Hawley alleges the Homeland Security agents were pulled off other investigations to try and guard the former president.
FILE - Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump is surrounded by Secret Service at a campaign event in Butler, Pa., July 13, 2024. “Most of the agents who were there at that rally in Butler were not Secret Service agents, they were Homeland Security agents," Sen. Hawley told Fox News.
“Most of those Homeland Security agents, the only training that they received was an online webinar, a two-hour online webinar, and I’m told half the time the sound to the webinar didn’t even work," Sen. Hawley said. Former Secret Service agent Rich Staropoli said it’s not uncommon for the Secret Service to rely on other agencies, but allegations of poor training are disturbing.
“I have no doubt this actually happened, but to get to the point where the Secret Service has become the University of Phoenix or online Secret Service training is absolutely incomprehensible," Staropoli said.was a local SWAT officer on the ground and not a Secret Service counter-sniper. That’s not what the acting Secret Service director
“The Secret Service counter-sniper neutralized the assailant within seconds after the assailant fired his weapon," Acting Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe told Senators in late July.“Information should not be trickling out, there should be daily if not multi-daily briefings with updates with regards to what happened here and what’s going on," Staropoli said.Higgins' report was compiled after he surveyed the shooting site in August.
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