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The Secret Service has been caught in a lie.

Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle listens to Chicago Police Superintendent Larry Snelling during a news conference on June 4, in Chicago. (Charles Rex Arbogast/AP)

Last Sunday, one day after the Trump assassination attempt, Secret Service spox Anthony Guglielmi insisted that it was an "untrue assertion" that Trump's campaign was denied additional security resources, calling it "absolutely false."

"In fact, we added protective resources & technology & capabilities as part of the increased campaign travel tempo," he continued in a post on X.

Guglielmi doubled down three hours later, telling RealClearPolitics' White House correspondent Susan Crabtree that her report on diverted resources was "very wrong."

What's more, "Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle, who has been under pressure to resign over security lapses at the rally, repeated that denial in a meeting with Trump campaign leadership in Wisconsin on Monday," according to the Washington Post.

Fast forward to Saturday, and the Washington Post reveals that they lied.

According to the new report, "Top officials at the U.S. Secret Service repeatedly denied requests for additional resources and personnel sought by Donald Trump’s security detail in the two years leading up to his attempted assassination at a rally in Pennsylvania last Saturday, according to four people familiar with the requests."

After WaPo confronted Guglielmi, he said that the agency 'had learned new information indicating the agency’s headquarters may have in fact denied some requests for additional security from Trump’s detail," something he should have probably checked before be lied.

Meanwhile, the Secret Service tried to block a Trump team request for metal detectors at his son Barron's high school graduation, according to the NY Times.

Donald Trump and Melania Trump at their son Barron's graduation ceremony in May. GIORGIO VIERA/Getty Images

According to the WaPo report, a Secret Service official who spoke on the condition of anonymity said that the agency has finite resources, and has to juggle competing demands – particularly for countersnipers, counterassault teams, and teams of uniformed division officers.

So – it appears they gave Trump the Temu team because they were spread too thin.

Butler Township calls BS

In response to the Secret Service trying to pin the blame on local PD, Butler Township commissioner Edward Natali said that the Butler Township Pollice Department had no security responsibility at the event – and that there were just seven officers, all assigned to traffic detail.

Screenshot via @LauraLoomer

On Sunday, Pennsylvania congressman Brendan Boyle (D) called on Kimberly Cheatle to resign in light of the WaPo report.

As The Conservative Treehouse points out, the silence here is deafening…

The biggest question inside the investigation of the Trump assassination attempt, is the thing no one has mentioned.  Why have there been no daily press briefings?

• Where are the official 10:00am press briefing updates every day on the investigation?

• Where are the official press conferences from the Secret Service, FBI and law enforcement answering questions and providing information from the prior days investigative results?

• Where are the organized and official updates to let the American people know what has been found out about the assassination attempt on President Donald Trump?

Continued…

The absence of official press briefings has been the dog that didn’t bark.

Instead, the Secret Service, FBI and Law Enforcement have been selectively leaking details, testing what would be and would not be accepted, and we have only seen controlled snippets of information.

Much of the information within those leaks has been lies, sometimes absurd in their construct, pushed through a generally incurious media.

Smart people have noted the absence of the official public information process indicates something very sketchy in the background. [ie. the dog that didn’t bark]

The attempted assassination of President Trump is a big deal; perhaps one of the biggest events in recent history. There is massive public interest.

If ordinary procedures and protocols were being followed, we would have official daily updates at scheduled press conferences, and the media would be able to present questions based on presented information.  The absence of these press briefings told us something that is not good.  But perhaps today, we find out why.

And what's this now?