Whistleblowers Unmask Secret Service’s Clown Show Blunders in Pennsylvania Trump Assassination Attempt

Whistleblowers Unmask Secret Service’s Clown Show Blunders in Pennsylvania Trump Assassination Attempt

September 17, 2024, 2:16 PM

On the heels of the second assassination attempt against former President Donald J. Trump at his golf club on Sunday, U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) released a “Whistleblower Report” on Monday to document the “failures of the United States Secret Service” in Butler, Pennsylvania.

If there was ever an “oops” moment in the world of presidential protection, this one takes the cake – and maybe the whole bakery. On July 13, 2024, former President Donald Trump found himself in the crosshairs at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, as a would-be assassin’s bullet whizzed dangerously close and clipped his ear.

What we got from the Secret Service, according to the whistleblowers in the report, was a tragic comedy of errors, served with a side of gross negligence and a garnish of good old-fashioned government incompetence.

Dan Bongino blasts Secret Service.

As former Secret Service Agent Dan Bongino so succinctly put it on his radio show on Monday after the SECOND assassination attempt against Trump, “layered incompetence is intent (by default).” And judging by the debacle that unfolded in Butler, it looks like the Secret Service is guilty of willful stupidity and incompetence and should be, as the Democrats like to say, “reimagined” (Not to mention defunded). The whole agency needs to start over from scratch so that agents are hired correctly, trained correctly, assigned correctly, and promoted correctly to do their jobs correctly.

Bongino added during his show that presidential protection should extend to 1,000 yards, far beyond the dangerously close 300 or 500 yards that the last two assassins were able to get to. Bongino also said that this is information that the agents learn the first week of their training.

Snipers in the sun? Nah, too hot.

In the Whistleblower’s report, we learned that the Secret Service’s plan to protect the former president involved some innovative, cutting-edge strategies: like ditching the rooftop because it was too hot. That’s right, instead of maintaining a bird’s-eye view from American Glass Research Building 6, where the would-be shooter took aim, law enforcement went inside where it was cooler. Miscommunication between the local law enforcement and the Secret Service also highlights the fact that neither really had any idea what the other was doing or where.

And don’t even ask about the drone technology offered by local law enforcement that could have, you know, spotted a drone surveilling the rally site before the shooting. The Secret Service politely declined.

Welcome to the Trump rally security circus. Who was running the show?

The more we learn about that fateful day in Butler, the more it seems like the Secret Service was running a three-ring circus rather than a presidential protection detail. The lead site agent responsible for security? Known for incompetence. Counter Surveillance Division? Not present. Security manpower requests? Never submitted because they’d be denied anyway (after all, Trump is only a “former” president) And the icing on this moldy cake? The DHS agents brought in to cover the shortages were pulled off child exploitation cases and received just two hours of shoddy webinar “training.” Bravo, Secret Service.

Dan Bongino’s declaration that the Secret Service has fallen into a pattern of “layered incompetence” couldn’t be more on the nose. It’s almost like someone set out to write a manual titled “How Not to Protect a Former President,” and the Butler incident was the live demonstration.

Golf course shenanigans happened BEFORE the one on Sunday.

Yes, there was a problem at another golf course event before the second attempted assassination on the president this Sunday. This one was at a golf tournament in August of last year. According to the whistleblower, agents raised red flags over local law enforcement’s lack of training during this 2023 Trump event. They also pointed out that individuals were admitted to the event without vetting. Their reward for speaking up? Retaliation, of course.

Hawley gets no response to questions asked.

In the whistleblower report, Hawley lists direct questions that he’s asked of the Secret Service and the Dept. of Homeland Security (DHS). What has he received in response? Crickets. Nothing. Nada.

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