Speaking exclusively to DailyMail.com, local law enforcement have said that the Secret Service had thrown them under the bus in the aftermath of former president Trump being shot on Saturday.
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On Tuesday he accused the Secret Service of being 'uninformed, lying, or covering their own backsides' adding it was 'completely disgusting to see finger pointing has become the priority'.
'I want to say as clearly as can be said, the Butler Township Police Department had no security detail for this event. There were seven officers all assigned to traffic detail,' Commissioner Edward Natali, 59, wrote on Facebook.
'Anyone who says so, reports on it, implies it, etc... is uninformed, lying, or covering their own backsides.'
He called an unnamed Secret Service agent pointing the finger at local police 'a very transparent deflection'.
'It is completely disgusting to see that finger-pointing has become the priority, when we had four people shot, with one of the four fatally wounded,' Natali wrote.
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The current Butler law enforcement officer who spoke with DailyMail.com, dismissed Cheatle's words as 'excuses' and pointed to the security measures taken in 2020 when 15,000 people attended a rally for the former president at Pittsburgh-Butler Regional Airport – an operation overseen by the agency's previous director, the Trump-appointed James Murray.
The officer who was familiar with the event and those measures said, 'Back then they had so many snipers. They were all over the place. Everywhere you looked.
'It was the most secure place on the planet.
'And this time they only have four because of sloping roofs and they still try to pass the buck to the locals?'
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