The Secret Service seems unfazed by the recent assassination attempt on Trump, as they allowed another security breach to occur during another campaign rally of Donald Trump in Asheville, North Carolina, last Wednesday.
A female Secret Service agent seemed to prioritize motherhood more than doing her job when she abandoned her post to breastfeed without informing the site agent (the head of security).
According to RealClearPolitics, the agent left her post just minutes before Trump’s motorcade arrived at the venue to breastfeed her infant in a room allocated for the agency.
Reports say that when the site agent swept the area for the final checking of Trump’s route, they noticed that the assigned agent was not in her post and was later found in the side room with her family members, who were not vetted by security.
The Secret Service is now investigating its latest gaffe.
According to three Secret Service sources, the side room, where the agent is nursing her child, was allocated for agency work in case of a presidential emergency.
Moreover, agents are not allowed to bring a child while doing a protective assignment.
The female agent was from the Atlanta Field Office, sources say, and was in the room with two family members.
Worse, her family members avoided the security screening and instead were escorted by the staff into the area.
The agency was also embroiled in another controversy after a Homeland Security Investigations agent during a campaign event for Trump’s VP, Senator JD Vance, was photographed wearing a Secret Service patch on his armor vest.
The Secret Services admitted oversight and stressed that an investigation is ongoing.
“All employees of the U.S. Secret Service are held to the highest standards. While there was no impact on 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,” a spokesperson for the agency said.
A source familiar with the issue noted that the HSI agent violated protocols.
“Secret Service providing patches to other agencies is not standard practice,” the source told DailyMail.com.
“It’s definitely against agency protocol.”
The official spokesperson for the Secret Service remarked that internal action, as well as policy changes, has already taken place.
“The U.S. Secret Service became aware of a photo where a member of another law enforcement agency is improperly wearing a Secret Service patch,” the spokesperson said.
“Corrective action has been taken and guidance has been distributed to the workforce regarding the use of agency insignias.”
