Secret Service Acting Director Ronald Rowe lied to Congress when he said he didn’t reject repeated requests for added security measures and assets to protect former President Donald Trump at a Butler, Pennsylvania, rally, according to whistleblowers.
“Since your testimony before the Senate of July 30, new and disturbing information has come to light about Secret Service planning for the Butler, Pennsylvania Trump campaign event—and your own involvement,” wrote Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., wrote in an Aug. 1 letter to Rowe.
“The whistleblower further alleges that you personally directed significant cuts to CSD (Countersurveillance Division), up to and including reducing the division’s manpower by twenty percent,” he added. “The whistleblower also alleges retaliation against those within the Secret Service who expressed concern about the security at President Trump’s events.”
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