Secret Service Goons Put on Leave as Trump Faces Embarrassing Leaks
KENT NISHIMURA / AFP via Getty Images Three Secret Service officials including the agency’s top spokesperson have been suspended as investigators probe a series of leaks that have embarrassed President Donald Trump.
A source told CNN that the agency’s director of communications, Anthony Guglielmi, was among those suspended, and that all three people are from the comms office.
During the probe, they have been restricted from using their security clearances or work devices, the source added.
“Three non-law enforcement personnel at the U.S.
Secret Service have been placed on administrative leave pending an investigation into potential misconduct,” an agency spokesperson said in a statement Tuesday.
“Per policy, this incident is being investigated by the Office of Professional Responsibility.
We are unable to comment further at this time.” The statement continued, saying that the agency’s work demands “unwavering commitment to duty, honesty, and courage.” The Secret Service has been in the spotlight of late.
Security failures on the day of the attempted assassination of Trump at a July 2024 election rally in Pennsylvania raised questions about the agency’s effectiveness, only for the same questions to be raised again when a gunman stormed the White House Correspondents’ Dinner in April this year.
Earlier this month, it was revealed by the Washington Post that the agency oversaw an elaborate scheme to remove Trump from Air Force One, via a catering truck, to a different aircraft after a NATO summit in Turkey because of a potential threat from Iran.
“I just follow what they’d like to do.
So I go by Secret Service.
And the military.
They wanted me to go on a different flight, a different plane, equal safety, but they wanted me to do it, so I do it.
I do what they say,” Trump said after the ruse in Turkey, adding, “I guess there was a threat out there.
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