Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) said during an interview this week that a female Secret Service agent who was put in charge of former President Donald Trump’s protective detail during his trip to Butler, Pennsylvania, in July, when a would-be assassin tried to kill him, had failed key training exams when she joined the agency.
Hawley also said that the Biden-Harris DHS was pressuring the Secret Service to not comply with the investigation, which he called “outrageous.” Even Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) said this week that DHS was not complying.
“The whole thing, she was in charge of the whole works, from the time the president landed to the time he went to Butler, it’s just totally inexplicable,” Hawley said. “One other thing, I’m told by people who are close to and have knowledge of the Secret Service’s own internal investigation that the Department of Homeland Security is leaning on the Secret Service not to comply with document requests to Congress.”
Hawley made the remarks during a Fox News interview Thursday evening as Congress continues to investigate how the Secret Service and Department of Homeland Security failed to protect the president that day.
“What I’m learning now is that the lead advance agent that day in Pennsylvania — this is the agent that was in charge of Trump’s entire trip in Pennsylvania — that this agent actually failed one or more of her training exams when she first joined the Secret Service,” Hawley said. “The pattern that is emerging here from whistleblowers who come forward to me now over and over again is that the Trump rally was undermanned, it was understaffed, they did not have people who had experience on it.”
Hawley said that the advance agent failed “one or more of her training exams and was known not to be a top-quality agent.”
He questioned why she was ever put in charge of managing the entire trip
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