Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., released a 22-page report Monday that says the Department of Homeland Security, the Secret Service, and the FBI all failed to answer the public’s questions about the first attempted assassination of Trump on July13 during a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.

“In response, Senator Hawley personally visited the Butler, Pennsylvania rally site to interview whistleblowers, opened up a whistleblower tip line, and encouraged those with relevant information to tell their stories,” the Hawley report says. “Since then, many individuals have come forward with information regarding the events of July 13—from the Secret Service, DHS, and local law enforcement, as well as private citizens.”

The Secret Service contends that it is working with members of Congress on oversight of the July 13 shooting, which clipped Trump’s right ear, killed one rallygoer, and wounded two others.

“The U.S. Secret Service is aware of the senator’s report and will continue to work with congressional oversight committees in both the House and the Senate,” Secret Service spokesperson Nate Herring told The Daily Signal in an email responding to an inquiry about the Hawley report.

Here are top takeaways from the new report on the attempt to kill Trump in Pennsylvania.

1. ‘Gunman Would Have Been Handcuffed in the Parking Lot’

The Secret Service’s Counter Surveillance Division didn’t perform a normal evaluation of the Butler site, the whistleblower alleged. The division performs threat assessments of event sites involving protectees.

“The whistleblower stated that if personnel from CSD had been present at the rally, the gunman would have been handcuffed in the parking lot after being spotted with a rangefinder,” the report says.

The whistleblower said the Secret Service had ordered significant cuts to the division that could include reducing manpower by up to 20%.

Secret Service personnel also expressed alarm that individuals were admitted to the Pennsylvania rally without vetting. The whistleblower alleged that those who raised such concerns faced retaliation.

2. ‘Former President, and Not the Incumbent’

The Hawley report notes that during a Senate hearing July 30, Ronald Rowe, the acting director of the Secret Service, testified: “If you’re talking about Butler, Pennsylvania, all assets requested were approved.”

However, the whistleblower told Hawley’s office that countersniper teams and countersurveillance resources were not included in the request because Secret Service officials told the requesting agents that such requests would be denied.

The Secret Service denied the requests for additional security in part because Trump was “not the incumbent” president.

“The whistleblower alleged that officials within this office preemptively informed the Pittsburgh field office that the Butler rally was not going to receive additional security resources because Trump is a former president, and not the incumbent president or vice president,” the report says.

The whistleblower said the manpower request didn’t include extra security resources because agents on the ground were told not to ask for them in the first place, according to the report.

“Importantly, these resources included countersniper teams and CSD personnel,” the report says.

Members of Congress have questioned why Trump didn’t have more protection after the first assassination attempt July 13.

On Sunday, Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw told reporters that since Trump isn’t a sitting president, Secret Service coverage was limited.

“If he was [the sitting president], we would have had this entire golf course surrounded,” Bradshaw said.

During a Monday afternoon press conference, Rowe talked about both the July and September attempts on Trump’s life.

“Coming out of Butler, I have ordered a paradigm shift,” Rowe said during a press conference Monday. “The Secret Service’s protective methodologies work. And they are sound. And we saw that yesterday. But the way we are positioned right now in this dynamic threat environment, it has given me guidance to say, ‘you know what, we need to look at what our protective methodology is.’ We need to get out of a reactive model and get to a preparedness model.”

3. ‘Known to Be Incompetent’

One whistleblower asserted that the Secret Service agent in charge of the Butler rally was responsible for mitigating line-of-sight concerns at the site.

Another whistleblower alleged the same lead agent at the rally made decisions that “likely compromised the overall security of the event.”

“The Secret Service’s lead site agent on July 13—the agent with specific responsibility for the security of the rally site, including line-of-sight concerns—was known to be incompetent,” the report says. “That incompetence led to the placement of items like flags around the Butler stage and catwalk, impairing visibility.”

The report continues:

For example, campaign material such as flags were permitted to be placed around the stage and catwalk used by the former president, despite the fact that these items were typically prohibited because of how they affected the line-of-sight of those agents responsible for identifying threats.

