A Republican senator has received “disturbing information” from a whistleblower about the near-assassination of Donald Trump, claiming a key protocol was violated before the meeting in Butler, Pennsylvania.
The latest allegation, from an anonymous whistleblower, alleges that the Secret Service’s Counter Surveillance Division (CSD) — the unit charged with pre-screening event locations — was not present at the deadly rally and never conducted a “typical pre-event review.”
The anonymous whistleblower’s complaint is one of several filed in recent weeks with Republican Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri.
Furthermore, the source claims that acting Secret Service director Ronald Rowe, who has just taken over as chief of the service after former boss Kimberly Cheatle stepped down, is responsible for the massive negligence.
According to the whistleblower, Rowe ‘personally implemented the significant cuts at CSD’.
Secret Service counter snipers on the roof of Trump’s Butler campaign rally. A whistleblower informed Senator Hawley on Thursday that the new Secret Service Acting Director personally cut funding to the Counter Surveillance Division (CSD).
The new boss was also personally responsible for cutting the anti-surveillance team’s workforce by 20 percent, the whistleblower continues.
All of the whistleblower’s allegations were revealed in a letter Hawley sent to Rowe himself.
“The whistleblower also alleges that individuals within the Secret Service were retaliated against for raising concerns about security at President Trump’s events,” the Missouri senator told the acting director.
Rowe has only been in office for a few days, after Cheatle resigned last week following a gruelling congressional hearing.
She repeatedly refused to provide new insights into the historic assassination attempt, but she stonewalled Republicans and Democrats alike, drawing scorn and verbal criticism from both sides.
“Additionally, Secret Service officials expressed concerns that individuals were allowed into Trump events “without vetting” and were later “retaliated against,” the letter said.
Hawley demanded that Rowe provide information by August 8 about the Secret Service’s plan to attend the Butler meeting and about some of his work communications.
DailyMail.com has contacted the Secret Service for comment on the allegations.
Also devastating is the discovery of a technical glitch that prevented radio signals from being properly relayed between Secret Service agents at the meeting, New York Times defeated.
Republican presidential candidate and former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at the Butler Farm Show in Butler, Pennsylvania, U.S., July 13, 2024
Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump is spied on by US Secret Service agents at a campaign rally
Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump is led off the stage during a rally on July 13, 2024
The wiretap allowed Trump shooter Thomas Matthew Crooks to sneak through the rally grounds unhindered, while communications between agents were inconsistent and ineffective.
An officer was able to shout, “Long gun!” over the local Pennsylvania police radio network.
But 30 crucial seconds passed and the message was never heard.
The report found that there were several instances of countermeasure failures and incorrect deployment.
For example, the agency rejected offers to use drone technology at the meeting site, whistleblowers previously told Hawley.
Snippers stand on a roof at the campaign rally of Republican presidential candidate and former US President Donald Trump
After six hours of damning testimony, former Secret Service director Kimberly Cheatle resigned last week
He revealed that a whistleblower told his office the night before the meeting that the Secret Service had “repeatedly rejected offers from a local law enforcement partner to use drone technology to secure the meeting.”
The whistleblower alleged that after the shooting, the Secret Service “changed course and asked the local partner to deploy drone technology to monitor the location thereafter.”
According to Hawley, the drones offered were “capable of not only identifying active shooters, but also taking them out.”
Homeland Security Sec. Alejandro Mayorkas Hawley was asked to produce all documentation and communications related to the drone offer.
The new allegation marks a new step in the investigation into the Secret Service’s biggest security failure since Ronald Reagan was shot in 1981.
