Sen. Josh Hawley, a Missouri Republican who is one of the few members of Congress seriously looking into the assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump at a rally in Butler, Pa., in July, dropped another bombshell during an appearance on Fox News’ “Jesse Watters Primetime” on Thursday.

During the interview, Hawley told the host that a whistleblower had stated that the lead advance agent prior to the event where Trump was injured in the right ear “was known not to be a top-quality agent” and had failed Secret Service training exams.

“What I’m learning now is that the lead advance agent, that day in Pennsylvania, this is the agent that was in charge of Trump’s entire trip in Pennsylvania, that this agent actually failed one or more of her training exams when she first joined the Secret Service,” Hawley said.

“The pattern that is emerging here from whistleblowers who come forward to me now over and over again is that the Trump rally was undermanned, it was understaffed. They did not have people who had experience on it. And now this advance agent, I’m told, may have failed one or more training exams and was known not to be a top-quality agent. This is absurd. The fact that the director will not level with the American people about what’s going on here is just totally unacceptable and unbelievable,” he added.

Watters responded: “Director Cheatle, we know, had a priority to make 30% of the Secret Service women. So this woman fails maybe once, maybe twice, maybe more, and it doesn’t matter. Cheatle still makes her in charge of the protective site detail for Butler, knowing that there was an Iranian threat.”

Hawley replied: “This is what’s so hard to understand. If this individual had failed one or more of her training exams, if she was known not to be really one of the Secret Service’s top agents, she’s in the Pittsburgh office. Why was she put in charge of the entire trip? The whole thing, she was in charge of the whole works, from the time the president landed to the time he went to Butler, it’s just totally inexplicable.”

“One other thing — I’m told by people who are close to and have knowledge of the Secret Service’s own internal investigation that the Department of Homeland Security is leaning on the Secret Service not to comply with document requests to Congress,” the GOP senator continued. “This is really getting to be outrageous. The American people need the truth here.”

WATCH:

Now a whistleblower alleges that the lead advance agent for President Trump’s entire trip to Butler, PA had failed training exams when she first joined the Secret Service.

And the Secret Service Director won’t even level with what’s going on here. It’s absurd. pic.twitter.com/Zu0BNvOQsL

— Josh Hawley (@HawleyMO) September 13, 2024