Secret Service Acting Director Ronald Rowe, foreground, testifies Tuesday at a Senate hearing on the attempted assassination of Donald Trump. (Allison Bailey/Middle East Images/AFP/Getty Images)
Just days after Ronald Rowe, acting director of the Secret Service, denied playing a direct role in rejecting repeated requests for added security measures and assets to protect former President Donald Trump, whistleblowers came forward to refute those claims.
The whistleblowers also blamed Rowe for some security failures that led to the July 13 assassination attempt that nearly killed Trump and left rallygoer Corey Comperatore dead and two other attendees wounded.
Other Secret Service whistleblowers are coming forward, citing more systemic problems with the vaunted agency whose primary job is to protect presidents, vice presidents, former presidents, and their families.
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Those deep-seated, long-term problems include nepotism and other non-merit-based favoritism, lowering standards and cutting corners in hiring (including accepting failed polygraph tests and past hard-drug use), and retaliation for voicing security and other concerns, as well as uneven disciplinary action.
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