We saw in the wake of the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, an incredible amount of failures and problems revealed with the Secret Service protection on that day, as well as other Secret Service coverage.
In addition to the unbelievable failures in Butler, there have been other big problems, including the recent report from Susan Crabtree of Real Clear Politics about the Secret Service agent who was supposed to be on duty assisting with Trump’s visit to North Carolina on Wednesday who just walked off the job to breastfeed her child, allegedly without permission or warning her superiors.
How is that even possible? And how does she still have a job after doing that? The Secret Service said that the circumstances of the situation are now being “examined,” as we reported. But when you see all the “mistakes,” it’s no wonder people are very concerned about Trump’s safety and, more broadly, what’s going on with the Secret Service.
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Now, Crabtree has another breaking report, and this time, it concerns former Secret Service Director Kim Cheatle, who resigned last month in disgrace after a bipartisan Congressional grilling over the failures surrounding the Trump protection in Butler. But guess what? Now, she is being given Secret Service protection — on the orders of Joe Biden, according to Crabtree.
🚨🚨EXCLUSIVE and BREAKING:
Biden ordered Secret Service Protection for Former Agency ChiefThe Secret Service is providing Kimberly Cheatle, its former director who resigned last month, a security detail in an unprecedented effort to protect a former agency chief amid lingering… pic.twitter.com/uaMSWtB4Hs
— Susan Crabtree (@susancrabtree) August 16, 2024
The Secret Service is providing Kimberly Cheatle, its former director who resigned last month, a security detail in an unprecedented effort to protect a former agency chief amid lingering national anger about the myriad security lapses under her watch. Those failures led to the assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump and the killing of firefighter Corey Comperatore, according to three sources in the Secret Service community.
Cheatle has faced an ongoing firestorm of fury from American citizens, and even rank-and-file Secret Service special agents and officers, over the agency’s failures that created an opening for shooter Thomas Crooks to open fire on Trump, piercing his ear and killing Comperatore in front of his family and wounding two other rally-goers.
President Biden ordered the taxpayer-funded protection for Cheatle, these sources say, because she was facing numerous threats, especially on social media from individuals angered by the agency’s failures on July 13 and her lack of transparency during her testimony to the House Oversight Committee July 22. She resigned the next day.
Threatening indivduals have also approached her, knowledgable sources tell RCP.
Now, Biden can authorize such protection, that’s within his powers. But it’s just incredible that after all the failures that she was in charge of regarding Trump, Biden is now giving her protection. And we’re paying for it.
Is this an effort to make her a victim here? Trump was the victim here — he almost was killed because of the failure to protect him.
Will they do a better job for her than they have for Trump? How about making sure that Trump’s protection is adequate and answering the questions surrounding the failures? Biden didn’t want to give Robert F. Kennedy Jr. protection, even after what happened to his father and his uncle, and threats against him, until Biden was shamed into it after the attempt on Trump. Yet he appears to jump to protect Cheatle.
The Bidens are close to Cheatle from her time protecting Biden on the vice presidential detail. First lady Jill Biden helped select her for the director role in 2022, the New York Post first reported and sources in the Secret Service community confirmed to RCP.
The Secret Service spokesman, Anthony Guglielmi, said they don’t talk about “protective intelligence” or employees and refused to confirm the report. That sounds a lot like a non-confirmation that’s a confirmation since she’s no longer an employee.
People just couldn’t believe it.
Incredible. She couldn’t protect a former president, but we should pay to protect her. https://t.co/YBgrf6b8sg
— Cathi Warren, friend of writers (@CathiKingWarren) August 16, 2024
What you wanna bet she’ll have better people assigned to her than Trump?😀
— Jim Gallagher (@1SweetTater) August 16, 2024
