The Secret Service is under the microscope for its catastrophic security failures in protecting Donald Trump.
One key decision could have changed everything the day the former President was shot.
And James Comer dropped one bombshell about the Secret Service that confirmed the worst.
James Comer confirms that the Secret Service denied Trump extra resources
House Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-KY) is running an investigation into the near assassination of former President Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13.
Comer appeared on the Just the News, No Noise podcast, where he confirmed a key fact about the Secret Service’s failure to protect Trump.
“Do you have pretty strong proof that the Secret Service was turning down security recommendations for Trump ahead of July 12?” host John Solomon asked.
“Yes, they were,” Comer replied. “We know that the Trump campaign requested more Secret Service, and the Secret Service denied them.”
Trump’s Secret Service detail had requested more manpower and resources but was denied by the agency’s leadership.
That forced the detail to lean more heavily on local law enforcement for security.
“I [would] like to remind people that the Secret Service has 8,100 employees and they have an annual budget of $3.1 billion but what we’ve seen over the past decade . . . they’ve started farming more and more of their responsibilities out to state and local police,” Comer explained.
Acting Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe has called for the agency’s budget to be increased after the Trump shooting.
Comer said that the Secret Service needed to be overhauled.
Secret Service caught in a lie about protecting Donald Trump
Trump’s Secret Service detail had requested more resources for years without any luck.
But the agency denied that happened in the aftermath of the shooting in July.
“This is absolutely false. In fact, we added protective resources & technology & capabilities as part of the increased campaign travel tempo,” Secret Service Chief of Communications Anthony Guglielmi said in July.
Acting Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe was one of the leaders in the agency who denied those extra resources, according to whistleblowers.
He denied that he was involved in any division to deny Trump resources during Senate testimony.
U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) revealed that a whistleblower came to his office who claimed that Rowe personally denied resources to secure the rally site in Butler and retaliated against agents who spoke out about security concerns.
“A whistleblower has alleged to my office that the Secret Service Counter Surveillance Division (CSD), the division that performs threat assessment of event sites before the event occurs, did not perform its typical evaluation of the Butler site and was not present on the day,” Hawley wrote in a letter Rowe.
Hawley said that the whistleblower told him the CSD team would have stopped the shooter.
“The whistleblower claims that if personnel from CSD had been present at the rally, the gunman would have been handcuffed in the parking lot after being spotted with a rangefinder,” Hawley added.
The Secret Service isn’t being honest with the public and is trying to cover its tracks as investigations into the agency heat up.
