Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kan., has requested that the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of the Inspector General expand its investigation of the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump during a July 13 rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.

The IG’s office had been investigating several aspects of the assassination attempt made by Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, who shot Trump in the right ear, killed a spectator and seriously injured two others before he was shot and killed by a Secret Service sniper.

Marshall recently wrote a letter to Joseph Cuffari asking that his office broaden its investigation to include allegations that requests from the Trump campaign for additional assets were denied by the Secret Service, how the agency assigns duties and responsibilities for protective details, and agency attrition within the past four years, the Washington Examiner reported Monday.

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