Sen. Josh Hawley, per whistleblowers and via Fox News, says in effect: Yeah, it was planned that way. As if nobody would notice?
Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., wrote on X Friday that “whistleblowers tell me that MOST of Trump’s security detail working the event last Saturday were not even Secret Service.
“DHS assigned unprepared and inexperienced personnel,” he added, posting a letter he sent today to United States Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas.
“Whistleblowers who have direct knowledge of the event have approached my office. According to the allegations, the July 13 rally was considered to be a ‘loose’ security event. For example, detection canines were not used to monitor entry and detect threats in the usual manner,” Hawley wrote. “Individuals without proper designations were able to gain access to backstage areas. Department personnel did not appropriately police the security buffer around the podium and were also not stationed at regular intervals around the event’s security perimeter.”
“In addition, whistleblower allegations suggest the majority of DHS officials were not in fact USSS agents but instead drawn from the department’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI). This is especially concerning given that HSI agents were unfamiliar with standard protocols typically used at these types of events, according to the allegations,” Hawley also said.
Hawley used the letter to ask Mayorkas to respond to multiple questions regarding security at the Trump campaign event.
No wonder people are using phrases to describe this like, Create a window of opportunity. Trump has been vilified for 8 years, and this year has been elevated to an “existential threat” to the country—that narrative starts at the headless top, Zhou, and extends to include pretty much every single Dem who makes it in front of a mic. And then they stage a “loose security event” where—lo and behold!—someone takes a shot at Trump, because, “loose security event”. Go figure, right?
My question: in light of ALL the time AND warnings - why wasn’t Mr. Trump removed from the stage, or even better allowed on stage at all. WHO on scene allowed this to happen?
Institutional incompetence does NOT occur in a vacuum! In the very best-case scenario, DHS and SS and FBI and CIA, and on and on, viewed - and still view - Donald Trump as an untermensch. Vermin somehow not worthy of existence, and certainly not worthy of appropriate protection. Seriously folks, I thought we would have learned this history lesson by now. No benefit of the doubt!