The Secret Service may be understaffed, overwhelmed, and less than competent at protecting former Presidents, but it can still afford to send agents to a five-day LGBTQ+ bash at Walt Disney World next month.
On Wednesday, the Secret Service’s “Office of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion” sent an agencywide email seeking employees interested in attending — at taxpayer expense — the “2024 Out and Equal Workplace Summit” at the Orlando, Florida, resort October 7 – 11, RealClearPolitics’ Susan Crabtree reported on X.
A Rankle in Time
“When queer people remember our magic, when we fight because we genuinely believe in our magnificence, not merely our misery, what happens is we create a movement that isn’t defined by what we’re not but rather by who we are,” one man pretending to be a woman declared at the 2023 conference. “And what we are is love.”
Which is why they hate those who are opposed to drag queen story hours, pornographic books in schools, and “gender-affirming care” for children.
Sending Secret Service employees to the 2024 summit, particularly under the present circumstances, “is rankling many rank-and-file special agents and Uniformed Division officers,” penned Crabtree.
A large number of Secret Service employees are working so hard — many seven-day work weeks with no time off — that they’ve already hit their “supermax limit” for overtime pay, meaning they can no longer receive overtime for their work. One special agent characterized that phenomenon as essentially working for free.
Many special agents and Uniformed Division officers say the call for nominees for the LGBTQ+ conference at the height of campaign season is tone-deaf when resources are stretched so thin — especially in the wake of the J13 assassination attempt against former Pres. Trump that killed Corey Comperatore.
“I would like to know with the operational tempo [we’re under], how they think this is an appropriate use of manpower?” one source in the Secret Service community asked.
Help! DEI Need Somebody
The answer, of course, is that “they” are so committed to the diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) agenda that everything, including the safety of presidents, vice presidents, and candidates, takes a back seat to it. Former President Donald Trump isn’t the only one to suffer because of it. Vice President Kamala Harris, who presumably backs DEI in theory, was assigned a female Secret Service agent who had to be subdued after physically attacking her commanding agent. The woman, whose employment history should have prevented her from being hired by the Secret Service in the first place, was removed from duty.
“The Secret Service is all in with DEI,” The New American reported. “The agency has ‘affirmative employment’ and ‘special emphasis’ programs directed at blacks, Hispanics, ‘Indigenous Nations,’ Asians, Pacific Islanders, and, of course, ‘LGBT.’ It created no such programs for whites.”
Sending agents to an LGBTQ+ summit would be a bad idea anytime. But when the Secret Service is under such strain that it has to get assistance from other agencies, it’s an outrage.
On August 29, the Defense Department announced that it would be providing “increased support” to the Secret Service through January 20.
Meanwhile, whistleblowers told Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) that “most of the agents assigned to protect Donald Trump during the assassination attempt at his Butler, Pa., rally in July were Homeland Security personnel who had minimal protective training,” the New York Post reported. That training, Hawley claimed, consisted of “a two-hour, online webinar. And I’m told that half the time, the sounds to the webinar didn’t even work.”
X-coriating the Agency
Hawley was among those taking to X to lambaste the Secret Service for sending people to the “Out and Equal” event under the circumstances.
“You’ve gotta be kidding me,” he wrote. “Agents assigned to Trump in Butler were only given online zoom training — but Secret Service has the resources for a DEI summit in Orlando? This is beyond outrageous.”
“I wish Secret Service had held a conference called ‘How To Protect Presidential Candidates and Former Presidents,’ or maybe ‘Don’t Leave A Rooftop Unattended,’” quipped Senator Mike Lee (R-Utah). “Instead, Secret Service holds events like this one — even though it has nothing to do with keeping protectees safe.”
The Rainbow Collection
The Secret Service isn’t alone in sending people to or supporting the “Out and Equal” summit. According to Crabtree, the conference
boasts the participation of many Fortune 500 companies and “government agencies” and lists as sponsors many big U.S. companies, including Boeing, The Walt Disney Company, Target, McDonald’s, Morgan Stanley, Apple, Accenture, JPMorganChase, Bank of America, Experian, Dell Technologies, Deloitte and many others.
The government agencies include the Central Intelligence Agency and the United States Intelligence Community. And, as LifeSiteNews’ Doug Mainwaring observed, “Out and Equal” is “just the tip of a large LGBTQ National Intelligence/National Security rainbow iceberg”:
The Secret Service along with the entire U.S. intelligence community which is composed of 17 different agencies, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the Department of Homeland Security, and the intelligence arms of each branch of the U.S. military, has a decades-long history of pioneering LGBTQ affiliations, predating and even outpacing the woke corporate world….
The office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) boasted in 2017 of “IC (Intelligence Community) Pride” dating at least as far [back] as 1996[.]
The Secret Service, therefore, is simply continuing the trend. But sending people to Disney World when your agents are tapped out and you can’t even protect a former president? That reeks of a Mickey Mouse operation.
