Sen. Josh Hawley released the Secret Service report and, with it, new claims by the whistleblower.
Hawley found a “compounding pattern of negligence, sloppiness, and gross incompetence that goes back years, all of which culminated in an assassination attempt that came inches from succeeding.”
“On July 13, 2024, former President Donald J. Trump was nearly killed by an assassin’s bullet while hosting a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, and the U.S. Secret Service failed to prevent it,” the Hawley report states. “It was the most stunning breakdown in presidential security since the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and attempted assassination of President Ronald Reagan.”
Hawley said the Secret Service, FBI, and Department of Homeland Security “have all tried to evade real accountability.”
“These agencies and their leaders have slow-walked congressional investigations, misled the American people, and shirked responsibility,” the report states.
The Egregious Incompetence
The police offered them drones to surveil the scene, but they refused them.
The Secret Service’s Office of Protective Operations-Manpower told agents in charge of security for the rally “not to request additional security resources because they would be denied.”
The report covers some details already known to the public but reveals other points of failure that have not yet been discussed.
Why did the Secret Service leave a rooftop less than 150 yards away from the stage unsecured in Butler, PA? According to Hawley’s sources, it was too hot for the Secret Service agents and other law-enforcement personnel:
On July 13, law enforcement personnel abandoned the rooftop of American Glass Research Building 6—the roof from which Thomas Crooks attempted to assassinate the former president—because of hot weather.
They were hot? They were obviously DEIs. Let’s see, I left the battleground. There was too much noise. Obviously, Thomas Crooks could handle the heat.
The Secret Service’s Counter Surveillance Division, which performs threat assessments of event sites, did not perform a typical evaluation of the Butler site and was not present on the day of the rally.
On July 13th, the Secret Service’s lead site agent – the agent with specific responsibility for the security of the rally site, including line-of-sight concerns – was a known incompetent. That incompetence led to the placement of items like flags around the Butler stage and catwalk, impairing visibility. The lead agent responsible for the entire Butler visit, including the rally, failed a key examination during their federal law enforcement training to become a Secret Service agent.
On July 13, Supplemental Department of Homeland Security personnel were used to fill in shortages of Secret Service personnel. Some DHS agents were pulled from child exploitation cases for this purpose, and the “training” they received was merely a poor-quality, two-hour webinar.
Secret Service intelligence units are teams of Secret Service agents paired with state and local law enforcement to handle reports of suspicious persons. They were not at the Butler rally.
The hospital site where former President Trump received treatment after the shooting was poorly secured. The hospital site agent could not answer basic questions about site security.
Sen. Hawley said he has corroboration. In this report, Hawley wants the agents fired.
This is only Hawley’s report.
The Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations is working on the J13 assassination attempt, but they aren’t getting cooperation from the administration.
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Think people. This is not about incompetence. You are being played. These guys are pawns. True they are oath takers and should be able to fulfill the oath. But… The real culprits are probably much higher in the food chain. Someone put them there. There is an old saying in leadership circles, “As a leader it’s always your fault because you either knew or should have known”. Don’t you think its time we see some leadership fall on their swords for this failure. Are you ready to see who the people behind the curtain were? I know I am.
If you think the government workers are NOT incompetent, then you should get a government job and see for yourself. The stories I’ve heard for over 30 years…unreal.
You’re missing the point. Designed-in incompetence is not the issue, leadership is. Someone is putting these people in place to control the outcome. Surround yourself with stupid people and you will always be the smartest person in the room to lead(manipulate) them. Look beyond the obvious.
Incompetence is everywhere, so people better stop worshipping the Secret Service. And, this latest Fiasco, the shooter was on site for 12-Hours wearing a PINK SHIRT! JESUS! Barny Fife would have spotted that Clown! Russia and other Countries are Watching and this is Embarrassing!
Trump has real concerns; because he
s got a mole in his security team. If the FBI/SS has not discovered this by now they all need to be FIRED! If I were Trump, Id Ask Putin for Help.Most government workers are incompetent. I personally know that. They hire the bottom rung of society and their incompetence is allowed. Another group of incompetents are vets hired who have no clue what they are doing and are allowed to keep their jobs regardless. As a result of this report, who will be held accountable. If it follows the usual government result, nobody will be fired, just reassigned. That is our government and how it operates.
The Deep State wanted, in fact needed, a team made up of a lot of incompetent or inexperienced people for their plan to work.
and there was almost certainly two shooters, Crooks being the Patsy, the one blamed, while the professional sniper – almost certainly inside the building below Crooks so the shot would all seem to have come from Crooks – would ( will) remain unknown for the rest of eternity just as is the case with the JFK assassination.
but even if there was only one shooter, the Deep State needed the event to be poorly managed so it would make it easy for the shooter ( or shooters) to do their dirty work
It was not incompetence alone, and we can now close the file.
No.
Inexperienced and incompetent agents were selected and placed there on that day intentionally, purposely to make sure the event would be as safe as a sieve can hold water.