The Secret Service spent two years telling America the Butler investigation was in good hands.
Now one of their own is saying it out loud.
What this former agent just told Newsmax about Butler is something the Swamp spent two years hoping nobody with a badge would say.
The Man Who Knows Where the Secret Service Failed in Butler
Former Secret Service Special Agent Tim Miller knows exactly how protection details get built, how threat intelligence moves up the chain, and what it looks like when that chain breaks down — and he knows where the failures hide.
"Two years later, after one of the most iconic events in our lifetime, we still don't have the details as to how and why this happened," Miller told Newsmax.
Miller said the agency is facing a question it has never had to answer before – whether it needs to be rebuilt from the ground up, not just patched.
"Is the Secret Service in a position where they have to reconstruct the agency to address the threats? It needs to be looked at through the lens of, hey, do we need to reinvent this agency, not just a remodel?" he said.
When a man with that resume says "reinvent" on live television, the word means something.
The Agency Is Bleeding Agents While the Butler Files Stay Buried
Miller laid out exactly how broken the Secret Service has become.
Threats against protectees are up 700%, and the agents running down every one of those leads are understaffed and burning out.
"You're losing good folks that say, no, I didn't sign up to never see my family," Miller said.
He called it "blood money" – a phrase agents used for years to mark the point where no paycheck covers what the job costs.
That's the agency responsible for keeping Trump alive, operating right now with the highest threat load in the history of the office — Miller noted that Trump carried the highest threat profile of any Secret Service protectee ever recorded, even during the years between his terms when he held no office at all.
And while those agents are stretched to the breaking point, three officials from the Secret Service communications office were removed from their posts three weeks ago amid a federal misconduct investigation tied to allegations of leaking classified information.
Anthony Guglielmi ran communications through every assassination attempt on Trump, through the Butler attack itself, and through the episode where Jan. 6 text messages from two dozen top Secret Service officials vanished after a so-called cell phone reset — and he held his position through all of it.
Now he's the one under investigation.
Miller said the insider threat problem puts every agent on a protection detail at greater risk.
"There have been a number of compromises in security protocols. That puts every agent at risk, and that's scary," he said. "And that needs to be fully investigated and prosecuted if necessary."
Trump Says the FBI Destroyed the Butler Files Before He Got to the Oval Office
While Miller was on Newsmax, Trump was posting on Truth Social.
He said the Butler investigation records – the files from the most serious assassination attempt on an American president in decades – were "missing, altered, corrupted, or gone" by the time he returned to office on January 20.
He named former FBI director Christopher Wray directly: "Dirty Cop Christopher Wray should pay a price for the way he handled this assassination attempt."
Judicial Watch went to federal court to force the FBI's hand – and after winning, received 37 heavily redacted pages showing that local law enforcement had already identified a suspicious individual near the rally site before shots were fired.
That information never reached the people who needed it.
The FBI is sitting on approximately 75,000 pages of documents related to the shooting and releasing only a few hundred per month. At that pace, the full record won't see daylight for decades.
Thomas Crooks researched the JFK assassination for days before the rally, flew a drone over the site two hours before Trump took the stage, and used the alias "Bob Dole" to hide his purchases — and two years later, the FBI still claims no established motive.
The cover-up isn't a theory anymore. It's a release schedule – and the people who set that schedule served under Joe Biden and Christopher Wray.
The reconstruction Miller is calling for can't start until someone answers for what happened to those files.
Sources:
- Jim Mishler, "Ex-Secret Service Agent to Newsmax: Butler Shooting 'a Big Mystery,'" Newsmax, September 15, 2026.
- "Trump Claims Biden FBI 'Altered' and 'Corrupted' Information on Butler Assassination Attempt," Washington Examiner, September 15, 2026.
- "Is This Why Three Secret Service Members Were Placed on Leave?" Townhall, August 26, 2026.
- "Butler Assassination Attempt," Judicial Watch, July 6, 2026.
