Secret Service “Woefully Unprepared” to Protect Trump, Whistleblowers Claim

As the investigation surrounding the attempted assassination of former president Donald Trump, the United States Secret Service just can’t catch a break.

Republican Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri was recently informed by agency whistleblowers that the top security group in the country are “woefully unprepared” to protect political candidates—which is, in fact, their primary job. Speaking to Jesse Watters about the testimony, Hawley revealed that agents from Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) were presented with a two-hour tutorial on Microsoft Teams when they were transferred to security details.

These training videos are reportedly pre-recorded and subject to technical difficulties. According to one whistleblower, a thousand people logged onto the meeting at once following a last-minute announcement that they “needed to login individually.” Upon the meeting’s start, the instructor was unable to find how to enable audio to work on pre-recorded videos—which are allegedly “the same videos as last year.”

The whistleblower added that the videos had to be “restarted” about six times and, once they finally played, “the content was not helpful.” Additionally, the inside informants also shared that the same two-hour lessons have yet to be updated since Trump sustained injuries at the July 13 attempt on his life.

There is apparently “nothing new” or “improved” since that day. Additional informants, HSI agents on the scene of the shooting at the Butler, Pennsylvania rally, told Hawley that they had “only” been given a single “power-point presentation for training” before working security at the event.

In response to the revelations, Hawley described the situation as “a nightmare” that has only been revealed “because of whistleblowers.” The Missouri senator’s office has been routinely communicating with such insiders regarding the shooting. He is one of many lawmakers working to understand what happened to allow 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks onto the nearby rooftop to open fire at the stage, wounding three and killing one.

The whistleblowers’ testimony to Hawley’s office comes less than two months after then director of the Secret Service, Kimberly Cheatle, resigned from her position at the end of July.