Concerned agents are coming forward about the problems in the Secret Service.
The situation at the agency is worse than anyone could have imagined.
And a whistleblower made one confession about the Secret Service that shocked Jesse Watters.
The lead agent in charge of securing Trump was dangerously inexperienced
Whistleblowers continue to come forward with more damning information about the Secret Service’s failure to protect former President Donald Trump during a July 13 campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
The security for that rally featured no communication between local law enforcement and the Secret Service.
Homeland Security Investigations agents were pulled from their normal jobs and assigned to the Butler rally.
To prepare to protect the former President, they were given a two-hour web seminar where the audio only worked half the time.
U.S. Senator Josh Hawley’s (R-MO) office has become the destination for Secret Service whistleblowers.
A whistleblower told him that the failure at the Butler rally went to the top.
Hawley told Fox News host Jesse Watters that the lead advance agent “was known not to be a top-quality agent” in the Secret Service.
“What I’m learning now is that the lead advance agent, that day in Pennsylvania, this is the agent that was in charge of Trump’s entire trip in Pennsylvania, that this agent actually failed one or more of her training exams when she first joined the Secret Service,” Hawley said.
Secret Service dodges accountability
Hawley noted that the security detail working the Butler rally was undermanned in addition to having incompetent leadership.
“The pattern that is emerging here from whistleblowers who come forward to me now over and over again is that the Trump rally was undermanned, it was understaffed, they did not have people who had experience on it,” Hawley said.
“And now this advance agent I’m told may have failed one or more for training exams and was known not to be a top-quality agent,” Hawley continued. “This is absurd.”
The Secret Service wants to avoid any real accountability for its failure to protect Trump.
“The fact that the director will not level with the American people about what’s going on here is just totally unacceptable and unbelievable,” Hawley stated.
Jesse Watters pointed out that disgraced former Secret Service director Kimberly Cheatle made diversity a priority in hiring.
“Director Cheatle, we know, had a priority to make 30% of the Secret Service women,” Watters said. “So this woman fails maybe once, maybe twice, maybe more, and it doesn’t matter. Cheatle still makes her in charge of the protective site detail for Butler, knowing that there was an Iranian threat.”
Hawley wondered how someone who was completely incompetent was put in charge of security for the Butler rally.
“One other thing – I’m told by people who are close to and have knowledge of the Secret Service’s own internal investigation that the Department of Homeland Security is leaning on the Secret Service not to comply with document requests to Congress,” Hawley said. “This is really getting to be outrageous. The American people need the truth here.”
The only option at this point is to fire the Secret Service’s leadership and overhaul the agency.
