Donald Trump STILL short on Secret Service detail despite assassination attempts, whistleblower claims
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Yet another whistleblower has come forward to reveal that the U.S. Secret Service is still not providing the maximum security protection to former President Donald trump.
After two assassination attempts in the same number of months over the summer, lawmakers, Republicans and Trump supporters have called for a massive increase in security detail for the 2024 presidential nominee.
Secret Service officials are blocking Department of Homeland Security auditors from accessing Trump's rallies because they are trying to hide the fact that Trump isn't receiving the full extent of protection, according to revelations from Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo.
Multiple investigations – both in Congress and in government agencies – are looking into the security failures of USSS that led to the assassination attempts against Trump.
A new whistleblower complaint claims that Donald Trump is still receiving the most extensive Secret Service detail after two assassination attempts
The agency's former director Kimberly Cheatle resigned in the wake of the first attempt on Trump's life at his rally in Butler, Pennsylvania on July 13.
And the Secret Service vows it has upped its security detail around Trump.
Congress even passed a law last month that requires major party presidential candidates receive the same level of security as sitting presidents.
But Hawley alleged in a letter to Acting USSS Director Ronald Rowe on Monday that Trump is not receiving the 'highest level of Secret Service protection' like previously promised.
'The whistleblower alleges that the Secret Service denied access to DHS auditors because the former President [Trump] is not receiving the full level of protective assets for all of his events, and Secret Service leadership wants to obscure or simply conceal this fact,' The Republican Senator wrote.
The former president was shot in the right ear, a rally goer was hit and killed and two others were critically injured before shootier Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, was neutralized by a Secret Service agent.
Then on September 15, Ryan Wesley Routh, 58, was arrested after fleeing the scene where he aimed a rifle at Trump when he was golfing at his club in West Palm Beach, Florida.
In the House, a bipartisan task force was formed after the first attempt on Trump's life to investigate what happened ahead of the rally and during the rally that allowed Crooks to get in several shots in the former president's direction.
And now the panel is also looking into the second attempt.
Sen. Josh Hawley sent a public letter to Acting USSS Director Ronald Rowe detailing the claims that Trump could be assigned a more bolstered security team
Last month, the Senate Homeland Security Committee released a bipartisan report on its findings after investigating the first incident.
The troubling report revealed that the agent responsible for overseeing the Counter Unmanned Aircraft Systems (C-UAS) – or drones – called a toll free 888 tech support hotline 'to start troubleshooting with the company.' There were no backups.
It took several hours to get the drones back up and running – and the agent responsible for the drone operations only had three months of experience with the equipment.
The report also concluded that the failures ahead of the rally were 'foreseeable, preventable, and directly related to the events resulting in the assassination attempt that day.'
USSS denied specific on-the-ground requests for additional C-UAS drone capabilities and a Counter Assault Team liaison.
And the team on the ground was notified two minutes before Crooks fired shots about an individual on the roof of the AGR building just a few hundred feet from where Trump was speaking that day.
