A new whistleblower revealed another agency failure by the Secret Service two weeks after former President Donald Trump was wounded by a would-be assassin’s bullet.
On Thursday, Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., posted a letter on X addressed to Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas outlining the new allegations brough forward from an anonymous whistleblower.
“According to one whistleblower, the night before the rally, U.S. Secret Service repeatedly denied offers from a local law enforcement partner to utilize drone technology to secure the rally,” Hawley wrote. “This means that the technology was both available to [U.S. Secret Service] and able to be deployed to secure the site.”
The Secret Service, however, “said no,” and the whistleblower “further alleges that after the shooting took place, [U.S. Secret Service] changed course and asked the local partner to deploy the drone technology to surveil the site in the aftermath of the attack.”
🚨🚨 NEW – Whistleblower tells me local law enforcement partners & suppliers offered drones to Secret Service BEFORE the rally – but Secret Service declined pic.twitter.com/UM0jfrMc9z
— Josh Hawley (@HawleyMO) July 25, 2024
On Wednesday, FBI Director Christopher Wray confirmed The Wall Street Journal’s reporting last week that the Trump shooter flew a reconnaissance drone roughly 200 yards from the rally fairgrounds in Butler, Pennsylvania, just two hours before the event.
“We think, but we do not know,” Wray told the House Judiciary Committee, “that he was live-streaming, viewing the footage.”
The Wall Street Journal reported Friday the failed assassin was able
