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One of the Secret Service agents who failed to secure the roof from which Thomas Matthew Crooks shot at Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania is still working for the agency.
According to Susan Crabtree of RealClearPolitics, Myosoty “Miyo” Perez remains a Secret Service agent with frontline duties, despite being partly responsible for Thomas Matthew Crooks being able to access the roof of the AGR Building at the Butler fairground.
From the rooftop, Crooks was able to shoot President Trump in the ear, as well as fatally wounding firefighter Corey Comperatore, who was standing behind President Trump in the crowd.
Perez, generally considered to be an “unserious agent,” was recently detailed to protect former President George W. Bush in Miami.
Crabtree reports, “The agent, Myosoty ‘Miyo’ Perez, is supposed to be sidelined from providing any security protection for current or former U.S. officials, according to sources in the Secret Service and Department of Homeland Security community.
“At a Christmas party with his entire Secret Service campaign detail in 2024, Trump said there was someone notably absent from the party because he didn’t want her anywhere near him.
“Not only was Perez on the team helping protect Bush yesterday—the Secret Service Miami Field Office documented her participation with photos and touted their ‘seamless coordination and steady professionalism’ during Bush’s visit on its LinkedIn page.
“’Protecting our nation’s current and former Presidents is at the core of our mission,’ the LinkedIn post says. ‘Visits like today’s require detailed planning, seamless coordination, and the steady professionalism of the men and women who execute them.’
“Perez has a reputation as an ‘unserious agent’ known for partying and for posting on social media from her security assignments, including from Mar-a-Lago, as I reported in @RCPolitics last year.”
A Senate report into the Butler assassination attempt found glaring faults in the Secret Service’s security detail for President Trump.
“This was not a single error. It was a cascade of preventable failures that nearly cost President Trump his life,” the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee report said.
“This was not a single lapse in judgment. It was a complete breakdown of security at every level — fueled by bureaucratic indifference, a lack of clear protocols, and a shocking refusal to act on direct threats,” the committee’s Republican chairman, Senator Rand Paul, said in a statement.
It was also revealed that a senior Secret Service official knew about a “classified threat” to President Trump ten days before the shooting, but because of the agency’s “siloed practice for sharing,” the threat was not widely shared.
Sen. Chuck Grassley said the Secret Service had multiple opportunities to share information about the classified threat, but failed to do so.
“One year ago, a series of bad decisions and bureaucratic handicaps led to one of the most shocking moments in political history,” the senator said in a statement.
“The Secret Service’s failure on July 13th was the culmination of years of mismanagement and came after the Biden administration denied requests for enhanced security to protect President Trump.”
“Americans should be grateful that President Trump survived that day and was ultimately reelected to restore common sense to our country,” Grassley added.
