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Susan Crabtree

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Jul 2

🚨JUST DROPPED: @DHSgov Office of Inspector General releases report on “Secret Service Missed Opportunities to Prevent and Disrupt the Attempted Assassination of President Trump on July 13, 2024."

One of the top findings confirms one of the big mysteries of the Butler assassination attempt and who is really at fault: The Secret Service didn't use available equipment to block the line of sight between the AGR building and the stage where President Trump spoke, allowing shooter Thomas Crooks a clear 155-yard shot at Trump. This occurred despite extensive Secret Service training that instructs agents to place objects that "enhance light-of-sight coverage" at events, the OIG reports asserts. The OIG also produced the video below to demonstrate just how clear a shot Crooks had of Trump and the stage.

Who is at fault for that?

In its report, the DHS OIG said the Secret Service WOULD NOT TELL THEM if campaign staff had placed equipment that was already on site at the event locations that would have blocked the line of sight.

I have reported, and a report from Sen. Rand Paul's office later reported, that the Secret Service tried to use farm equipment to block that line of sight -- but the Trump campaign objected to the optics of it -- and requested that it be removed.

Here's where it gets interesting: The Secret Service complied. It's unclear who in the Secret Service is responsible for failing to stand up to and override the campaign staff who wanted the equipment removed.

-Miyo Perez was the USSS agent in charge of security. She was an inexperienced agent and known within the detail as a partier, not a serious.

There were two supervisory agents that were supposed to provide oversight to Perez's work, Nick Menster and Nick Olszewski. Those two agents were never punished for their role in Butler's porous security plan and execution. In fact, current Secret Service Director Sean Curran gave them big promotions.

Interestingly, it was Curran who was ultimately responsible for all security decisions for the Butler site -- including the decision to remove farm equipment or not place additional equipment to block the line of sight.

Curran was the detail leader for the team protecting Trump during the campaign, and he signed off on the site plan.

This new OIG report doesn't address whether Curran himself directly approved the removal of farm equipment from the site so the line of site remained unobstructed for Crooks' shot that nearly killed Trump and did murder Corey Comperatore and seriously wound two others, James Copenhaver and David Dutch. Copenhaver and Duth are now suing the Secret Service over the agency's "preventable failures," as their lawsuit asserts.

It's possible that OIG investigators asked Curran, and he refused to say.

I'll link to the new DHS OIG report below.

oig.dhs.gov/videos/2026/20…

Yes, it's VERY weird timing to release this on the afternoon heading into the July 4th weekend and festivities for America's 250th birthday.

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Susan Crabtree

@susancrabtree

Apr 19

.@RCPolitics SECRET SERVICE EXCLUSIVE: ONLYFANS CREATOR POSTS WHAT APPEARS TO BE A SECRET SERVICE AGENT'S ID ON SOCIAL MEDIA, ALLEGES HE'S LIVING A "DOUBLE LIFE"

A woman identified as Brittney Jones this weekend posted on Facebook and her BritneyJonesxx Instagram account what appears to be a photo of a Secret Service agent’s USSS ID with a statement claiming that the agent is her “boyfriend” who “lives a double life” protecting the president “by day” and making “adult content” with her “by night.”

Jones, who appears to be the same woman who accused former Patriots Wide Receiver Stefon Diggs of having sex with her last year while he was in a relationship with Cardi B, posted what looks like the Secret Service ID of William W. Foy, Jr., along with a lurid caption.

“My boyfriend lives a double life,” Jones writes on Facebook. “Guarding the president by day [sic] then making adult videos with me by night. We see you Hannah Montana lol.”

In a separate video posted to Instagram with the title, “When your boyfriend works for the Secret Service,” Jones displays her mid-drift while handling what appears to be a long spear.

Another video shows the woman on the passenger side of the vehicle while the same man is driving. Jones is wearing a blond wig and seductively sucks her finger while asking the man how to pronounce his last name.

Yet another post from Jones shows the same man coring a pineapple in a kitchen. Jones posted the photo with this caption: “The only guy who could ever tame me “Michael Foy," [sic]” with a skeptical emoji.

Posts on the britneyjonesxx are more salacious, including a photo of a check titled “75k to get an abortion” with a skeptical emoji and several more explicit posts with photos of men she claimed to have sex with. The same video with Jones’ mid-drift displaying the spear appears on the xx account.

There’s music in the background, and the accompanying statement says, “Just finished sharpening my boyfriends [sic] work gear.”

The Secret Service didn’t immediately return a request for comment. One source said Foy is assigned to the Biden detail.

