releases: https://www.hawley.senate.gov/new-whistleblower-allegations-hawley-reveals-secret-service-declined-drone-usage-day-of-trump-butler-rally/
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| https://www.hawley.senate.gov/new-whistleblower-allegations-hawley-reveals-secret-service-declined-drone-usage-day-of-trump-butler-rally/ | NEW Whistleblower Allegations: Hawley Reveals Secret Service Declined Drone Usage Day of Trump Butler Rally | 2024-07-25 | 2024 | 2024-07 | Republican | Senate | MO | Josh Hawley | H001089 | www.hawley.senate.gov | hawley | https://www.hawley.senate.gov/press-releases/page/ | scraper | Today, U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) sent a follow-up letter to Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, demanding his agency turn over all records concerning the United States Secret Service’s (USSS) availability or use of drones during former President Donald Trump’s July 13 rally. Senator Hawley’s letter comes after new whistleblower claims to his office allege that USSS officers at the rally refused to deploy drones—the same technology President Trump’s attempted-assassin used to gauge his shots at the former president—to secure the rally before it began. “According to one whistleblower, the night before the rally, U.S. Secret Service repeatedly denied offers from a local law enforcement partner to utilize drone technology to secure the rally. This means that the technology was both available to USSS and able to be deployed to secure the site. Secret Service said no,” Senator Hawley wrote. His letter also states that, according to the whistleblower, USSS then “changed course” and “asked the local partner to deploy the drone technology to surveil the site,” but only in the aftermath of the attack. Senator Hawley has been a leading voice demanding accountability for the USSS’ botched security rollout on July 13. Senator Hawley sent a separate letter to Secretary Mayorkas earlier this week, demanding answers after other whistleblower allegations suggested law enforcement officers assigned to the roof of the building the attempted-assassin shot from, abandoned their post due to the heat. Last week, Senator Hawley traveled to Butler, PA—the site of the assassination attempt against President Trump—before now-former Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle visited it herself. Read the full letter here or below. | 1 | 2026-03-30T01:40:41Z | 2026-04-06T18:32:29Z |