Secret Service slams right-wing media attacks on female agents

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Published 2024-07-19
The US Secret Service pushed back against recent criticism from right-wing media personalities and lawmakers blaming female agents for security failures during the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump. In the wake of the shooting, some right-wing media figures focused their attention on the female agents on stage with Trump, claiming they couldn’t properly protect someone bigger and taller than themselves, or that they didn’t act in a professional manner. CNN’s Hadas Gold reports. #CNN #news

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All Comments (21)
  • Secret Service cant post security on a "sloped roof" meanwhile there are two officers right behind stage on a sloped roof.
  • @MonsterMind-i6o
    OMG the incompetence at the Secret Service is blatant. The Director is incompetent..... how were they beaten by a 20 year old misfit???
  • @JJMulderZA
    Its not a right wing narrative. Those women are simply not tall or wide enough to protect him.
  • @tomc.2808
    Baseless ? So TRUMP is not a foot taller than these girls ???
  • @Doc_Holiday
    Breaking: they weren't even Secret Service agents the women were from DHS
  • @justforfun-o6i
    Why is the female agent ducking her head exposing trump
  • @MKDAVIS323
    Oh so now criticizing the Secret Service is “right wing”?!? 🤬
  • @KyleAyres-ru6ru
    Can’t play the woman card when you’re 4’10 and flag your fellow agents…
  • @gugacontreras
    Are they really asking people to not criticized them? Gtfoh
  • @Sonic-r4s
    Not sure the Secret Service are in a position to slam anybody think they should look after their principal first and then maybe deal with the criticism
  • @Jai2ez
    Stop erasing the comments, Youtube
  • @DvD811
    The argument isn't about women in the secret service but against the use of Women of the secret services in roles in which the physique has particular importance..
  • @TTHH-zl6yl
    You didn't quote a SINGLE right-wing media outlet in that at all? Do better. Also, the main criticism I heard was not that the agents were women, but that they were shorter than Trump.
  • @mamidegena
    Nothing to do with being a woman. The Secret Service needs to be able to cover the person being protected and Trump is 6'4".
  • The same reason that you don't put men in women's sports is the same reason that you don't put women as Secret Service agents
  • @Firezap14
    If they lower the standards to achieve more women in the secret sevice then the entire agency gets worse. That includes men and women. Like they said, women have been in the service for a long time. What are they doing to get more women in the force? I dont think the size of the agent discounts them for doing most of their job. But a 5'2 person was covering the front of trump and his head was exposed. I dont see how that is an unfair criticism. That doesn't mean she shouldn't be an agent, it just means she shouldn't have been the one in that spot.
  • @Arthurdankarelli
    You guys love to use the term right wing. I think everybody is criticizing them
  • They don’t have the right to be “slamming” any criticism right now..