More than three weeks after the assassination attempt on Republican nominee Donald J. Trump there remain very few answers about the inexplicable Secret Service failures that allowed it to happen.
With the Biden administration being curiously tight-lipped on the near killing of a former president, whistleblowers are coming forward and their accounts aren’t doing much to instill confidence that someone won’t be allowed to take another shot at Trump.
Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) revealed the latest whistleblower claims during an appearance on Monday’s edition of “Jesse Watters Primetime” on Fox News, telling the host he’d spoken with people who provided details about the Secret Service lead site agent in Butler, PA on July, 13.
(Video Credit: Fox News)
“The site agent, the lead agent, was known to the Trump campaign to be inexperienced, to be ineffectual, to be, frankly, incompetent at their job,” the senator told Watters. “I’m also told by whistleblowers that on that day, she was not enforcing the normal security protocols.”
“She was not checking people’s IDs. She did not use Secret Service agents,” he added. “Most of the agents there that day were not Secret Service agents. They were Homeland Security agents, and get this Jesse, most of them had never worked a rally before.”
“This is who she chose to staff the event with and she didn’t train them or integrate them. From top to bottom it was a total disaster,” Hawley said. “It is a miracle, a miracle. Not only that Trump is alive but that more good Americans were not killed, it’s unbelievable.”
The Missouri Republican confirmed that whistleblowers told him that “IDs were not checked to allow individuals into secure areas” and that it was a “total free for all.”
“Whistleblowers portray to me a circumstance, a situation that was totally out of control where people were milling around including in what were supposed to be highly secure areas, nobody knew who they were,” he said. “By the way, it was also the lead site agent’s job to make sure that the line of sight for where Trump was, was clear, that agents could see all angles, and she didn’t do that,” adding that the sightlines were obstructed.
“This is pretty textbook stuff Jesse and what whistleblowers say to me is none of it was done properly. None of it was done by the book, and frankly, when you know all that, it’s amazing more people weren’t killed,” Hawley stated. “This person needs to be fired as does anybody who had leadership on that day.”
“Whistleblowers are coming forward from the Secret Service because they can’t believe what leadership is doing,” the senator said. “They cannot believe that the Secret Service is not taking action to clear out the rot.”
“Frankly, they’re scared to death [that] this is going to happen again. We can’t let it happen again. We’ve got to get the facts,” Hawley concluded.
After his Fox News appearance, the senator shared a Monday letter to Secret Service acting Director Ronald L. Rowe on X.
NEW – Whistleblowers tell me the lead site agent in charge of the Butler rally was known to be inexperienced, ineffective and not up to the job – and on the day failed to implement basic security protocols – yet this person is STILL on active duty. Why? pic.twitter.com/EhfUSCvnJ0
— Josh Hawley (@HawleyMO) August 6, 2024
“Your refusal to hold this individual accountable is increasingly inexplicable,” Hawley wrote in the scathing letter. “I urge you to suspend the lead site agent from all Secret Service duties immediately while these claims are investigated.”
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Chris Donaldson is an ordinary American who is concerned about rampant corruption as well as the ongoing attacks on our way of life by those who have contempt for our hard-earned freedoms. A Navy veteran, he has been a frequent contributor to conservative websites and resides in Florida.
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