{"id":2330171,"date":"2024-08-23T16:30:02","date_gmt":"2024-08-23T20:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/whistleblower-says-trump-protection-team-denied-manpower\/"},"modified":"2024-08-23T16:39:11","modified_gmt":"2024-08-23T20:39:11","slug":"whistleblower-says-trump-protection-team-denied-manpower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/whistleblower-says-trump-protection-team-denied-manpower\/","title":{"rendered":"Whistleblower Says Trump Protection Team Denied Manpower"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwhistleblower-says-trump-protection-team-denied-manpower%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2330171&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-goes-motionless-at-swanky-fundraiser-and-gets-led-offstage-by-obama-white-house-responds\/\" title=\"Biden Becomes Unresponsive at High-End Fundraiser, Escorted Offstage by Obama - White House Issues Statement\">article discusses allegations<\/a> that the head of the U.S. Secret Service may have lied to Congress regarding the security measures\u200b taken to protect former President Trump during a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, where an assassination attempt \u2063occurred. Senator Josh Hawley of\u200c Missouri is pressing for answers following claims from a whistleblower that agents were discouraged from requesting additional manpower \u200bfor security, leading to a denial of necessary resources. \u200cThis contradicts statements\u2064 made by Acting\u2063 Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe, who\u200c has said that all requested manpower was approved. <\/p>\n<p>The assassination attempt resulted in the shooter injuring Trump and killing a rally attendee before being stopped by a Secret Service sniper. The fallout has led to multiple investigations into the \u200cagency&#8217;s preparedness and transparency. Hawley highlighted that the lack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/celebrity-chef-delivers-food-to-d-c-law-enforcement\/\" title=\"Celebrity chef delivers food to D.C. law enforcement\">additional security measures<\/a>,\u200c including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/failure-to-intercept-trump-shooter-either-malice-or-incompetence-betsy-devoss-brother-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Failure to intercept Trump shooter either \u2018malice or incompetence\u2019: Betsy DeVos\u2019s brother - Washington Examiner\">counter-sniper teams<\/a>, may have been the result of informal instructions\u2062 from\u200b headquarters. The whistleblower&#8217;s claims suggest systemic issues within the Secret Service, raising serious concerns about the agency&#8217;s handling of security for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-epstein-madam-wouldnt-help-find-tapes-of-bill-clinton-because-it-would-hurt-hillarys-2016-run\/\" title=\"Report: Epstein Madam Wouldn\u2019t Help Find Tapes Of Bill Clinton Because It Would Hurt Hillary\u2019s 2016 Run\">high-profile individuals<\/a>. The article \u2063underscores growing frustration among lawmakers over the perceived lack of accountability and transparency from the Secret \u2063Service concerning these events.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Did the head of the embattled U.S. Secret Service lie to Congress when he testified that all manpower requested to protect former President Trump had been approved for the event where the GOP presidential nominee came within centimeters of being assassinated?<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., wants answers after a whistleblower told the Missouri Republican that agents on the Trump detail shouldn&rsquo;t even bother asking for key manpower because the request would be denied.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The latest revelations come as several news outlets <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/secret-service-agents-on-leave-trump-shooting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">confirm <\/a>the Secret Service has placed at least five members on administrative leave in the wake of the July 13 attempt on Trump&rsquo;s life at a campaign rally in Butler, Penn.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Request Denied?&nbsp;<\/h2>\n<p>&ldquo;I have received new whistleblower allegations that again call into question your recent testimony before the Senate,&rdquo; Hawley, who serves on the Senate&rsquo;s Judiciary Committee, wrote in a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/HawleyMO\/status\/1827015682967417167\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">letter <\/a>Friday to Acting Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe. &ldquo;One whistleblower with knowledge of Secret Service planning for former President Trump&lsquo;s trip to Butler, Pennsylvania, alleges officials at Secret Service headquarters encouraged agents in charge of the trip not to request any additional security assets in its formal manpower request &mdash; effectively denying these assets through informal means.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#128680;&#128680; NEW &ndash; Whistleblower says Secret Service HQ told agents working the Butler PA event NOT to request additional manpower resources for the rally &amp; warned any such requests would be denied. Contradicts Director Rowe testimony, who said no resources were ever denied <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/85sHTAI82u\">pic.twitter.com\/85sHTAI82u<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Josh Hawley (@HawleyMO) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HawleyMO\/status\/1827015682967417167?