I heard tonight one of these yahoos was assigned to the protection of the First Lady, Jill Biden.
If White House detail can be penetrated by such characters, in this administration, what is being allowed to pour across our Southern border?
It's a Trump era "Op". Don't forget that the SS was compromised by Trump's partisan "stink" in an unprecedented manner.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/secret-service-to-make-changes-to-presidential-detail-to-bring-on-agents-who-worked-with-biden/2020/12/30/d6fb8fe8-49ce-11eb-a9d9-1e3ec4a928b9_story.html
Secret Service to make changes to presidential detail to bring on agents who worked with Biden
By
Carol D. Leonnig
December 30, 2020
"... Some in the Secret Service also came under criticism during Trump’s tenure for appearing to embrace his political agenda.
For instance,
some presidential detail members urged other agents and Secret Service officers not to wear masks on presidential trips this year — against the administration’s own public health guidance —
as the president felt wearing masks projected weakness, The Washington Post has reported.
The Secret Service also took the unprecedented step of allowing the former detail leader to temporarily leave his job to become a White House political adviser. Anthony Ornato was hired as White House deputy chief of staff earlier this year. In that role, he helped coordinate a controversial June photo opportunity in which Trump strode defiantly across Lafayette Square to pose with a Bible after
the park was forcibly cleared of peaceful protesters.
Ornato also helped coordinate numerous rallies across the country during the pandemic, per Trump’s wishes. The mass gatherings were blamed for increasing the spread of the
coronavirus in some of the communities where they took place and left many in the ranks of the Secret Service infected or exposed..."
Guests: Nancy Northup
www.msnbc.com
May 17, 2021
"MADDOW: What was the ultimate disposition of the Secret Service official agent who was moved into the Trump White House to take a political role ...I had not known that
he had moved back to the Secret Service as an assistant director.
LEONNIG: He`s an assistant director for training.
He`s very close to the director, the current director, Jim Murray. At the president`s request, at President Trump`s request, he liked his detail leader so much, Tony Ornato, that he asked him to be almost temporarily assigned on a detail as the deputy White House chief of staff.
In that role, the deputy chief of staff and former Secret Service leader was key in clearing the Lafayette Park outside the White House for the June 1 march that the president had to show how tough he was and that he was a law and order president prevailing over the protesters of George Floyd`s murder. He -- that same deputy White House chief of staff was critical in planning the president`s rallies as COVID spiked. And that ultimately led to 300 Secret Service officers and agents that summer either contracting COVID or being exposed to COVID so they had to quarantine away from their coworkers.
It was sort of an amazing thing. It infuriated so many Secret Service alumni because this is an agency that prides itself on objectivity, political independence. As they say in the agency, you know, the people elect them. We just protect them. But in this instance, you had a Secret Service leader working as a political entity and arm of President Trump...."
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