It appears that nothing, and I mean NOTHING, has been addressed appropriately when it comes to the Secret Service and its failures in protecting President Trump.

After the assassination attempt that nearly killed President Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, it was obvious that the Secret Service needed a full housecleaning. Instead, what we got was some performative gestures by Congress, the resignation of the director at the time, and then the deck chairs on the Titanic got rearranged. Today, Real Clear Investigations reporter Susan Crabtree, who has been doggedly following the internal turmoil within the Secret Service, published a shocking report about one of the agents who was disciplined after Butler being suspended from duty YET AGAIN.

This suspension is the third one in a year and a half for the agent, Myosoty “Miyo” Perez, who served as the “site agent” for the Butler campaign rally where a would-be assassin shot Trump’s ear, killed retired firefighter Corey Comperatore, and seriously injured two others in the crowd.

Congressional investigations that examined the Butler failures faulted Perez for not placing any Secret Service or local police asset on top of the American Glass Building where would-be assassin Thomas Crooks fired off his shots, among other security problems at Butler. Yet the probes also questioned why the Secret Service allowed an inexperienced agent to be placed in such a crucial role at an outdoor rally with thousands of people in attendance. The decision to have Perez in a leading security role for the Butler rally is even more concerning considering that top-level Secret Service officials, including current Secret Service Director Sean Curran, who was serving as the Trump campaign detail leader at the time, had been briefed on an Iranian threat to Trump’s life.

Over the last year and a half, in the wake of the assassination attempts, Perez has remained an agent, though she has faced ongoing leadership scrutiny. She was supposed to be sidelined from protective duties and working on criminal investigations only, although Secret Service supervisors in the Miami Field Office, where she works, recently allowed her to violate an understanding with others in the Trump administration that she wouldn’t serve in a physical security role.

How on earth does Perez still have a job after her massive failures as the “site agent” at Butler? According to Crabtree, she was one of the six agents who were reprimanded after the assassination attempt.

But now, Perez has sunk herself into even deeper waters – and earned another suspension after marrying a foreign national and NOT TELLING the Secret Service about it, as she was legally required to do!

Despite the ongoing congressional investigations and internal Secret Service review of her role in the Butler failures, Perez quietly married a Brazilian foreign national last April without notifying the agency, according to a copy of her marriage certificate located on the Brevard County public records website and according to sources familiar with the timing of when she informed the agency of her marriage. Upon learning of the marriage, the agency suspended her and issued an internal “Do Not Admit” notice.

The internal Secret Service investigation is examining whether the woman Perez was dating and married last year had overstayed her visa and was facing a deportation order, multiple sources familiar with the matter told RCP.

Perez had informed the Secret Service of her contact with the Brazilian woman in 2024 before the assassination attempt on Trump’s life, but the agency may have either lost the notification or failed to act on it at the time, according to several sources in the Secret Service community.

It’s unclear, however, whether Perez characterized the contact accurately in 2024 and ever since. Agents are questioning whether she followed mandatory protocol to keep the Secret Service updated on how the relationship was developing and when the two began to live together and subsequently married. The marriage took place in April 2025, according to the marriage certificate attained on a public records database. Yet sources in the Secret Service community say Perez didn’t inform the agency until January.

There are strict rules requiring security holders to proactively self-report foreign contacts and significant life changes, including foreign travel, arrests, financial distress, and shifts in marital or cohabitation status, to a facility security officer at their respective agency. Failure to report these can lead to clearance suspension or revocation, a penalty that would prevent Secret Service agents from performing their duties.

Perez in 2024 had notified the Secret Service of a foreign contact, but agents question whether she followed up when the relationship became more serious, and she and the Brazilian national started living together, eventually marrying last year, sources tell RealClearPolitics. Former Secret Service agents said the troubling scenario raises questions about whether Perez was harboring an illegal immigrant and trying to obtain a friend or love interest a green card while covering up the effort, or at least failing to be forthcoming or transparent about it.

“How does a Secret Service agent not properly report a relationship with a foreign national that could be an illegal alien, let alone marry her and then not report the marriage?” Rich Staropoli, former long-time Secret Service and DHS official, asked in an interview with RCP. “It speaks to the sad state of affairs of the Secret Service in recent years and who they’re hiring.”

Here is the marriage certificate — note the date, 4/18/2025. Secret Service agent Miyo Perez allegedly didn't tell the Secret Service about the marriage to a Brazilian foreign national and possible illegal immigrant until January 2026, sources tell @RCPolitics.

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— Susan Crabtree (@susancrabtree) March 20, 2026

The Secret Service should not be in the business of being baseball umpires and declaring “three strikes, you’re out.” In Perez’s case, it should have been one strike and you’re gone, especially considering the failures at Butler. Oh, and we’re still waiting for those final reports on Butler, but the DHS shutdown has delayed those!

The new allegations against Perez come as the Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General, which provides congressionally mandated oversight of DHS and all 22 agencies that fall under it, including the Secret Service, is finalizing five reports related to the Secret Service’s failures during the two 2024 assassination attempts against Trump.

The DHS funding lapse has further delayed the reports’ release, though all are in the final investigative stages, according to sources familiar with the timeline.

DHS Inspector General Joseph Cuffari has recently accused outgoing DHS Secretary Kristi Noem of obstructing several of his top investigations, including the probes into the Secret Service failures at Butler. Oklahoma GOP Sen. Markwayne Mullin, who Trump tapped to replace Noem, pledged to cooperate with Cuffari and his investigations during his Wednesday Senate nomination hearing.

Mullin becoming DHS Secretary and finally getting the funding restored are important steps, but neither will do what actually needs to be done – a top to bottom cleaning of the Secret Service. The problem is, who does the work if everyone needs to be fired?

At what point does this become criminal negligence?

Five Alarm Fire at the Secret Service. https://t.co/yiiIsIuBgl

— Benjamin Weingarten (@bhweingarten) March 20, 2026

As Crabtree documents in her piece, not only were agents suspended instead of fired after Butler, but some “screwed up and moved up” as well.

Congressional investigations into the Butler failures determined Perez, whom they did not name, was too inexperienced to be placed in charge of security for an outdoor rally the size of the one in Butler. The probe also found that her two supervisors, Nick Olszewski and Nick Menster, also signed off on the security plan for Butler and were never disciplined.

In fact, they both received big promotions despite their failure to point out the serious holes in Perez’s plan.

Both Menster and Olszewski were on final walk-throughs of the site, and neither asked how the AGR building, where shooter Thomas Crooks fired his shots at Trump and the crowd, would be covered, according to the congressional probes’ findings.

Ironically, Olszewski eventually became chief of the Inspection Division, which falls under the Office of Professional Responsibility and is responsible for ensuring the accountability and integrity of the agency’s personnel and operations. Menster was assigned as the second agent in charge of the Lara and Eric Trump protective detail.

There is no doubt that the Secret Service has a physically and mentally demanding job, and should receive the support and the resources to carry out that job effectively. However, it is also obvious that the standards have badly faltered, if not outright collapsed, within the agency. The rearranging of the deck chairs didn’t fix the underlying problem or restore the discipline necessary, and Perez’s additional suspension just showcases how much rot there is at the Secret Service. If she couldn’t be fired before, and still hasn’t been fired, then what is the point? How on earth do we trust this agency to fulfill their primary duty of protection when failure gets rewarded or ignored?

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