Secret Service repeatedly turned down police offer of drone help before Trump assassination bid - whistleblower | 25 July 2024 | Local law enforcement proposed to help with drone technology at the Butler, Pennsylvania, rally where former President Donald Trump was nearly assassinated earlier this month but was turned down by the Secret Service, a whistleblower claimed, according to Sen. Josh Hawley. Hawley (R-Mo.), 44, penned a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Thursday demanding answers about a whistleblower's allegations that the Secret Service "repeatedly" rejected the offer. "The night before the rally, U.S. Secret Service repeatedly denied offers from a local law enforcement partner to utilize drone technology to secure the rally," Hawley wrote to Mayorkas citing the whistleblower. "The whistleblower further alleges that after the shooting took place, USSS changed course and asked the local partner to deploy the drone technology to surveil the site in the aftermath of the attack," he added.