Is The U.S. Secret Service Going Rogue Against President Trump?

U.S. Secret Service agents stand at their posts as the Marine One helicopter departs to fly to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, October 2. REUTERS/Leah Millis 

Jacob Heilbrunn, National Interest: The Secret Service Is Going Rogue—Against Donald Trump 

The job of the Secret Service is to protect the president of the United States. It is not to engage in political commentary. But it is clear that this line is being erased by the elite service. Indeed, as active-duty agents are quoted in the media criticizing Donald Trump, it is increasingly clear that the Secret Service is going rogue. 

After Trump briefly circumnavigated Walter Reed hospital in a Suburban, criticisms of the president were widespread. Many of them were justified. But those criticizing the president also included Secret Service agents, a development that no one should welcome. 

Here are some of the eyebrow-raising remarks that agents made. The Washington Post reported that an agent said, “He’s not even pretending to care now.” And CNN reported the gripes of a number of agents:

  "That should never have happened," one current Secret Service agent who works on the presidential and first family detail said after Trump's drive-by, adding that those agents who went along for the ride would now be required to quarantine. 

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WNU Editor: I remember listening last year to a recently retired Secret Service agent saying that in terms of quantity of threats, President Trump has received more than any other past President. Considering how much hate there is in the media and in social media against President Trump, that should surprise no one. But if the above story is true that the US Secret Service is going rogue .... oh oh .... we definitely have a big problem.

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