Whistleblowers allege ‘most’ Trump rally security weren’t Secret Service, lawmaker says
Whistleblowers inside the Department of Homeland Security have alleged that the majority of the security detail for former President Donald Trump were “not even Secret Service,” according to a Republican lawmaker.
Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri relayed these claims in a public letter to Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas on Friday outlining a series of security failures at Trump’s fateful Butler, Pennsylvania, rally.
“Whistleblowers who have direct knowledge of the event have approached my office. According to the allegations, the July 13 rally was considered to be a ‘loose’ security event,” Hawley wrote in the letter. “For example, detection canines were not used to monitor entry and detect threats in the usual manner. Individuals without proper designations were able to gain access to backstage areas.”
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Other lapses in security protocol allegedly included a lack of personnel stationed around the security perimeter and an inadequetly enforced buffer zone around the podium.
Among the most troubling is the claim that the majority of personnel protecting the former president were not U.S. Secret Service (USSS) agents.
“Whistleblower allegations suggest the majority of DHS officials were not in fact USSS agents but instead drawn from the department’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI),” Hawley wrote. “This is especially concerning given that HSI agents were unfamiliar with standard protocols typically used at these types of events, according to the allegations.”
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The Missouri senator criticized the DHS for failing to provide information about the incident to Congress and “abruptly ending the only call with USSSS before most senators could even ask a question.”
Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., previously detailed the Secret Service briefing given to senators on Wednesday about the recent assassination attempt against former President Trump, saying there had been “virtually no information” provided.
“The director of the Secret Service did admit there were mistakes and gaffes,” Johnson said, referring to Kimberly Cheatle. But the briefing, which was given by a separate official, “was largely irrelevant,” according to Johnson. Only four senators were allowed to ask questions and there were no follow-ups, he said.
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Hawley’s letter demands answers to a series of questions relevant to the claims made by the whistleblowers, including the ratio of USSS to HSI agents and pre-rally security investigations.
‘Dynasty’ star donates huge sum to GoFundMe in support of Trump rally shooting victims
Actress Catherine Oxenberg, best known for her role as Amanda Carrington on the 1980s primetime soap opera “Dynasty,” donated $50,000 to the GoFundMe authorized by former President Trump to support victims of the shooting at the Trump rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
“My heart breaks for the families of the victims and for the tragic loss of life. May God bless them and hold them close as they grieve,” Oxenberg wrote along with her $50,000 donation to GoFundMe to support the families of those wounded or killed in the assassination attempt of Trump, who accepted the Republican 2024 nomination for president this week.
Oxenberg also posted a link to the GoFundMe on her official X account.
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The GoFundMe, which was started by Meredith O’Rourke, Trump’s national finance director and senior adviser, has raised over $5 million through over 68,000 donations. Beneficiaries of the GoFundMe include the family of Corey Comperatore, the firefighter who died shielding his loved ones from bullets at the campaign rally.
Another GoFundMe set up by Jason Bubb, who owns the Three Fit Six gym in Cabot, organized the fundraiser for Comperatore’s daughter Allyson, who frequents the gym. The fundraiser has garnered over $1.2 million in donations.
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“Saturday night, our friend and family, Allyson, lost her father due to a senseless, tragic act at the Trump rally in Butler,” Bubb wrote for the fundraiser. “Allyson has been an athlete with us since the beginning. She’s a huge part of our community … if you’re able to support her and her family during this time, we will have a spot for donations at the gym. Additionally, please take the time to sign the cards at the desk.”
“Wow. We are over $800k in less than 24 hours,” he later added. “I would say our goal is 1M. Please share with everyone you know. Allyson and family are truly grateful for all your support.”
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Trump did something he’s never done before with RNC speech. The election may be over
Donald Trump may well have sealed the outcome of the 2024 election with a performance on Thursday night in Milwaukee that has largely been unmatched in recent American political history.
The former president eschewed the polarization and division that has marked much of his rhetoric in the past. In his speech officially accepting the Republican Party’s nomination there were only a couple of references to the 2020 election. Trump was able to hit on key messages when speaking about topics like inflation, and especially immigration, in ways that were compelling and arguably responsive to the fundamental concerns of Americans.
I say this not to engage in hyperbole, as I have never been – and am not now – a Trump supporter. But as a political analyst, you have to acknowledge reality. And the reality of this speech was simple: Trump spoke of the American Dream, he spoke of bringing people together, he spoke of helping African-Americans, Hispanics and those who have been left behind.
