(Congressional Agenda) – In a series of brand new claims regarding the assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump, whistleblowers have revealed to Missouri Republican Rep. Josh Hawley that personnel within the Secret Service were “woefully unprepared” and did not receive adequate training to provide proper protection for candidates. The level of incompetence with what is supposed to be the most elite security force in our country is absolutely astounding.
Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, writer for Fox News, stated that Hawley spoke of this information during an appearance on ‘Jesse Watters Primetime’ Tuesday evening. One of the claims made by whistleblowers is that Homeland Security Investigations agents were reassigned to work on protective details and the only training they were given was a two-hour webinar streamed on Microsoft Teams. It should go without saying, but clearly, that is not at all, under any line of reasoning, adequate enough to ensure agents are prepared to guard important government figures.
Oh and the training videos weren’t even live. They were pre-recorded and contained an obscene number of technical mishaps. There was no way for those taking the training course to ask questions or get clarification on matters of concern.
“Imagine 1,000 people logging onto Microsoft Teams at the same time after being informed at the last minute that everyone needed to login individually,” one whistleblower said to Hawley. “Once it got rolling, the Secret Service instructor couldn’t figure out how to get the audio working on the prerecorded videos [which I’m told are the same videos as last year]. All told, they restarted the videos approximately six times …. The content was not helpful.”
The Secret Service has put out a statement saying that it “respects the role of oversight. To date, we have provided over 1,500 pages of responsive documentation to Congress and have made employees available for transcribed interviews. These efforts will continue as our desire to learn from this failure and ensure that it never happens again is unwavering.”
“The whistleblowers further claimed that these same two-hour webinars have not been updated since the assassination attempt against Trump on July 13,” Fox reported.
“Nothing new, nothing improved since the assassination attempt on former President Trump,” one whistleblower asserted to Hawley.
“Other HSI agents, who worked the fateful July 13 Trump rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, told Hawley’s office that they ‘only receive[d] one power-point presentation for training,'” the piece continued. The Missouri Republican then slammed the agency for their handling of the assassination attempt.
“This is a nightmare, the only reason we know about this stuff is because of whistleblowers,” Hawley commented.
Fox News divulged, “The allegations surrounding the HSI agent’s lack of training and preparation comes after Hawley’s office has continued to communicate with whistleblowers about the Trump rally shooting and what went wrong in order for would-be assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks to gain access to the AGR building rooftop that evening with an AR-15 rifle.”
Previously, Hawley’s office claimed that the lead agent on-site was well known for being inexperienced and “incompetent.” That really seems to be the theme for the Secret Service, doesn’t it?
“The site agent, the lead agent, was known to the Trump campaign to be inexperienced, to be ineffectual, to be, frankly, incompetent at their job,” Hawley had remarked in an interview on ‘Jesse Watters Primetime.’ “I’m also told by whistleblowers that on that day, she was not enforcing the normal security protocols.”
“She was not checking people’s IDs. She did not use Secret Service agents,” Hawley continued. “Most of the agents there that day were not Secret Service agents. They were Homeland Security agents.”
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