Secret Service had ‘limited resources’ for Trump rally due to NATO summit: Whistleblowers

Published July 18, 2024 1:59pm ET



Whistleblowers told the House Judiciary Committee that Secret Service resources were stretched thin last week ahead of a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, where the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump occurred, because the agency was also protecting the NATO summit, the committee said in a letter to the FBI on Thursday.

Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) wrote that he had learned from the unnamed whistleblowers that the FBI was present during two briefings on July 8 when the rally was discussed.

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