The U.S. Secret Service has acted with such breath-taking incompetence that former President Donald Trump, the GOP’s presidential candidate, narrowly escaped being murdered by at least two would-be assassins.
What is this criminally negligent agency going to do next?
It’s going to Disney World!
That’s right. USSS staff are off to Orlando, Florida, next week for a taxpayer-funded, four-day summit on the LGBTQ agenda in the land of Mickey, Pluto, and Goofy.
As RealClearPolitics’ National Political Correspondent Susan Crabtree first reported earlier this month, the Secret Service’s Office of Equity Diversity and Inclusion was seeking “nominees to participate in “an all-expense paid trip” to an LGBTQ+ “Out and Equal” Workplace Summit at Disney World Oct 7-10. All branches of the USSS — Special Agent, Uniformed Division, Technical Law Enforcement and Administrative, Professional and Technical — were encouraged to apply, according to an agency email obtained by Crabtree.
Outcry, particularly from within the agency, has Secret Service brass changing course, however, with officials suddenly limiting representation at the summit to non-law enforcement employees, Fox News Digital reported late last week.
‘We Are in a Moment’
The leftist indoctrination summit, apparently a Biden-Harris administration priority as Secret Service agents complain of being overworked and understaffed, is titled “Illuminating Truth, Community, and the Path Forward,” according to Out & Equal’s website. The nonprofit works “exclusively on LGBTQ+ workplace equity, inclusion and belonging,” which anyone in dignitary protection knows are subjects vital to protecting former presidents and presidential candidates mostly loathed by LGBTQ activists.
“We are in a moment when the voices and actions of a few are attempting to dim the light and progress of an entire movement,” the group asserts. “And while it may seem overwhelming, we must remember our potential, our strength, and our value. In times of adversity, doubt, and challenge, Queer joy and resilience will always outshine and persevere.”
Over the weekend, Trump’s campaign was forced to move a planned outdoor rally in Prairie du Chien, Wis., to a smaller indoor venue because the Secret Service was short-handed. The protection details had their hands full providing security for foreign dignitaries at the United Nations General Assembly in New York. So the guy that USSS agents failed to protect at the July 13 campaign rally in Butler, Penn., the guy who miraculously survived being shot, was out of luck.
“Our personnel and equipment are being pushed to their limits to sustain the current operational tempo,” an unidentified Secret Service official told CBS News last week “This proposed Wisconsin event also took place during the United Nations General Assembly, where the Secret Service is responsible for the safety and security of over 140 world leaders amid a challenged global threat level.”
And foreign leaders take precedent over protecting the life of a former U.S. president, who also happens to be the Biden-Harris administration’s top political enemy.
Perhaps the Secret Service’s new-found “Queer Joy and resilience” attained at next week’s LGBTQ indoctrination camp will help the disgraced agency check off more identity politics, but it will do nothing to stop the next leftist lunatic from his mission to “finish the job.”
‘Tone Deaf’
Last week, the House’s bipartisan task force investigating the attempts on Trump’s life underlined a litany of Secret Service failures.
“In the days leading up to the rally, it was not a single mistake that allowed [the shooter at the July 13 rally] to outmaneuver one of our country’s most elite group of security professionals. There were security failures on multiple fronts,” said Rep. Mike Kelly, R-Penn., co-chair of the committee.
Sen. Chuck Grassley, a senior member and former chairman of the Senate Judiciary committee, has been investigating the Secret Service’s policies and procedures following the assassination attempts in Butler, Penn., and more recently at Trump’s golf course in West Palm Beach, Fla. The Iowa Republican told me in an interview last week on NewsRadio 1040 WHO in Des Moines that he, like other congressional colleagues, has been stonewalled by the agency, as well as the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security. Grassley has been able to make some critical evidence public, including bodycam footage from the July 13 attack.
The senator believes the Secret Service’s negligence wasn’t willful, but rather the markings of another arrogantly stubborn federal agency. Grassley said the USSS may be finally starting to get it that they don’t have all the answers and that they’re going to have to break out of the status quo.
But the Secret Service, like agencies throughout the Biden-Harris administration, have put identity politics and social engineering above security and protection, particularly, it appears, in protecting Donald Trump — the left’s Public Enemy No. 1.
As Crabtree reported, rank-and-file agents have taken issue with the Department of Homeland Security’s and the Secret Service’s skewed sense of priorities. She noted officers have complained that sending agents and others to the LGBTQ conference during an intense campaign season “is tone-deaf when resources are stretched so thin.”
“I would like to know with the operational tempo [we’re under], how they think this is an appropriate use of manpower?” one source in the Secret Service community asked, according to Crabtree.
Apparently USSS leadership got the message.
In a statement to Fox News Digital late last week, a Secret Service communications official said, “Due to its current operational tempo, the U.S. Secret Service is limiting participation in conferences to only those personnel who have no impact on current protective operations.”
“Two U.S. Secret Service administrative staff members, who are responsible for the implementation of federal special emphasis programs, are attending the 2024 Out & Equal Workplace Summit. These personnel are not law enforcement.”
While manpower may be strained, USSS agents can take pride in knowing that some of their colleagues will be pressed to learn “Strategies for Supercharging LGBTQ+ ERG [Employee Research Group] Impact” and for “Shattering the Lavender Ceiling,” to foster “Trans and Nonbinary Leadership Development.”
I’m sure Trump and his running mate, Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, their families, friends, and supporters will sleep easier knowing the agents sworn to protect them have cultivated their “Personal Queer Power for Change.”
Matt Kittle is a senior elections correspondent for The Federalist. An award-winning investigative reporter and 30-year veteran of print, broadcast, and online journalism, Kittle previously served as the executive director of Empower Wisconsin.
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