The Secret Service also did not check IDs when issuing credentials that authorize access to restricted areas of the site, contrary to typical practice.

4. ‘Loose’ Security for Trump

The government whistleblower informed Hawley’s office that the Secret Service considered Trump’s July 13 rally a “loose” security event.

Among other things, this meant that “detection canines were not deployed to monitor entry and detect threats in the usual manner for outdoor campaign rallies,” the Hawley report says.

The report also says that individuals “without proper designations” could access backstage areas at the Pennsylvania rally.

“DHS personnel failed to properly police the 5-foot security buffer near the stage and allowed people to move barricades around the buffer,” the report says, referring to the Department of Homeland Security, parent agency of the Secret Service. Further, the whistleblower said, DHS personnel were not familiar with security protocols for campaign events.

“The whistleblower further alleged that the majority of DHS personnel working the rally were agents with the department’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) team,” the report continues.

5. ‘Abandoned the Roof’

The whistleblower told Hawley’s office that there was supposed to be a security presence on the roof of what is called AGR Building 6, where the would-be assassin aimed and fired shots at Trump, killing one man, striking two other men, and grazing the right ear of the former president as he spoke onstage.

That rooftop was supposed to be covered by personnel, the whistleblower said, “but the post was abandoned because of the hot weather.”

During the Senate hearing July 30, Hawley questioned Rowe, the Secret Service’s acting director, about this point.

Rowe replied that law enforcement was “posted up inside” Building 6. He said “we’re going to ensure that state and local countersnipers are on roofs.”

Hawley pressed whether law enforcement officers had abandoned their post on the roof. Rowe replied that he did not “know that to be a fact.”

6. No Drone Coverage

On July 25, Hawley wrote a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas about a whistleblower allegation that drone coverage for the Trump rally had been denied by Secret Service supervisors.

The report provides more information on the matter.

“The whistleblower alleged that the night before the rally, Secret Service personnel repeatedly denied offers from a local law enforcement partner to utilize drone technology to secure the rally,” the report says. “According to the whistleblower, the drones that were offered to the Secret Service could not only identify active shooters but also help neutralize them.”

After the shooting, Secret Service personnel asked local law enforcement to deploy the drone technology to survey the site, the whistleblower told Hawley’s office.

The 20-year-old would-be assassin used his own drone to survey the rally area up to two hours before Trump took the stage.

7. ‘Poorly Secured’ Hospital

After the July 13 shooting, Secret Service agents rushed the stage to shield Trump before taking him to Butler Memorial Hospital for medical treatment.

Although the campaign rally wasn’t adequately secured, neither was the hospital, the whistleblower told Hawley’s office.

“The hospital site where former President Trump received treatment after the shooting was poorly secured, and the hospital site agent could not answer basic questions about site security,” the report says.

The report later adds: “The Secret Service site agent responsible for hospital security did not know what was going on and could not answer basic questions about site security.”

Senator Josh Hawley is one of the few decent guys in the Senate, but he seems more inclined to talk about what he wants to do rather than doing it lately. General Michael Flynn took note and called him out for it.

You know @SenatorHawleyMO I use to see you as one of the good guys but like so many other WDC political class insiders, you talk a good game but still nothing happens. Do something! Demand something! Stop funding this government into our demise! Stop all nominations! Tell your Governor to nullify and stop following all unconstitutional laws, regulations and other extreme rqmts coming out of this WH! We are about to lose our country and going on Fox News fixes nothing!!!

You know @SenatorHawleyMO I use to see you as one of the good guys but like so many other WDC political class insiders, you talk a good game but still nothing happens. Do something! Demand something! Stop funding this government into our demise! Stop all nominations! Tell your… https://t.co/W34zaOKujN

— General Mike Flynn (@GenFlynn) May 17, 2023

Even without a majority in the Senate, individual Republicans can still do something. They don’t need Mitch McConnell’s permission or Chuck Schumer’s blessing. Josh Hawley knows this. He also knows Fox News is the top destination for patriots who don’t mind getting distracted and misdirected from taking action.

