An investigative reporter for RealClearPolitics is claiming that despite President Donald Trump’s day one executive order mandating that all federal agencies ditch Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion policies and officials, the U.S. Secret Service has yet to fully embrace that. In a lengthy X post, RCP correspondent Susan Crabtree, citing unnamed sources, claimed that the DEI protocols appeared to still be in place while making additional shocking revelations about the protective agency.
She wrote:
BREAKING AND EXCLUSIVE RE: DEI IN THE SECRET SERVICE: Agents in the Secret Service are growing increasingly alarmed that new USSS Director Sean Curran is not immediately halting the Biden Administration’s DEI hiring and training priorities despite Pres. Trump’s executive order mandating that all executive agencies do so.
There’s a trans special agent trainee who gendered female at birth but transitioned to a male but wants to continue using female PT standards while being addressed as a man and using the men’s bathrooms, according to several Secret Service sources. The recruit was going through training at the Secret Service’s Rowley Training Center as of late January, after Trump officially named Curran as the new director.
I was told by two sources that the Secret Service was allowing this person to use female PT standards while identifying as male, but that decision had spurred resentment among the male rank-and-file agents.
I provide this new information partly in response to some feedback I’ve received about the female special agent trainee who shot herself in the thigh Monday and had to be airlifted to a Baltimore hospital.
I’ve since learned that the woman trainee who shot herself on Monday during a nighttime training exercise at the Secret Service’s Rowley Training Center previously served as a Uniformed Division officer (guarding the White House) so did have regular experience with weapons handling and no prior incidents.
I’m told by one source that she was known as smart and a respected UD officer and is back in training despite the self-inflicted wound. The agent is not facing anything life-threatening from the incident, although I’m told the doctors left the bullet in her thigh because it would cause more damage to remove it.
She does happen to be the daughter of the Secret Service ombusdman, so she is known as a “legacy hire.”
Last night the Secret Service spokesman told me the agency’s Office of Professional Responsiblity is investigating the incident.
These types of accidental discharges involving agents shooting themselves or someone else are very rare, though I’m told there’s an incident roughly every few years. One of the most recent ones involved a male Secret Service agent in New York City shooting off his finger, according to two sources.
In an interesting side note, a Butler County law enforcement officer who left his post inside the AGR Building (where he was supposed to be serving as a countersniper) to go look for would-be assassin Thomas Crooks on J13 had shot himself in the foot roughly one year prior, according to a local news website.
Curran, who headed up Trump’s protective detail for several years, was the first to reach the then-former president after he was nicked in the ear by a would-be assassin’s bullet in Butler, Pa. He is reportedly staunchly pro-Trump and was considered to be a reliable hire for Secret Service director.
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