A woman named Brittney Jones, identified as an OnlyFans creator in media reports, made similar accusations in 2025 and earlier this year on social media platforms, including Facebook and Tiktok, claiming a sexual relationship with Diggs.

Jones’ accusations came while Diggs was reportedly involved with rapper Cardi B. Diggs’ attorney, Kent Schaffer, accused Jones of extortion, alleging that Jones threatened to go public unless he paid her money.

Rich Staropoli, a retired Secret Service agent with a 25-year career who also served as the chief information officer for the Homeland Security Department, said the posts are indicative of the agency’s low hiring standards in recent years.

“It’s another distracting incident the Secret Service has to deal with when they should be out there protecting the president,” he told RealClearPolitics. “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. The piece described “how woke, DEI hiring practices have destroyed the world’s most enigmatic and foremost protective agency,” Staropoli wrote in an X.com post.

RealClearPolitics has run a series of articles on how corrosive Biden-era DEI policies, coupled with a longstanding culture of corruption, favoritism, and nepotism are still plaguing the Secret Service under Director Curran and after President Trump was nearly assassinated twice in 2024.

DEVELOPING…

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Susan Crabtree

@susancrabtree

Mar 20

🚨🚨@RCPolitics EXCLUSIVE: Female Secret Service Agent Faulted for J13 Butler Failures That Nearly Killed Trump Suspended Again

This time, the agent in question, Miyo Perez, is under internal Secret Service investigation for allegedly secretly marrying a foreign national and failing to report it for nine months.

"DO NOT ADMIT"

This is the third time Perez has been suspended in a little more than a year. She is on administrative leave and under "Do Not Admit" status while the investigation continues.

Congressional investigations that examined the Butler failures faulted Perez for not placing any Secret Service or local police asset on top of the now-notorious sloped roof of the American Glass Building where would-be assassin Thomas Crooks fired off his shots, among other security problems at Butler.

Yet Congress also questioned why the Secret Service allowed an inexperienced agent to be placed in such a crucial role at an outdoor rally with thousands of people in attendance. The decision to have Perez in a leading security role for the Butler rally is even more concerning considering that top-level Secret Service officials, including current Secret Service Director Sean Curran, who was serving as the Trump campaign detail leader at the time, had been briefed on an Iranian threat to Trump’s life.

Despite the ongoing congressional investigations and internal Secret Service review of her role in the Butler failures, Perez quietly married a Brazilian foreign national last April without notifying the agency, according to a copy of her marriage certificate located on the Brevard County public records website and according to sources familiar with the timing of when she informed the agency of her marriage.

THE INVESTIGATION IS LOOKING INTO THE TIMING OF PEREZ'S MARRIAGE TO A FOREIGN NATIONAL AND WHETHER THE WOMAN WAS AN ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT AT THE TIME OF THE MARRIAGE

Perez had informed the Secret Service of her contact with the Brazilian woman in 2024 before the assassination attempt on Trump’s life, but the agency may have either lost the notification or failed to act on it at the time, according to several sources in the Secret Service community.

It’s unclear, however, whether Perez characterized the contact accurately in 2024 and ever since. Agents are questioning whether she followed mandatory protocol to keep the Secret Service updated on how the relationship was developing and when the two began to live together and subsequently married. The marriage took place in April 2025, according to the marriage certificate attained on a public records database. I'll link to the marriage certificate below.

Yet sources in the Secret Service community say Perez didn’t inform the agency until January, nine months after the marriage took place.

The internal Secret Service investigation is examining whether the woman Perez was dating and married last year had overstayed her visa and was facing a deportation order, multiple sources familiar with the matter told RCP.

SECRET SERVICE HAS A CHECKERED HISTORY OF COVERING UP OR UNEVENLY DISCIPLINING AGENTS WHO HAVE HAD RELATIONSHIPS WITH FOREIGN NATIONALS, INCLUDING AT LEAST ONE KNOWN RUSSIAN SPY

In 2018, news broke that a suspected Russian spy had been working for the Secret Service in the U.S. embassy in Moscow for at least a decade. Dan Bongino @dbongino revealed on his podcast that he had tried to report the spy when he was serving in the embassy before he left the Secret Service in 2011 but was dismissed and told to keep his mouth shut.

The same Russian woman was suspected of being involved in an affair with the top Secret Service agent working at the embassy, who had served as the Resident Agent in Charge, or RAC, after Bongino left but several years before her discovery as a spy, multiple sources in the Secret Service community told RCP.

