Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., appeared on “Jesse Watters Primetime” on Monday night to disclose new information regarding last month’s assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump.
Hawley informed Fox News host Jesse Watters that he had spoken with whistleblowers who provided details about the U.S. Secret Service (USSS) lead site agent present at the Butler, Pennsylvania, rally on July 13.
During the rally, gunman Thomas Matthew Crooks fired at Trump from a sloped roof, hitting him in the ear and killing one attendee. The 20-year-old also injured two others before being killed by Secret Service agents.
Sen. Josh Hawley: The lead Secret Service agent on J13 was “incompetent” and whistleblowers say she’s responsible for almost getting President Trump k*ll*dpic.twitter.com/rbCNG0jCdj
— Paul A. Szypula 🇺🇸 (@Bubblebathgirl) August 6, 2024
“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 said. “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. Most of the agents there that day were not Secret Service agents. They were Homeland Security agents.”
The GOP senator also claimed that some Secret Service agents are unhappy with how the agency handled the shooting, with some of them shocked at the leadership’s handling of the situation.
“Whistleblowers are coming forward from the Secret Service because they can’t believe what leadership is doing,” Hawley said. “They cannot believe that Secret Service is not taking action to clear out the rot.Frankly, they’re scared to death [that] this is going to happen again. We can’t let it happen again. We’ve got to get the facts.”
BREAKING: Sen. Josh Hawley introduced a bill to declassify information on the attempted assassination of President Donald Trump. pic.twitter.com/72X503jZCh
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Shortly after the interview, Hawley took to X to share a scathing letter he had sent to Secret Service Acting Director Ronald L. Rowe on Monday. In the letter, Hawley questioned the decision to assign the lead site agent to the rally and inquired about the failure to follow certain protocols.
“I urge you to suspend the lead site agent from all Secret Service duties immediately while these claims are investigated,” the GOP senator wrote.
The FBI and Secret Service want to hold backroom briefings about the assassination attempt against President Trump.
No more sweeping the facts under the rug—we need PUBLIC hearings & PUBLIC testimony. Under oath. pic.twitter.com/7qAB0cmMad
— Josh Hawley (@HawleyMO) July 18, 2024
