A Secret Service agent from President Trump’s protective detail was suspended, along with several from the Pittsburgh field office, as the agency meted out discipline for the failures that allowed the July 13, 2024, assassination attempt to occur, The Post can reveal.
The lawyer for Myosoty Perez confirmed that she was among the agents suspended.
She was pictured protecting then-candidate Donald Trump as he arrived at the event where he was shot in Butler, Pennsylvania. Law enforcement sources said Perez was sent to the site in advance of the campaign event and tasked with helping to secure it.
Former President Donald Trump walks on stage during a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, before the assassination attempt on July 13, 2024. The Washington Post via Getty ImagesSix agents in all were given suspensions of 10 to 45 days following calls for accountability after Trump was wounded when a sniper crawled onto a rooftop and fired several times at the then-GOP front-runner.
One agent, who was sent to do a walk-through of the site in Butler and help coordinate security for the campaign event, was disciplined, law enforcement sources said.
Four leaders from the Pittsburgh field office were also suspended, the sources said — in addition to an agent on the counter-sniper team.
Two weeks after the failed assassination attempt, Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle, a 28-year veteran of the agency, resigned in disgrace after weathering bipartisan calls for her to step down.
Myosoty Perez was sent to Butler in advance of the campaign event and tasked with helping to secure it. The Washington Post via Getty Images
Myosoty Perez was suspended, along with five other agents from the Pittsburgh field office. Getty Images
Then-presidential candidate Donald Trump is rushed offstage during a rally on July 13, 2024, in Butler, Pennsylvania. Getty ImagesCheatle was replaced by Sean Curran, who was on the stage with Trump during the attempt on his life.
Trump appointed him to the role in January.
The identities of the suspended agents have not yet been released, but the source said none of the agents in the iconic “Fight! Fight! Fight!” photo featuring Trump with a bloodied ear were disciplined.
Sources said they did exactly what they were supposed to do that day.
Larry Berger, an attorney representing several of the agents, confirmed to The Post that Perez — a site agent who wasn’t in charge of security overall on the day of the rally — was among those suspended.
A Secret Service agent from Trump’s protective detail and five from the Pittsburgh field office have been suspended, sources tell The Post. Getty Images“She has fully cooperated already through all the investigations into the matter and she is now deciding what the next steps will be in this situation.”
Helen Comperatore, the widow of firefighter Corey Comperatore, who was killed at the Butler rally by a bullet meant for Trump, excoriated the Secret Service, slamming them as “garbage” and calling their role at the rally a “hot mess.”
Thomas Matthew Crooks attempted to kill Trump on July 13, 2024. Obtained by the NY PostShe told The Post that would-be-assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks — who was killed by a counter-sniper after he opened fire — should never have been allowed to leave the house with a gun.
“I think the Secret Service is garbage. All I’ve wanted this entire time was to sit down with the men who screwed up that day and find out why. Why? Why at that rally? Why at that one in Butler?” she said.
“What happened there? What was the problem? I want to talk to them and I want to tell them what they took from me,” she said, rattling off several of the agency’s disastrous failings that day.
“They never picked up radios that day. They brought the wrong cables for their drones. They were a hot mess. There had to be a reason why and I want to know.”
