Information slowly emerges about the attempted assassination of Donald Trump at the Butler rally, and it is all scandalous.
Ms Cheatle, the DEI head of the Secret Service, sent untrained social workers to protect President Trump at the rally where he was shot.
From the linked article:
A local Butler, Pa., SWAT team operator was the first to engage Thomas Crooks, damaging his rifle and effectively ending his shooting spree before the Secret Service could fully neutralize the threat.
“Why didn’t the Secret Service chief mention that the locals were the first ones to get rounds off on Crooks, not the Secret Service?” asked [Jesse] Watters [on his Fox Primetime TV show].
[He also asked:] Why did the Secret Service turn down a drone? Why didn’t they pick up the radios they were supposed to use to communicate with locals? Why wasn’t the Wi-Fi working that day? Why wasn’t there a counter-sniper team on the roof [from which Crooks fired]? And why aren’t the FBI and Secret Service cooperating with congressional investigators?
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) provided further insights into the situation based on information from whistleblowers, revealing shocking details about the agents present at the rally.
Hawley disclosed, “Most of the agents who were there at that rally in Butler were not Secret Service agents. They were, in fact, Homeland Security agents.
[Which is to say, they were social workers.]
"And get this, most of those Homeland Security agents, the only training that they received was an online webinar, a two-hour online webinar."
The revelations from Hawley and the congressional report highlight significant gaps in the handling of the incident and raise questions about the accountability of the Secret Service and FBI. As Watters put it, “This is a nightmare, and we still have no answers. The only reason we know this stuff is because of whistleblowers. It’s outrageous.”
Experienced Secret Service agents did not staff the protective detail; Homeland Security personnel were pulled off critical jobs like child endangerment investigations instead. These DHS agents had no proper training, limited to a single webinar that didn’t even work for parts of its duration.
This entire debacle reveals a disgraceful level of incompetence and deception at the highest levels of the Secret Service and the FBI.