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January 2, 2021, 10:19 am
Secret service agents don’t sign up for the job always knowing who they’re going to be protecting and defending. An agent who is good at their job will likely be working for more than one president, which could mean different parties and agendas. This implies a certain neutrality to the position, but it looks like Donald Trump’s corrupting influence has gotten everywhere.
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According to a new report, a bunch of his secret service agents are being replaced before Joe Biden gets here, because they’re MAGA heads themselves.
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The Washington Post reports that some senior officers who used to serve while Joe Biden was vice president have been called back. A former Secret Service executive told the Post that this was to give Biden the “comfort of the familiar.”
“You want him to be with people he knows and trusts, and who also know how he operates,” they said.
That is probably true, but there are also a lot of shady figures who have gone back and forth from their positions a bit too much for anyone’s comfort (the Post said the Biden team had “concerns”).
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Huff Post named secret service agent turned political aide, Anthony Ornato, as an example. Ornato helped arrange Trump’s awful photo shoot in front of a church holding a bible during the George Floyd protests in D.C., and arranged a number of his political rallies (the ones where no one wore masks and packed into arenas).
So Ornato is out. It’s not clear how many more might have to go, but a number of Trump’s assigned agents apparently tried to convince their colleagues to not wear masks on trips. More than one of them did that, which might explain why 130 secret service agents have either tested positive for COVID-19 or been quarantined after exposure.
*First Published: January 2, 2021, 10:19 am
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