But that’s not satisfying some who argue the deliberate decision to interfere in an American presidential election deserves something more.

In fact, U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., is calling for those prosecutions, including that of Hillary Clinton.

His comments, to Fox News, were reported by the Gateway Pundit:

“There needs to be a lot more than reports, Jesse. People need to be prosecuted for this. The Clinton campaign and Hillary Clinton herself. Is it any coincidence that she is tweeting about collusion at exactly the same time her campaign operatives are feeding this BS to the FBI? I don’t think so. There needs to be consequences for her and also for the FBI,” he said.

Describing the FBI leadership as corrupt and needing to be changed, he added, “We’ve got to get justice here, and justice needs to be served. You can’t interfere in a presidential election without consequences. At least you couldn’t, you used to not be able to in America. And that’s what happened here. That’s what this report shows. That one political party, the Democrats, tried to use the FBI to rig a presidential election and just about got away with it. They succeeded in getting the FBI to intervene. They succeeded in getting the FBI to lie to a court to get wiretaps. They succeeded in getting a presidential campaign Donald Trump’s campaign spied on. I mean, it’s amazing. If there’s something like this in American history, I don’t know what it is. And that’s why I say there needs to be prosecutions. There needs to be accountability. And the FBI has got to be overhauled now, top to bottom. It’s got to be completely reformed. It cannot go on like it is.”

A commentary at Twitchy pointed out that Catherine Herridge “dropped this mini-nuke” on Hillary Clinton.

#Durham does deep dive 2016 IC referral to FBI leadership first reported @cbsnews Fall 2020. “…candidate Clinton’s approval of a plan concerning …candidate Trump and Russian hackers hampering US elections as a means of distracting the public from her private email server.” pic.twitter.com/FCaxYnFxeN

— Catherine Herridge (@C__Herridge) May 16, 2023

The commentary said, “Hillary Clinton was desperate. And her team didn’t want us focused on how corrupt she really was (is) so they cooked up some Trump corruption. Crazy but that’s what it says.”

Constitutional expert Jonathan Turley took to social media to comment about Clinton.

…However, the Clinton-funded team seemed eager to include the allegation: "Danchenko flew from Moscow ot London and met with Christopher Steele on the following day. Three days later, in Steele Report… [the] allegation appeared that described salacious sexual activity."

— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) May 15, 2023

…Durham states clearly that there was no basis for the FBI to launch this investigation despite the claims made by James Comey.

— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) May 15, 2023

The Clinton influences were many, Durham’s report explained.

For example, he PR executive and Clinton ally Charles Dolan  was the likely source of the infamous “golden showers” rumor about Trump in the discredited Steele dossier that ended up in the FBI director’s odd briefing with Trump on the lies about him before he took office.

The report explains Dolan, a public relations expert with Kremlin contacts who advised Bill and Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaigns, got a tour of the Ritz Carlton in Moscow in 2016 and met with key staff members there, according to the Daily Mail.

He then told a friend, “I’m in Russia making plans to be adopted in the event this mad man [Trump] gets elected.”

The truth, Durham explained, is that the FBI never had credible grounds to investigate Trump’s links with Russia before the election and didn’t find any collusion.

CNN reported that Durham interviewed Hillary Clinton on the issue of her knowledge of a campaign to vilify Trump, and found no “provable” criminal offense.

During that interview, the report said, Clinton continued to claim the lie, saying the situation “looked like Russian disinformation to me.”

Durham also noted the “markedly different” treatment, with the FBI attacking Trump, but letting slide without review a lot of issues concerning Clinton.

Will Cain on Fox News, said, the FBI essentially worked as a disinformation shop for Hillary Clinton.

