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attempt in July, with several investigations looking into the failures that allowed it to happen. Citing information that had been passed to him by whistleblowers, Hawley detailed that the agents protecting Trump at his rally wereagents, not Secret Service agents, who only received a two-hour online training course before being deployed to guard the former president.
“So think about this: The former president of the United States, Donald Trump, is sent out onstage, most of the people there aren’t trained, they’re not qualified, they only got a webinar training, and even that didn’t work,” Hawley said on Fox News’sA previous whistleblower report on Trump’s assassination attempt revealed that a Secret Service officer in charge of manpower asked agents not to ask for additional security at Trump’s rally.
Hawley also said he was told that Homeland Security agents were pulled off of child exploitation cases to stand guard at Trump’s rally. Additionally, the two-hour training course they took did not have the sound working “about half the time.”senator described the security failure of Trump’s Butler rally as a “nightmare,” stressing the need for firings at the Secret Service.
Meanwhile, Reps. Cory Mills and Eli Crane are leading an independent investigation into the assassination attempt, which justthat the investigation has only raised more questions, such as how the shooter, 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, had access to “multi-channel detonating devices,” along with having no presence onHouse
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