Gnawing away at the official version of events as told by former Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle, Republican Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri said the rooftop used by Thomas Matthew Crooks to shoot former President Donald Trump was left unguarded despite plans to have officers stationed there.
“Whistleblowers tell me law enforcement personnel were in fact STATIONED to the roof the day of the Trump rally, but abandoned it, citing the heat,” Hawley posted on X.
In a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, Hawley said a whistleblower has come to him with a tale of neglect of duty concerning the roof of the American Glass Research building.
“Contrary to Director Cheatle’s public statements about the ‘safety’ of the sloped roof of American Glass Research Building 6, one whistleblower with direct knowledge of Secret Service planning for the event alleges that there was supposed to be a law enforcement presence on the roof that day,” Hawley wrote.
On Monday, Cheatle told a House panel that despite her claims during an ABC interview the Secret Service does not have a written policy for sloped roofs. Her previous claim that the slope of the roof led to a decision not to post anyone on it despite its proximity and line of sight to the stage where Trump would speak was proved false.
“In fact, the whistleblower alleges that at least one individual was specifically assigned to the roof for the duration of the rally, but this person abandoned his or her post due to the hot weather,” Hawley wrote.
“The whistleblower further alleges that concerns over the heat prompted law enforcement to forego patrolling Building 6 and instead to station security personnel inside the building,” Hawley wrote.
“This comes from a whistleblower with direct knowledge of the Secret Service plan and setup that day,” Hawley said, according to Fox News.
“And what this whistleblower tells my office is that there was at least one law enforcement person assigned to the roof itself. In other words, the plan called for a law enforcement individual to be on the roof at all times during the rally,” he said.
“And that did not happen. And what the whistleblower tells me is the law enforcement individual who was assigned to that roof abandoned it,” he said.
Hawley said, he was told by a whistleblower that police were supposed to patrol the exterior of the building “to make sure that somebody couldn’t just jump up” to the roof using window air conditioning units.
“All of these whistleblowers who’ve now come forward to my office, saying things like: law enforcement was assigned to be on the roof, and they weren’t. They were assigned to be patrolling the perimeter of that building, and they weren’t. They were supposed to be communicating over a common radio frequency, and they weren’t,” Hawley said.
“I have to say, none of that surprises me because it is just astounding with those kind of failures and errors that this 20-year-old was able to get up on in plain view of everybody onto that low-slung roof and take multiple shots at the president,” he said.
“There’s a lot of effort on the part of both Secret Service, on the one hand, and DHS, on the other hand, and then also state and local law enforcement to push the responsibility off onto each other. So this is just why we need to get these facts into the open,” Hawley said.
“We need to have real and substantive hearings, not like the one [on Monday] where the former Secret Service director wouldn’t even respond to questions. What a farce that was,” Hawley said.
On Tuesday, Col. Christopher Paris, commissioner of the Pennsylvania State Police, told a House panel that two officers of the Butler township police Emergency Services Unit were on the second floor of the building.
During his testimony, he said the two officers stationed there left their assigned observation post once an alert for a suspicious person was declared.
The fix was in. Hate to say that because it makes me sick but I now believe the SS could have cared less about Trump. The level of incompetence is sickening. Internal Affairs should replace every agent who was on that site that day. I believe this falls under Treasonous activity which is prosecutable.
When asked if security for the Trump rally was denied, Cheatle always changed the question to if it was denied “THAT DAY”.
You forget that the so-called 2020 election was a decades long planned Democrat insurrection accomplish with an unconstitutional mail-in voting process instituted by democrats.
I am not believing any of this. I don’t think they had the roof covered and someone got hot and got off. That alone would get you fired or in deep trouble. The sharpshooters were also on a metal roof all day. I think all this is trying to blow smoke to cover their fannies. President Trump seems to have a good case to sue them. The Director of FBI still saying it was glass that hit him from the teleprompter, what a joke, we have pictures of teleprompter and it is fine. Director Wray is lying, and he knows the truth. Covering his fanny. Why? So he does not get fired. He should have been by now. Was there something else going on? They knew about the shooter for 2 hrs and did nothing? They found an opportunity to have him (Trump) taken out, so they did nothing? Wray might have gotten a huge bonus from Biden or Harris.
I thought the FBI was good at forcing people to answer questions!!! Turn on the AC full blast, not let her sleep for 2-3 days, play loud music all night long, etc!!!! Make her (everyone in question, including myorkas) answer those questions!!!