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Secret Service agent who abandoned post to breastfeed minutes before Trump arrival broke more protocols

August 16, 2024 | | Print Article

Almost one month to the day former President Donald Trump was nearly killed by a would-be assassin who managed to outsmart the Secret Service, an agent with the agency abandoned her post at Trump’s rally in Ashville, North Carolina, without permission to breastfeed her baby.

That’s according to RealClearPolitics correspondent Susan Crabtree, who said in an exclusive report that “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.”

The failed assassination on July 13 was marked by several female agents who appeared to be overwhelmed by the chaos unfolding before them, seemingly lost and unsure of what to do, and the female agent’s alleged actions at Trump’s rally on Wednesday, August 14, only adds to the controversy.

“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,” Crabtree reported.

After pointing out that a working agent on duty cannot bring a child to a protective assignment, Crabtree said the agent was in the room with two other family members.

“The agent and her family members bypassed the Uniformed Division checkpoint and were escorted by an unpinned event staff into the room to breastfeed, the sources said. Unpinned means they have not been cleared by the Secret Service to be there,” the reporter added.

Secret Service spokesman Anthony Guglielmi told Crabtree that the incident did not have an impact on the event, but is under review.

“All employees of the U.S. Secret Service are held to the highest standards,” Guglielmi said. “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.”

Conservative personality Matt Walsh, who believes radical gender ideology is a cultural disease that’s plaguing America, was very vocal about the alleged incident.

“It’s absurd for a Secret Service agent to be breastfeeding on the job,” he posted on X. “However it would also be absurd for a Secret Service agent to breastfeed at home on her own time.”

“It’s absurd and morally grotesque to have mothers of young children in a position like this at all,” Walsh added. “A Secret Service agent has to be prepared to throw themselves in front of a bullet. A functional, decent society does not ask mothers to do that for anyone but their own children.”

The one consistency from the Secret Service since Trump was almost killed has been a complete lack of accountability for the catastrophic failings seen by the agency that fateful day. There is no confidence the latest blunder will be properly addressed either, and there is no confidence in the woman’s judgment as an agent OR a mother.

Here’s a quick sampling of other responses to the story, as seen on X:

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