{"id":2330221,"date":"2024-08-23T17:19:02","date_gmt":"2024-08-23T21:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/secret-service-denied-butler-agents-extra-manpower-ahead-of-trump-rally-shooting-whistleblower-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-08-23T17:23:35","modified_gmt":"2024-08-23T21:23:35","slug":"secret-service-denied-butler-agents-extra-manpower-ahead-of-trump-rally-shooting-whistleblower-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/secret-service-denied-butler-agents-extra-manpower-ahead-of-trump-rally-shooting-whistleblower-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Secret Service denied Butler agents extra manpower ahead of Trump rally shooting: Whistleblower &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"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\">32<\/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%2Fsecret-service-denied-butler-agents-extra-manpower-ahead-of-trump-rally-shooting-whistleblower-washington-examiner%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=2330221&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>A \u200cwhistleblower has reported that the\u200b Secret Service \u2064denied \u2062requests for \u200cadditional security \u2063ahead of a rally where an assassination\u200c attempt on former President Donald Trump occurred. The report claims that the Secret Service&#8217;s Office of Protective Operations discouraged agents from \u2064seeking extra manpower informally. Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) emphasized the \u2062seriousness of this claim in \u200ba letter to acting\u200d Secret Service \u2064Director Ronald\u200b Rowe, accusing him of \u200bproviding misleading testimony \u2064regarding security preparations for \u2064the July 13 event. \u200bThe \u2064rally was\u200d marked by significant security failures, culminating \u2064in a 20-year-old gunman firing shots from a\u2063 roof, resulting in one death and\u200b two serious\u200d injuries. The whistleblower&#8217;s allegations\u2062 highlight concerns about\u200d the handling of\u2063 security resources during high-risk events\u200c involving Trump.  <\/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<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Secret Service denied Butler agents extra manpower ahead of Trump rally shooting: Whistleblower<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1716365\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/secret-service\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Secret Service<\/a> department that handles manpower requests urged agents not to ask for additional security for the rally where an assassination attempt on former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Donald Trump\">Donald Trump<\/a> occurred, according to a whistleblower report.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>The whistleblower told Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) that the Secret Service Office of Protective Operations &mdash; Manpower essentially denied security assets &ldquo;through informal means&rdquo; by encouraging agents not to seek more manpower for the rally, Hawley wrote in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawley.senate.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/2024-08-23-Hawley-Letter-to-Acting-Director-Rowe.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>letter<\/a> on Friday to Secret Service acting Director Ronald Rowe.<\/p>\n<p>Hawley accused Rowe of giving inaccurate testimony when he appeared before the Senate in July and faced questions about the assassination attempt.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;If you&rsquo;re talking about Butler, Pennsylvania, all assets requested were approved,&rdquo; Rowe had testified.<\/p>\n<p>Hawley said Rowe &ldquo;must explain this apparent contradiction immediately&rdquo; and asked the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/developing-trump-to-meet-with-acting-defense-secretary-chris-miller-in-the-oval-office-at-330-pm\/\" title=\"DEVELOPING: Trump to Meet with Acting Defense Secretary Chris Miller in the Oval Office at 3:30 PM\">acting director<\/a> to answer numerous questions about the event.<\/p>\n<p>The rally on July 13 marked the most <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sen-hawley-says-most-of-trump-rally-security-was-not-secret-service-but-unprepared-and-inexperienced\/\" title=\"Sen. Hawley says most of Trump rally security was not Secret Service, but unprepared and inexperienced\">significant security failure<\/a> by the Secret Service in decades. A 20-year-old gunman was able to access a roof in close proximity to Trump and fire shots into the crowd, leaving one dead, two seriously injured, and Trump with a minor injury.<\/p>\n<p>Agents responsible for protecting Trump at the rally made a routine manpower request ahead of the event but did not ask for countersniper teams or Counter Surveillance Division personnel, Hawley wrote. Hawley said the end result was that field agents did not receive these assets until the last minute, leaving little time for the added security personnel to prepare for the rally.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;According to the whistleblower, the manpower request did not <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/whistleblower-says-trump-protection-team-denied-manpower\/\" title=\"Whistleblower Says Trump Protection Team Denied Manpower\">include extra security resources<\/a> because agents on the ground were told not to ask for them in the first place,&rdquo; Hawley said.<\/p>\n<p>The Missouri senator&rsquo;s letter comes after former Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle resigned over the assassination attempt and after the Secret Service recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/3132584\/secret-service-agents-leave-trump-assassination-attempt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>placed<\/a> five agents on administrative leave over the incident.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hawley said the actions were insufficient and that the whistleblower allegation indicated that other Secret Service employees at a higher level contributed to the rally failures.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Your actions to place some field agents on leave are not enough,&rdquo; Hawley wrote. &ldquo;These serious allegations suggest that the failures to protect the former president extended to top officials at the agency.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Washington Examiner<\/em> reached out to the Secret Service for comment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1716365\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1716365\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A whistleblower has reported that a division of the Secret Service responsible for managing manpower requests discouraged agents from seeking additional security for the rally where an assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump took place. The whistleblower informed Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) that the Secret Service&#8217;s Office of Protective Operations effectively denied requests for extra security &#8220;through informal means&#8221; by advising agents against requesting more personnel for the event. In a letter to acting Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe, Hawley accused Rowe of providing misleading testimony during his Senate appearance in July regarding the assassination attempt, where Rowe claimed that all requested assets were approved for Butler, Pennsylvania. Hawley demanded an explanation for this apparent inconsistency and posed several questions about the incident.<\/p>\n<p>The rally on July 13 represented a significant security lapse by the Secret Service, as a 20-year-old gunman managed to access a rooftop near Trump and fired shots into the crowd, resulting in one death and two serious injuries while Trump sustained only minor injuries. Although agents tasked with Trump&#8217;s protection made standard manpower requests prior to the event, they did not ask for countersniper teams or personnel from the Counter Surveillance Division. According to Hawley, this was due to ground agents being instructed not to request such resources initially.<\/p>\n<p>Hawley&#8217;s letter follows former Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle&#8217;s resignation after the assassination attempt and recent administrative leave placed on five agents involved in handling security at that event. He criticized these actions as inadequate and suggested that higher-level officials within the agency may have also contributed to these failures in protecting Trump at the rally. The Washington Examiner has reached out to obtain comments from the Secret Service regarding these allegations<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":2330222,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/PA-rally-trump-scaled-1024x683.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[39133,34163,33285,32076,14057],"class_list":["post-2330221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-butler-agents","tag-secret-service","tag-trump-rally","tag-washington-examiner","tag-whistleblower"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/PA-rally-trump-scaled-1024x683.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2330221","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\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2330221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2330221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2330222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2330221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2330221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2330221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}