![]() “I want these fat guys off my detail,” Trump reportedly said, possibly not knowing the difference between office-based personnel and active agents. ![]() Instead, he was focused on “repeatedly” trying to remove agents he believed were too short or overweight from his detail. Leonnig, whose 2015 Pulitzer was awarded for her reporting on security failures at the Secret Service, notes that it’s not clear if Donald Trump was aware of what Secret Service personnel were discussing in regard to his daughter and daughter-in-law. Tiffany is now engaged to Michael Boulos, the son of a Lebanese billionaire, who apparently popped the question in the waning days of the Trump administration. Leonnig also writes that Tiffany Trump, Donald Trump’s daughter with his second wife, Marla Maples, broke up with a boyfriend and “began spending an unusual amount of time alone with a Secret Service agent on her detail.” Secret Service leaders, the book says, “became concerned at how close Tiffany appeared to be getting to the tall, dark and handsome agent.”īoth Tiffany Trump and the agent said nothing untoward was happening, Leonnig writes, and pointed out the nature of the agent’s job meant spending time alone with his charge. While agents are prohibited from forming personal relationships with the people they are assigned to protect, as such feelings could affect their judgment, the individual Vanessa was seeing was apparently not subject to disciplinary action because “neither he nor the agency were official guardians of Vanessa Trump at that point.”Īccording to Leonnig, Vanessa wasn’t the only Trump gal with an eye for the men assigned to the family: In Zero Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Carol Leonnig reports that Vanessa, the ex-wife of Donald Trump’s eldest son, started dating one of the agents who had been assigned to the family “ shortly” after her 2018 divorce from Junior, according to The Guardian, which obtained a copy of the book. For example, if you found yourself married to Donald Trump Jr., the mortifying, simpleminded, sheep-killing son of the 45th president, whose own father seems to despise him, you’d almost certainly replace him with a Secret Service agent, as Vanessa Trump, who found herself in that very situation, understandably decided to do. And yet, in many cases, it actually works in entirely predictable, obvious, and reasonable ways. It works, as they say, in mysterious ways. (Apparently, no one had thought to give the agents in the vice-presidential detail access to the shelter.Love. ![]() Page by page and detail by implacable detail, she walks us through a catalogue of Secret Service blunders: its failure to prevent a near-fatal assassination attempt on George Wallace during his 1972 presidential campaign that left the Alabama governor paralyzed from the waist down its acquiescence in President Richard Nixon’s illegal wiretapping schemes its inability to stop would-be assassin John Hinckley from walking within 15 feet of President Ronald Reagan and opening fire its failure to keep interlopers and flying bullets out of the White House on multiple occasions during the Bush and Obama presidencies and its near-disastrous lack of preparation on 9/11, leaving Vice President Dick Cheney stranded outside the emergency shelter beneath the White House as a hijacked plane entered Washington airspace. Leonnig, a Washington Post journalist with three Pulitzers under her belt, is thorough and unsparing in her account.
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