Nearly 900 Secret Service members were infected with the coronavirus. A watchdog blames Trump.
Related: Nearly 900 Secret Service employees got COVID (CREW)
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Source: Washington Post
Nearly 900 Secret Service members were infected with the coronavirus. A watchdog blames Trump.
By Timothy Bella
June 23, 2021 at 1:57 p.m. EDT
Almost 900 Secret Service members have tested positive for the coronavirus since March 2020, according to a watchdog report, and many of those infected had protection assignments that included the safety of the president and vice president.
The nonprofit Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington published a report Tuesday detailing how 881 Secret Service employees had tested positive between March 1, 2020 and March 9, 2021. The data, which came from a Freedom of Information Act request to the Secret Service, found that 477 members of the special agent division had been infected. Described by the Department of Homeland Security as the elite agents you see protecting the President and Vice President, special agents are also responsible for a number of safety assignments overseas and in the United States, such as protecting the president and vice presidents families, presidential candidates and visiting foreign leaders.
CREW said its unclear whom the special agents who tested positive were assigned to protect or when, exactly, they tested positive.
While the data does not give a breakdown of coronavirus infections between the two administrations during this period, the watchdog placed much of the blame on former president Donald Trump and former vice president Mike Pence for holding large-scale rallies against public health guidelines.
The group also slammed the Trump familys regular travel during the pandemic and Trumps photo op last year outside Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in a car with secret service agents while being treated for COVID, further putting agents in danger.
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Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/06/23/secret-service-covid-trump/
bottomofthehill
(8,632 posts)Trump was rushing off to maskless rallies, had them working at a maskless Whitehouse, and the best, once he had Covid, doing the drive around with agents sealed with him in a Car full of Covid soup.
He could care less about the agents and their safety and now we are seeing a clearer picture of the numbers. Not surprised, not one little bit.
orleans
(34,566 posts)that high number (881 secret service members) still shocks me
too bad they can't sue him for endangering their lives while they were protecting his
Blue Owl
(53,791 posts)SuperSpreaderFatFuckFortyFive
They deserved better
orleans
(34,566 posts)Demobrat
(9,609 posts)I suspect they didnt. At least not when working.
Maybe Im wrong but thats a high number.