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Remember when the Democrats thought whistleblowers were heroic and patriotic? That was just a few years ago when Donald Trump's ox was being gored by the likes of dirty rats such as Eric Ciaramella. Lately, though, the Democrats have been looking askance at whistleblowers because they've tended to expose both the corruption and the malevolence of the Biden-Harris administration, especially within its Department of Justice. On Monday, though, we got a sense of the incompetence of this administration — specifically within the Secret Service.
In a 22-page report issued by Senator Josh Hawley, the Missouri Republican reveals whistleblower revelations about the July 13 assassination attempt on Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, that are "highly damaging to the credibility of the Secret Service and DHS." As Hawley puts it, the report reveals "a compounding pattern of negligence, sloppiness, and gross incompetence that goes back years, all of which culminated in an assassination attempt that came inches from succeeding." It's certainly a sign of the times that government whistleblowers keep beating a path to the offices of House and Senate Republicans.
As Hawley noted on Fox News yesterday, "One of the whistleblower revelations is that most of the agents in Butler that day in July were not Secret Service, and they weren't trained. They had never done protective work before. Their only training was a webinar, a Zoom call.
Hawley also called it "totally unacceptable" that both the Secret Service and the Department of Homeland Security are "slow-walking if not stonewalling congressional investigations." Speaking of stonewalling, it's not just Hawley who's leveling this charge. There's even a.
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