Panel reviewing Donald Trump assassination attempt call for Secret Service ‘reform’

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump was helped off stage after the incident at a campaign event in Butler in July (Gene J Puskar/AP)

An independent panel investigating the attempted assassination of Donald Trump at a Pennsylvania campaign rally faulted the Secret Service for poor communications that day and failing to secure the building where the gunman took his shots.

The review also found more systemic issues at the agency such as a failure to understand the unique risks facing Mr Trump and a culture of doing “more with less”.