The trail of corruption within the United States Secret Service (USSS) goes much further back than just Donald Trump's July 13, 2024, rally in Butler, Penn.
New revelations show that under the control of Kim Cheatle and Ronald Rowe, the Secret Service also failed to perform its proper duties at Trump's Jan. 6, 2021, rally at the U.S. Capitol, also known as the "insurrection."
Cheatle, who recently resigned from her post in disgrace, along with Rowe, the new acting director of Secret Service – Rowe has worked for the Secret Service for many years under other titles – had specific oversight roles on January 6 to protect Trump from harm.
At the time, Cheatle was tasked with being the direct supervisor over Robert Engel, the lead Secret Service agent at the rally. Rowe held the role of deputy assistant director over Trump's detail, this according to the transcript of former White House Deputy Chief of Staff Anthony Ornato's interview with the January 6 committee.
Rowe reportedly sought information about the Proud Boys group prior to what happened on January 6. Rowe emailed Robert Engel on Dec. 12, 2020, to ask why the Secret Service had not been warned that the leaders of the Proud Boys were participating in a tour of the White House.
(Related: Rowe is also responsible for denying Trump the security resources and personnel he has been requesting for rallies going back several years, which put the former president at risk.)
Secret Service deleted all text communications from January 5-6, 2021
Then-Vice President Kamala Harris also came dangerously close to encountering the pipe bomb that was placed at the Democratic National Committee (DNC) on January 6, due to a Secret Service "security lapse" that still has no explanation.
The Office of Protective Operations at the Secret Service, which was overseen by both Cheatle and Rowe at the time – Cheatle was assistant director and Rowe was deputy assistant director – failed to protect Kamala despite being responsible for all protective operations concerning her safety.
These and other failures likely explain why the Secret Service conveniently deleted all internal text communications from January 5 and January 6. Neither Rowe nor Cheatle, nor any other law enforcement official involved in protective operations for Kamala that day, are fessing up as to what happened that fateful day or why internal communications about it were scrubbed.
Cheatle is listed as being among the Secret Service personnel whose phones were subpoenaed over the deleted text messages, but it was Rowe who authored the coverup letter that was sent in response to the subpoena claiming the text messages were all deleted "as part of a device-replacement program."
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) continues to stonewall congressional investigators not only concerning the events of July 13 but also those of January 6. DHS is withholding the January 6 committee interview transcripts of "ten current and former employees" of the Secret Service who were involved in operations that day, including Cheatle and Engel.
What this all means is that we now only have Rowe, dubbed by some as "Cheatle 2.0," to provide "transparency" as to what really happened on July 13. Is there any chance that Rowe will actually tell the truth?
"He might as well be Cheatle," someone on X wrote about Rowe. "It goes much deeper than the USSS anyway."
"Why did the USSS fire the sniper who took out the threat?" asked another about the events of July 13. "People need to dig deep into this."
"The dam looks as though it is ready to break," wrote another about how these lies cannot persist forever.
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