The Trump shooting tragedy keeps getting worse. The true picture is just getting uglier by the day.
And now a whistleblower has shared new sickening details about the Trump shooting.
The hope was that there would be some clarity about the Trump shooting after a few weeks had passed by. Unfortunately, not only are the most important questions being left unanswered, but there are new details coming out every day that’s just making it all look worse.
Why were there multiple roofs and high elevation lookout points left insecure? The American people still don’t have an answer. Why was Donald Trump not immediately escorted away and instead left on stage for nearly a minute before he was rushed to the exit vehicle? We don’t have good answers for any of these critical questions.
Well now there’s even more devastating questions that will have Americans sick about what actually happened that day. These new details are thanks to a whistleblower who is dropping bombshell allegations about the Secret Service’s insane failures.
Whistleblower Exposes Secret Service Lapses Leading to Security Breach at Trump Rally
In a letter released Thursday, a whistleblower accused Secret Service Acting Director Ronald Rowe of making significant cuts to security resources and retaliating against agents who raised safety concerns. These actions allegedly compromised security at former President Donald Trump’s rally on July 13, according to Missouri Republican Senator Josh Hawley.
The whistleblower’s claims centered on Rowe’s personal decision to slash resources for the Counter Surveillance Division (CSD), which is responsible for conducting advanced threat assessments for event venues. As a result of these cuts, the CSD did not perform its usual evaluation of the rally site in Butler County, Pennsylvania, and was absent on the day of an attempted assassination.
“The whistleblower claims that if personnel from CSD had been present at the rally, the gunman would have been handcuffed in the parking lot after being spotted with a rangefinder,” the letter states.
🚨🚨 NEW – Whistleblower tells me Secret Service Acting Director Rowe personally directed cuts to the USSS agents who do threat assessments for events. Whistleblower says those agents were NOT present in Butler – and some of them had warned of security problems for months pic.twitter.com/v9igQ5L7FZ
— Josh Hawley (@HawleyMO) August 1, 2024
Concerns were raised by Secret Service personnel regarding the inadequate vetting of individuals admitted to the event. The whistleblower alleged that agents who voiced these concerns faced retaliation.
During the rally, 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks managed to fire shots at the former president from a rooftop just 130 yards away from the stage. Despite being flagged by Secret Service and identified by a local counter sniper over an hour and a half before Trump took the stage, Crooks was able to carry out the attack.
“As a result of these security lapses, Crooks was able to take aim at and injure the former president, k*ll volunteer firefighter Corey Comperatore, and injure attendees James Copenhaver and David Dutch, who are both in stable condition,” the letter details.
Rowe testified before a joint hearing held by the Senate Judiciary and Homeland Security Committees after U.S. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle resigned on July 23 following her own evasive congressional testimony. Rowe’s testimony left many lawmakers’ questions unanswered.
“You acknowledged in your Senate testimony that the American Glass Research complex should have been included in the security perimeter for the Butler event,” the letter says. “The whistleblower alleges that because CSD was not present in Butler, this manifest shortcoming was never properly flagged or mitigated.”
Despite these security breaches, Trump has promised to continue holding outdoor rallies and announced that the Secret Service will “substantially step up” their security detail in the future, according to a post on Truth Social from Saturday.
Unfortunately, it looks like this is going to be one of those events that Americans don’t trust the government’s answers on for years and decades to come. A lot like the John F. Kennedy Assassination or the Benghazi Scandal of the Barack Obama administration.
One thing is for certain, Americans can be relieved that Donald Trump is still here and the country wasn’t plunged into a state of chaos.
Stay tuned to the DC Daily Journal.
