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Secret Service turned down local drone 'repeatedly' ahead of Trump July 13 rally: whistleblower
Local law enforcement repeatedly offered to provide drone coverage in the sky above former President Trump’s July 13 campaign rally — where he survived a failed assassination attempt — but was rebuffed by the U.S. Secret Service (USSS), according to Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., citing a new whistleblower.
"According to one whistleblower, the night before the rally, U.S. Secret Service repeatedly denied offers from a local law enforcement partner to utilize drone technology to secure the rally," Hawley, a member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, wrote in a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
"This means that the technology was both available to USSS and able to be deployed to secure the site. Secret Service said no."
![Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump is surrounded by U.S. Secret Service agents at a campaign rally Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump is surrounded by U.S. Secret Service agents at a campaign rally](https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2024/07/1200/675/Donald-Trump-Butler-PA-Shooting_01.jpg?ve=1&tl=1)
FBI Director Christopher Wray, whose agency has taken a lead role in the investigation, confirmed during a congressional hearing this week that the would-be assassin, Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, flew a drone of his own overhead before Trump took the stage.
"This raises an obvious question: why was the U.S. Secret Service (USSS) not using its own drones?" Hawley wrote...
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Why wouldn't the Secret Service want a drone that might prevent an assassin....Oh wait!
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