Secret Service units in charge of ‘reports of suspicious persons’ absent at Trump Butler rally: whistleblower report
“Secret Service intelligence units—teams of Secret Service agents paired with state and local law enforcement to handle reports of suspicious persons—were absent from the Butler rally.”
Just one day after a suspected second assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) released a whistleblower report on how the Secret Service (USSS) utterly failed to protect the life of the president in the first assassination attempt of July 13 in Bulter, Pennsylvania. This included that Secret Service intelligence units, or agents paired with local law enforcement to handle reports of suspicious people, were absent from the rally.
“I’m releasing a comprehensive Whistleblower Report on the multiple failures of Secret Service & DHS – including new allegations & numerous unanswered questions due to USSS stonewalling,” the Missouri Senator said of the report when it was released.
Hawley revealed that the Secret Service intelligence units did not even go to the Butler, Pennsylvania, rally. “Secret Service intelligence units—teams of Secret Service agents paired with state and local law enforcement to handle reports of suspicious persons—were absent from the Butler rally,” the report read.
Hawley also reported that the hospital that treated Trump’s injury also lacked proper security measures, and a hospital agent could not explain why this was so. The report confirms that neither the Secret Service, a division of the Department of Homeland Security, nor the department itself, could say who made the improper decisions that denied Trump the protection against snipers that he needed at the rally.
Many questions remain unanswered about why the Secret Service did not provide adequate security for Trump on July 13, leading up to him being shot in the ear, the death of Corey Comperatore, as well as the critical injuries of David Dutch and James Copenhaver.
Hawley concluded the report: “Two months have now elapsed since former President Donald J. Trump was nearly assassinated. And the American people still know far too little about why this happened. The Secret Service, FBI, and Department of Homeland Security have not been forthcoming with the American people.”