JUST IN: Secret Service Disciplines Several Employees In Wake of Trump Assassination Attempt

The Secret Service on Friday disciplined several of its employees who worked on securing the rally last month where a gunman managed to shoot former President Donald Trump and fire multiple rounds, one of which killed a rallygoer.

CNN anchor Jim Acosta broke the news Friday morning, “This just in to CNN. We’re learning that multiple Secret Service employees have been put on administrative duties in the wake of the attempted assassination of Donald Trump. CNN’s Zach Cohen joins us now. Zach, what have we learned ?”

“Yeah, that’s right. A source telling CNN that multiple members of the Secret Service’s Pittsburgh field office and a member of Donald Trump’s security detail that was involved in the planning of that July 13th rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, have been reassigned to administrative duties and ordered to work from home,’ Cohen said, adding:

This obviously coming as the Secret Service continues to face immense pressure to hold members of the service accountable for the security failure that led up to the assassination attempt of Donald Trump. That’s been a prevailing question as to how the Secret Service let a shooter get a clear line of sight at Donald Trump during that rally and ultimately fire eight rounds, killing a rallygoer and also hitting Donald Trump himself.

Now, acting Secret Service director Ronald Rowe has indicated previously that he wanted to wait until an internal investigation into what happened was complete before handing down any disciplinary action. Obviously, something has shifted there. This is a clear disciplinary action being taken by the acting director, and I want to remind people to obviously, the former director of the Secret Service who was in that position at the time, Kimberly Cheatle, has already resigned in the wake of the assassination attempt of Donald Trump.

So the service really still looking at what happened, trying to hold those who were involved in the failures accountable. And we’ll probably see more actions like this down the line as that investigation wrapped up.

Watch the clip above via CNN.