A whistleblower told Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) that the Secret Service did not conduct a typical evaluation of the Trump rally site in Pennsylvania before the former president was nearly assassinated.
In a letter to Secret Service Acting Director Ronald Rowe, Hawley said that the whistleblower told his office that the Secret Service Counter Surveillance Division (CSD) did not conduct a threat assessment of the Butler rally site the day of the rally. The whistleblower also added that CSD was not at the location on the day of the attack. During the rally, former President Donald Trump was struck in the ear, two rally attendees were seriously injured, and 50-year-old Corey Comperatore was killed.
“This is significant because CSD’s duties include evaluating potential security threats outside the security perimeter and mitigating those threats during the event,” Hawley wrote on…
