Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) reportedly stated on Friday that the majority of the security people at former President Donald Trump’s Saturday campaign rally were “unprepared and inexperienced” DHS staff rather than members of the United States Secret Service.
Hawley published a letter he was writing to Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, demanding explanations for a sequence of apparent security failings that eventually allowed a gunman to get access to an elevated position fewer than 200 yards from the rally stage where Trump was speaking. The Secret Service is technically part of the DHS.
“Whistleblowers tell me that MOST of Trump’s security detail working the event last Saturday were not even Secret Service. DHS assigned unprepared and inexperienced personnel,” Hawley stated.
🚨🚨 Whistleblowers tell me that MOST of Trump’s security detail working the event last Saturday were not even Secret Service. DHS assigned unprepared and inexperienced personnel 👇 pic.twitter.com/eo4jNmJWFT
— Josh Hawley (@HawleyMO) July 19, 2024
Hawley then cited whistleblowers, claiming that they had found multiple obvious breakdowns in the security of the Trump rally on Saturday in Butler, Pennsylvania.
He further stated that, according to the whistleblowers, several of the personnel assigned to the security detail were not Secret Service agents, but rather members of the DHS Homeland Security Investigations team.
“According to the allegations, the July 13 rally was considered to be a ‘loose’ security event. For example, detection canines were not used to monitor entry and detect threats in the usual manner. Individuals without proper designations were able to gain access to backstage areas. Department personnel did not appropriately police the security buffer around the podium and were also not stationed at regular intervals around the event’s security perimeter,” the Missouri Senator concluded.
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