A whistleblower told Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley it 'has been standard Secret Service protocol [that] there are known vulnerabilities at that course.'
Missouri Republican Sen. Josh Hawley on Wednesday sent a letter to acting U.S. Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe asking him about whistleblower allegations pertaining to the second assassination attempt against former President Trump in West Palm Beach, Florida, on Sunday.
The reality is that the would-be assassin should never have been able to linger around the course for that long undetected,' the senator wrote. He continued to ask whether Secret Service personnel were posted at the 'known vulnerability' locations along the Trump International Golf Club perimeter fencing, whether personnel did a sweep of the perimeter prior to the former president's arrival on the course, if they used 'canine units or Unmanned Aircraft System elements to monitor the perimeter,' if counter surveillance personnel were at the golf course, and what the 'specific counter surveillance mitigation...
Fox News Digital has reached out to the Secret Service for comment. Hawley does not currently sit on the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, which is looking into the two assassination attempts on Trump since July, but the Missouri senator has been conducting his own independent investigation into both attempts.
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