The Secret Service is investigating a new report that says one of its agents left her post at a Trump event to breastfeed.
In a statement shared with Newsweek on Thursday, Secret Service communications director Anthony Guglielmi said, “All employees of the US Secret Service are held to the highest standards. While there was no impact on the North Carolina incident, the details of this incident are being investigated. Given this is a personnel matter, we have unable to comment further.”
The comments come after RealClearPolitics correspondent Susan Crabtree said a female Secret Service agent abandoned her post at Trump’s Wednesday rally in Asheville, North Carolina “to breastfeed without permission/warning to event site agent.”
“The site agent went to do a final sweep of the walkway and found the agent nursing her child in a room that is supposed to be reserved for important official work under the Secret Service, ie a potential emergency related to the President.” Crabtree wrote in a post on X, earlier Chirp.
This is a developing story and will be updated with additional information.
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