When asked by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) about a July 20, 2024, Washington Post report claiming that "top officials of the U.S. Secret Service repeatedly denied requests for additional resources and personnel" for Trump over the past several years, Rowe would not name any names.
"There are times when assets were unavailable and not able to be filled, and those gaps were staffed with state and local law enforcement tactical assets," Rowe said.
When Cruz pressed on in trying to figure out who at the Secret Service denied Trump's requests, Rowe continued with the subterfuge by blaming "the process."
"The process is that a detail will make a request for either staffing, technical assets that is handled between the field office and the detail. It goes up to a logistics office between –," Rowe started to say before getting cut off by Cruz.
"Okay, so there's a bureaucracy," Cruz said. "Is there a decision maker?"
"It's not a bureaucracy, senator," Rowe responded. "It's a process."
"Give me the person that's the decision maker," Cruz then asked. "Is there one?"
"Senator, it's a conversation," Rowe responded vaguely. "It's not just an absolute yay or nay."
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Secret Service also denied RFK Jr.'s requests for additional security
Cruz continued to try to probe Rowe over who calls the shots at the Secret Service regarding additional security requests. The same thing happened to Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. who was likewise denied additional security at his events.
Cruz asked Rowe point blank if the same person who denied Kennedy's security requests also denied Trump's.
"I have a simple question: yes or no," Cruz said to Rowe. "Did the same person deny the Trump request that also denied the RFK request? That's a yes or no question."
To this, Rowe simply refused to answer, instead responding with:
"Senator, that is not a yes or no question. One, there is a process for our candidate nominee to receive protection. Mr. Kennedy submitted a request that was referred over to the CPAC," he said, CPAC referring to the Candidate Protection Advisory Committee.
"Okay, so you're refusing to answer the question," Cruz shot back at Rowe.
"I think the Biden administration has been suffused with partisan politics, that the same person who denied the request for additional security to President Trump also repeatedly denied the request for security to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., whose father was murdered by an assassin and whose uncle was murdered by an assassin, the same person made that decision."
Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Kan.) attempted to pick up where Cruz left off by asking the same question of Rowe, only to be repeatedly stonewalled by Rowe who kept using words like "process" and "conversation" to obscure the actual names of the people behind the curtain who are calling the shots.
"Empty this agency," wrote a commenter about what he thinks should happen to the Secret Service. "They are ALL compromised and dangerous to everyone."
"Seems like if you are a federal employee, you can jeopardize the lives of people and still keep your job," wrote another.
"There were 155 local, state, and federal officers and agents on duty at this rally and they couldn't drop this guy from climbing on a roof with a gun and firing off eight rounds?" asked another.
"The odds are astronomical that he could pull this off without help."
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