House task force releases final report on Trump assassination attempts

Washington — The House task force investigating the assassination attempts against President-elect Donald Trump released a final report on its probe on Tuesday, presenting a series of recommendations to combat future security failures.

"The Task Force found that the tragic and shocking events in Butler, Pennsylvania were preventable and should not have happened. There was not, however, a singular moment or decision that allowed Thomas Matthew Crooks to nearly assassinate the former President," the 180-page report said, noting that "various failures … coalesced to create an environment in which the former President — and everyone at the campaign event — were exposed to grave danger."

Over the course of the investigation, the task force said it conducted 46 interviews, reviewed 18,000 pages of documents and visited the incident sites in Pennsylvania and West Palm Beach.