The Secret Service has not had a good year – or few years, for that matter.

Not only did President Trump manage to survive not one, but TWO assassination attempts with the Secret Service watching, but then we discovered that the head of the Secret Service at the time, Kimberly Cheatle, was Jill Biden’s choice for the job. After Cheatle resigned (post-Butler), we also learned that she was the one who closed the cocaine investigation at the White House – and wanted the evidence destroyed. As now-FBI deputy director Dan Bongino has said, that investigation into the cocaine is being scrutinized by the Trump DOJ. Will we ever know with certainty whose cocaine it was? Probably not, though the obvious choice is Hunter Biden – but did former Director Cheatle close the investigation and want the evidence gone on Jill Biden’s direction? Given what has been revealed about the “Politburo” of the Biden White House, that might be the LEAST surprising discovery.

And that doesn’t even begin to touch the years of abuse that Secret Service agents were forced to endure with the Biden dogs. Having to go to work every day, knowing that there is a poorly handled German Shepherd, with a history of biting people, who could bite you next, is the very definition of a hostile work environment.

As we have learned during the investigations into the Secret Service last summer, DEI intiatives were a goal of former Director Cheatle’s, who made a hard push to “diversify” the Secret Service.

Cheatle, 53, unveiled her marching orders in the Secret Service’s 2023-2027 strategic plan, demanding agents to be “focused on achieving excellence through talent, technology and diversity,” documents reviewed by The Post show.

“We must embrace diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility (DEIA) across the agency,” wrote Cheatle, a longtime friend of First Lady Jill Biden who was plucked in 2022 from her previous job as global security boss at PepsiCo by President Biden to be the second woman to lead the federal agency. “DEIA must be demonstrated by all employees — leading by example — through ‘every action every day.’”

“I’m very conscious as I sit in this chair now, of making sure that we need to attract diverse candidates and ensure that we are developing and giving opportunities to everybody in our workforce, and particularly women,” Cheatle told CBS last year, adding she set a target of 30% of recruits being female by 2030.

Cheatle may be gone (as well as her immediate successor in the job, Ronald Rowe), but those philosophies – and the agents that got hired under them – are still there. How is that working out?
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Ohhhhhhhhh. This looks great. Very professional, much diversity, such wow.

Two female Secret Service Uniformed Division Officers brawled in front of former President Barack Obama’s Washington D.C. residence, according to video published Tuesday by Real Clear Politics.

The outlet originally published an audio clip from a recorded Secret Service line of one female agent requesting a supervisor’s presence “immediately before” she “whoop this girl’s ass.”

The female officer who made the call was upset that her shift replacement was late and engaged in both verbal and physical aggression toward her when she arrived at the shift, according to the RCP report.

This all happened last week in the middle of the night outside the Obamas’ residence. The Secret Service now says that both the people involved have been suspended.

The Secret Service confirmed the fight with Fox News Digital.

“The individuals involved were suspended from duty and this matter is the subject of an internal investigation. The Secret Service has a very strict code of conduct for all employees and any behavior that violates that code is unacceptable.”

“Given this is a personnel matter, we are not in a position to comment further,” the spokesperson added.

Of course, the fact that this was a literal brawl between two FEMALE Secret Service agents raises a lot of questions about those diversity goals and hiring plans.

The new Secret Service director, Sean Curran, who was the head of President Trump’s security detail when he was shot in Butler, needs to start cleaning house. This kind of behavior is unacceptable, and would have been unthinkable from Secret Service agents in decades past. If someone is late to relieve you, you don’t start throwing hands, you write her up. And there is no way that an agent should be late to a shift. You have ONE job – guarding your assigned high value person or people. That means you show up on time, ready to work, even at 2:30 am in the morning. If you’re late, there had better be a good excuse. Suspension is a joke. This conduct should get both women fired.

The Secret Service has gone from one of the most trusted institutions to a joke. But the problem is that they are still entrusted with the lives of elected officials, and we still expect them to fulfill that duty. Incidents like these – which I’m sure the Secret Service did NOT want made public – highlight that there has been a breakdown in what these agents think their job entails. They are not mall cops that are just there to provide manpower if something goes wrong. They are supposed to make sure that nothing goes wrong in the FIRST place. That applies to the sitting president of the United States, and sitting outside a former president’s home in the dead of night. Things do not only go wrong between the hours of 9 am to 5 pm. Signing up to work for the Secret Service, and being an agent assigned to a protective detail, means that you are on a schedule to guard someone 24/7. If you fail to show up on time, you should be fired. If you attack a fellow officer, you should be fired.

Director Curran needs to start cleaning house, and starting with these two women is an obvious choice. But it is past time to give the agency an enema, and return it to the original goal of guarding their designated protectees – with their lives, if necessary. Does anyone really think that these women who decided to start fighting, in the middle of the night, on the street, were prepared to do that?

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