(LifeSiteNews) — An expert who frequently comments on the functioning of the U.S. Secret Service said that she believes the biggest threat to President Donald Trump and others within the administration may well come from within the agency.
“I’m worried about an inside threat and so are the sources I talk to within the Secret Service community,” RealClearPolitics national political correspondent Susan Crabtree told journalist Benny Johnson during a podcast discussion after Saturday night’s attack at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.
“We are not vetting our Secret Service hires as we should. And it’s a lowering of standards. You can just see it,” Crabtree said.
Crabtree described one incident caught on audio and video where two female uniformed division officers got into a physical cat fight outside former President Barack Obama’s residence in Washington, D.C.
She listed other examples during her discussion with Johnson where agents have been lax on the job or have broken laws:
- A Secret Service agent celebrated the murder of Charlie Kirk on Facebook just 24 hours after his assassination.
- An overweight male agent fell asleep while in a public posting at the United Nations. He left his M4 in a folding chair while he went to the bathroom.
- A female agent guarding Kamala Harris had a mental breakdown.
- An agent was arrested for sending explicit material to a child.
“You just sent a chill down my spine,” Johnson said, “saying that the biggest fear that you have is not an outside job but an inside job.”
“With all the accidental discharges, fights, degeneracy, one of these agents could just go haywire,” Johnson suggested. “They’re armed to the teeth and they’re standing right next to the President, or the Vice President, or any other member of the administration, and all you need is one of them to either snap or to be paid enough money.”
“It’s horrible to think about,” he added.
This just sent a chill down my spine…
Secret Service Expert says the biggest THREAT to Trump is an INSIDER threat from within the Service.
Susan Crabtree: “I’m worried about an insider threat — and so are the sources I talk to in the Secret Service community.”
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— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) April 28, 2026
In a post on X, Crabtree listed more disturbing examples, including:
- Secret Service uniformed division officers missed a Glock (firearm) during a screening at Trump’s Virginia golf course.
- The FBI raided a Secret Service agent’s home as part of an investigation into an alleged massive tax fraud scheme by the agent — potentially ensnaring dozens of other agents.
- A newly minted Secret Service agent was charged with killing his brother over Christmas break.
- A Secret Service agent recruit was accused of placing a camera in a cell-phone charger to spy on/stalk roommate.
Perhaps most disconcerting is the fact that no one has been fired over Trump’s near killing in Butler, Pennsylvania, and then a month later at Trump’s Florida golf course, Crabtree noted. “Two Secret Service supervisors who were overseeing Butler received big promotions despite their failures to identify that the sloped AGR roof at Butler had no one manning it,” she explained.
One of the supervisors was recently promoted to assistant director of professional responsibility in charge of Secret Service agents’ and officers’ discipline, according to Crabtree.
Crabtree has also recently reported that a “sex content creator” posted graphic videos of sex acts with a Secret Service agent on OnlyFans.
“It’s another distracting incident the Secret Service has to deal with when they should be out there protecting the president,” Rich Staropoli, a retired Secret Service agent with a 25-year career, told RealClearPolitics concerning the videos. “It speaks to the hiring and the screening of these people, and more importantly, who’s taking any corrective action once this stuff comes to light?”
Staropoli wrote an op-ed for Fox News earlier this week arguing that the Secret Service doesn’t have a recruiting problem — it has a hiring problem. Staropoli’s piece described “how woke, DEI hiring practices have destroyed the world’s most enigmatic and foremost protective agency.”
In 2024, LifeSiteNews reported that amid reports of lapses in protective service training for its agents and its devastatingly poor coverage of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump resulting in injuries and death, the U.S. Secret Service is prioritizing sending employees to an LGBTQ+ “Out & Equal” Summit.
News that the Secret Service is sending staff to the Summit at Disney World in Orlando, Florida, is “rankling many rank-and-file special agents and uniformed division officers,” Crabtree said at the time.
“A large number of Secret Service employees are working so hard — many seven-day work weeks with no time off — that they’ve already hit their ‘supermax limit’ for overtime pay, meaning they can no longer receive overtime for their work,” Crabtree noted. “One special agent characterized that phenomenon as essentially working for free.”
The Secret Service and the entire U.S. intelligence community, which is composed of 17 different agencies, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the Department of Homeland Security, and the intelligence arms of each branch of the U.S. military, has a decades-long history of pioneering LGBTQ affiliations, predating and even outpacing the woke corporate world.
