Insider reveals how Secret Service ‘really screwed up’ BEFORE Trump assassination bid and role women DEI hires played to put lives at risk [Video]

16:32 EDT 15 Jul 2024, updated 04:02 EDT 16 Jul 2024

A former agent has linked diversity-hiring at the US Secret Service (USSS) to the security failures at Donald Trump‘s rally in Pennsylvania, where the former president was shot at and grazed in an assassination attempt.

Kenneth Gray, an ex-FBI special agent with experience in counterterrorism and crisis management, said the USSS ‘really screwed up’ on Saturday and that efforts to hire more women in field roles may well have played a role.

Gray’s comments come as allegations swirl on social media that Trump’s women guardians were too short to protect the 6ft 3in candidate, and that a female agent could be seen struggling to holster her firearm.

The chaotic scenes at the rally cast doubt on Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle’s controversial bid to ‘diversify’ the agency and make the male-dominated force absorb 30 percent female recruits by 2030.

‘The Secret Service really screwed up in their planning …