Secret Service Makes Shocking Admission
President Trump's detail didn't have counter snipers for two years
Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) posted his thoughts on X yesterday following the U.S. Secret Service’s shocking admission that the rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, was the first time counter snipers were deployed to support President Trump’s detail in the past two years.
Senator Lee raises many good points, so we have shared them below.
Also, we want to know what you think explains the Secret Service’s failure on July 13th, so please answer our poll question at the end.
U.S. Senator Mike Lee:
Why did Secret Service (through Acting Director Rowe) decide to *not* send sniper teams to Trump rallies outside of the DC area? That decision was reversed at the last minute for Butler, but it was reversed so late that the snipers arrived too late for their briefing.
Did Secret Service apply a similar rule for Biden campaign rallies? Of course not! That’d be absurd. But it was absurd to do that to Trump! It also sends a signal, where campaign events are concerned, of helping one candidate—at campaign events—more than the other.
When the incumbent president is able (because of disparate treatment by Secret Service) to have campaign rallies his rival may not have without incurring either an exorbitant cost not borne by the incumbent or an unacceptable risk of being assassinated, something isn’t right.
And if (as I’m told) Ronald Rowe had anything to do with that or other decisions that contributed to the Secret Service failures in Butler, why is he allowed to have anything to do with the investigation into the assassination attempt against Trump in Butler?
Might that explain why Secret Service is still sitting on answers to the most basic questions—things that would be obvious to anyone—about July 13th? These are not hard things to figure out. They need to be answered. Fast. And yet they still say they’re “looking into it.”
Setting aside for a moment the possibility of any darker, more cynical explanation, why should Rowe be in charge of a process that might well reveal his own gross negligence?
Where is Biden on this? Why hasn’t he weighed in? Or Harris for that matter?
Are we to assume they think there’s nothing wrong with foxes investigating what happened while they were guarding the hen house?
If so, they’re either hopelessly naive to the point of cluelessness or they don’t want the truth uncovered. What do they gain from that? And why hasn’t the media pushed back?
Whatever the underlying facts may be, they’re going to come out. It’ll be better for everyone involved if the Secret Service will abruptly stop being so stingy with information, slow to investigate, and self-serving in how it runs the internal investigation.