The Secret Service and the FBI launched an extensive investigation and suspended the former Secret Service RAC because he couldn’t pass his polygraph when questioned about his relationship with the spy, according to sources familiar with the matter.

At the time, the agent in question was the head of the Inspections Division, which oversees disciplinary actions and investigations against all Secret Service employees. The agency allowed this agent to remain on administrative leave until he retired in 2019, a breach of normal disciplinary protocol to benefit an agent and keep the matter out of the press, the sources told RCP.

READ The FULL @RCPOLITICS STORY BELOW, INCLUDING SECRET SERVICE DIRECTOR SEAN CURRAN'S DECISION TO PROMOTE TWO SUPERVISORS WHO WERE CHARGED WITH OVERSEEING PEREZ'S HANDLING OF THE BUTLER RALLY SECURITY.

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realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/…

Former Secret Service agents said the troubling scenario raises questions about whether Perez was harboring an illegal immigrant and trying to obtain a friend or love interest a green card while covering up the effort, or at least failing to be forthcoming or transparent about it.

“How does a Secret Service agent not properly report a relationship with a foreign national that could be an illegal alien, let alone marry her and then not report the marriage?” Rich Staropoli @RichStaropoli2 , former long-time Secret Service and DHS official, asked in an interview with RCP. “It speaks to the sad state of affairs of the Secret Service in recent years and who they're hiring.”

The Secret Service over the last decade has been criticized for lowering its hiring standards to solve a persistent agent shortage.

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Susan Crabtree

@susancrabtree

Oct 27, 2025

Newsom's "Field of Schemes" Stolen Athletic Valor:

If baseball got him into college because his grades and SATs sucked, why is he not on the official Santa Rosa all-time baseball roster, below?

Why can't John Savage, the current UCLA baseball coach whose time at Santa Clara University overlapped with Newsom's, remember him playing baseball at all?

We investigated this go-to Newsom fabrication in our book, 💰Fool's Gold💰, and provide the receipts. ⬇️⬇️⬇️

The entire Newsom narrative about pulling himself up by his cleat laces is a myth:

--Over the last THREE DECADES, Newsom has claimed to be a baseball high school standout who managed to win a partial althetic scholarship to Santa Clara University, a well-regarded small Jesuit liberal arts school in the heart of what is now Silicon Valley.

--In California, Newsom’s claims that he was scouted by the Texas Rangers, a major league franchise George W. Bush would go on to own has been repeated so often it’s morphed into an urban legend in San Francisco. In a 2004 home opener, the San Francisco Giants invited Newsom, then the city’s newly minted mayor to throw out the first pitch, As he took the mound, the announcer stated that Newsom had “played first base for the University of Santa Clara and was drafted by the Texas Rangers.”

--And Newsom continues to mislead and embellish his claims that his high school baseball skills got him into Santa Clara University despite bad grades and SAT scores. He used the same lines during his recent podcasts -- even the one with @charliekirk11.

--He fails to mention, while playing up his baseball admission, however, that he had a personal letter of recommendation from none other than former California Gov. Jerry Brown, who had finished serving his first tenure as governor two years prior, accompanied his 1985 application to the school.

--Those famous political and moneyed San Francisco connections also played a key role in getting Newsom on the university’s JV baseball team, where he played for one season before getting hurt and dropping off the team and heading out for a semester in Europe to clear his head.

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Susan Crabtree

@susancrabtree

Oct 27, 2025

https://x.com/susancrabtree/status/1982270460638175592

Downright sociopathic. Gavin Newsom was Growing up Getty.

Here's a list of Getty largesse Gavin Newsom received:

-Vacations to Africa and Hudson Bay (as a child)

-PlumpJack wine business shortly after college

-Great Gatsby-themed Roaring '20s 30th birthday party at the Getty's SF estate

-$233,000 lavish wedding to Kim Guilfoyle

- At least $500,000 for his gubernatorial run

-$1 million to purchase a Pacific Heights home, and more millions in joint real estate ventures

READ ALL ABOUT IT: We have an entire chapter about Gavin's early years "Growing Up Getty" in our book 💰Fool's Gold: The Radicals, Con-Artists and Traitors Who Killed the California Dream and Now Threaten Us All 💰 - available on Amazon.

https://x.com/susancrabtree/status/1982270460638175592

Here's more info about our book, . foolsgoldbook.org

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Susan Crabtree

@susancrabtree

Oct 16, 2025

🚨 🚨 EXCLUSIVE: A WINDOW INTO DEI IN THE SECRET SERVICE - part of a @RCPolitics series of stories on the topic.

