Multiple members of the United States Secret Service have been suspended without pay in connection with the attempted assassination in Butler, Pennsylvania, of then-presidential candidate Donald Trump, and on Thursday, we got more information about their reported roles in the failures.
In a post on X, RealClearPolitics National Political Correspondent Susan Crabtree wrote that “Key supervisors who signed off on the Butler security plan and two who were on the final walkthroughs before the J13 [July 13, 024] rally were never disciplined but instead received BIG PROMOTIONS, multiple sources in the Secret Service community tell RealClearPolitics @RCPolitics.”
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Key supervisors who signed off on the Butler security plan and two who were on the final walkthroughs before the J13 rally were never disciplined but instead received BIG… pic.twitter.com/Thp4XjJMVH— Susan Crabtree (@susancrabtree) July 10, 2025
“One of those supervisors on the final walkthroughs, Nick Menster, was assigned this year as the No. 2 in charge of the Lara and Eric Trump protective detail,” Crabtree wrote. “The other, Nick Olszewski, ironically, became the chief (special agent in charge) of the Inspection Division, which is responsible for ensuring the accountability and integrity of the agency’s personnel and operations.”
Inexperienced agents positioned for failure and a more senior agent who spoke out about the ambiguity about the AGR roof coverage, according to Secret Service sources and Congressional testimony, are taking the fall.
Rank-and-file agents are incensed over the decision not to hold the supervisors accountable, further sinking the low morale and exacerbating retention problems throughout the agency. Secret Service Director Sean Curran was in charge of the Donald Trump detail at the time of the rally, and Menster served under his command.
Another big point – multiple Secret Service sources tell me that the original Secret Service disciplinary recommendations varied but maxed out at 52 days without pay. However, lawyers for the agents were able to scale that discipline down to 10 to 42 days without pay. This is a relatively light punishment for such egregious failures, but the fact that some of these agents didn’t receive the supervisory oversight that an outdoor rally of this magnitude required is likely a mitigating factor. If so, that begs the question of why key supervisors appear to have skated.
The Real Clear Politics correspondent’s post included a quote from Larry Berger, an attorney for several of the suspended agents who previously served as general counsel for the Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association.
“We avoided more severe sanctions, and now we’re assessing the next steps with respect to these discussions,” Berger, who now has his own firm, Berger and Deplas, said.
Crabtree then named three of the six who she said were “taking the fall” for America’s next president, almost assassinated. It included three females: Myotsoty Perez, Meredith Bank, and Dana Dubrey.
The other three include Tim Burke, Brian Pardini, and John Marciniak. She provides more details about each of them in her lengthy post.
As RedState reported on Wednesday, the six agents were suspended for their conduct in connection with the assassination attempt against President Trump during his campaign rally in Butler which left one person, firefighter Corey Comperatore, dead and Trump with a bloody ear wound after he turned his head moments before the shot would’ve hit him.
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During Fox News’ “Jesse Watters Primetime,” Watters reported on the suspensions and pointed out that the news comes just days shy of the first anniversary of the shooting that we will never forget.
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Matt Quinn, Secret Service deputy director, spoke to CBS News and confirmed the suspensions.
“We are laser-focused on fixing the root cause of the problem,” Quinn said about the shooting that left one person dead and two others injured after the suspected shooter, Thomas Crooks, was killed by a Secret Service sniper.
“We aren’t going to fire our way out of this,” he added. “We’re going to focus on the root cause and fix the deficiencies that put us in that situation.”
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