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Shocking new details about egregiously under-prepared Secret Service at Trump shooting

Published in Blog on September 04, 2024 by Jakob Fay

Nearly two months have passed since Donald Trump, the presumed 2024 Republican presidential nominee, narrowly survived an assassination attempt during a rally in Pennsylvania, and the nation is still seeking answers about how Thomas Matthew Crooks, a lone 20-year-old gunman, managed to get so close to killing the former president. The Secret Service has faced intense criticism for multiple security lapses at the event, forcing former Director Kimberly Cheatle to resign. Now, new revelations from U.S. Senator Josh Hawley expose just how “egregiously under-prepared” the agency was.

According to the senior senator from Missouri, whistleblowers have revealed to Congress that most of the agents assigned to Trump’s security detail on that day had undergone only two hours of online training.

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Hawley shared on social media that agents assigned to protect President Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, received only a brief two-hour online training, which was riddled with technical problems, before being “thrown onto” his detail. “The only reason we have this information is because of whistleblowers,” he said in an interview with Fox News.

Reportedly, the agents, who were originally with Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and working on child exploitation cases, were reassigned to serve on the former president’s security detail. Hawley added that this does not usually happen.

“When Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) agents partner with the Secret Service, they should be properly trained,” the senator wrote in a letter to Ronald L. Rowe Jr., Acting Director of the Secret Service. “New whistleblower allegations contend this isn’t happening and that HSI agents reassigned to candidate details—including former President Trump’s—are woefully unprepared for the job.”

One such agent harshly condemned the group’s lack of training. “Imagine 1,000 people logging onto Microsoft Teams at the same time after being informed at the last minute that everyone needed to [log in] individually,” he said. “Once it got rolling, the Secret Service instructor couldn’t figure out how to get the audio working on the prerecorded videos. All told, they restarted the videos approximately six times …. The content was not helpful.”

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The Secret Service’s grave failure to prepare nearly cost Trump his life. Unfortunately, the agency’s gross incompetence is only indicative of a systemic problem in Washington, D.C. The agents assigned to protect the former president are not the only ones “woefully” and “egregiously” inept — the entire federal government is, and it shows.

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