After several Secret Service agents went on an all-expense taxpayer-paid trip to the 2023 World LGBTQ+ Conference for Criminal Justice Professionals in Australia in 2023...

ACTION ITEMS ON "BECOMING A TRANS-INCLUSIVE AGENCY" INCLUDED:

-Determining whether physical-fitness standards were having a negative impact on recruiting trans agents.

-Building a private changing area/curtained stall within both male and female lockers rooms to offer privacy for gender non-conforming employees.

⚠️The memo didn't mention the need for privacy for women personnel potentially sharing locker rooms with men transitioning to women or women transitioning to men.

-Using the Royal Canadian Mounted Police's comprehensive guide to support transgender, non-binary, and "two-spirit" employees transitioning in the workplace.

Time to turn on notifications -- I've been working for several weeks on a comprehensive investigation into DEI/lowering of standards at the @SecretService -- a mess current USSS Director Sean Curran inherited from his predecessor Kim Cheatle, who was forced to resign after her disastrous Congressional testimony about the J13 Butler failures.

I'll have a lengthy story filled with more exclusive information either tomorrow morning or in the coming days.

The broad question is whether Curran is doing anything to shake up the old culture and improve recruiting/retention a la @SecofWar Pete Hegseth.

My upcoming comprehensive piece will provide some answers.

Here's a SNEAK PEAK re: the pre-Butler DEI/cultural rot at the agency charged with protecting Pres. Trump.

The Center to Advance Security in America, or CASA, @SecureUSA, pursued several Freedom of Information Act requests for the number of DEI/LGBTQ+ junkets Secret Service leaders and other agents took during the Biden admin.

(Context: Unlike the U.S. military under Hegseth, the Secret Service has not banned trans agents from its ranks. And, in fact, this year has made some physical-fitness accommodations for at least one of them, which I previously reported.)

CASA Director James Fitzpatrick said the response to the FOIA requests show that the Biden Secret Service prioritized "DEI over almost everything."

"They were more worried about whether their agency was becoming 'trans inclusive' and able to decipher the 'gay alphabet' then they were about executing the mission of the Secret Service and keeping high-level government officials and candidates safe," Fitzpatrick said.

"Shortly after this five-person junket to Australia to learn about transgenderism, the Secret Service denied Bobby Kennedy's request for protection for the first time. This is unacceptable and our team will not stop until all of the DEI records of the Biden Secret Service are released to the American people."

Here's just some of the detailed findings:
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For three days in late January and early February 2023, the USSS sent five employees – including Andrew Murphy, the Special Agent in Charge of the Boston Field Office, who is openly gay, to the 2023 World LGBTIQ+ Conference for Criminal Justice Professionals in Melbourne, Australia.

Among the sessions attended by the Secret Service staff were:
•  Understanding Bias Towards Transgender Police and Transgender Homicide Victims
•  Becoming a Trans Inclusive Police Service
•  A Comprehensive Guide to Supporting Transgender, Non-binary and Two-spirit Employees
Transitioning in the Workplace
•  Beyond The Gay Alphabet - Why Understanding The LGBTQIA+ Community's Experience is Crucial to  Effective Modern-Day Policing
•  Modelling Workplace Identities: Negotiating The Risk Of Professional Stigma Within Contemporary  Policing Contexts

The attendees listed several "takeaways" from the conference - among them were:
-Transgender/Gender Non-Conforming Human Resources Guidance
-That they wanted to "incorporate best practices" into USSS HR
-They wanted to create "policy and training" to "provide officers and agents guidance regarding searching/patting-down transgender or gender non-conforming persons."

The group requested a meeting with then-Director Cheatle to discuss proposed “action items” as a follow-up from what they learned at the conference.

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Among these “action items” were:

• Human Resources Policy-Transition Guide for HUM

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) had created a comprehensive guide to support transgender, non-binary, and two-spirit employees transitioning in the workplace.

The RCMP has agreed to provide a copy of its guide for use by other agencies.

The LGBT SEP said it intended to use the
RCMP's guide to draft HUM policy regarding employees who are transitioning/ or who have transitioned in the USSS workforce.

This policy will be developed in coordination with HUM and LEG. When the policy has reached an agreed level of development, the LGBT SEP will turn the policy over to HUM for formal coordination/ implementation.

Gender Inclusive Restrooms/ Locker Rooms -
Guidance for any new construction / rebuild / office relocation, consideration must be given for transgender and gender non-conforming employees (gender affirming care).

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