in advance of Butler Trump rally: whistleblower It has been alleged by a whistleblower that the acting Secret Service (USSS) head personally cut agents from the threat assessment team leading up to the assassination attempt on Donald Trump in Butler, Penn. on July 13.
In a letter from Sen. Josh Hawley to Acting USSS Director Ronald Rowe, it states, "A whistleblower has alleged to my office that the Secret Service Counter Surveillance Division (CSD), the division that performs threat assessment of event sites before the event occurs, did not perform its typical evaluation of the Butler site and was nor present on the day."