ASHEVILLE, NC - A breach in Secret Service security surrounding President Donald Trump left the 2024 Republican Presidential nominee vulnerable to potential attack on Wednesday when an agent on his detail reportedly abandoned her post to breastfeed her child according to reports.
The original report was broken by Susan Crabtree for RealClearPolitics in a post to X. Crabtree wrote, "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."
Crabtree cited "three sources in the Secret Service community."
Crabtree continued, "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 Secret Service spokesman Anthony Guglielmi speaking to RealClear Politics told Crabtree, "All employees of the U.S. Secret Service are held to the highest standards. 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."
According to the report, the agent and her family managed to bypass the checkpoint manned by the Uniformed Division of the Secret Service and were escorted by unvetted event staffers to the specially designated room where she breastfed.
The agent, reportedly from the Atlanta Field Office, as a working agent on duty was not permitted to bring a child on a protective detail and had two other family members in the room with her according to Crabtree.
The original report was broken by Susan Crabtree for RealClearPolitics in a post to X. Crabtree wrote, "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."
Crabtree cited "three sources in the Secret Service community."
🚨🚨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.
— Susan Crabtree (@susancrabtree) August 15, 2024
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Crabtree continued, "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 Secret Service spokesman Anthony Guglielmi speaking to RealClear Politics told Crabtree, "All employees of the U.S. Secret Service are held to the highest standards. 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."
According to the report, the agent and her family managed to bypass the checkpoint manned by the Uniformed Division of the Secret Service and were escorted by unvetted event staffers to the specially designated room where she breastfed.
The agent, reportedly from the Atlanta Field Office, as a working agent on duty was not permitted to bring a child on a protective detail and had two other family members in the room with her according to Crabtree.
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2024-08-18T16:52-0400 | Comment by: Barry
Another DEI hire, no doubt. When 'DEI' hiring INTERFERES with the PRIMARY function of an organization.....it's time to show DEI the door.