The whistleblower said: Senator Josh HawleyThe Missouri Republican governor of New Jersey said Secret Service agents were “woefully unprepared” and inadequately trained to properly protect the personal information of candidates, including President Trump.
Holly “Jesse Watters Primetime” On Tuesday night, a whistleblower claimed that a Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) agent who was being transferred to security was given a single, two-hour webinar on Microsoft Teams.
The videos were pre-recorded, and the whistleblowers claim they were riddled with technical errors.
“Imagine 1,000 people logging into Microsoft Teams at the same time, only to be informed at the last moment that everyone had to log in individually,” one whistleblower told Hawley. “Once it was up and running, the Secret Service instructors had no idea how to make the audio on the pre-recorded video work. [which I’m told are the same videos as last year]In the end, they redid the video about six times…. The content was not helpful.”
Trump shooting: A timeline of the assassination attempt
Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) speaks at a Senate Judiciary Committee meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
The whistleblowers further alleged that this same two-hour webinar has not been updated since the July 13 assassination attempt on President Trump.
“Since the assassination attempt on former President Trump, nothing new has been done and nothing has been improved,” one whistleblower told Attorney General Hawley.
Other HSI agents who worked at the fateful Trump rally on July 13 in Butler, Pennsylvania, told Hawley’s office, “They[d] One training PowerPoint presentation.
Video taken from the perspective of the victim of the Trump assassination attempt shows a figure moving across a rooftop moments before the shooting
The Missouri senator slammed the agency's “nightmarish” response to the assassination attempt that shocked the nation.
“This is a nightmare. We only found out about this because of whistleblowers,” Hawley said.
Acting Director of the U.S. Secret Service Ronald Rowe Jr. testified at a joint hearing of the Senate Judiciary and Homeland Security Committees in Washington, DC on July 30 about the attempted assassination of former President Trump at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania. (Alison Bailey/Middle East Images/Middle East Images via AFP, via Getty Images)
The allegations over the lack of training and preparation of HSI agents emerged after Hawley's office continued to communicate with whistleblowers about the Trump rally shooting and inquired about what happened that night that led to would-be assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks entering the roof of the AGR building with an AR-15 rifle.
Hawley's office has previously argued that the lead field agent is inexperienced and known to be “incompetent.”
“The agent on the ground, the lead agent, was known to the Trump campaign to be inexperienced, incompetent and, frankly, incompetent to do her job,” Hawley previously said in an interview on “Jesse Watters Primetime.” “We've heard from the whistleblower that she did not follow normal security procedures that day.”
“She wasn't checking people's IDs. She wasn't using Secret Service agents,” Hawley added. “Most of the agents who were there that day were not Secret Service agents. They were Department of Homeland Security agents.”
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Fox News Digital's Andrea Vacchiano contributed to this report.
