Long before Crooks would fire his AR-style rifle that Saturday evening, Crooks' presence wasn't the only thing that didn't seem quite right to the local SWAT team.
Team members said that the day of the rally, they had no contact with the agents on Trump's Secret Service detail.
"We were supposed to get a face-to-face briefing with the Secret Service members whenever they arrived, and that never happened," said Jason Woods, team leader for Beaver County's Emergency Services Unit and SWAT sniper section.
To the men and woman of Beaver County SWAT, what happened is clear: There was a lack of planning and communication that caused a catastrophic failure in the protection of Donald Trump. They said they saw the problem coming, and they tried to alert the people in charge and sound the alarm.
Members of the local SWAT team on duty at the Butler Trump rally told ABC News that a lack of planning and communication resulted in the failure to protect Donald Trump.
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