Burgess Owens on the RNC uniting after Trump’s ‘miracle’ survival

MILWAUKEE — Although Burgess Owens has come to Wisconsin as the proud Republican representing Utah’s 4th district in the House of Representatives, the ordinary workers staffing the four-star Pfister Hotel recognize Owens as the veteran football star who won the 1980 Super Bowl as safety for the Oakland Raiders. While Owens’s congressional colleagues are a dime a dozen in the hotel housing Republican nominee Donald Trump during the Republican National Convention, the Milwaukee Fire Department staffers assisting the hotel’s massively heightened security pose proudly for photos with Owens, who lets them model his iconic Super Bowl ring for the camera. The Washington Examiner got to sit down with Owens for an exclusive interview thanks to a helping hand from the MFD. Just days after the former president narrowly survived an assassination attempt allowed by a catastrophic security oversight, all levels of law enforcement are on guard throughout Milwaukee but especially at the Pfister, where Owens blasts the Secret Service.