Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) has demanded Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas provide the American people with answers concerning troubling allegations raised by whistleblowers about the assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania last Saturday.
Hawley released a statement on X, formerly Twitter, on Friday, claiming that whistleblowers had exposed the Department of Homeland Security for failing to protect the former president. He tweeted, “Whistleblowers tell me that MOST of Trump’s security detail working the event last Saturday were not even Secret Service. DHS assigned unprepared and inexperienced personnel.”
Alongside his statement on social media, Hawley shared a copy of a letter he sent on Friday to Mayorkas requesting additional information regarding the security failures that allowed a would-be assassin to shoot Trump. The Missouri senator described the incident as a “stunning failure” by the Department of Homeland Security and explained that whistleblowers with “direct knowledge” of the assassination attempt had come forward with additional information.