Former President Trump falsely claimed that the Secret Service had security concerns about him going to the New York Attorney General’s office for a deposition last month.
Jim Helminski was new to his job as a Secret Service agent when he was assigned to protect Queen Elizabeth II while she was in Kentucky in 1984.
Tony Ornato, an assistant director at the Secret Service, left the agency Monday for a job in the private sector.
The Secret Service, under fire over missing text messages, has a new leader.
If Donald Trump ends up behind bars, he’d likely still receive Secret Service protection.
Homeland Security officials said they would no longer delete data on cell phones from top officials and political appointees before backing them up on external servers.
The Homeland Security watchdog who is accused of mishandling deleted Secret Service text messages from the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection violated ethics rules while at the Justice Department, according to a 2013 report.
Homeland Security’s internal watchdog had a chance to try and recover missing Secret Service text messages around the time of the Jan. 6 insurrection.
