Former Secret Service Agent to Newsmax: ‘Unfair’ to ‘Quarterback’ on Butler

It’s “unfair” for politicians to “Monday morning quarterback” the actions of Secret Service agents after the attempted assassination of President Donald Trump last July in Butler, Pennsylvania, considering the funding issues for the agency that continue to this day, former agent Mike Matranga, the founder and CEO of M6 Global Defense, told Newsmax.

“These are not things that, you know, just happened within the last year,” Matranga said on Newsmax’s “Wake Up America Weekend” Sunday. “These are things that have been happening for the last decade.

“And now that we’ve had an incident, you know, these politicians, whether they be on the left or the right, want to Monday morning quarterback and point the fingers at the Secret Service, when in reality some of the onus is on them for failing to provide the funding that the agency has been asking for a very long time.”

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