In short, Trump did something he has virtually never done before: speak to all the American people. As he said, he wanted to speak not to 50 percent but to 100 percent of the American people.
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Trump also understood that this was not a time to attack President Joe Biden personally or even by name. His one reference to Biden was an aside to let the crowd in Milwaukee, and indeed around the country, know what he was thinking at a time when the incumbent president is still reeling from his poor debate performance and from COVID, not to make him appear like a victim. Rather, Trump was able to compellingly crystallize the challenges the American people have with the current administration and offer a degree of reassurance that things would be different under his leadership.
To be sure, Trump did not offer specific policy recommendations in his speech beyond closing the border and cutting taxes. But rather there was a degree of optimism and confidence in his remarks that has been noticeably absent from the darker and more pessimistic speeches the 45th president of the United States has delivered over the years.
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He also, in a way that was tasteful and empathetic, spoke about what happened to him last Saturday in Butler Township, Pa. He discussed his experience of the assassination attempt in a way that had me on the edge of my chair, even though I knew the story quite well and had seen the video many times.
Put another way, the entire speech and its production made Trump much more likable and much more sympathetic than he’s ever been before.
To be sure, circumstances, however difficult and challenging they may have been to get to this point, worked to help the former president. But, by any measure, he rose to the occasion and offered the American people something profound that has been missing under the current administration: hope, strength and a sense that the best was yet to come for our nation.
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I fully expect Trump to increase his standing in the polls as a result of this week. I say that not only because of his Thursday night address, but also because of the entire convention. It was among the best, if not the best, choreographed and produced shows I have seen in 50 years of watching American political conventions.
The effort to reach working people and those who enjoy sports like pro-wrestling and the UFC spoke to the Republicans’ desire to broaden their constituency and solidify their position as the party of working Americans.
I also believe that, if I am right, and Trump does go up in the polls after the GOP convention, the support that has been steadily eroding for Joe Biden since his terrible debate performance just three weeks ago, will only increase, and the pressure on him to quit the race will be inexorable. Indeed, it already appears now to be inevitable.
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It’s hard to see how Joe Biden, Kamala Harris or whoever the Democratic nominee is will compete with this speech and the events of this week. And I fully expect that the division inside the Democratic Party will only increase as a result of the success of the Republican convention.
As an American, I’m pleased, indeed proud, that the Republicans explicitly – and, I think, for the first time – are seeking to unify the entire country and put aside the bitterness and resentment that has so frequently been evident.
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As a Democrat, I’m not sure I know how my party will respond in a month or so to the Trump candidacy. For now, it’s enough to say that the challenges it is facing have only grown larger and more substantial after this week after a speech and convention that could only be called an unqualified success. The events and address in Milwaukee will stand up well to whatever attempts the mainstream media make to discredit Trump and his speech. (And they have already begun.)
Some may say that Trump’s speech went on too long on Thursday night. And that may be true. But the American people, unlike political commentators, simply turn the television off, they don’t give the candidate demerits for being long-winded.
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Two top Biden campaign advisers weigh in on president’s future
President Biden’s top campaign advisors both weighed in on Friday to comment on widespread speculation surrounding the 2024 presidential race.
The first clarification came from Campaign Chair Jen O’Malley Dillon, who left no room for question during an interview with MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.”
“The president’s in this race,” O’Malley Dillon told the hosts. “You’ve heard him say that time and time again, and I think we saw on display last night exactly why, because Donald Trump is not going to offer anything new to the American people. He’s the same person he was in 2020. He’s the same person he was at the debate stage.”
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O’Malley Dillon made clear there was no question that Biden is “more committed than ever to beat Donald Trump” — pushing back yet again on weeks and weeks of leaks and speculation claiming the president was close to pulling out of the race.
“We believe in this campaign we are built for the close election that we are in, and we see the path forward,” O’Malley Dillon continued. “The president is the leader of our campaign and of the country, and he is clearly in our impression, and what we’ve built, and in our engagement with voters, he’s the best person to take on Donald Trump and prosecute that case and present his vision versus what we saw last night.”
This rock-solid statement of commitment was slightly complicated just hours later by Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del. — co-chair of Biden’s re-elections campaign — who said the president is “weighing what he should weigh.”
