The Secret Service agents on then-candidate Donald Trump’s detail on the day of the attempted assassination at the Butler, PA, rally did swift work hustling the former president to safety. They got him away, and in the process, President Trump gave us one of the most powerful political images in the history of American politics: A man who had just been shot, rising above his detail, waving a fist and shouting “FIGHT!” That moment almost certainly clinched the election.
But in other ways, the Secret Service under the Biden administration, and then-Director Kimberly Cheatle, wasn’t exactly covering itself in glory. Now, RealClearPolitics’s National Political Correspondent Susan Crabtree has revealed, in an X thread, that following the assassination attempt, the USSS spent taxpayer money sending agents to, of all things, a LGBTQ “Out & Equal” Workplace summit at Disney World. This, while the rank-and-file were complaining of manpower shortages.
‼️‼️ #BREAKING SECRET SERVICE SCOOP: USSS Trip to LGBTQ “Out & Equal’ Summit at Disney World was ONE OF FIVE DEI Trips Agency Employees Attended AFTER J13 Assassination Attempt Against Trump
After the J13 assassination attempt against now-President Trump exposed myriad Secret… pic.twitter.com/Gr3z4Skpmw
— Susan Crabtree (@susancrabtree) June 3, 2025
The post continues:
After the J13 assassination attempt against now-President Trump exposed myriad Secret Service failures, @RCPolitics broke the story last year that the Secret Service planned to send six agents, officers and other employees on an all-expenses-paid taxpayer-funded trip to an LGBTQ “Out & Equal” Workplace summit at Disney World last fall while its leaders complained of manpower shortages.
When the story spurred outrage, the Secret Service said it was limiting those who could go to two administrative staff with no impact on protective operations. But that was not always the case.
The Center to Advance Security in America @SecureUSA has recently attained documents through the Freedom of Information Act showing that as of early September, the trip was open to “special agents, Uniformed Division, technical law enforcement, and administrative, professional, and technical” employees.”
The original plan was to send six USSS employees to the LGBTQ Summit at Disney World with a registration cost per person of $1,500 and a per diem of $80 a day plus $140 for lodging. CASA calculated that the three-day conference would have cost the U.S. taxpayers well over $20,000 with airfare and ground transportation.
The post goes on to list specifics of the trips planned and the costs, as well as other, similarly wasteful events, including DEI conferences.
The Secret Service still has issues, as my colleague Bob Hoge recently informed us:
This is intolerable. An agency tasked with protecting the President of the United States, along with other key government officials, was wasting money on this horse squeeze after nearly losing a presidential candidate and former president. Oh, sure, his personal detail did the right things, literally shielding Trump with their bodies, although one of them was so short that she couldn’t really provide much of a shield. But overall, the USSS didn’t exactly do a bang-up job on J13; they didn’t cover that key rooftop, just to name one thing. They reacted well enough, but the reaction shouldn’t have been necessary.
Granted, hindsight is always 20-20.
The Secret Service’s protection details have too vital a mission to be concerned about “Out & Equal” or DEI pettifoggery. Like the military, they have a mission: To protect their principles at all costs, to stop a bullet for them, to give their lives, if necessary, to save that principle. Hiring should be based on proven ability, dedication, strength, and stamina only. While it doesn’t matter who a given prospect prefers to share a bed with, as long as they are capable in all the objective metrics, it’s the DEI part of this that’s really troubling. It implies that somewhere along the line, the Service would sacrifice those standards, lower them to tick off the correct number of warm bodies with the correct melanin content, ancestral origin, and plumbing. That’s not how this should be done.
Not to mention that the Service was wasting taxpayer money on this corral litter.
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If anyone in the Trump administration is looking for fraud, waste, and abuse of taxpayer money, here it is, and that’s for sure and for certain.
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