DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—A whistleblower told Republican Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri in a letter released on Tuesday that the Homeland Security Investigations agents assigned to former President Donald Trump’s rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, were “egregiously under-prepared.”
The whistleblower told Hawley that the HSI agents were taken off child exploitation cases and reassigned in partnership with U.S. Secret Service to work security at the rally, according to the letter. Ahead of the event, the HSI agents received just a two-hour “webinar” that lacked substance and was “riddled with technical mishaps,” with the whistleblower claiming that the training is unchanged even after the assassination attempt.
“In other words, all of these allegations together suggest that a significant number of personnel tasked with providing security for former…