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Coons told the press during a panel at the Aspen Institute’s Aspen Security Forum that Biden is considering “who is the best candidate to win in November and to carry forward the Democratic Party’s values and priorities in this campaign.”
He noted that Biden attended the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) summit in Washington, D.C., this month after a “very bad debate performance” and that the president “Did a press conference. Did campaign events. Did campaign rallies.”
“And there are folks still saying he is not strong enough or capable enough to be our next president,” he continued. “I disagree.”
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According to Coons, “There is a lot of concern and anxiety about this because the stakes are so significant. The consequences of this election are profound.”
Coons walked back this somewhat shaky comment just hours later with a post to social media professing total support for Biden’s re-election effort.
“I fully support the President. He’s told me he’s in it to win it,” Coons wrote on social media platform X. “I’m with him 100% because I know he can beat Trump just like he did last time.”
WATCH: MSNBC primetime hosts’ controversial coverage of RNC raises eyebrows
MSNBC’s top primetime anchors and hosts made numerous eyebrow-raising remarks during their coverage of the Republican National Convention, including likening recovery from a mild COVID-19 case to surviving an attempted assassination.
On Monday, the network sidelined “Morning Joe” before returning to regular programming, denying any reports that it was because of concerns that the pro-Biden program may say something insensitive on the heels of the Trump shooting in Pennsylvania. But it was the network’s rabidly left-wing primetime hosts who made several incendiary comments in their coverage this week.
MSNBC host Alex Wagner argued that the GOP’s pick for vice president, JD Vance, dropped “Easter eggs of White nationalism” by saying during his speech on Wednesday that he wanted to be buried in his family’s plot in Kentucky.
“I just think the construction of this notion reveals a lot about someone who fundamentally believes in the supremacy of whiteness and masculinity, and it’s couched in a sort of halcyon, you know, revisitation of his roots, but it is actually really revealing about what he thinks matters and who America is, and that America is a place for people with his shared Western background,” Wagner said.
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MSNBC’s Joy Reid, who has questioned whether Trump was actually shot with a bullet at his rally on Saturday, argued on Wednesday that President Biden getting COVID-19 and recovering was “the same thing” as Trump surviving an assassination attempt.
“This current President of the United States is 81 years old and has COVID, should he be fine in a couple of days, doesn’t that convey exactly the same thing? That he’s strong enough – older than Trump – to have gotten something that used to really be fatal to people his age. So, if he does fine out of it and comes back and is able to do rallies, isn’t that exactly the same?” Reid said.
She alluded to the questions surrounding Trump’s injuries during the discussion as well, saying Trump had gotten a “photo op” out of nearly being murdered.
“These two men are both elderly. Donald Trump is an elderly man who, for whatever reason, was given nine seconds to take an iconic photo op during an active shooter situation. Weird situation, we’ll figure that out one day,” Reid said.
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The far-left host also suggested that Trump couldn’t avoid the consequences of his own rhetoric following the assassination attempt.
“The idea of political violence that we’ve been nursing really since then, is so dangerous,” she said. “It’s so dangerous that you cannot avoid the consequences of it, even if you’re one of the people promoting it.”
MSNBC host Rachel Maddow took issue with Vance’s love for “Lord of the Rings,” and seemed to connect the series to the “far right.”
“Like his mentor, like Peter Thiel, who had given him all his jobs in the world, Mr. Vance also when he founded his own venture capital firm with help from Peter Thiel, named it after a Lord of the Rings thing. He called it Narya, N-A-R-Y-A, which you can remember because it’s Aryan, but you move the n to the front,” Maddow said. “Apparently, that word has something to do with elves and rings from the Lord of the Rings series, I don’t know.”
At another point this week, MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace became visibly frustrated over the way Biden had answered a question from NBC’s Lester Holt about “bullseye” rhetoric directed at Trump.
“There was one way to answer that question, and it was, ‘Lester, should I use the word bullseye or crosshair? No, but the FBI director that Donald Trump selected, his name is Christopher Wray, and he testified under oath before Congress that the greatest threat to this country is no longer foreign terrorism. It’s domestic violent extremism,'” Wallace said, growing angry as she spoke.
“Inside that threat, the biggest bucket by far is right-wing domestic violent extremism, so go talk to them,” she snapped while pointing her finger.
