According to Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO), a whistleblower has claimed that the lead Secret Service agent, who was in charge when former President Donald Trump was shot in the head, had previously failed at least one significant training exam. Despite this, she was promoted by then-Secretary of Homeland Security Director Kimberly Cheatle, who is now disgraced. The whistleblower asserts that the agent in question is based in Pittsburgh and was the advance agent on the fateful day.
Hawley made these revelations during an appearance on Fox News with Jesse Watters on Thursday. Here is a clip of their discussion.
HAWLEY: The lead advance agent that day in Pennsylvania, the agent in charge of Trump’s entire trip in Pennsylvania — this agent actually failed one or more of her training exams when she first joined the Secret Service. I mean, the pattern that is emerging here, Jesse, from whistleblowers who come to me over and over again is that the Trump rally was undermanned … they did not have people who had experience … and, now, this advance agent, I’m told, may have failed one or more of her training exams and was known not to be a top quality agent. This is absurd, and the fact that the director will not level with the American people about what’s going on here is just totally unacceptable.
Watters then drew connections by reminding viewers that Cheatle had made it her priority “to make 30 percent of the Secret Service women.” If the whistleblower is accurate, even after this woman failed at least one training exam, Cheatle put her in charge of protecting Trump during his entire Pennsylvania trip.
Hawley went on to say that he has been informed that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) “is leaning on the Secret Service not to comply with [our] document requests.
There’s a cover-up going on,” Watters said, “now, that’s definitive.
Yes, it is.
Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), one of the most partisan leftists in Capitol Hill, told reporters that he believes “the American people are going to be shocked, astonished, and appalled by what we will report to them about the failures by the Secret Service in this assassination attempt on the former president.
I think they also ought to be appalled and astonished by the failure of the Department of Homeland Security to be more forthcoming,” he continued.
Senator Gary Peters (D-MI) told Fox News that an “interim report” will be “coming out shortly,” but there is still “a lot more information that we need to find.
That makes two Democrats expressing their frustration with the DHS and Secret Service in an era where anything involving Trump becomes insanely partisan.
Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) stated that both parties are working together to release a bipartisan report. He also expressed frustration with acting Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe for delaying requested information.
So, he’s making the commitment to, you know, provide more information,” Johnson said of Rowe. But we’re hoping to get this preliminary report out before this work period.
Trump was shot in the face on July 13, exactly two months ago, and we still know very little about these unforgivable security failures today.
What I will never get past is leaving the roof unsecured where the failed assassin had a clear line of sight at Trump. How bad do you have to “fail a key exam” to not understand the threat that roof created? I’ve never taken a Secret Service test in my life, but I would’ve understood immediately the potential for turning that roof into a sniper’s nest.
It is encouraging to see Democrats taking this seriously. Senators all see themselves as presidents one day. That might have something to do with it.
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