The Secret Service is hiding the truth about what went wrong when Donald Trump was shot.
Now, the agency is under the microscope as investigations begin to ramp up.
And Josh Hawley asked one scary question about the Secret Service that left everyone stunned.
Acting Secret Service director doesn’t want accountability
The near assassination of former President Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, was the result of one security breakdown after another by the Secret Service.
Former Secret Service director Kimberly Cheatle resigned in disgrace after she ducked questions during a House Oversight Committee.
Now, acting Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe – a former flunky to Cheatle – continued the agency’s evasiveness to lawmakers during a Senate hearing.
U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) got into a heated exchange with Rowe at the hearing.
The acting Secret Service director admitted the agent in charge of securing the Butler rally hadn’t been fired because the investigation needed to play out.
Hawley told Rowe that Trump being shot, one other person being killed, and two wounded was a pretty good sign the agent should be relieved of duty.
Josh Hawley wonders if the Secret Service is involved in a cover-up
The Missouri lawmaker talked about the fireworks at the hearing with Fox News host Sean Hannity.
Hawley wondered if Rowe was really interested in getting to the bottom of what happened in Butler.
“Can you explain why Donald Trump and this came up today, was allowed on the stage 17 minutes after reports of a suspicious person?” Hannity asked.
“Could we ever get an answer? Do we ever get an answer on why they claimed this was a sloped roof when I fell off a roof nearly three stories and as — when I was doing roofing and that’s not a sloping roof, and yet they didn’t put people around the perimeter?”
Hawley revealed that a whistleblower told him that someone was assigned to be on the roof of the building where the gunman opened fire.
“I asked the Secret Service director about that today, and he said, well, gee, I’m not sure,” Hawley said. “And I said, how can you not be sure? Seventeen days have gone by. But here’s the reason why, Sean? Secret Service hasn’t even talked to local law enforcement. They’ve done zero local law enforcement debris for interviews since the shooting, zero.”
A Beaver County, Pennsylvania SWAT sniper revealed to ABC News that the Secret Service never talked to his team before the rally.
Their first communication was after Trump was hit.
The lack of communication with local law enforcement suggests the Secret Service could be trying to set them up as the scapegoat.
“I mean, it just begs the question, what is going on?” Hawley asked.
“Are they really trying to get the facts, or are they just trying to cover their rear ends? And it sure looks a whole lot to me, like the second thing. The American people deserve the truth here, not whitewashing, not stonewalling, not a bunch of bureaucratic gobbledygook. They deserve the truth. And I am not going to stop pushing until we actually get it.”
The Secret Service wants to do the bare minimum to answer for the agency’s failures and then pass on the blame.
Stay tuned to Unmuzzled News for any updates to this ongoing story.
