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| Sex, Suicide, And Terrible OpSec: Trump's Secret Service Detail Is A Mess |
| 2024-08-15 |
| [ZERO] Authored by Susan Crabtree via RealClearPolitics (emphasis ours). Rancor, recriminations, and serious formal misconduct complaints have plagued all levels of the Secret Service detail assigned to protect former President Donald Trump over the last year, distracting the team from its core mission of securing Trump from physical harm and preventing an assassination. Trump’s regular detail team, a force of 60 employees — special agents and support staff — has been beset by internal division, long workdays and weeks, and constant stress. Last year, the team lost one of its members to suicide. Among the allegations are accusations of improper sexual relationships or fraternization within the team, debilitating mental health issues, non-merit-based promotions, conflict of interest issues, unfair retaliation and the creation of inappropriate memes and social media posts. On May 15, the top two leaders of Trump’s detail sternly dressed down the entire 60-member staff in a virtual meeting, announcing formal investigations into what they argued were serious misconduct violations, several sources in the Secret Service with direct knowledge of the online meeting tell RealClearPolitics. Sean Curran, the detail leader and top boss of Trump’s regular 60-member protective team, and his deputy, Matthew Piant, complained of "rumors, innuendo and toxicity" among the detail, as well as "selfishness and immaturity." They reminded all employees that they had worked to mentor and train them, and, up to this point, had refrained from referring agents and support employees for discipline even though there had been violations that they could have reported to agency headquarters for investigation. Curran and Piant complained that they were not getting the same treatment in response from the team. Over the last year, the two leaders have been the target of formal complaints, and some members on the team viewed the all-hands lecture as an effort to turn the tables and retaliate on those complaining about their leadership. Piant spoke first, accusing someone on the detail of stealing from another. But he quickly shifted to harshly condemning an incident in which a teammate took cellphone photos of two members of the support staff sleeping in a command post while guarding Mar-a-Lago and circulated those to others on the detail. The No. 2 on the detail deemed the prank a betrayal of the team for the purpose of "humor and gossip," according to detailed accounts. Those encountering the sleeping individuals should have simply held the team members accountable by waking them up with a nudge, he said. Related: Secret Service: 2024-08-14 Former agent REVEALS FBI ‘playbook': Grooming the ‘emotionally disturbed' Secret Service: 2024-08-13 Trump assassination task force identifies first major targets as shooting investigation ramps up Secret Service: 2024-08-12 Big Question: How are Ukraine Stakeholders, CIA and U.S. Intelligence Community Going to Stop Donald Trump? |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #13 "Sex, Suicide, And Terrible OpSec" sounds more like the Clintons. |
| Posted by: Woodrow 2024-08-15 22:25 |
| #12 Re #5: So you're against "Bring Your Child to Work" Day? |
| Posted by: Mercutio 2024-08-15 19:13 |
| #11 50/50 she carries a Y chromosome. |
| Posted by: KBK 2024-08-15 18:33 |
| #10 /\ "F-Troop." |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2024-08-15 14:47 |
| #9 #5 seems spot-on. The detail might have the "Leper Colony" nic from 12 O'Clock High in an earlier time. Not sending their brightest by design. |
| Posted by: NoMoreBS 2024-08-15 14:11 |
| #8 The site agent went to do one final sweep of the walking route and found the agent breast-feeding her child in a room that is supposed to be set aside for important Secret Service official work, i.e. a potential emergency related to the president. Well there's the problem right there. What they need are more DEI seminars until they use the proper term 'chestfeeding'. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2024-08-15 13:12 |
| #7 ^ I suspect Cleared Cookies nailed it with his "B-Team" theory. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2024-08-15 12:45 |
| #6 The Secret Service has a cultural problem |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2024-08-15 12:20 |
| #5 No doubt the SS has placed all the agents with "issues" in Trumps detail rather than firing them. Having the B team protect Trump is like asking for failure. |
| Posted by: Cleared Cookies Lost Nic 2024-08-15 12:03 |
| #4 What, pray tell, constitutes an impact on the event? That he didn't get shot...this time.? |
| Posted by: alanc 2024-08-15 11:21 |
| #3 MOAR Susan Crabtree: 🚨🚨EXCLUSIVE and BREAKING: During a Donald Trump visit to North Carolina yesterday, a woman Secret Service special agent abandoned her post to breastfeed with no permission/warning to the event site agent, according to three sources in the Secret Service community. Shortly before Trump's motorcade arrival -- I'm told five minutes beforehand -- the site agent was getting ready for the arrival. (The site agent is the person in charge of the entire event's security.) The site agent went to do one final sweep of the walking route and found the agent breast-feeding her child in a room that is supposed to be set aside for important Secret Service official work, i.e. a potential emergency related to the president. A working agent on duty cannot bring a child to a protective assignment. The woman was out of the Atlanta Field Office. The woman agent was in the room with two other family members. The agent and her family members bypassed the Uniformed Division checkpoint and were escorted by an unpinned event staff into the room to breastfeed, the sources said. Unpinned means they have not been cleared by the Secret Service to be there. When contacted about the incident, Secret Service spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said the incident did not have an impact on the event. and it's under review. "All employees of the U.S. Secret Service are held to the highest standards," he said. "While there was no impact to the North Carolina event, the specifics of this incident are being examined. Given this is a personnel matter, we are not in a position to comment further." |
| Posted by: Frank G 2024-08-15 11:14 |
| #2 Feature not bug. |
| Posted by: Rex Mundi 2024-08-15 11:13 |
| #1 Well orchestrated chaos ? |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2024-08-15 10:51 |