As time passes, more details are being revealed about the shooting that took place in July at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, against former President Donald Trump, where his ear was injured.
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Senator Josh Hawley stated that the agents were National Security personnel who had minimal protection training.
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Details about the shooting against Trump
Hawley also added that, instead of having dozens of Secret Service agents on his team, Trump was mostly protected by Homeland Security agents who were trained virtually through a seminar before the Republican event.
The senator gave all the details through an interview on Jesse Watters Primetime on Tuesday night.
Agents only prepared with two hours of online classes
"A two-hour online webinar. And they told me that half of the time, the webinar's sounds weren't even working," Hawley stated.
"Think about this: the former president of the United States... is sent to the stage, most of the people there are not qualified. They haven't received proper training, just through a webinar and even that didn't work," he mocked. "It's absolutely outrageous."
Whistleblowers offered details of the shooting to the Republicans.
The senator explained that these National Security agents "were removed from child exploitation cases and other investigations to serve on Trump's protection team," something they normally did not do, as reported by NY Post.
Hawley criticized the Secret Service and the FBI for not sharing the information they have from the investigation: "The only reason we have this information is thanks to the whistleblowers," he told Watters.
The Mirror reported that Kevin Rojek, the special agent in charge of the FBI field office in Pittsburgh, stated that so far, “we have a clear idea of the mentality, but we are not ready to make conclusive statements about the motive at this time”, meaning that they do not know why he shot at the Republican, despite having conducted nearly 1,000 interviews.