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MSNBC host Michael Steele was also accused of pushing “conspiracy theories” this week in questioning whether Trump’s ear was hit by a bullet.
“A person lost their life, two have been severely injured, and yet we’ve not received a medical report from the hospital, nor have we received a medical report from the campaign, or from the Trump organization about the extent of the damage to his ear,” Steele said.
The series of controversial remarks comes on the heels of a bizarre story that engulfed the network on Monday.
The hosts of “Morning Joe” were told on Sunday, according to host Joe Scarborough, that their show would be off the air Monday, since there would be a single news feed on all NBC platforms, including MSNBC, following the assassination attempt against Trump. However, their show wound up being the only one that was supplanted, and MSNBC returned to regular programming afterward, leaving the show’s hosts and production team upset.
A network spokesperson denied a CNN report that the show was held off the air on Monday for fear of the anti-Trump show making any controversial remarks. It returned to the air on Tuesday, where Scarborough publicly criticized the network for its decision-making.
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“We were very surprised,” Scarborough said. “We were very disappointed. And if we had known that there wasn’t going to be the one news feed from NBC News across all NBC News channels, we obviously would have been in yesterday morning.”
FBI interviews classmate of Trump shooter after exposing his dislike for politicians
EXCLUSIVE: BETHEL PARK, Pa. – The FBI has reached out to a former classmate of would-be assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks after he publicly revealed that the killer had confronted him years ago over his support for former President Donald Trump and expressed a “smug” dislike for politicians, he says.
“They called me…honestly just asked me for names and if I could give [them] much else,” 20-year-old Vincent Taormina told Fox News Digital.
Agents asked questions about the Trump rally gunman’s social circle and his purported dislike for candidates like Trump, Sen. Bernie Sanders and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, he said.
But he also referred to himself as a “dead end” for the bureau. He said he hadn’t talked to the gunman in years.
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He didn’t hear much from Crooks after a school shooting threat that he believes originated from the killer’s group of close friends.
“They were definitely the type, and they did, make threats to shoot up our school,” he said.
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However, Taormina told Fox News Digital that while rumors swirled, there wasn’t any concrete evidence regarding who specifically in the group made the threat.
He had suspicions though. Crooks vanished from school for several days afterward, he said.
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Jason Kohler, who told reporters earlier this week that Crooks had been relentlessly bullied in school, said the same.
“No, never heard that,” he said when asked about Crooks’ being behind the threat.
Another classmate, Sarah D’Angelo, separately told Fox News Digital that she didn’t think he would have been involved in the threat – it happened at the high school when they were all in middle school.
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But the former high school math whiz became a killer on Saturday, July 13. Crooks climbed onto a building during Trump’s campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, and opened fire with a semiautomatic rifle, authorities said.
He killed a 50-year-old father of two named Corey Comperatore, critically wounded David Dutch, 57, and James Copenhaver, 74, according to authorities. He struck the former president in his right ear.
Secret Service counter-snipers “neutralized” Crooks at the scene, authorities said. Images show him lying dead on a rooftop less than 150 yards from where Trump had been speaking.
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Taormina said he believes someone in Crooks’ friend group must have known something about whatever triggered him to commit the violent attack.
“Everybody, anybody who knew him-knew him, should have seen something,” he said. “They should have known something was up, and I know it’s kind of easy to hide, but people are going to get their affairs in order before they do something that’s bold and this drastic, and nobody saw it? And why?”
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A federal investigation into his motives and potential help is continuing, with the FBI analyzing his laptop, cellphone and rifle as well as interviewing dozens of witnesses.
Anyone with information on the case is asked to submit tips at http://tips.fbi.gov or 1-800-CALL-FBI.
Major tech outage grounds flights, hits banks and businesses worldwide
A major cyber outage has grounded flights and disrupted businesses and media organizations throughout the world.
The technology glitch caused chaos on Friday morning with Delta Air Lines, American Airlines and United Airlines issuing statements saying that their flight operations had been impacted. Emergency response systems were down at police agencies and healthcare providers in Phoenix, Arizona, forcing some police and ambulance providers to dispatch cars manually, per The Arizona Republic.
Banks and financial services firms from Australia to India and Germany warned customers of disruptions.
