Sen. Josh Hawley: Most of Trump's security detail were not Secret Service personnel

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Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO), wrote on X on Friday that “whistleblowers tell me that MOST of Trump’s security detail at the event last Saturday were not even Secret Service agents.

“DHS assigned unprepared and inexperienced personnel,” Hawley added, posting a letter he sent to United States Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas.

“Whistleblowers with direct knowledge of the event have come to my office. They say the July 13 rally had 'loose' security. For instance, detection dogs weren't used to check for threats like they usually are,” Hawley wrote. “People without proper credentials were able to access backstage areas. Security personnel didn’t properly guard the area around the podium and weren't positioned at regular intervals around the event’s security perimeter.”

In addition to the information from the whistleblower allegations, it's been suggested that most of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials at the event were not actually U.S. Secret Service (USSS) agents. Instead, they were from the department’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI). What’s more concerning is that these HSI agents did not know the usual procedures used for such events, based on the allegations.

Mayorkas needs to be fired and further investigated. If he allowed this knowing that it put former President Trump in danger, he should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

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