The House Task Force investigating the assassination attempts on President-elect Trump’s life has released its final report on Tuesday, detailing ‘preexisting conditions and leadership failures’ that led to the deadly campaign rally in Pennsylvania in July.

While the bipartisan panel was given ample information on that shooting, the report suggested requests for documents on the second attempt on Trump’s life – this one at his Palm Beach golf course in September – were seemingly stonewalled.

‘The Task Force notes that as of the date of publication of this report, [the Department of Homeland Security], [U.S. Secret Service], FBI, and [Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives] have not produced any documents responsive to the Task Force’s requests regarding the preparation for, events of, and response to the second assassination attempt that occurred on September 15,’ the report said.

Lawmakers found ‘critical vulnerabilities’ in the security of that site. The report said Secret Service agents identified the golf course’s outer perimeter as ‘a favorable position for potential snipers.’

The report also called on the Secret Service to review its protocols for golf courses – which would be a significant policy overhaul, given Trump and past presidents’ historic penchant for golfing.

Other recommendations in the 180-page report include calling on Congress to consider taking the Secret Service out from under the purview of DHS.

‘The current structure potentially weakens USSS, a small but critically important agency, in advocating for its budget and other priorities inside a much larger entity,’ the report said.

‘The failure in [Butler, Pennsylvania] was far from the first significant USSS failure in recent history, and it is fair to question whether USSS should continue to be housed within DHS.’

The Secret Service was under the Treasury Department until 2003, when it was moved to the newly formed DHS, but the task force advocated for it to be its own structure entirely.

‘A fresh look at whether USSS might benefit from the status of an independent agency, with more freedom to make budget requests and advocate for itself, would be a healthy discussion for former USSS leaders to have with Congress,’ the report said.

The Task Force also recommended conserving resources by limiting who gets Secret Service protection. 

‘The number of individuals being protected has greatly expanded, a resource demand which becomes further taxed during the longer and more intensive modern presidential campaign seasons,’ the report said.

Foreign dignitaries’ Secret Service protection particularly strains resources during the United Nations General Assembly, the report said. That takes place in September, the same month of the second attempt on Trump’s life.

‘As a result, Congress, DHS, and the USSS should jointly consider the protective role the USSS plays for foreign leaders and consider whether such duties can be transferred or abrogated in order to focus on the USSS’s primary duty: to protect the President and other critical U.S. leaders,’ the report said.

The House voted unanimously to form the committee earlier this year. The Secret Service was barraged with scrutiny after a 20-year-old gunman opened fire on Trump’s July 13 rally in Butler, Pennsylvania from just outside the rally perimeter.

Trump was injured along with two others, and one attendee was killed.

Later in September, USSS agents opened fire on a 58-year-old man who had a rifle aimed at Trump’s Palm Beach, Florida, golf course where the president-elect was out for the day.

The task force contrasted both events in its report, however, and cast the latter incident in a better light.

‘The various failures in planning, execution, and leadership on and before July 13, 2024, and the preexisting conditions that undermined the effectiveness of the human and material assets deployed that day, coalesced to create an environment in which the former President — and everyone at the campaign event — were exposed to grave danger,’ the report said.

‘Conversely, the events that transpired on September 15, 2024, in West Palm Beach, Florida, demonstrated how properly executed protective measures can foil an attempted assassination.’

Secret Service spokesman Anthony Guglielmi told Fox News Digital in response to the report, ‘The U.S. Secret Service appreciates the diligence and dedication displayed by Chairman Kelly, Ranking Member Crow and the distinguished members of the House Task Force as they investigated and identified the factors that contributed to the assassination attempt of President-elect Donald Trump and the Secret Service’s failures during the protective advance leading up to July 13th in Butler, Pennsylvania.’

‘The findings of the House Task Force align with our internal Mission Assurance Inquiry. Today’s report reinforces our resolve to bring change to the Secret Service. We continue to take action to acquire new technologies, strengthen training, develop our personnel, and seek resources to fortify the Secret Service,’ Guglielmi said.

