Federal officials planned former President Donald Trump’s rally in Butler, Pennsylvania with “loose security,” according to whistleblower allegations. A gunman at the rally shot and wounded the former president, injured two attendees, as well as killed firefighter and father Corey Comperatore.
“According to the allegations, the July 13 rally was considered to be a ‘loose’ security event,” Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., wrote in a Friday letter to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. “[A]llegations suggest the majority of DHS officials were not in fact USSS [Secret Service] agents but instead drawn from the department’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).”
Security was a “stunning failure” at Trump’s Butler rally, Hawley wrote. Citing whistleblower allegations, he said agents did not use K-9 detection, did not maintain…
