Whistleblowers have warned Congress that federal agents reassigned to protective candidate details, including former President Donald Trump‘s, were “egregiously under-prepared.”
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) claimed in an X post on Tuesday that Homeland Security personnel had been “thrown onto Trump’s protective detail with nothing more than a 2hr online training” at the July 13 campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, where a 20-year-old man attempted to assassinate the former president.
During a Fox News interview, Hawley said, “Think about this: This former president of the US…is sent out on stage, most of the people there are not trained, they’re not qualified. They only got a webinar training and even that didn’t work.”
Hawley sent a letter to Acting Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe on Tuesday detailing new claims about Homeland Security Investigation (HSI) agents…