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In Britain, booking systems used by doctors were offline, multiple reports from medical officials on X said, while Sky News, one of the country’s major news broadcasters was off air, apologizing for being unable to transmit live, and soccer club Manchester United said on X that it had to postpone a scheduled release of tickets.
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England’s National Health Service said Friday it was aware of the global IT outage and that its EMIS, an appointment and patient record system, had been disrupted at a majority of general practitioner’s offices.
“The NHS has long standing measures in place to manage the disruption, including using paper patient records and handwritten prescriptions, and the usual phone systems to contact your GP,” the NHS said.
“There are also some issues with administrative systems in hospitals that mean staff are having to work manually from paper to manage certain tasks but in the majority of hospitals, care is continuing as normal.”
The technology glitch was caused by a faulty update from CrowdStrike, a U.S. cybersecurity technology company based in Texas, in a single content update for Windows hosts.
It resulted in Windows computers and tablets crashing and displaying a blue screen, known informally as the “Blue Screen of Death.” Over half of Fortune 500 companies use CrowdStrike software, the firm said in a promotional video this year.
“The issue has been identified, isolated and a fix has been deployed,” George Kurtz, the president and CEO of CrowdStrike posted on X. “We refer customers to the support portal for the latest updates and will continue to provide complete and continuous updates on our website.”
“Mac and Linux hosts are not impacted. This is not a security incident or cyberattack.”
CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. shares plummeted 9% Friday, resulting in the stock’s worst weekly performance since November 2022.
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President Biden was briefed on the global outage on Friday and his administration is communicating with CrowdStrike and impacted entities, according to a White House official.
“His team is engaged across the interagency to get sector by sector updates throughout the day and is standing by to provide assistance as needed,” the official said.
Delta Air Lines issued a statement early Friday morning announcing that all flights were paused as they worked through the technology issue. Allegiant Air grounded flights also.
United Airlines’ ground stop has been lifted for all airports, an Air Traffic Control System Command Center advisory said.
United earlier said it would resume some flights, but customers can expect schedule disruptions to continue throughout Friday. The airline has issued a waiver to make it easier for customers to change their travel plans via United.com or the United app, a spokesperson said.
American Airlines says it has been able to “safely re-establish our operation.”
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The FAA said all flights, regardless of destination, have been affected. More than 30,000 flights have been delayed as of 12:42 p.m. ET Friday with 5.944 delays within, into or out of the United States, according to data from flightaware.com.
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigigeg told CNBC on Friday that any transportation delays should be “resembling normal” by Saturday.
“The issue has been identified. It’s really a matter of the kind of ripple or cascade effects as they get everything in their networks back to normal,” Buttigieg said. “These flights, they run so tightly, so back-to-back that even after a root cause is addressed, you can still be feeling those impacts throughout the day.”
Airports in Singapore, Hong Kong and India said the outage meant some airlines were having to check in passengers manually.
Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport, one of Europe’s busiest, said it was affected, while airline Iberia said it had been operating manually at airports until its electronic check-in counters and online check-ins were reactivated. It said there had been some delays but no flight cancelations.
London Gatwick was also experiencing issues, while Air France-KLM said its operations were also disrupted.
Amazon’s cloud computing service warned customers to look out for “connectivity issues and reboots” as a result of the CrowdStrike outage.
AWS services and network connectivity “continue to operate normally,” but some “Windows Instances, Windows Workspaces and Appstream Applications” that use CrowdStrike had issues Friday morning, according to a notice on AWS’ service dashboard. The company gave customers instructions to restore connectivity.
Shipping services FedEx and UPS also reported disruptions Friday, warning that packages might be delayed while both companies separately work to mitigate the impact of CrowdStrike’s outage.
The technology error was separate from a problem Microsoft faced overnight with cloud services, including Microsoft 365 apps such as Teams video conferencing.
Microsoft said via X they were “working on rerouting the impacted traffic to alternate systems to alleviate impact in a more expedient fashion” and that they were “observing a positive trend in service availability.”
Microsoft says service went down for some customers in the central United States around 6 p.m. ET, “including failures with service management operations and connectivity or availability of services.”
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They also stated on their services health status page and X that they are “continuing to see an improvement in service availability across multiple Microsoft 365 apps and services. We’re closely monitoring our telemetry data to ensure this upward trend continues as our mitigation actions continue to progress.”
Officials have not said how long it will take to resolve the stop, but an update is expected later Friday morning.