Local law enforcement proposed to help with drone technology at the Butler, Pa. rally where former President Donald Trump was nearly assassinated earlier this month but was turned down by the Secret Service, a whistleblower claimed, according to Sen. Josh Hawley.
Hawley (R-Mo.), 44, penned a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Thursday demanding answers about a whistleblower’s allegations that the Secret Service “repeatedly” rejected the offer.
“The night before the rally, US Secret Service repeatedly denied offers from a local law enforcement partner to utilize drone technology to secure the rally,” Hawley wrote to Mayorkas citing the whistleblower.
“The whistleblower further alleges that after the shooting took place, USSS changed course and asked the local partner to deploy the drone technology to surveil the site in the aftermath of the attack,” he added.
The Department of Homeland Security is the agency that oversees the Secret Service.
Hawley previously went public with whistleblower allegations that an officer who was designated to observe the roof of the shed where would-be assassin Thomas Crooks, 20, fired shots from, but left the spot because it was “too hot.”
The Missouri Republican had sent a letter to Mayorkas on Monday demanding answers about those accusations, as well.
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