Insider reveals how Secret Service 'really screwed up' BEFORE Trump assassination bid and role women DEI hires played to put lives at risk

A erstwhile supplier has linked diversity-hiring astatine nan US Secret Service (USSS) to nan information failures astatine Donald Trump's rally successful Pennsylvania, wherever nan erstwhile president was changeable astatine and grazed successful an assassination attempt.

Kenneth Gray, an ex-FBI typical supplier pinch acquisition successful counterterrorism and situation management, said nan USSS 'really screwed up' connected Saturday and that efforts to prosecute much women successful section roles whitethorn good person played a role.

Gray's comments travel arsenic allegations swirl connected societal media that Trump's women guardians were excessively short to protect nan 6ft 3in candidate, and that a female supplier could beryllium seen struggling to holster her firearm.

The chaotic scenes astatine nan rally formed uncertainty connected Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle's arguable bid to 'diversify' nan agency and make nan male-dominated unit sorb 30 percent female recruits by 2030.

'The Secret Service really screwed up successful their readying for this outdoor event,' Gray told DailyMail.com.

'It's imaginable to person a reliable female retired location who doing her job, conscionable for illustration you person males retired location who whitethorn not beryllium tin of doing their jobs. It's conscionable that, during this peculiar event, location were questionable actions connected nan portion of immoderate agents, including immoderate females agents, that raises one's eyebrows.'

Trump, 78, was holding a run rally successful Butler, Pennsylvania — a cardinal authorities successful nan November 5 predetermination — erstwhile shots rang out, hitting his correct receptor and leaving his look streaked pinch blood.

One personification successful nan crowd was killed, and 2 others wounded earlier USSS agents fatally shot nan suspect, a 20-year-old man pinch an AR-15-style firearm who sewage adjacent capable to sprout astatine Trump from a adjacent rooftop.

Gray says nan onslaught revealed a scary deficiency of planning, arsenic nan rooftop should person been guarded. He described a bid of blunders by nan information squad that formed uncertainty connected their suitability for nan life-or-death job.

He said of a astir 5ft 5in female supplier correctly 'using her assemblage to protect' Trump from immoderate further gunfire — but was conscionable excessively short to beryllium capable to extremity bullets hitting personification arsenic gangly arsenic nan erstwhile president.

'It looked much for illustration that he was protecting her than she was protecting him,' said Gray.

He besides referred to widely-shared footage of a female supplier arsenic she struggled to holster her limb aft Trump had been bundled into a achromatic vehicle.

'It surely was thing that raised my eyebrows,' said Gray, now an world astatine nan University of New Haven.

'I americium a erstwhile firearms coach … and that shows to maine that personification lacked nan skills to beryllium retired location astatine that time.'

The Secret Service team, which included antheral and female agents, besides took acold excessively agelong to get Trump disconnected nan shape and distant from immoderate imaginable 2nd shooter, he said.

This, he added, was successful portion owed to nan Republican himself, who wanted to get his shoes, which had fallen off, and to airs defiantly arsenic nan crowd erupted into chants of 'USA, USA.'

The attempted shooting of nan erstwhile president has spawned a immense oversea of claims — immoderate outlandish — reflecting nan frightening uncertainties surrounding nan attack, arsenic good arsenic America's fevered, polarized governmental climate.

The US Congress has ordered a probe into 'inexcusable information breaches' astatine Trump's run stop, and nan domiciled played by USSS, which is responsible for protecting serving and erstwhile presidents and statesmanlike candidates.

Some Republicans attributed failures to nan agency's clasp of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies, and Cheatle's bid to prosecute 30 percent women recruits by 2030, starring to calls for her resignation.

Republican congressman Tim Burchett dubbed Cheatle a 'diversity' prosecute and blamed nan female recruitment thrust for information failings astir nan attempted deed connected Trump. Critics opportunity females make little effective agents than men.

Hours aft nan assassination attempt, nan Oversight Committee successful nan Republican-led US House of Representatives summoned Cheatle to attest astatine a proceeding scheduled for July 22.

Cheatle, who was appointed by US President Joe Biden successful 2022, connected Monday said nan agency will 'participate fully' successful nan independent reappraisal into nan incident.

The Secret Service has not yet commented connected nan engagement of female agents.

White House spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre called it 'ridiculous' to mobility nan viability of women Secret Service agents.

'These men and women put their lives connected nan lives,' she told reporters Monday. 

'We should not discount that, if it's a man aliases if it's a woman.'

The agency denied accusations by immoderate Trump supporters that it had rejected a run petition for much security, saying that it precocious 'added protective resources and capabilities to nan erstwhile President's information detail.'

The rally attendee killed connected Saturday was identified by authorities arsenic Corey Comperatore, 50, of Sarver, Pennsylvania. He died trying to protect his family from nan hail of bullets, said Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro.

Two group wounded successful nan shooting were successful a unchangeable information connected Sunday. Pennsylvania State identified them arsenic David Dutch, 57, of New Kensington, Pennsylvania, and James Copenhaver, 74, of Moon Township, Pennsylvania.

The FBI identified Thomas Matthew Crooks of Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, arsenic nan fishy and said nan shooting was being investigated arsenic an attempted assassination.

FBI officials said connected Sunday that nan shooter acted alone. The agency said it had yet to place an ideology linked to nan fishy aliases immoderate indications of intelligence wellness issues aliases recovered immoderate threatening connection connected nan suspect's societal media accounts.

Crooks was a registered Republican, according to authorities elector records, and donated $15 to a Democratic governmental action committee erstwhile he was 17. At nan clip of nan shooting he was employed arsenic a dietary adjutant astatine a nursing home.

The weapon — an AR-style-5.56 caliber firearm — had been legally bought, FBI officials said, adding they believed it had been purchased by nan suspect's father.