Secret Service officials meddled in a probe to hide this awful reality facing Donald Trump

The Secret Service is trying to wait out the scandal over its failures to protect Donald Trump. 

But the magnitude of the embattled agency’s problems is bigger than anyone realized. 

And Secret Service officials meddled in a probe to hide this awful reality facing Donald Trump. 

The Secret Service interfered with the investigation into the agency 

Former President Donald Trump coming within millimeters of being assassinated at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania on July 13 exposed dozens of shocking failures by the Secret Service. 

The Secret Service’s leadership has tried to avoid accountability since then despite the agency’s worst failure in 40 years. 

A whistleblower came forward to U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley’s (R-IA) office about the Secret Service interfering with an investigation into the agency after the Trump assassination by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG).

Secret Service leadership sent an email to employees this summer warning them about an Inspector General probe and asking them to report any communications they had as part of the investigation to leadership so the agency could have an “organized response.” 

“Generally not an issue, however this is NOT the normal course of action and the Service needs awareness … to ensure an organized response,” the email stated. 

The full email wasn’t released to protect the identity of the whistleblower. 

Grassley sent a letter to acting Secret Service director Ronald Rowe warning the email “could have a chilling effect on its employees from fully cooperating and providing information to the DHS OIG as well as congressional investigations out of fear of retaliation since supervisors will apparently be keeping tabs on their communications.”

“Secret Service should be encouraging its employees to come forward to provide truthful information to the DHS OIG and Congress so that lessons can be learned to prevent future assassination attempts,” Grassley added. 

He warned that whistleblowers had come forward to his office accusing the Secret Service of interfering with the investigation into the agency after the July 13 assassination attempt against Trump.

The Iowa lawmaker asked the Secret Service to turn over all records related to the “between and among Secret Service personnel” about the Congressional investigations and DHS OIG investigations into the assassination attempts against Trump.

Secret Service still not taking basic steps to keep Donald Trump safe 

RealClearPolitics political correspondent Susan Crabtree had several sources tell her that the Secret Service still isn’t following many of the basic security protocols for Presidential and Vice Presidential candidates.

Secret Service agents told her that there were shortcuts to security that leadership signed off on during the hectic final weeks of the Presidential campaign. 

“This is not new, just a continuation of poor USSS leadership,” a source tells RealClearPolitics. “It puts the entire Secret Service into a cross-your-fingers-and-hope-nothing-happens situation. Sound familiar?”

Secret Service leadership in Washington, D.C. reportedly ignored the security problems for the Presidential candidates. 

“It’s those on the front lines, who do the long hours and impossible tasks, who get thrown under the bus when everything does go wrong while leaders simply retire and move on,” the source explained. “No accountability.”

The security situation for Donald Trump still hasn’t been solved despite two attempts on his life.