He said Clinton and the Deep State targeted Trump, threatening the destruction of democracy. And Clinton specifically approved a plan to “vilify” Trump by stirring up a Russian disinformation scandal.

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“This is a sickening account of forced sterilization and child abuse,” Hawley said in a tweet on Feb. 9, attaching the lengthy whistleblower account of a former employee of The Washington University Transgender Center at St. Louis Children’s Hospital,

In an article posted by The Free Press, ex-case manager Jamie Reed calls for a nationwide halt to the use of puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgeries for transgender-identifying minors—practices that American lawmakers have attempted to ban in a number of states.

The Epoch Times attempted to reach a spokesperson at the St. Louis hospital, but a receptionist said that the media line was “busy”; the call then disconnected.

The hospital calls itself “the guardians of childhood.”

But Reed’s article, entitled “I Thought I Was Saving Trans Kids. Now I’m Blowing the Whistle,” asserts that children are being harmed at the gender clinic.

Reed’s article includes screenshots of emails in which she repeatedly expressed concerns over parents and children lacking full awareness of the possible consequences of these medical interventions. Reed was scorned for raising alarms.

‘Stop Questioning’

She describes doctors telling her and a colleague that they had to “stop questioning the ‘medicine and the science’ as well as their authority.”

Reed said she left her job at the clinic in late 2022 because she couldn’t stomach the “morally and medically appalling” effects on children.

During Reed’s four-year stint at the clinic, about 1,000 distressed youths came there seeking help; most of them were prescribed hormones “that can have life-altering consequences–including sterility,” Reed wrote.

She thinks a nationwide halt to transgender procedures for minors is necessary “given the secrecy and lack of rigorous standards that characterize youth gender transition across the country.”

Reed said she wanted to go on with her life after she changed jobs. But she but felt compelled to disclose the truth about her experiences after reading an October 2022 article from Reuters News Service.

Dr. Rachel Levine, a transgender person who ranks highly at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, “said that clinics are proceeding carefully and that no American children are receiving drugs or hormones for gender dysphoria who shouldn’t,” according to Reuters.

Reed’s response to the article: “I felt stunned and sickened. It wasn’t true. And I know that from deep first-hand experience.”

She said she began documenting everything she could about her experience at the Transgender Center. Then, a couple of weeks ago, she shared her account with Missouri’s attorney general. “He is a Republican. I am a progressive. But the safety of children should not be a matter for our culture wars,” she wrote.

The Epoch Times is seeking comment from Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey. The Free Press article included a link to a letter that Reed wrote to Bailey.

In the letter, Reed states that she witnessed treatments continuing on children despite adverse effects.

Reed concluded her Free Press article by stating that some people refer to transgender procedures being done on minors as “experimental.” She said that’s a misnomer because experiments should be ethical and well-thought-out—unlike these treatments for children.

Article cross-posted from our premium news partners at The Epoch Times.

The Biden admin & Democrats are going to try to come up with a new ridiculous lie to spin these inflation numbers. They’ve already tried inflation is not happening, it’s transitory, it’s a “high class” problem, it’s a good thing, & it’s Putin’s fault. Nobody’s buying their spin.

The Biden admin & Democrats are going to try to come up with a new ridiculous lie to spin these inflation numbers. They’ve already tried inflation is not happening, it’s transitory, it’s a “high class” problem, it’s a good thing, & it’s Putin’s fault.

Nobody’s buying their spin. https://t.co/7vGgwVcJYn

— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) July 13, 2022

Chaser:

Joe Biden says inflation is fake

Joe Biden says inflation is fake https://t.co/VslvfYdanj

— Josh Hawley (@HawleyMO) July 13, 2022

The reality that every thinking American knows is that the Biden-Harris regime and the Democrats on Capitol Hill are directly responsible for inflation. It’s real, and it’s spectacularly bad.

NOW is the time for Americans to do three things. First and foremost, do whatever you can to help vote Democrats out of office, as many of them as possible. Second, start stocking up on long-term food. Third, buy precious metals.