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Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) revealed a whistleblower claim that the lead Secret Service agent at the Pennsylvania Trump rally had been promoted despite failing a key exam.

The lead advance agent at the July 13 rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, where there was an assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump, was reportedly from the Pittsburgh field office and had been promoted by disgraced Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle even though she had failed an important part of the exam.

Hawley dropped the bombshell allegation in an appearance on Fox News where he discussed the “absurd” developments in the investigation of the colossal failure of the Secret Service.

“What I’m learning now is that the lead advance agent that day in Pennsylvania, this is the agent that was in charge of Trump’s entire trip in Pennsylvania —that this agent actually failed one or more of her training exams when she first joined the Secret Service,” Hawley said.

“I mean, the pattern that is emerging here, Jesse, from whistleblowers who come forward to me over and over again, is that the Trump rally was undermanned, they did not have people who had experience,  and now, this advance agent I’m told, may have failed one or more of her training exams and was known not to be a top quality agent,” the senator continued.

“This is absurd! And the fact that the director will not level with the American people about what’s going on here is just totally unacceptable,” Hawley added.

Watters noted that Cheatle had made it a priority “to make 30 percent of the Secret Service women.”

The Fox News host pointed out that even after the agent failed at least one training exam, Cheatle “makes her in charge of the protective site detail for Butker, knowing that there was an Iranian threat.”

“She was in charge of the whole works,” Hawley pointed out, “from the time the president landed to the time he went to Butler. It’s just totally inexplicable.”

Hawley then told Watters that, according to those in the know about the Secret Service’s own internal investigation, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) “is leaning on the Secret Service not to comply with document requests” from Congress.

The senator declared that it was all “outrageous.”

“There’s a cover-up going on,” Watters said, “now, that’s definitive.”

Two Democrats have surprisingly spoken out about their frustration with the DHS and Secret Service in the wake of the assassination attempt and ahead of an interim report.

“I think the American people are going to be shocked, astonished, and appalled by what we will report to them about the failures by the Secret Service in this assassination attempt on the former president,” leftist Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) told reporters.

“I think they also ought to be appalled and astonished by the failure of the Department of Homeland Security to be more forthcoming,” he added.

“It will be coming out shortly. And it’ll only be an interim report because there’s a lot more information that we need to find,” Sen. Gary Peters (D-MI) told Fox News.

“And we hope once this report comes out and we can get the additional information necessary to have a complete report of what happened, as well as steps of what we need to do in the future to make sure that this never happens,” Peters said.

(Video Credit: Fox News)

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