An Ornato anecdote / reminder

[swag]

". . .The Secret Service also took the unprecedented step of allowing the former detail leader to temporarily leave his job to become a White House political adviser. Anthony Ornato was hired as White House deputy chief of staff earlier this year. In that role, he helped coordinate a controversial June photo opportunity in which Trump strode defiantly across Lafayette Square to pose with a Bible after the park was forcibly cleared of peaceful protesters."

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

h/t @brianbeutler

[MustLoveBeagles]

1. K&R

[Ilsa]

2. K&R nt

[Maraya1969]

3. No paywall link

https://archive.ph/KEEL8

[Hortensis]

6. TYVM, Maraya.

[SunSeeker]

4. Of course. Trump made sure his Secret Service detail was staffed with Trumpers.

Trump knew he'd need these guys to keep his secrets. I am sure Engel is a right wing Trumper too. Who else would take the job?

Link to tweet

[Hortensis]

7. One would expect them to remain loyal to tRump, i.e., lie to protect him.

Appalling that anyone who could become a tRump loyalist could qualify for a USSS presidential protection detail. We need much better psychological/moral screening.

Ornato was transferred back to the SES before Biden but to a management position in SES training and employee development, nothing to do with the president. Sounds like a come-down from his pre-WH SES position which was on the operations side, Deputy Assistant Director of Investigations, rather than personnel support.

[enough]

5. K&r

[BSdetect]

8. If they did admit what he did in the limo they would need to explain why they did nothing about it.

[SunSeeker]

9. Bingo. nt