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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIn just 4 years Trump completely corrupted the Secret Service
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Beakybird
(3,333 posts)Link to tweet
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doc03
(35,325 posts)gab13by13
(21,319 posts)but yeah, it's full of Magats now.
Back in the 70's I know someone whose father was in the Mafia, he got into the Secret Service, and no, the apple didn't fall far from the tree.
RAB910
(3,501 posts)at one point we were interviewed about him in terms of what we saw and how he behaved. It was routine questionnaire that was used to make sure their agents were clean
Lonestarblue
(9,979 posts)One was an intruder who got on White House grounds, but there were other incidents. I have always wondered whether there was resentment among the SS toward a black president.
3Hotdogs
(12,374 posts)Bucky
(53,998 posts)Uncertain most of the Secret Service are highly professional and determinately apolitical, but in any law enforcement community you're going to have a few sour apples.
Farmer-Rick
(10,163 posts)They were heavy drinkers and loved to party harty.
I remember the problems with people getting into the White House during the Obama administration. There were some close calls.
Eversince they let JFK get assassinated, I have never trusted them. I think of them as traitors in waiting. Trump just brought out their disloyalty and used their authoritarian tendencies.
paleotn
(17,911 posts)From 2015. Things haven't improved for what should be the premiere security agency on the planet.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/03/secret-service-disaster-timeline/387643/
spanone
(135,828 posts)Even the post office.....
TimeToGo
(1,366 posts)Mister Ed
(5,930 posts)How's that drainy-swampy thing workin' out fer ya?
RAB910
(3,501 posts)serves their sinister agenda
MyOwnPeace
(16,926 posts)every time you would hear that brainless wench say that?
JHB
(37,158 posts)How many Clinton and Obama smears over the last 30 years have claimed Secret Service sourcing?
niyad
(113,275 posts)thenelm1
(853 posts)Midnight Writer
(21,751 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)very scary in an era of our first black president, racist and RW religious hysteria, Fox/RW media "trolling for assassins," etc. And it didn't start then.
Zero Fail: The Rise and Fall of The Secret Service, from the Kennedy years on blasts the hell out of the notion in the OP's title. That said, it didn't report any SS agents cheering on an attempted violent coup d'etat until tRump's personal detail during his attempt. One of her articles said January 6 showed two SS identities, and one was the heroes they're supposed to be.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,328 posts)DownriverDem
(6,228 posts)do all they can to destroy us for decades. Look who supports them? Unless rich, they gain nothing.
lark
(23,097 posts)Secret Service people should be vetted, & all text deleters fired on the spot, Anyone with pro fascist FB posts - fired for being a threat to the presidency.
Loubee
(165 posts)but, yes, Trump makes everything exponentially worse.
tanyev
(42,552 posts)Joinfortmill
(14,417 posts)duckworth969
(600 posts)Might as well call the SS the Keystone Kops!
BlueIdaho
(13,582 posts)The SS is sinister.
ConstanceCee
(314 posts)What about all the golf cart rentals and expensive hotel rooms at various Trump resorts?
Hotler
(11,420 posts)FelineOverlord
(3,575 posts)Turbineguy
(37,322 posts)Working for Putin.
TeamProg
(6,118 posts)Cyberologist
(30 posts)Many folks do not know (like the FBI) head of the Secret Service is a tRump lackey with all his magat minions. For some reason I can't explain; President Biden kept him on. This is one thing being a Democrat I've never gotten why when the party is in presidency they won't purge these people. Biden should know better after Comey's 11th hour play in 2015-16.
[link:https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/07/07/secret-service-murray-resign/|
IcyPeas
(21,859 posts)Cha
(297,160 posts)Corruptible?
Time for them to pay the piper
Director James Murray resigned.. was that another coincidence?
Blue Owl
(50,355 posts)iemanja
(53,031 posts)That was long before Trump.