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 23, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Rowe, as Hawley notes, has &ldquo;repeatedly suggested&rdquo; that the protective services agency he&rsquo;s been tapped to lead following last month&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/07\/23\/secret-service-director-kimberly-cheatle-resigns-in-disgrace-more-than-a-week-after-attempt-on-trumps-life\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">resignation<\/a> of disgraced Director Kimberly Cheatle had not denied any &ldquo;assets&rdquo; requested.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Trump was shot in the ear by a would-be assassin who was allowed to freely roam the rally grounds for hours despite arousing suspicions and alarms from local law enforcement. The gunman shot and killed rallygoer Corey Comperatore and seriously injured two others before being fatally shot by a Secret Service sniper. Questions abound about one of the most astounding failures in the agency&rsquo;s history, not the least of which is how a young man carrying a duffle bag and a range finder was able to ascend the roof of a nearby building to carry out his deadly errand?<\/p>\n<p>Several investigations, including congressional probes, are attempting to get answers from recalcitrant federal agencies that have struggled with transparency and have had a hard time keeping their stories straight.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Hawley and others have understandably asked why the Secret Service was so ill-prepared on the day of the shootings. The latest whistleblower accounts suggest the failures may have been wilful.<\/p>\n<p>Hawley said the whistleblower told him that the lead advance agent for protective events typically submits a manpower request to the local field office. The request usually includes the number of agents and other resources needed. It&rsquo;s submitted to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.secretservice.gov\/about\/leadership\/opo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">U.S. Secret Service Office of Protective Operations<\/a> (OPO-Manpower) for final approval, the senator wrote.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;According to the allegations, officials within this office, preemptively informed the Pittsburgh Field Office that the Butler rally was not going to receive additional security resources because Trump is a former president and not the incumbent president or vice president,&rdquo; Hawley states in the letter. This, despite the unhinged hatred by many on the left for the opposition party&rsquo;s candidate for president.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;According to the whistleblower, the manpower request did not include extra security resources because agents on the ground were told not to ask for them in the first place,&rdquo; Hawley added.<\/p>\n<h2>&lsquo;Very Transparent and Forthcoming&rsquo;&nbsp;<\/h2>\n<p>The manpower request, the whistleblower told Hawley, included counter-sniper teams and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dhs.gov\/publication\/dhsussspia-020-united-states-secret-service-counter-surveillance-division-unmanned\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Counter Surveillance Division<\/a> (CSD) personnel. Counter-snipers ultimately were approved, according to reports, but not until the day prior to the political rally. The short notice gave the agents insufficient time to scout the grounds, Hawley said. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I have previously written you about a separate whistleblower&rsquo;s allegations to my office that personnel from CSD would have handcuffed the gunman in the parking lot after he was spotted with a range finder, but they were not present on the day,&rdquo; the senator wrote. &ldquo;You stated in an August 2 press conference that CSD personnel support former presidents&lsquo; details &lsquo;when requested.&rsquo; But&nbsp;these new allegations suggest that CSD personnel, counter-sniper teams, and other critical security assets were not included in the manpower request for the Butler trip because Secret Service officials told the requesting agents that they would be denied.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>As Hawley points out, the new allegations surface despite Rowe&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.judiciary.senate.gov\/committee-activity\/hearings\/examination-of-the-security-failures-leading-to-the-assassination-attempt-on-former-president-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">July 30 testimony<\/a> before the Senate in which the acting director stated, &ldquo;If you&rsquo;re talking about Butler, Penn., all assets requested were approved.&rdquo; Rowe has insisted that he has been &ldquo;very transparent and forthcoming&rdquo; with congress.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>That&rsquo;s not how Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., sees it. The ranking member of the Senate&rsquo;s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations tells The Federalist he&rsquo;s not surprised by the latest whistleblower accounts.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;If you wanted more conspiracy theories, you couldn&rsquo;t do a better job at creating them than what the Secret Service and the FBI are doing right now,&rdquo; Johnson said Friday in an interview. &ldquo;It seems like they&rsquo;re hiding something. And you have to ask yourself, why?&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Johnson says he and Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., chairman of the investigations subcommittee, have been pushing the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the Secret Service, FBI, and others for answers. They&rsquo;re getting stonewalled. He said Rowe told senators he would have answers to their questions in days; it&rsquo;s been weeks.