The Secret Service is under the microscope after failing to protect Donald Trump.
A day of reckoning is coming for the embattled agency.
And James Comer dropped the hammer on the Secret Service for this awful failure.
Secret Service’s problems go to the very top
The Secret Service is going to get more than $200 million in additional funding as part of a continuing resolution by Congress to get the federal government funded.
It follows a demand for more funding by acting Secret Service director Ronald Rowe who claimed that the additional money was essential after the second assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump at his golf club in West Palm Beach, Florida.
House Oversight Committee chairman James Comer (R-KY) doesn’t buy the Secret Service’s problems stem from a lack of money.
He said the agency needs an overhaul during an appearance on the John Solomon Reports podcast.
“They don’t have a money problem,” Comer said. “They have a leadership problem.”
“And it’s going to take more than new leadership,” Comer continued. “It’s going to take a whole new culture at the Secret Service to protect whoever the President is in the future.”
U.S. Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) – the ranking Republican on the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations – confirmed that the Secret Service’s problem was leadership.
“They have plenty of resources, plenty of personnel,” Johnson explained. “What they have is bad management, and unfortunately, we can’t get to the bottom of who’s responsible for making the decisions that were such spectacular failures in terms of protecting President Trump.”
Secret Service makes a bad mistake with Trump’s security
Comer said what he’s learned about the Secret Service is disturbing during his committee’s investigation into the agency.
“What we learned from our hearing in the Oversight Committee with Kimberly Cheadle, the former disgraced head of the Secret Service, is we have an agency tasked with protecting the President and the Presidential candidates, and they’re not up to the up to the job,” Comer stated. “They’re ill-prepared.”
One of the massive failures by the Secret Service at the July 13 rally in Butler, Pennsylvania where Trump was shot was not using drone technology to help secure the event.
The gunman flew his drone around the fairgrounds before the rally started.
A whistleblower told U.S. Senator Josh Hawley’s (R-MO) office in July that local law enforcement working the Butler rally offered the Secret Service to use their drone to help secure the rally but were turned down.
The Secret Service didn’t use a drone at the Trump International Golf Club in Florida where agents foiled a would-be assassin while the former President was playing golf.
“One question I had after the first assassination attempt, and I have it double now, is why doesn’t the Secret Service employ the use of drones,” Comer told Just the News. “If you have drones flying over, like just about every large farmer does, every sporting event has, why don’t you have drones flying over (campaign events)?”
The Secret Service has spent at least $400,000 on drones according to public records.
“And then maybe you can identify someone climbing a roof, someone that’s running out on a golf course,” Comer said. “I mean, it shouldn’t be hard to determine if you employ the use of drones, and for whatever reason the Secret Service, isn’t doing that.”
The momentum is building for a major overhaul of the Secret Service as more and more failures come to light.
