Rancor, rancour, and severe official misconduct issues have plagued all levels of the Secret Service depth assigned to protect former president Donald Trump over the past year, according to a new document from Susan Crabtree at RealClearPolitics. The team’s main focus was to stop the team from preventing the assassination attempt a fortnight ago today and protecting Trump from bodily harm from the dysfunction.
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” Trump’s standard detail team, a force of 60 people – specific agents and support staff – has been beset by domestic division, long days and weeks, and constant stress. Last season, the group lost one of its members to suicide”, the report , says. ” Also mentioned are allegations of inappropriate intimate relationships or fraternization within the team, as well as those relating to devastating mental health issues, promotions that are not merit-based, conflicts of interest, unfair retaliation, and inappropriate memes and social media posts,” the statement reads.
According to several Secret Service resources with strong understanding of the online meeting, the top two leaders of Trump’s information severely debuted official investigations into what they claimed were severe misbehavior violations on May 15.
Sean Curran, the information leader and best director of Trump’s standard 60-member safe team, and his deputy, Matthew Piant, complained of “rumors, innuendo and toxicity” among the detail, as well as” selfishness and immaturity”.
They reaffirmed to all employees that they had worked to mentor and train them, and that they had not resisted referring agents or supporting staff members for discipline despite the fact that there had been violations they could have reported to agency headquarters for investigation.
Curran and Piant complained to the team that their treatment did not match up. The two leaders have been the target of formal complaints for the past year, and some team members saw the all-hands lecture as an attempt to turn things around and punish those who complained about their leadership.
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Piant quickly turned the discussion to a more pressing issue after accusing a Secret Service employee of stealing from a coworker during the meeting.  ,
He criticized a team member’s prank by posting photos of two support staff members sleeping at Mar-a-Lago while they were on duty. This hardly sounds like the epitome of professionalism, does it?  ,
The critics ‘ criticism of Mar-a-Lago’s springtime employment activity was especially egregious because of several recent Secret Service security breaches, including one where a drunken intruder broke into a home belonging to Biden’s national security adviser Jake Sullivan in the middle of the night. Sullivan has 24/7 Secret Service protective detail because of the high-profile and sensitive nature of his job, but that incident occurred in April 2023.
After Piant, Curran spoke out of deep disappointment in the team, echoing the idea that the pranksters had put the safety of their teammates in jeopardy just for a laugh.
At the conclusion of the virtual meeting, Curran claimed to be issuing a final warning to the entire team. He said he might have to do so if everyone stopped supporting one another, even though he did n’t want to alert headquarters to the violations of a small number of people.
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The report contains a lot more details, but ultimately the key takeaway is that dysfunction exists within the Secret Service and cannot be easily corrected.
