A whistleblower’s concern about another assassination attempt “before November” came as explanations on drone usage, Internet activity, and the supervisor in charge of security reeked of “cover-up.”
“Something stinks and you know what I’m talking about.”
As investigations and congressional hearings have worked to weed out the failures that led to former President Donald Trump’s brush with death, revelations have posed more questions, including about the seeming lack of accountability. Tuesday, Fox News host Jesse Watters ran through the latest revelations that included an email distributed throughout the U.S. Secret Service Uniform Division demanding his supervisors be given the boot to prevent another tragedy.
“A Secret Service counter-sniper is predicting another assassination attempt before November. In an email obtained by RealClearPolitics, a Secret Service agent with 20 years’ experience on the counter-sniper team is announcing he’s going to blow the whistle until all of his supervisors are fired,” explained Watters. “The counter-sniper says his mission is to prevent another JFK-style assassination, and the only reason that hasn’t happened is because they’ve gotten lucky.”
ALERT: A Secret Service counter-sniper is predicting another assassination attempt before November and won’t stop whistleblowing until his superiors are fired. pic.twitter.com/V6zsbimAei
— Jesse Watters (@JesseBWatters) July 31, 2024
“He says Secret Service leadership is corrupt and states clearly, ‘We all should expect another assassination attempt to happen before November. We’ve exposed our inability to protect our leaders due to our leadership,'” the “Jesse Watters Primetime” host went on. “After this email went public, it was wiped off the Secret Service servers. There’s a massive cover-up underway, and it’s spilled over into Congress.”
RCP national political correspondent Susan Crabtree shared the email on social media and noted how Tennessee Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R) had challenged Acting Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe about it during a Tuesday hearing.
When asked why it was deleted, the fill-in for resigned USSS Director Kimberly Cheatle said, “I’ll look, I’ll get back to you on that [question of why the] agency deleted the email,” and contended he was “committed to being a change agent.”
@MarshaBlackburn READS FROM THE EMAIL I was given exclusively this morning from a Secret Service counter sniper. That counter sniper sent the email to every employee at the agency’s Uniform Division last night.
In the email, attached below, the counter sniper, whose name I… pic.twitter.com/xvRRJ6Fiis
— Susan Crabtree (@susancrabtree) July 30, 2024
As Watters contrasted the conflicting reports of the Secret Service with that of the Beaver County SWAT team on instructions to cover the roof where the would-be assassin had fired from, he also shared testimony from Rowe regarding the agency not using a drone or handling the suspect’s use of one prior to the rally.
“You had a drone system but you had bandwidth problems,” said Texas Sen. John Cornyn (R). “The bandwidth apparently was adequate for the shooter’s drone but not for the Secret Service. Can you explain that?”
“I have no explanation for it, sir,” said Rowe who went on, “People fly drones all the time on the peripheries of our sites, and we go out and we talk to them and we ascertain what their intentions are. On this day in particular, because of the connectivity challenge, as you noted, there was a delay and he flew his drone at 3:51 approximately.”
Meanwhile, as FBI Deputy Director Paul Abbate contended, by Watters analysis, that the suspect “wrote right-wing things online,” that included “antisemitic and anti-immigration themes to espouse political violence.” The host reminded that the CEO of Gab said the would-be assassin had an account on the platform where he defended President Joe Biden’s policies on the border and COVID mandates.
Building to a pivotal question about accountability, Watters shared some of the tense exchange between Rowe and Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley (R) where the acting director refused to provide the name of the official in charge the day of the Trump rally.
“Senator, I cannot give you that name,” asserted Rowe. “This person is operational. They’re still doing investigations. They’re still doing protective visits.”
Hawley made clear that he knew the name of the supervisor as he sought to get the director on the record and Watters had some follow-up questions of his own on what the Secret Service is up to.
“Why hasn’t the Secret Service site supervisor for the Butler rally been suspended? Why is he still in charge of protecting politicians? Why isn’t he under investigation? They’re keeping him around to help do the investigation? Are they going to keep him around for Trump’s next Butler rally? And the senators know the guy’s name. Why hasn’t the Senate subpoenaed the Secret Service site supervisor for Butler?” wondered the host. “That’s the guy who they should drag in to testify under oath about what happened, not these squirrelly bureaucrats.”
“Why is everybody protecting this guy? Who is this guy?” he asked. “The politicians won’t even tell us what the guy’s name is. Something stinks, and you know what I’m talking about.”
Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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