All the investigation staged by the FBI and Secret Service over Donald Trump’s foiled assassination is nothing but a political circus and an attempt to cover up their blunders. Evidence and statements from agents reveal not only did the Secret Service higher-ups deprive the former president of security, but they also allowed and waited for the assassination to happen.
Secret Service whistleblower revealed that the HQ discouraged agents from asking for additional staff for Trump’s rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13, where Thomas Matthew Crooks nearly killed the Republican presidential nominee while Corey Comperatore, a veteran and volunteer fire chief, offered his life to protect his wife and daughter.
The statement from the whistleblower was exposed by Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Missouri) in a letter addressed to Secret Service Acting Director Ronald Rowe.According to Hawley, Rowe’s remarks contradicted the allegations made by the whistleblower.
“You must explain this apparent contradiction immediately,” the senator said.
The whistleblower added that Secret Service leaders told agents in charge of the Butler rally not to request additional security for the event.
The initial request for personnel and other security assets was sent to the Secret Service’s Office of Protective Operations – Manpower for approval.
Hawley added, “By allegedly informing agents not to ask for extra security in the formal request, the Secret Service was “effectively denying these assets through informal means.”
Furthermore, despite being informed of an internal threat on Trump’s life, the Secret Service’s Office of Protective Operations – Manpower, “preemptively informed the Pittsburgh field office that the Butler rally was not going to receive additional security resources because Trump is a former president and not the incumbent President or Vice President.
“The manpower request did not include extra security resources because agents on the ground were told not to ask for them in the first place,” Hawley stressed.
Trump’s security requested counter-sniper teams, which were only approved a day before the rally, and counter-surveillance division personnel, who missed the event at Butler.
“Personnel from CSD would have handcuffed the gunman in the parking lot after he was spotted with a rangefinder, but they were not present on the day,” the Missouri lawmaker quipped.
During his testimony at the Senate hearing last July 30, Rowe claimed that “all assets requested were approved” for Trump’s rally in Pennsylvania.
Hawley immediately published the whistleblower’s statement following the news that the head of the Secret Service’s Pittsburgh field office and at least four other agents were placed on administrative leave.
