As more details emerge about the Trump rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, the situation is looking increasingly troubling for the Secret Service.
On Friday, Senator Josh Hawley revealed troubling new information from a Secret Service whistleblower, indicating that agency headquarters had explicitly instructed agents not to request additional personnel for the event, knowing such requests would be immediately denied.
It’s almost as if the Secret Service senior staffers wanted President Trump dead and buried. How can he place any trust in the agency going forward?
At the end of the article is the entire letter from Hawley containing the full details of the betrayal.
Hawley pointed out that Acting Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe had testified before Congress that no resources were ever denied. This assertion, Hawley argues, demonstrates Rowe’s dishonesty and an attempt to conceal the agency’s responsibility for the incident.
Earlier this month, Hawley uncovered a shocking revelation about Rowe: He had personally ordered cuts in funding to Secret Service Agents responsible for threat-making assessments at events, increasing the chances of a lunatic slipping by and carrying out terroristic activity like an attempted assassination.
Additionally, only a portion of the agents tasked with threat assessments were present in