No one blamed the Secret Service when Reagan was shot by Hinckley. No one blamed the Secret Service when the Kennedys were assassinated. Why? Because the Secret Service was run by "real men". Now that it is run by a woman, the male chauvinistic GOP shills are blaming the failed attack on Trump on her as a DEI hire. In other words, equal opportunity laws that force government and private entities to hire minorities (women, people of color, etc.) are to blame.
Go ahead, MAGA idiots and vote for Trump. He loves Blacks, Hispanics, Mexicans, women (because he likes to grab by the pussy), immigrants, etc.. until they vote for him. You have no idea what he's going to do once he's in office. He wants to eliminate the Department of Education and instead of teaching our children science and technology, he wants teachers to teach from the bible. Yes, the fucking bible that was written thousands of years ago by ignorant desert nomads. He wants to eliminate Social Security that has lifted millions of seniors - thanks to their own tax dollars they paid throughout their lives - out of miserable waning years. Instead he wants to give your money to criminal white collar gamblers on Wall Street who caused us several financial disasters in our recent past.
All the gains our country and its democratic system have made since World War II, the GOP and their monster moron Trump want to reverse and take us back to the near slavery conditions they kept us under prior to WWII.
GOP primitives don't want women in the Secret Service. Pretty soon, they will kick them out of the armed forces and every position they have reached since sex discrimination was terminated. They don't women to abort. They want women to go back barefoot in the kitchen "where God placed them".
Go ahead and vote for Trump and his Fascist neanderthal conservatives.
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‘Diversity hire’ Secret Service chief blamed for Trump shooting security failings
James Crisp
Mon, July 15, 2024
A Republican congressman has called the US Secret Service chief a “diversity” hire as he blamed a drive to recruit more female agents for security failings around the attempted assassination of Donald Trump.
Tim Burchett pointed the finger at Kimberly Cheatle, who wants more non-white and female agents but is now facing calls to resign as director of the Secret Service.
The agency has the goal of increasing the number of women to 30 per cent by 2030, but critics claim females make less effective agents than men.
Right-wing commentators have zeroed in on widely shared online footage of a female agent’s apparent struggles to holster her weapon after the shooting in Pennsylvania on Saturday.
Others claimed the female agents in the presidential candidate’s security detail were too short to properly shield Mr Trump, who is 6ft 3in tall.
Mr Burchett singled out the Secret Service’s adoption of “DEI” – an acronym for diversity, equity and inclusion.
“Somebody really dropped the ball. You’ve got a DEI person, a DEI initiative person who heads up our Secret Service,” the representative for Tennessee told Fox News.
“You know she was working at Pepsi before this. I know she was a former CIA Secret Service agent, but still, this is what happens when you don’t put the best players in.”
Ms Cheatle was an agent for 27 years, rising through the ranks, before she joined the soft drinks company as head of security.
She returned to the Secret Service to be appointed the agency’s second ever female chief by Joe Biden in 2022, having been the first female assistant director of protective operations earlier in her career.
“I’m very conscious, as I sit in this chair now, of making sure that we need to attract diverse candidates, ensure that we are developing opportunities for everybody in our workforce, and particularly women,” she told CBS in an interview last year.
Ms Cheatle is facing calls to resign - KAMIL KRZACZYNSKI/AFP
Ms Cheatle has faced calls for her resignation from, among others, former House speaker Newt Gingrich and billionaire Trump supporter Elon Musk, who claimed her last job was guarding “bags of Cheetos”.
Meghan McCain, the daughter of former presidential nominee John, said on X: “You need to be taller than the candidate to protect them with your body. Why do they have these short women (one who can’t holster a gun apparently) guarding Trump?”
“There should not be any women in the Secret Service. These are supposed to be the very best, and none of the very best at this job are women,” said Right-wing commentator Matt Walsh on social media.
Republicans have opposed the DEI policy at federal and state level in other sectors, such as education and agencies.
CNN senior national security analyst Juliette Kayyem said President Biden should put Ms Cheatle “on leave” because the Secret Service had “one job and they failed”.
The former Homeland Security official in the Obama administration said the security detail should have removed Mr Trump faster, rather than wait for him to put his shoes on and allow him to repeatedly punch his fist in the air in a show of defiance.
‘Proud’ of agents
Ms Cheatle has defended the Secret Service and said she was “proud of those involved” in a memo to staff, the New York Times reported.
“In the coming days, the Secret Service will face praise and criticism,” she wrote. “Do not get distracted by those who were not there and yet still pass judgement.”
The Secret Service first employed female agents in 1970. Ms Cheatle has revealed she has a photo of the first five women agents on her desk.
“These women created opportunities for me and I can help others grow and lead as well,” she said in a 2022 interview for Security Magazine.
Men and women are both subject to intense training, but women are held to a lower standard than men in physical fitness assessments.
Women outnumbered men in graduating from the special agent training class for the first time in April 2021, but comprise just 24 per cent of the 7,500 employee-strong workforce.
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