Agents planning the July 13 Donald J. Trump rally in Butler Township, Pennsylvania, were encouraged by U.S. Secret Service headquarters not to ask for extra event security, a whistleblower told Republican U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri.
An Aug. 23 letter from Hawley demanded an explanation from acting Secret Service Director Ronald L. Rowe Jr., who earlier suggested before Congress that no security assets had been denied for the Butler event.
“You must explain this apparent contradiction immediately,” Hawley wrote.
A whistleblower “with knowledge of Secret Service planning” for the Butler event said agents in the Pittsburgh field office did not ask for more security resources in their manpower requests “because agents on the ground were told not to ask for them in the first place,” Hawley wrote.
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