Senator Josh Hawley has revealed that whistleblowers informed him that the majority of agents assigned to protect Donald Trump during the attempted assassination at his Butler, Pennsylvania, rally in July were primarily personnel from Homeland Security, who had received limited training in protective duties.
Rather than being surrounded by a large contingent of Secret Service agents at the July 13 rally, Trump was largely safeguarded by Homeland Security agents who had only undergone online webinar training before the event, according to Hawley (R-Mo.), during an interview on “Jesse Watters Primetime” on Tuesday night.
“A two-hour, online webinar. And I’m told that half the time, the sounds to the webinar didn’t even work,” Hawley stated.
“Consider this: The former president of the US … is brought out on stage, with the majority of his protectors being undertrained and unqualified. They received only a webinar training, and even that was flawed,” he remarked with disbelief.
“This is absolutely outrageous.”
Hawley noted that the Homeland Security agents were reportedly diverted from child exploitation cases and other investigations to provide protection for Trump, a role they were not accustomed to.
He also criticized the Secret Service and FBI for their lack of transparency regarding the rally, where Trump narrowly escaped an assassination attempt by the shooter, Thomas Matthew Crooks.
“The only reason we have this information is because of whistleblowers,” he said during his conversation with Watters.
Representative Clay Higgins (R-La.) recently disclosed that a SWAT team from Butler was actually the first to fire shots that damaged Crooks’ rifle and stopped the shooting spree before the Secret Service intervened.
During a congressional testimony on July 31, acting Secret Service director Ronald Rowe Jr. did not mention the local SWAT team’s involvement, Watters pointed out.
{Matzav.com}
Former Presidents are supposed to have Secret Service details. I hope Obama has the Rent-a-Cops.
Obama? He’s gone. He was dealt with exactly 5 years ago.
And yet these same government employees turn us upside down anytime we want to take a local flight somewhere here in the US.
So secret service waited to shoot the killer! How convenient!
Security personnel a head shorter than the President, makes no sense. Trump looks like he’s protecting her.