Fox News Digital also reached out to DHS for comment.

President-elect Trump’s assistant Natalie Harp said ‘confidentiality, speed, accuracy, and adaptability’ are key to delivering for the president, as lawmakers who communicate with her regularly told Fox News Digital that she is ‘critical’ in ensuring Congress is a ‘real partner’ for the incoming administration. 

Harp has worked alongside the president-elect throughout his campaign and the transition, since 2022. The 33-year-old is expected to join the president at the White House for his second term, and Trump Transition Team sources say she will have an ‘important role’ in the White House. 

But according to several top lawmakers, governors and members of Trump’s team, Harp is more than just an assistant. 

Sources close to the transition team told Fox News Digital that Harp has been a ‘valuable resource’ for getting information to the president ‘in a timely manner.’ 

Steven Cheung, spokesman for the Trump Transition Team and incoming White House communications director, told Fox News Digital that Harp is ‘a trusted and valued member of President Trump’s team.’ 

‘And she is certainly a big reason why his operation has been as successful as it has ever been,’ Cheung told Fox News Digital. ‘Her work ethic and dedication to helping President Trump achieve his historic victory is second to none.’ 

‘I believe she is an extra set of eyes and ears for President Trump,’ Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wy., told Fox News Digital. ‘Every time I have been with him, she has been close at hand.’ 

Barrasso explained that Harp is in regular communication with him and other senators and members of Congress via text message. 

‘I text her if I need to get to the president,’ Barrasso explained. ‘If he doesn’t pick up the phone, I know to go to Natalie, and he gets the message.’ 

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., also said he goes to Harp to set up anything from ‘golf to the most sensitive foreign policy matters.’ 

‘You want to get something to President Trump, she’s the person to talk to,’ Graham told Fox News Digital. ‘I trust Natalie to keep anything I communicate to President Trump confidential. She is very dedicated to the president – she is very loyal and always professional and always polite.’ 

Graham added: ‘She will promptly respond to requests by senators – I’ve heard that from others – and I feel like when I am communicating with Natalie, I am communicating in a sense of trust.’ 

In an interview with Fox News Digital, Harp touted the president for having ‘truly invested time in building a network of allies, in Congress, media, and business, that is unrivaled.’ She said those relationships have ‘deep roots’ and credited them to accessibility. 

‘Communication by phone and by text is always open,’ Harp said.  

South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster told Fox News Digital he’s worked with Harp directly ‘on many occasions.’ 

‘She is the ultimate professional – highly driven, disciplined and loyal,’ McMaster said. ‘She has and will continue to serve President Trump and our country well.’ 

Harp created a ‘mobile office’ for the president during the campaign, telling Fox News Digital that she did so because the president wants to stay ‘accessible.’ 

‘Breaking news has no consideration for where you are. That’s how our mobile office started,’ Harp said. ‘Many times, the president wants to get his thoughts out on paper, so I’ll take dictation, print, and then he works on it until he has the words just right for a viral Truth.’ 

Harp said she had the idea to get a mobile printer to ‘speed up the process,’ noting that printers ‘aren’t always accessible’ on the golf course or on the road.

And Harp said the set-up is how they ‘get breaking information we can act on, in real time, and vice versa.’ 

Harp told Fox News Digital she regularly communicates with that network of allies, sending news clippings and even polling members of Congress on timely issues and legislation. 

‘He can virtually whip votes in a matter of minutes,’ Harp said. 

Rep. Ronny Jackson, R-Texas, told Fox News Digital that Harp ‘keeps us in the loop’ on Capitol Hill. 

‘If you want a Congress that represents a real partner for the incoming president, it’s important to share information,’ Jackson told Fox News Digital. ‘Natalie is critical in making sure members of Congress feel like they’re part of the president’s team.’ 

But in working for the president, Harp said ‘confidentiality, speed, accuracy, and adaptability’ are ‘the nature of the job.’ 

