House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., on Monday ripped the U.S. Secret Service after the release of a preliminary report from a bipartisan House panel investigating the attempt on former President Donald Trump’s life in July.

The bipartisan House task force investigating the assassination attempt against Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, released an interim report on Monday that deemed the incident “preventable” and criticized the apparent “lack of planning and coordination between the Secret Service and its law enforcement partners before the rally.”

Johnson, in a statement, blasted “the security failures by U.S. Secret Service personnel that led to the assassination attempt” as “shocking and inexcusable.”

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