The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, chaired by Senator Rand Paul (R-KY), released a damning final report exposing severe failures by the US Secret Service during the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump. The 54-page document outlines repeated denials of essential security requests such as counter-snipers and anti-drone technology. Despite early warnings—including a sighting of a man with a rangefinder 25 minutes before the shooting—communications broke down. Critical intelligence was not relayed, positioning the Secret Service as sluggish, disjointed, and unprepared.
Senator Paul blasted the agency for allowing the President to walk “into a death trap.” Six agents were suspended, but none were fired. Some were even promoted. Accountability appears to have taken a holiday. These facts, while unsettling, open the door to an unthinkable possibility—was it mere incompetence, or something darker? Some on the right now ask: Could members of the Biden administration, the Democratic Party, or rogue elements of the Secret Service have quietly looked the other way? While no public evidence supports such a theory, the breakdown in protection was so comprehensive that it fuels suspicion. In an age when both the judiciary and the intelligence community were weaponized to target a sitting President in 2016, such theories are not born in a vacuum.
Trust in federal institutions is at an all-time low, and the optics of political enemies benefiting from systemic failure fans the flames of doubt, if not outright conspiracy. This isn’t the first time such speculation has gained traction. In 2016, President Obama’s administration, through the FBI and Justice Department, used the unverified Steele dossier to spy on Donald Trump’s campaign. That operation was approved through FISA court warrants later found to be riddled with errors. No one was held criminally accountable. Hillary Clinton’s campaign and the Democratic National Committee funded the dossier. Similar suspicions still swirl around Lyndon B. Johnson and the assassination of John F. Kennedy, with documents still classified and questions unanswered.
In each case, government power intersected with political rivalry in ways that erode confidence in the rule of law. But suspicion is not proof. The Senate report blames poor leadership, not political sabotage. Still, when warnings are ignored, when agents go unpunished or promoted, when security is denied—questions linger. If the system failed this badly, who is to say it wasn’t exploited? There’s a biblical warning in Galatians 6:7, “Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.” America must sow accountability, truth, and vigilance—or reap suspicion, chaos, and division. The Secret Service owes this nation a hard reset, not another PR campaign. Lives—and trust—depend on it.
Sources:
- https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/media/reps/chairman-rand-paul-releases-final-report-detailing-secret-service-failures-in-attempted-assassination-of-president-donald-j-trump/
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/07/13/trump-assassination-attempt-senate-investigation/
- https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-senate-report-faults-secret-service-discipline-after-trump-shooting-2025-07-13/
- https://www.thedailybeast.com/ex-secret-service-boss-kimberly-cheatle-denies-lying-to-congress-over-butler-rally
- https://www.justice.gov/storage/120919-examination.pdf (DOJ Inspector General report on FISA abuse)
- https://www.archives.gov/research/jfk/release
