{"id":2352552,"date":"2024-10-09T11:11:01","date_gmt":"2024-10-09T15:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/whistleblower-says-secret-service-blocked-trump-security-audit\/"},"modified":"2024-10-09T11:13:38","modified_gmt":"2024-10-09T15:13:38","slug":"whistleblower-says-secret-service-blocked-trump-security-audit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/whistleblower-says-secret-service-blocked-trump-security-audit\/","title":{"rendered":"Whistleblower Says Secret Service Blocked Trump Security Audit"},"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\">16<\/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-secret-service-blocked-trump-security-audit%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=2352552&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 recent whistleblower report \u2062alleges that senior leadership within the Secret \u200cService obstructed auditors from the Department of Homeland Security Office of\u200d Inspector General (OIG) from investigating the security\u2064 details provided for former President\u2063 Donald Trump. \u2064Senator Josh \u200dHawley detailed these\u2063 claims in a letter to Acting Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe, noting\u200d that the Secret\u200b Service limited auditors&#8217; access to certain events in an attempt to create a false impression that Trump was \u200balways receiving adequate protection. The report follows earlier accusations \u200bfrom Hawley that the Secret Service \u2064had denied Trump sufficient security resources during a campaign\u200b rally, resulting in the event&#8217;s cancellation. Additional claims suggest that it\u2064 is highly unusual for a former president not to\u200d be provided with full protective resources, especially in light of two <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/melania-trump-blames-media-and-democrats-for-toxic-atmosphere-after-second-assassination-attempt-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Melania Trump blames media and Democrats for \u2018toxic atmosphere\u2019 after second assassination attempt - Washington Examiner\">recent \u2063assassination attempts<\/a> against 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<div>\n<p>Senior leadership within the Secret Service blocked multiple auditors from the Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General (OIG) from probing former President Donald Trump&rsquo;s security detail, according to a new whistleblower report. <\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., sent a letter to Acting Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe outlining the new charges of misconduct within the agency. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;A Secret Service whistleblower has alleged to my office that Secret Service headquarters blocked several auditors from the Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General (OIG) from accessing recent Trump campaign events,&rdquo; Hawley <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawley.senate.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/2024-10-08-Hawley-Letter-to-Rowe.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrote<\/a>. &ldquo;The whistleblower alleges that the Secret Service denied access to DHS auditors because the former president is not receiving the full level of protective assets for all of his events, and Secret Service leadership wants to obscure or simply conceal this fact.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>According to the whistleblower, Hawley added, &ldquo;Secret Service leadership is permitting OIG auditors only at select events &mdash; such as a recent rally in North Carolina &mdash; where President Trump receives the full level of protective assets, to create the impression he is receiving this level of protection at all times, when in fact he is not.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The latest whistleblower disclosure comes two weeks after Hawley sent <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/09\/26\/biden-administration-denying-protection-assets-for-trump-forces-him-to-cancel-wisconsin-rally\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">another letter<\/a> to Rowe charging the agency with denying Trump &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-forced-to-cancel-rally-after-biden-admin-denies-protection\/\" title=\"Trump Forced To Cancel Rally After Biden Admin Denies Protection\">sufficient assets&#038;rdquo<\/a>; for a campaign rally in Wisconsin. The failure to provide the former president with full security forced Republicans to cancel the Badger State event. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Other whistleblowers with knowledge of Secret Service planning protocols allege that failure to provide protection for a major public event is highly unusual and that a sitting president would never be denied resources in this way,&rdquo; Hawley wrote in September. <\/p>\n<p>The letter arrived just days after Trump survived a second assassination attempt when a <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/09\/16\/sister-in-law-of-virginia-democrat-candidate-mocks-new-trump-assassination-attempt-carry-on\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">man<\/a> lined up a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/EricLDaugh\/status\/1835424438612906131\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">scoped &ldquo;AK-47-style rifle<\/a>&rdquo; within just 300 to 500&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/09\/15\/gov-desantis-announces-independent-investigation-into-second-trump-assassination-attempt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">yards<\/a>&nbsp;of where the former president&nbsp;was golfing. Despite narrowly surviving a bullet to the face in Pennsylvania this summer, Trump&rsquo;s security detail was still <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/09\/17\/trump-assassination-attempts-mark-next-stage-of-americas-march-towards-banana-republic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">short <\/a>of what would be provided to a sitting president.<\/p>\n<p>In August, Hawley <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/08\/23\/whistleblower-says-trump-protection-team-denied-manpower-before-assassination-attempt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">sent a letter <\/a>to the Secret Service demanding answers about a whistleblower who told the senator requests from Trump&rsquo;s security detail for additional resources were denied.<\/p>\n<p>  &ldquo;One whistleblower with knowledge of Secret Service planning for former President Trump&rsquo;s trip to Butler, Pennsylvania, alleges officials at Secret Service headquarters encouraged agents in charge of the trip not to request any <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-shines-light-on-dangerous-secret-service-incompetence\/\" title=\"Report Shines Light On Dangerous Secret Service Incompetence\">additional security assets<\/a> in its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/whistleblower-says-trump-protection-team-denied-manpower\/\" title=\"Whistleblower Says Trump Protection Team Denied Manpower\">formal manpower request &#038;mdash<\/a>; effectively denying these assets through informal means,&rdquo; Hawley wrote. &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;<\/p>\n<p>Trump triumphantly <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/10\/07\/defiant-trump-returns-to-site-of-first-assassination-attempt-to-honor-fallen-father-and-rally-resilient-supporters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">returned<\/a> to Butler last weekend to hold a rally at the same fairgrounds where a 20-year-old would-be assassin blew off part of the former president&rsquo;s ear. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;For 16 harrowing seconds during the gunfire, time stopped as this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/defiant-trump-returns-to-site-of-first-assassination-attempt\/\" title=\"Defiant Trump Returns To Site Of First Assassination Attempt\">vicious monster unleashed pure evil<\/a> from his sniper&rsquo;s perch, not so far away,&rdquo; Trump told the crowd. &ldquo;But by the hand of providence and the grace of God, that villain did not succeed in his goal.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Tristan Justice is the western correspondent for The Federalist and the author of Social Justice Redux, a conservative newsletter on culture, health, and wellness. He has also written for The Washington Examiner and The Daily Signal. His work has also been featured in Real Clear Politics and Fox News. Tristan graduated from George Washington University where he majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow him on Twitter at @JusticeTristan or contact him at Tristan@thefederalist.com. Sign up for Tristan&#8217;s email newsletter <a href=\"https:\/\/socialjusticeredux.substack.com\/about\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Secret Service leaders obstructed DHS auditors from investigating Trump&#8217;s security, per a whistleblower report<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":2352553,"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\/10\/Trump-Butler-Rally.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[36155,34163,42635,3634,14057],"class_list":["post-2352552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-government-accountability","tag-secret-service","tag-security-audit","tag-trump","tag-whistleblower"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Trump-Butler-Rally.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2352552","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\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2352552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2352552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2352553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2352552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2352552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2352552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}