Whistleblowers say Trump’s bodyguards only received two-hour online training before assassination attempt

Whistleblowers have claimed that the majority of agents assigned to protect former President Donald Trump the day he survived an assassination attempt were not even Secret Service members, but members of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) who had only completed a brief online training session.

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO), a member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, said several whistleblowers have informed him of shocking facts. training failures which allowed Thomas Matthew Crooks to fire several shots at Trump and the crowd at the July 13 campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.

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In an interview with Fox News on Tuesday night, Jesse Watters in prime timeHawley said the former president was being monitored by DHS agents who only attended “a two-hour online webinar.”

“And I was told that half the time the audio on the webinar didn’t even work,” said the senator, who required A full investigation into the shooting was opened the day after the incident.

“So think about this: The former president of the United States … is sent up on stage. Most of the people there are not trained, they are not qualified. They only received training via webinar, and even that didn’t work,” Hawley continued. “It’s absolutely outrageous.”

The Republican also lambasted the Secret Service and the FBI for hiding important facts about the Crooks attack.

“The only reason we have this information is because of whistleblowers,” he told the Fox News host.

Hawley had previously claimed that whistleblowers with direct knowledge of the assassination attempt came to his office to reveal that the rally was considered a “lax” security event.

July 19 letter To DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, the senator listed some of the security breaches that allegedly occurred that day.

“For example, detector dogs were not used to monitor the entrance and detect threats in the usual manner. Individuals without proper authorization were able to gain access backstage,” he explained. “Department personnel did not adequately monitor the security area around the podium and were also not posted at regular intervals around the security perimeter of the event.”