Whistleblowers allege that most of the agents guarding former President Donald Trump the day he survived the assassination attempt weren't even Secret Service agents, but Department of Homeland Security (DHS) employees who had only received a brief online training session.
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Missouri), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, said he had received shocking information from multiple whistleblowers. Training failure As a result, Thomas Matthew Crooks was able to fire multiple shots at Trump and a crowd at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania on July 13.
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In an interview with Fox News Tuesday night Jesse Watters PrimetimeHawley said the former president was being guarded by Department of Homeland Security officials who only received a “two-hour online webinar.”
“I was told I couldn't hear half the audio of the webinar,” the senator said. Requested A full investigation was launched the day after the shooting.
“Think about it: a former president of the United States was sent up on stage by most people who were untrained, uncertified, and only had training from a webinar, and even that wasn't helpful,” Hawley continued. “It's just outrageous.”
The Republican also blasted the Secret Service and the FBI for concealing key facts about Crooks' raid.
“The only reason we have this information is because of whistleblowers,” he told the Fox News hosts.
Hawley had previously claimed that a whistleblower with direct knowledge of the assassination attempt had come to his office and revealed that the rally had been considered a “low-security” event.
July 19 letter Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas, Senator Listed Several security flaws allegedly occurred that day.
“For example, sniffer dogs were not used in the usual way to monitor intrusions and detect threats, and individuals without the proper qualifications were able to enter backstage areas,” he explained. “Police Department personnel were not properly monitoring the security buffer around the podium, nor were they stationed at consistent intervals around the security perimeter of the event.”
