Citing whistleblowers he has spoken with, Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) told Fox News that he had been briefed on the incompetence of the security for Presidential candidate Donald Trump during the July 13 assassination attempt at the Butler, Pennsylvania rally. “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,” Hawley said yesterday on “Jesse Watters Primetime.”
He added: “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. Most of the agents there that day were not Secret Service agents. They were Homeland Security agents.”
He explained: “Whistleblowers are coming forward from the Secret Service, because they can’t believe what leadership is doing. They cannot believe that the Secret Service is not taking action to clear out the rot…. Frankly, they’re scared to death this is going to happen again. We can’t let it happen again. We’ve got to get the facts.”
Hawley later posted on X that he had sent a scathing letter to the Secret Service’s Acting Director Ronald L. Rowe, demanding to know why the lead site agent was assigned to the rally and why certain protocols were not followed. He urged her suspension.
