The Secret Service may be understaffed, overwhelmed and ill-equipped to protect a former president, but it can still afford to send agents to a five-day LGBTQ+ party at Walt Disney World next month.
On Wednesday, the Secret Service's “Office of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion” sent out an email to the entire agency soliciting agents interested in attending (at taxpayer expense) the “2024 Out and Equal Workplace Summit,” to be held at a resort in Orlando, Florida, from October 7-11, Susan Crabtree of RealClearPolitics reported on X.
The agony of time
“When queer people remember our magic, when we fight with a true belief in our awesomeness as well as our misery, we create a movement defined by who we are, not who we are not,” declared one man posing as a woman at the 2023 conference. “And we are love.”
That's why they hate drag queen story hours, pornographic books in schools, and people who oppose “gender-affirming care” for children.
Sending Secret Service agents to the 2024 summit, especially under the current circumstances, “has angered many rank-and-file special agents and uniformed officers,” Crabtree wrote.
Many Secret Service agents work so hard, including seven days a week, that they have already reached a “supermax limit” for overtime pay and can no longer receive it — a phenomenon one special agent described as essentially unpaid work.
Many special agents and uniformed officers say recruiting LGBTQ+ conference candidates in the middle of election season, when resources are so limited, is insensitive, especially in the wake of the J13 assassination attempt on former President Trump that killed Corey Comperatore.
“I'd like to know if they think this is an appropriate use of personnel given the pace of operations (that we're engaged in),” one Secret Service official asked.
Help! DEI needs someone
The answer, of course, is that “they” are so committed to the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) agenda that everything else has taken a back seat, including the safety of the President, Vice President, and candidates. Former President Donald Trump isn't the only one who has suffered because of this. Vice President Kamala Harris, who supposedly supports DEI in theory, was assigned a female Secret Service agent who was subdued for physically attacking a superior officer. The woman, whose work history should never have seen her hired by the Secret Service in the first place, was removed from duty.
“The Secret Service is fully committed to DEI,” The New American reported. “The agency has 'affirmative action' and 'special focus' programs aimed at Black, Hispanic, Native American, Asian and Pacific Islander people, and of course LGBT people. It has no programs aimed at white people.”
Sending agents to an LGBTQ+ summit is always a bad idea, but it's a huge disservice when the Secret Service is under such pressure that it has to enlist the help of other agencies.
On August 29, the Department of Defense announced that it would provide “enhanced support” to the Secret Service through January 20.
Meanwhile, according to the New York Post, the whistleblower told Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Missouri) that “most of the agents who protected Donald Trump during the assassination attempt at his rally in Butler, Pennsylvania in July were Department of Homeland Security officers with minimal security training,” according to Hawley. The training consisted of “a two-hour online webinar,” and “we were told the audio on the webinar didn't work half the time.”
Blame the agency
Hawley was one of those who blasted the Secret Service on X for sending people to the “out and equal” event under these circumstances.
“Are you kidding me,” he wrote. “Butler's Trump agents only received online Zoom training, but does the Secret Service have the resources to host a DEI summit in Orlando? This is outrageous.”
“It would have been nice if the Secret Service had conferences like 'How to Protect Presidential Candidates and Former Presidents' or 'Don't Leave the Rooftop Unattended,'” Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) quipped. “Instead, they're hosting events like this that have nothing to do with keeping those they're protecting safe.”
Rainbow Collection
The Secret Service isn't the only agency providing personnel or support for the “Out and Equal” summit. Crabtree said the meeting is
Many Fortune 500 companies and government agencies participate, and sponsors include many major U.S. companies, including Boeing, Walt Disney Company, Target, McDonald's, Morgan Stanley, Apple, Accenture, JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Experian, Dell Technologies, and Deloitte.
Government agencies include the Central Intelligence Agency and the U.S. Intelligence Community. And, as LifeSiteNews' Doug Mainwaring pointed out, “Out and Equal” is “just the tip of the giant LGBTQ National Intelligence/National Security Agency rainbow iceberg.”
The Secret Service, along with the entire U.S. intelligence community, which is made up of 17 different agencies including the FBI, CIA, Department of Homeland Security, and each branch of the U.S. military, has a decades-long history of pioneering LGBTQ affiliation that preceded and even eclipsed the woke corporate world…
In 2017, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) touted its “IC (Intelligence Community) Pride,” which dates back to at least 1996.
So the Secret Service is simply continuing this trend. But sending people to Disney World when agents are so overwhelmed they can't even protect a former president? Smells like Operation Mickey Mouse.
