CV NEWS FEED // A Senator says a whistleblower told him that the Biden-Harris administration’s Secret Service denied repeated requests from law enforcement to secure former President Donald Trump’s Pennsylvania rally one day before a would-be assassin made an attempt on Trump’s life.
“According to one whistleblower, the night before the rally, U.S. Secret Service [USSS] repeatedly denied offers from a local law enforcement partner to utilize drone technology to secure the rally,” Sen. Josh Hawley, R-MO, wrote in a Thursday letter to Biden-Harris Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas.
USSS is an agency of Mayorkas’ Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
“This means that the [drone] technology was both available to USSS and able to be deployed to secure the site,” Hawley noted. “Secret Service said no.”
“The whistleblower further alleges that after the shooting took place, USSS changed course and asked the local [law enforcement] partner to deploy the drone technology to surveil the site in the aftermath of the attack,” the senator stated.
“It is hard to understand why USSS would decline to use drones when they were offered, particularly given the fact that USSS permitted the shooter to overfly the rally area with his own drone mere hours before [the shooting],” Hawley indicated.
“The American people deserve answers about your historic failure to protect former President Trump on July 13, 2024,” the lawmaker added in his letter to Mayorkas.
During a Wednesday House Judiciary Committee hearing, Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-OH, pressed Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Christopher Wray about reports that the shooter flew a drone over the rally site a mere two hours before the attempt on Trump’s life.
“So, we have recovered a drone that the shooter appears to have used,” Wray answered Jordan, adding that the drone “is being exploited and analyzed by the FBI lab.”
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The day before, Kim Cheatle, the USSS Director during the shooting, resigned her position. “The Secret Service’s solemn mission is to protect our nation’s leaders and financial infrastructure. On [July 13], we fell short on that mission,” she stated.
