The Secret Service's 30×30 program (the brainchild of disgraced former Director Kim Cheatle to have 30% of its positions filled by women by 2030) has worked wonders.
Yesterday during a campaign event for Donald Trump in North Carolina, a female Secret Service agent stopped work to breastfeed her baby.
Even more shocking was the revelation that agents were seen falling asleep on the job at Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.
The exposé by Susan Crabtree of RealClearPolitics (RCP) was two more stains on the once highly regarded media outlet, culminating in Cheatle's management's emphasis on diversity, equity and inclusion, which culminated in President Trump's near assassination in July.
Feeding time
Crabtree exposed the baby-feeding scandal on X.
Three sources within the law enforcement “community” told Crabtree that “special agents abandoned their posts at the event venue without permission or warning to breastfeed,” Crabtree wrote.
Shortly before President Trump's motorcade arrived (we were told five minutes before), venue security was preparing for its arrival (venue security is the person in charge of security for the entire event).
Agents in the field were making one last check of the walking route when they discovered an agent breastfeeding her child in a room that was supposed to be reserved for essential Secret Service business, such as emergencies related to the president.
The female agent is based in the Atlanta bureau and violated bureau policy by bringing a child on a protective assignment, and there were two family members in the room.
To their surprise, the agent and his family walked easily through a Uniformed Division checkpoint and were being escorted by someone not authorized by the agent, Crabtree explained.
CIA spokesman Anthony Guglielmi, who has been fielding unwelcome questions since the nearly assassination attempt on President Trump while guarding him in Butler, Pennsylvania, insisted that breastfeeding breaks for female agents had no consequences.
Of course, there's no explanation as to why a nursing mother would be guarding a presidential candidate.
More problems with Trump's SS details
If Crabtree's report on the RCP website is true, Guglielmi could be in the tough position of answering questions in the near future.
“Hate, vilification and complaints of serious misconduct have run rampant at every level of the Secret Service assigned to protect former President Donald Trump over the past year, distracting from the team's core mission of protecting Mr. Trump from physical harm and preventing assassination,” she reported.
Trump's full-time task force, made up of 60 special agents and support staff, has been plagued by internal divisions, long hours and constant stress, including the death of one team member by suicide last year.
The allegations include inappropriate sexual relationships and dating within the team, debilitating mental health issues, promotions not based on merit, conflict of interest issues, unfair retaliation, and the creation of inappropriate memes and social media posts.
Sources told Crabtree that two of Trump's top aides, Sean Curran and Matthew Piant, his number one and number two, had told their staff that an investigation into misconduct was about to begin.
Taking a nap at Mar-a-Lago
Piant told his team that one agent had stolen from another, but “he soon began to chastise him for an incident during which a teammate took a cell phone photo of two support staff members asleep in a command post while guarding Mar-a-Lago and circulated the photo to other members of the force,” Crabtree said.
He said the prank was a betrayal of the team and that whoever took the photo should have just woken up the agents.
Continued Crabtree:
But some rank-and-file members of the task force familiar with the dozing-off incidents said what really upsets them is that, to their knowledge, no disciplinary action was taken against those who fell asleep while guarding Mar-a-Lago. At least one of them, they noted, was the daughter of a former leader who continues to wield influence among Secret Service officials.
Critics said this spring's sleeping-at-work incident at Mar-a-Lago was especially egregious given a series of recent security breaches across the Secret Service, including a drunken intruder breaking into the home of President Biden's national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, in the middle of the night in April 2023. That incident happened even though Sullivan had around-the-clock Secret Service protection because of the high-profile and sensitive nature of his job.
Curran told his team they needed to do more or he might report them to headquarters.
DEI agents provide security for rally in Butler
Crabtree also revealed that on July 13, the day Thomas Matthew Crooks attempted to assassinate former President Trump, the person providing security for Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, was a junior female agent. The woman posted photos of the security assignment on social media. In fact, the two top agents working on the case were women. The second was also a junior agent.
“As part of President Trump's 60-person full-time security force, the agent was responsible for helping develop security plans for the event, but was primarily focused on providing security for the inner perimeter,” Crabtree reported.
She also worked with the event's lead agent, a woman from the Secret Service's Pittsburgh office, and conducted a thorough security review with the supervisor. The lead agent typically oversees security for the entire event, from airport arrival to the event, hotel stay, and airport departure.
An RCP analysis of the Butler rally site agent's Facebook account revealed a photo that appeared to be taken looking out over the intercoastal waterway from Mar-a-Lago.
Secret Service sources said the agents on the ground were new to such high-stakes security work, but that the position is rotated within Trump's unit and not routinely assigned based on merit or experience.
There is now concern within the Secret Service that the agent on-site at the Butler rally will be held accountable for the egregious security lapses at the event — that Lowe may fire her for her social media posts but not for the security lapses at the July 13 event.
In contrast, the lead agent had decades of experience within the Secret Service but no experience in security roles.
Additionally, video of the assassination attempt showed female agents appearing to have no idea what they were doing.
One of them couldn't holster his gun, another was pacing around clueless, and the third was fiddling with his sunglasses and adjusting his coat.
Getting used to the salon
All of these cases have one thing in common: the presence of a female agent. As The New American reported a few days ago, a female agent was involved in breaking into a salon during Vice President Kamala Harris' campaign and was seen covering the salon's security camera lens with tape.
And as Crabtree observed, one of Cheatle's DEI agents guarding Harris went berserk at Joint Base Andrews, attacking her supervisor and a fellow agent. She threw sanitary napkins at a fellow agent and had a mental breakdown. The agent failed a key test during training, but Cheatle, then head of the Secret Service's Raleigh Training Center, passed her anyway.
Cheatle became director of the Secret Service because she was the girlfriend of First Lady “Dr.” Jill Biden.
