"The lead advance agent that day in Pennsylvania ... actually failed
one or more of her training exams when she first joined the Secret
Service," Hawley explained.
"The pattern that is emerging here, from whistleblowers who've come
forward to me now over and over again, is that the Trump rally was
undermanned. It was understaffed. They did not have people who had
experience on it," he lamented.
The woman in question was not just in charge of security for the
Butler, Pennsylvania rally, but “put in charge of the entire trip,”
including overseeing security arrangements from the moment Trump's plane
landed in Pennsylvania to his departure.
It was also pointed out that former Secret Service Director Kimberly
Cheatle had set a priority goal for the agency to be composed of 30%
women, raising questions if this woman was placed in charge simply
because she was a woman.
"This woman fails maybe once, maybe twice, maybe more, and doesn't
matter," Jesse Watters remarked, questioning why "Cheatle still makes
her in charge of the protective site detail for Butler" when she "knows
there was an Iranian threat."
The Missouri senator continued to reveal that the Secret Service's own internal investigation is reportedly compromised.
"I'm told by people who are close to and have knowledge of the Secret
Service's own internal investigation that the Department of Homeland
Security is leaning on the Secret Service not to comply with document
requests to Congress. I mean, this is really getting to be outrageous.
The American people need the truth here."
