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Growing alarm about DEI persisting in Secret Service: report

February 15, 2025 | | Print Article

The U.S. Secret Service may now be under new leadership but there is reportedly concern that USSS Director Sean Curran isn’t quickly rooting out the cancerous presence of DEI that’s the Biden administration’s legacy.

According to investigative reporter Susan Crabtree of RealClearPolitics, agents are “growing increasingly alarmed” over Curran’s dragging his feet to end the Biden DEI hiring and training priorities even though President Donald J. Trump has issued an executive order directing federal agencies to do so.

“There’s a trans special agent trainee who gendered female at birth but transitioned to a male but wants to continue using female PT standards while being addressed as a man and using the men’s bathrooms, according to several Secret Service sources. The recruit was going through training at the Secret Service’s Rowley Training Center as of late January, after Trump officially named Curran as the new director,” Crabtree wrote in a Friday post to X.

“I was told by two sources that the Secret Service was allowing this person to use female PT standards while identifying as male, but that decision had spurred resentment among the male rank-and-file agents,” she reported, noting that she was providing the information due to feedback received after a female USSS special agent trainee shot herself in the leg earlier this week and had to be airlifted to a hospital in Baltimore, MD.

In her post, Crabtree updated her scoop on the trainee’s self-inflicted gunshot wound.

“I’ve since learned that the woman trainee who shot herself on Monday during a nighttime training exercise at the Secret Service’s Rowley Training Center previously served as a Uniformed Division officer (guarding the White House) so did have regular experience with weapons handling and no prior incidents,” she wrote.

“I’m told by one source that she was known as smart and a respected UD officer and is back in training despite the self-inflicted wound. The agent is not facing anything life-threatening from the incident, although I’m told the doctors left the bullet in her thigh because it would cause more damage to remove it,” Crabtree added. “She does happen to be the daughter of the Secret Service ombusdman, so she is known as a ‘legacy hire.'”

DEI in the ranks of those tasked with protecting Trump has gotten public attention since the then-GOP presidential candidate was nearly assassinated in July 2024 at a rally in Butler, PA with the performance of the female agents drawing strong criticism after an inexplicable series of failures allowed the would-be assassin to set up on a rooftop with a clear shot at the stage, nearly blowing Trump’s head off.

“These types of accidental discharges involving agents shooting themselves or someone else are very rare, though I’m told there’s an incident roughly every few years. One of the most recent ones involved a male Secret Service agent in New York City shooting off his finger, according to two sources,” Crabtree said, adding that the “Secret Service spokesman told me the agency’s Office of Professional Responsiblity is investigating the incident.”

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