Another whistleblower has come forward with shocking new details regarding the July assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump in Butler, Pa.

Missouri Republican Sen. Josh Hawley spoke to Fox News host Jesse Watters and revealed what he has been told this week.

“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,” the senator said.

“The pattern that is emerging here from whistleblowers who come forward to me now over and over again is that the Trump rally was undermanned, it was understaffed, They did not have people who had experience on it. And now this advance agent, I’m told, may have failed one or more training exams and was known not to be a top-quality agent. This is absurd. The fact that the director will not level with the American people about what’s going on here is just totally unacceptable and unbelievable,” he said.

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The host mentioned that former Director Kimberly Cheatle had a plan to increase the number of women in the Secret Service by 30 percent and appeared determined to meet that goal.

“Director Cheatle, we know, had a priority to make 30% of the Secret Service women. So this woman fails maybe once, maybe twice, maybe more, and it doesn’t matter. Cheatle still makes her in charge of the protective site detail for Butler, knowing that there was an Iranian threat,” he said.

That created more questions for the senator who said it was inexplicable that this particular woman was in charge of the former president’s protection on that day.

“This is what’s so hard to understand. If this individual had failed one or more of her training exams, if she was known not to be really one of the Secret Service’s top agents, she’s in the Pittsburgh office. Why was she put in charge of the entire trip?” the senator said.

“The whole thing, she was in charge of the whole works, from the time the president landed to the time he went to Butler, it’s just totally inexplicable. One other thing — I’m told by people who are close to and have knowledge of the Secret Service’s own internal investigation that the Department of Homeland Security is leaning on the Secret Service not to comply with document requests to Congress. This is really getting to be outrageous. The American people need the truth here,” he said.

Now a whistleblower alleges that the lead advance agent for President Trump’s entire trip to Butler, PA had failed training exams when she first joined the Secret Service.

And the Secret Service Director won’t even level with what’s going on here. It’s absurd. pic.twitter.com/Zu0BNvOQsL

— Josh Hawley (@HawleyMO) September 13, 2024

In August, after Director Kim Cheatle resigned, the Secret Service announced that it had taken some action after the attempt on the former president’s life.

Close to a month after the attack, and after many failures of the agency were reported, some of the detail that was with the former president and others involved have been placed on leave, Fox News reported.

“One member of Trump’s personal protective team and four members of the Secret Service’s Pittsburgh Field Office, including the special agent in charge, have been sidelined nearly six weeks after the incident. The five are still employed but are teleworking and are no longer allowed in the field. They cannot do any investigative work,” the report said.

“The news comes after the Secret Service concluded internal interviews to understand how Thomas Matthew Crooks was able to fire several shots from the AGR building in Butler. The Secret Service was not able to conduct the interviews right away because the FBI was interviewing them for a separate criminal investigation, according to a source briefed on both probes,” it said.