13, 2024, in Butler, Pennsylvania. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
News of the investigation comes after several lawmakers, including senators from both parties, called for an investigation into the incident.
On Saturday night, HSGAC member Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., called for immediate hearings by August to demand answers from the Department of Homeland Security and the Secret Service about how the assassination attempt occurred and what steps were taken to prevent it. Take it for investigation.
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Crowds react after a shooting incident at a rally for former President Trump on July 13, 2024 in Butler, Pennsylvania. (Anna Chanmemaker/Getty Images)
“The assassination attempt on President Trump and the murder of an innocent American demands an immediate response from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the U.S. Secret Service. It is a miracle that President Trump is alive and well, but absolutely inexcusable Yes, a mentally disturbed person would…the assassin had direct access to the former president and a leading candidate for president of the United States,” Scott said in a statement.
He added that HSGAC “has an oversight responsibility and obligation to the American people to demand answers from the Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Secret Service as to how this occurred and what steps are being taken to investigate this assassination attempt and ensure that it does not happen again.” .
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Senators Gary Peters and Rand Paul speak during a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing on February 28, 2023 in Washington. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
“Chairman Gary Peters must immediately hold HSGAC hearings by August 1st to hear testimony from these agencies and provide the answers that we as United States Senators and the American people demand and deserve from our government. The security of our republic is being compromised. Questions, we as a country need answers,” he added.
Vulnerable Democratic Sen. Jon Tester of Montana wrote a letter to Peters on Sunday asking for hearings investigating the shooting at a Trump rally in Pennsylvania.
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Tester wrote in a letter to Peters and Sen. Rand Paul: “As our nation grieves and hopes to unite in the face of this violence, your committee can help examine how this tragedy occurred. play an important role in the answer.
“I am grateful to the brave men and women of law enforcement, including the U.S. Secret Service, who risked their lives to protect former President Trump and attendees. They do important work every day, almost entirely out of the public eye,” the senators wrote said. “I trust your committee will work with them to provide oversight, accountability and piece together the information so that we can better understand how this incident occurred and what steps need to be taken to ensure that something like this never happens again.” ”
