Donald Trump has now been attacked not one but two times. How is this possible?
Well this whistleblower has an answer that cracked the Trump assassination case wide open.
Sen. Josh Hawley is bringing to light some serious failures within the Secret Service that nearly cost former President Donald Trump his life.
On Monday, Hawley released whistleblower allegations revealing that the lead agent in charge of the scene during the first assassination attempt on Trump in July was known to be a “low-caliber agent.”
This shocking revelation exposes a dangerous lack of preparedness and oversight by those tasked with protecting the former president.
The Missouri Republican didn’t hold back in his criticism, pointing out that the Secret Service failed to deploy an intelligence unit team at Trump’s rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
This critical error led to poor communication between federal, state, and local law enforcement — a glaring oversight in such a high-stakes situation.
Even more alarming, Hawley revealed that agents failed to secure the hospital where Trump was rushed after being struck in the ear by a bullet, leaving the former president vulnerable even after the attack.
These revelations are part of a broader pattern of negligence that Hawley has been investigating.
Earlier findings showed that the Secret Service didn’t conduct a regular threat assessment of the rally site, turned down offers from local police to use drones for surveillance, and chose not to station personnel on the rooftop where the gunman eventually positioned himself, citing “hot weather” as an excuse.
“The resulting findings are highly damaging to the credibility of the Secret Service and DHS. They reveal a compounding pattern of negligence, sloppiness, and gross incompetence that goes back years, all of which culminated in an assassination attempt that came inches from succeeding,” Hawley’s investigators stated in their report.
The timing of Hawley’s revelations couldn’t be more striking, coming just one day after a second assassination attempt on Trump.
In the latest incident, a gunman infiltrated a Florida golf course where Trump was playing.
Secret Service agents acted quickly, firing shots after spotting a rifle poking through the bushes, sending the attacker fleeing. He was later apprehended while driving in an SUV.
During the initial assassination attempt, Trump was giving a speech at his rally when a gunman, who had gained access to a rooftop, fired at least eight shots.
Trump was grazed by a bullet to his ear, leaving him bloodied, while one rally-goer was killed and two others were seriously injured.
A Secret Service sniper took down the gunman, but the lapses leading up to the attack have drawn severe criticism, much of it stemming from whistleblower complaints revealed by Hawley.
Hawley’s latest report highlights how the lead agent for the Pennsylvania rally had “failed a key examination during their federal law enforcement training to become a Secret Service agent.”
This agent, tasked with protecting a former president, was clearly not up to the job. The report also emphasizes the lack of coordination between the Secret Service and local authorities, as well as the failure to secure the hospital where Trump received treatment.
Despite these serious security failures, Hawley says his attempts to get answers from both the Secret Service and the broader Department of Homeland Security have been met with silence. Multiple congressional probes are now underway to investigate the assassination attempt in Butler, as well as an official review by the Secret Service.
These revelations are a stark reminder that the protection of a former president should be nothing short of impeccable, and it’s clear that in these instances, the Secret Service fell dangerously short of that standard.
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