The Secret Service dropped the ball in spectacular style at Donald Trump‘s marketing campaign rally the place he was almost killed by a would-be murderer … so says a former USSS particular agent.

TMZ Studios has a brand new particular, “TMZ Presents: Beneath Hearth: The Trump Assassination Try,” the place we discover the numerous, gorgeous safety failures that result in the try on Trump’s life at a Butler, Pennsylvania rally.

Richard Staropoli, a former Secret Service Particular Agent, does not mince phrases … he says Trump’s safety element completely failed him and left him inexplicably uncovered to mortal hazard.

Shooter Thomas Matthew Crooks slipping previous safety and taking perch on a rooftop with an AR-15 type rifle and a transparent view of Trump is the epitome of failure by the Secret Service … not less than so far as Richard is anxious.

One other former USSS Particular Agent, Cheryl Tyler, has a unique view. She’s deliberate safety for comparable presidential occasions and says the safety plan right here was “textbook.”

Nonetheless, Richard and Cheryl agree … the constructing the place Crooks squeezed off photographs from ought to have been higher secured and somebody from regulation enforcement ought to have been on the roof.

Happily, the shooter missed Trump’s head and solely shot his ear.

In fact, a few of the different bullets hit people within the stands … killing firefighter Corey Comperatore and wounding 2 others.

With that in thoughts, former Secret Service Particular Agent Michael De Geus says this was completely NOT a failure … if for no different purpose than the very fact Trump remains to be alive.