(The Center Square) – A Butler Township police officer said he’d warned the U.S. Secret Service about security concerns arising from the unguarded building where a would-be assassin shot and nearly killed former President Donald Trump during a July 13 rally in Pennsylvania. Drew Blasko, a patrolman with the department […]
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