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Wichita, KS – U.S. Senator Roger Marshall, M.D., joined KWCH to discuss the U.S. Secret Service’s failures that led to the assassination attempt on President Trump and killed American hero Corey Comperatore. Senator Marshall also discussed the U.S. Postal Service’s (USPS) recently released audit, which revealed numerous problems and vulnerabilities impacting mail services across the state.

Highlights from Senator Marshall’s interview include:

On the Secret Service’s Failures Leading Up to the Assassination Attempt on President Trump:

“The Secret Service director should have been fired immediately, and that’s why we need a person that’s truly a commander in chief. But unfortunately, what we’ve uncovered is not just individual failures within the Secret Service on the presidential assassination day, but systemic failures, and certainly cultural issues.”

“There on the grounds where the assassination attempt occurred, there were 10 buildings with a direct line of sight to the president, multiple trees, so that’s the systemic failure. But within the organization what folks don’t realize is half of the Secret Service agents have quit in the past year. Three-fourths of the people that work for the Secret Service say they don’t trust their executive folks there within that branch as well. So there are systemic problems; there are cultural problems there. What I’m calling for is a crisis intervention team to go in there. We need to uncover every rock, but we already know there’s a major cultural problem.”

On USPS Audit of Kansas City Mail Services:

“The number of complaints we’re getting about mail service is going up and up and up across the state. Mail service is so important, especially for seniors who maybe need a prescription drug that’s coming in the mail; we still want to pay our bills on time. The mail is not on time.”

“We asked an inspector general to go in and find out why, and what we’ve uncovered is that the problem is in the distribution center in Kansas City.”

“Let’s say you live in Derby and want to send a mail piece to Hutchison. It stops in Kansas City. What they’ve told us is number one, they don’t have enough employees. And number two, they are not following their own standard operating procedure. So again, I would ask why don’t people want to work for the Postal Service? What’s going on culturally that people don’t want to work there? And why don’t they follow their own standard operating procedure? So we know we know [sic]the problem; now it’s up to them to solve it.”