Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo. ) has demanded that Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas  provide the country with answers to the disturbing allegations made by reporters about the assassination attempt against previous president Donald Trump at a Pennsylvania campaign rally last Saturday.
On Friday, Hawley claimed that reporters had exposed the Department of Homeland Security for failing to protect the former leader in a statement posted on X, previously Online. He tweeted,” Leakers, tell me that the majority of Trump’s security detail working the occasion next Saturday were not even Key Service.” Government assigned ready and untrained personnel”.
Hawley also shared a version of a letter he sent to Mayorkas on Friday asking for more information regarding the security breaches that allowed a would-be murderer to capture Trump. The Missouri legislator referred to the event as a” beautiful loss” by the Department of Homeland Security and claimed that reporters with “direct understanding” of the assassination attempt had provided further details.
” According to the claims, the July 13 march was considered to get a’ free’ security function. For instance, monitoring canines were not used to track entry and identify risks in the typical way. ” Persons without proper names were able to access behind areas,” Hawley wrote. According to the department,” the security buffer around the floor was not properly patrolled, and there were no regular stations around the security perimeter of the event.”
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According to the allegations,” the majority of DHS authorities were never actually USSS agents,” but rather Homeland Security Investigations agents, according to Hawley’s notice. This is “particularly concerning given that HSI agents were acquainted with common protocols commonly used at these types of events, according to the allegations.”
The Missouri legislator said that as a part of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, he did continue investigating the district’s “role in the remarkable security problems” at Saturday’s march.
” Unfortunately, your office has not been properly upcoming with Members of Congress-abruptly ending the only contact with USSS before most senators could also ask a issue”, Hawley added. ” This is completely unacceptable and contrary to the public’s interest in transparency”.
Senators were urged by the secretary to respond to questions about whether there were gaps in the security perimeter, how many security agents were not from the Secret Service, how agents were properly stationed at the event, and how proper protocols were adhered to. Hawley told Mayorkas that whistleblowers had learned more about the attack than they did from officials with the Department of Homeland Security.