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;These people simply don&rsquo;t believe they need to be held accountable. They are the law unto themselves,&rdquo; the senator said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>&lsquo;Not Enough&rsquo;&nbsp;<\/h2>\n<p>As Fox News and other outlets <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/multiple-secret-service-agents-put-on-leave-following-trump-assassination-attempt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a>, the Secret Service has taken off active duty a member of Trump&rsquo;s personal protective unit and &ldquo;four members of the Secret Service&rsquo;s Pittsburgh Field Office, including the special agent in charge.&rdquo; They reportedly continue to telework, but are not allowed to be in the field.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Secret Service officials did not immediately respond to The Federalist&rsquo;s request for comment.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In his letter to Rowe, Hawley warns the acting Secret Service chief that placing some field agents on leave is &ldquo;not enough.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The serious allegations suggest that the failure to protect the former president extended to top officials at the agency,&rdquo; the senator said, demanding that Rowe answer questions about the manpower request and who was involved at the field office.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Matt Kittle is a senior elections correspondent for The Federalist. An award-winning investigative reporter and 30-year veteran of print, broadcast, and online journalism, Kittle previously served as the executive director of Empower Wisconsin.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did the leader of the troubled U.S. Secret Service mislead Congress when he claimed that all personnel requested for the protection of former President Trump had been authorized for an event where the GOP presidential nominee narrowly escaped assassination? Senator Josh Hawley, R-Mo., is seeking clarification after a whistleblower informed him that agents assigned to Trump&#8217;s security detail were discouraged from requesting essential manpower, as such requests would likely be rejected. <\/p>\n<p>These new allegations arise as multiple news sources report that at least five Secret Service members have been placed on administrative leave following the July 13 assassination attempt on Trump during a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. <\/p>\n<p>In a letter to Acting Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe, Hawley expressed concern over recent whistleblower claims that challenge Rowe&#8217;s testimony before the Senate. The whistleblower alleged that officials at Secret Service headquarters advised agents not to include additional security resources in their formal manpower request for Trump&#8217;s trip to Butler, effectively denying those resources through informal channels.<\/p>\n<p>Rowe has previously suggested that no requests for protective assets had been denied. However, this contradicts reports indicating serious lapses in security during an incident where Trump was shot at by an assailant who managed to roam freely around the rally site despite raising alarms with local law enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>Investigations are underway to uncover why there was such inadequate preparation on the day of these events and whether these failures were intentional. According to Hawley\u2019s letter, it is standard procedure for lead advance agents responsible for protective events to submit manpower requests detailing necessary personnel and resources; however, they were reportedly told not to ask for extra support due to Trump&#8217;s status as a former president rather than an incumbent.<\/p>\n<p>The whistleblower also indicated that while counter-sniper teams were eventually approved just one day before the rally\u2014leaving insufficient time for proper reconnaissance\u2014other critical security measures may have been omitted because agents were instructed against requesting them.<\/p>\n<p>Hawley emphasized in his correspondence with Rowe that merely placing some field agents on leave is insufficient given these serious allegations implicating high-level officials within the agency regarding their failure to protect Trump adequately. He demanded answers about who was involved in handling manpower requests related to this incident.<\/p>\n<p>Matt Kittle serves as a senior elections correspondent for The Federalist and has extensive experience in journalism across various platforms<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":656,"featured_media":2330172,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Screenshot-2024-08-23-at-2.47.51-PM-1024x536.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[39123,3634,14057],"class_list":["post-2330171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-protection-team","tag-trump","tag-whistleblower"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Screenshot-2024-08-23-at-2.47.51-PM-1024x536.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2330171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/656"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2330171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2330171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2330172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2330171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2330171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2330171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}