Secret Service to make changes to presidential detail to bring on agents who worked with Biden

[Dennis Donovan]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/secret-service-to-make-changes-to-presidential-detail-to-bring-on-agents-who-worked-with-biden/2020/12/30/d6fb8fe8-49ce-11eb-a9d9-1e3ec4a928b9_story.html

By Carol D. Leonnig

Dec. 30, 2020 at 7:30 p.m. EST

The Secret Service is making some staff changes in the presidential detail that will guard President-elect Joe Biden, amid concerns from Biden allies that some current members were politically aligned with President Trump, according to two people familiar with the changes.

As Biden readies his new administration, the Secret Service plans to bring back to the White House detail a handful of senior agents whom Biden knows well from their work more than four years ago guarding him and his family when he was vice president.

Staff changes are typical with the arrival of a new president and are designed to increase the trust and comfort the incoming president feels with his protective agents, who often stand by the president’s side during sensitive discussions and private moments.

But the shifts underway occur at a particularly contentious time, as Trump has blamed his reelection loss on unfounded allegations of voter fraud and has sought to block his administration from treating Biden as the president-elect. Some in the Secret Service also came under criticism during Trump’s tenure for appearing to embrace his political agenda.

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Good idea...

[Thomas Hurt]

1. Trump Stank...

[TeamPooka]

2. Time to purge the SS

[Xipe Totec]

14. Defunk the SS. nt

[IthinkThereforeIAM]

17. Transfer the Trump SS detail to the Treasury Dept Counterfeiting office...

... where they will have no contact with Biden or Harris, but still get their paychecks and time towards their pension/FERS accounts.

[Woodycall]

19. Kind of like...

switching juries in The Untouchables!

[Cha]

3. Wow.. this is Grand! I'm so grateful

they're doing this!

[sheshe2]

4. Bravo.

Good job.

Protect him at all costs.

[JI7]

5. The Secret Service should go back under Treasury. And remember they made many errors during Obama's

time in office.

Like that idiot couple that got in at some state dinner who shouldn't have been there. I guess we got lucky that it was a couple harmless fame seekers but it showed the problems there were.

Wasn't there also a time someone armed was with Obama ?

[helpisontheway]

8. I remember when some man actually entered the White House during Obama years

and was caught by an off duty agent.

[lunatica]

11. There was two times when they were totally unprofessional in

other countries. It happened twice that I know of that the detail that goes to foreign countries first to set up security for the POTUS visit were carousing and partying with prostitutes and getting drunk. It was an embarrassment.

[JI7]

12. That also. Another reason to bring them back under Treasury

[BGBD]

6. So......

If there are USSS agents who they don't think should be guarding the President because of their political leanings.....those same agents shouldn't be USSS agents at all.

[dflprincess]

7. This

[JI7]

9. I don't think it's a known thing but just another thing Trump has Ruined

That there is evena question about it.

[2naSalit]

10. That is the correct response.

I would have thought they would have done some screening for that earlier.

[Traildogbob]

13. They got spoiled

At pricy golf courses with all the fixens, on our dime. Maybe some Epstein treats while at Mar-A-Logo. After loyalty pledges.

[thesquanderer]

15. Between now and Jan 21, they are protecting both of them...

...and on inauguration day, if reports are correct, a bunch of those agents are going to be in Florida when Biden becomes President, too.

[iluvtennis]

16. This is a great idea. Bravo. nt

[BainsBane]

18. They support Trump after he gave dozens of them COVID

Those agents are too stupid to serve in that job.

[Joinfortmill]

20. Wow. It's all corrupted.

[TomDaisy]

21. Dan Bing Bongo was a Secret Service agent. That's scary.

[MustLoveBeagles]

22. K&R

[napi21]

23. They should be removed from their jobs as agents! Their job is to secure the safety of the subject

to whom they are assigned, PERIOD! Each agent is never going to like every person they are assigned to. That's just human nature. They don't have to LIKE the person, just protect them. I'm positive not every agent liked DT, but they would have given their life to protect him. If they can't put personal feelings aside, then they shouldn't be SS!

[walkingman]

24. How would you like to be the SS agents assigned to Trump for the rest of his life?