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riversedge

(70,221 posts)
Wed May 12, 2021, 08:57 AM May 2021

Book claims Trump family members were 'inappropriately' close with Secret Service agents




Book claims Trump family members were 'inappropriately' close with Secret Service agents


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Book claims Trump family members were 'inappropriately' close with Secret Service agents


https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/552915-book-claims-trump-family-members-were-inappropriately-close
By Mychael Schnell - 05/11/21 02:58 PM EDT




Two members of former President Trump’s family were “inappropriately — and perhaps dangerously — close” to Secret Service agents assigned to their detail while Trump was in office, according to a new book.

The claims, which involve Vanessa Trump, the now ex-wife of Donald Trump Jr., and Tiffany Trump, the former president’s youngest daughter, come from Washington Post reporter Carol Leonnig's "Zero Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service," which is set to publish next week and a copy of which was obtained by The Guardian.
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According to Leonnig, as cited by The Guardian, the agent involved in the relationship did not face disciplinary action because neither he nor the Secret Service were official protectors of Vanessa Trump at that point.
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Agents are forbidden from having personal relationships with people they are assigned to protect, The Guardian noted.

Tiffany Trump and the agent both reportedly said nothing untoward was occurring, pointing out that agents have to spend time alone with their charges as part of the job.

Nonetheless, the agent was reportedly reassigned........................
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Book claims Trump family members were 'inappropriately' close with Secret Service agents (Original Post) riversedge May 2021 OP
Too early for this story Best_man23 May 2021 #1
Pillowtalk must have been interesting... HipChick May 2021 #2
Is there nothing these people haven't ruined? dsc May 2021 #3

HipChick

(25,485 posts)
2. Pillowtalk must have been interesting...
Wed May 12, 2021, 09:11 AM
May 2021

wonder which ex-secret service agent will come out with tell all book...

dsc

(52,162 posts)
3. Is there nothing these people haven't ruined?
Wed May 12, 2021, 09:14 AM
May 2021

I will say, I knew they would be bad. I had really no good expectations going in, but the degree to which they were so much worse than I thought they would be is totally mindblowing.

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