A Secret Service agent left her post to breastfeed a child during Donald Trump’s North Carolina rally, according to Real Clear Politics’ Susan Crabtree.
The agent was found by the site agent, the person responsible for the event’s security, minutes before Trump’s motorcade arrived.
“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.
Two of the agent’s family members were also in the room, having bypassed the Uniformed Division checkpoint.
Secret Service spokesman Anthony Guglielmi told Crabtree that the incident did not impact the event.
“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,” Guglielmi told Crabtree.
The incident is the latest controversy surrounding the Secret Service.
After its numerous security failures during Trump’s July 13 rally, whistleblowers have come forward to expose the agency’s dereliction of duties.
One whistleblower revealed that the Secret Service did not conduct a typical security check of the rally site in Pennsylvania where former president Donald Trump was almost assassinated.
In a letter to Secret Service Acting Director Ronald Rowe, Republican Sen. Josh Hawley said that the whistleblower told his office that the Secret Service Counter Surveillance Division (CSD) did not perform a threat assessment that day. “The whistleblower claims that if personnel from CSD had been present at the rally, the gunman would have been handcuffed in the parking lot after being spotted with a rangefinder,” he wrote.
Another whistleblower alleged that Acting U.S. Secret Service (USSS) Director Ronald Row “personally directed significant cuts to the Secret Service Counter Surveillance Division (CSD).”
