Secret Service probing allegations that agent left her post at Trump rally in North Carolina to breastfeed
The United States Secret Service is investigating allegations a female agent left her post at a campaign event for former President Trump this week to breastfeed her child.
“All employees of the U.S. Secret Service are held to the highest standards. While there was no impact to the North Carolina event, the specifics of this incident are being examined. Given this is a personnel matter, we are not in a position to comment further,” Secret Service spokesman Anthony Guglielmi told The Post.
The breastfeeding allegation was first made by RealClearPolitics correspondent Susan Crabtree in a lengthy X posting Thursday — shortly after the Trump campaign event in Asheville, North Carolina.
“The site agent went to do one final sweep of the walking route and found the agent breast-feeding her child in a room that is supposed to be set aside for important Secret Service official work, i.e. a potential emergency related to the president,” Crabtree wrote.
“A working agent on duty cannot bring a child to a protective assignment. The woman was out of the Atlanta Field Office,” she added, citing three people “in the Secret Service community” as the source of the info.
The charge comes as the agency is already under fire for security lapses which lead to a near-fatal assassination attempt against Trump last month.
Secret Service Director Kimberley Cheatle, who made elevating more women into the agency a priority, was forced to resign amid the fallout.