‘The president deserves nothing less,’ Harp told Fox News Digital. ‘Yes, he works 24/7, but it never feels like he’s driving or pushing us to work harder. Rather, he inspires us to be more, and do more, because he sets the example himself.’ 

When asked what type of information Harp brings the president or shares with his allies, she said, ‘It depends.’ 

‘During the various witch hunts, I researched what legal experts and scholars were writing about the cases. When we were out campaigning, I monitored reviews to see what parts of the president’s messaging were resonating best,’ she explained. ‘I have a big database of websites that I source from. Sometimes I go through back-to-back, checking top headlines and, if I see one on an issue the president has been talking about or that he’s interested in, I grab it.’ 

Harp traveled with the president throughout the campaign, spent days in court as he battled now-dismissed cases against him, and was even with him during both assassination attempts in July in Butler, Pennsylvania, and September at Trump International Golf Course in Palm Beach, Florida.

‘We share a deep faith in God, but now, a ‘miracle’ is something we’ve not just read about, but lived, not once but two times,’ Harp said. ‘Some have said that they see a ‘changed’ Donald Trump after two assassination attempts. I disagree. These gut-wrenching experiences have not left him a different person, but only revealed to the world who he has always been.’ 

Harp said that is ‘the same misunderstanding that the 2024 presidential election is the story of Donald Trump’s comeback.’ 

‘It isn’t. He’d be the first to say so – he never went anywhere. It is others who left, only to return or, who never gave him a chance, that are finally coming around,’ Harp said. ‘None of this is to say that the president hasn’t changed at all through the years, but rather that the essence of who he is has only become more visible.’ 

Harp recalled being in court with the president, when he would ‘occasionally close his eyes and listen.’ 

‘He is on a totally different plane, at peace with God, and unshakably focused. Nothing gets to him, because he puts his comfort second, and his purpose first,’ Harp said of the president. ‘If people could just tune out the noise and prejudice coming from those who, whether purposefully or unintentionally, misunderstand him, you will see the heart of a man who had everything, but continues to risk it all, for love, of country, and the American people.’ 

Harp studied business finance at Point Loma University and received her Master of Business Administration from Liberty University. 

Harp, who battled and survived stage 2 bone cancer, credits Trump’s 2018 ‘Right to Try’ law with saving her life. The measure allows terminally ill patients to access drug treatments that have not yet been fully approved by the Food and Drug Administration.

Harp penned an op-ed in 2019 about her experience with Right to Try, which went viral. She appeared on ‘Fox & Friends’ to share her story in June 2019.  After her appearance, Trump tweeted, ‘Proud of Natalie!’ and invited her onstage at his next event, in Washington D.C., at the Faith and Freedom Coalition’s Road to Majority Conference, where she called him her ‘Good Samaritan.’

‘Donald Trump isn’t just a believer in miracles, he helps to make them happen,’ Harp told Fox News Digital. 

Barrasso, a physician, echoed Harp’s sentiment about Right to Try, saying she ‘is a great success’ of the legislation. 

‘It is possible she would not have been able to survive,’ Barrasso said. ‘The fact that she is still with us is a miracle itself, and she wants to spend every day thanking God for what she has, and she does an awful, awful lot with and for President Trump.’ 

Harp later joined the Trump 2020 presidential campaign’s advisory board and spoke at the 2020 Republican National Convention.

‘She keeps everybody in a really good mood, and most importantly, she keeps the president in a really good mood, and I think she has been key to his success throughout the campaign,’ Rep. Ronny Jackson told Fox News Digital. ‘As a physician, from a psychological standpoint, when you are around people who are in a good mood, that are laughing, that are smiling, it makes you feel better as well – that’s just human nature – and I think it’s important to have someone like Natalie around, who never gets down about anything.’  

‘She’s the first person up in the morning and the last person to go to bed,’ Jackson said. ‘The unbelievable work ethic, combined with her bubbly personality, is a unique combo that is really good for President Trump and really good for our country.’