A member of the SWAT team at former President Trump's July 13 rally said that there was 'no communication' between their team and the Secret Service.
A police officer on a local tactical team assigned to former President Trump's July 13 rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, said there was no contact between their SWAT team and the U.S. Secret Service before Trump was shot. 'We were supposed to get a face-to-face briefing with the Secret Service members whenever they arrived,' the Beaver County team's lead sharpshooter Jason Woods told ABC News. 'That never happened.
think that was probably a pivotal point, where I started thinking things were wrong because it never happened,' he continued. 'We had no communication.' In the wake of the assassination attempt, Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle has resigned, and a series of law enforcement and congressional probes have been announced.
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