Josh Hawley says Secret Service ‘apparently’ did not secure Trump’s golf course

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Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) provided details on what whistleblowers have revealed to him regarding the second assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump, in which the Secret Service may have failed to properly secure the area Trump was in.

The former president was golfing with some friends at the Trump National Golf Club when gunshots were heard, with suspect Ryan Wesley Routh arrested by law enforcement shortly after. Hawley revealed that his office had been told by whistleblowers that the Secret Service has guarded the golf course Trump was playing on “many, many times,” and that the agency’s protocol requires agents to guard areas that are known vulnerabilities.”

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