The security failures that have brought Trump into the spotlight are making less and less sense

The more that comes to light about the Butler, Pennsylvania assassination attempt on Donald Trump fewer sense it seems to make.

And the confusion is almost as bad as the massive foul play that allowed gunman Thomas Crooks to fire eight shots and nearly kill the former president.

In an interim report last week, a Senate committee investigating the disaster listed several intelligence failures that allowed the gunman to nearly assassinate Trump, kill another man and seriously injure two others:

• The USSS planning was beyond pathetic, as individual responsibilities were not defined and the roof of the AGR building – which gave Crooks a clear firing range from less than 200 meters – remained unsecured despite concerns.

• The agency failed to coordinate with state and local law enforcement agencies or “adequately consider” their operational plans.

• It did not provide enough resources and, for example, refused requests for additional drones.

• Communication, particularly between key personnel, about a “suspicious person” appeared to be non-existent.

In further testimony in the House of Representatives on Thursday, a former Secret Service agent called the security precautions “atypical.”

The bigger secret is How Such poor planning and so many mishaps could have happened.

In fact, the incompetence — from start to finish — is staggering even to the bungling Harris-Biden people.

• How is it possible that Secret Service agents knew about a suspicious person with a range finder near the AGR building, while key people (the lead agent and the field agent) remained in the dark, as they claim?

• How could a sniper see the local police running toward the AGR building with their guns drawn without warning anyone to keep Trump off the stage?

• Why did a USSS official who knew “credible information” about a threat still write in a planning document that there was “no negative information” about Trump’s visit?

The list of Why is endless, but the answers were difficult to find – and contradictory.

The Secret Service, for example, decided not to place an agent on the AGR roof, we were initially told, because it was too “weird.” Then because it was “too hot”.

This soon led to someone deciding it wasn’t necessary.

What is there?

Meanwhile, information since the shooting has been slow to come to the public, adding to the public’s confusion with each new fact.

Last week, the Americans noted that without the word “credible evidence,” no snipers would have been deployed to the event at all. That contradicts claims that additional staffing was not provided because Trump does not hold high office and was not yet the official Republican nominee.

OK: No one wants to be responsible for such monumental failures, so all the finger-pointing, excuses, contradictions and collective blame are no surprise.

Fine. Congress should get to the bottom of this story and then every bungler should be fired.

Yes, USSS Director Kimberly Cheatle has already been ousted due to her own obstructions.

But the guy in the White House who hired Cheatle is also partly to blame.

The Secret Service is just another thing that Team Harris-Biden screwed up – disastrously.