I am shocked — shocked, I tell you.
From Susan Crabtree of RealClearPolitics:
Hard to believe, given the caliber of agents they're hiring these days!
There's virtually no information about this in the media right now, which is unsurprising — you can't imagine the media are too eager to telegraph the DEI failures of national security.
Accidental discharges only happen when you don't follow proper safety protocols. Guns don't just shoot themselves (unless you were rocking a Sig P320 back in 2018).
That's especially true on modern handguns with internal safeties. The trigger has to be pulled, either by your finger or clothing or some other object, to make it go boom.
Oh, but it gets better:
She's a legacy hire with family connections in leadership!
Thirty years ago, you could trust that a female agent had earned her place. But these days, the priority is "diversity," which makes the American public wonder if new hires are actually competent.
More on the agency's woke policies from Crabtree:
Under the Biden administration's sweeping DEI executive order, former Secret Service Dir. Kimberly Cheatle signed onto the 30x30 national DEI initiative. It calls for all law enforcement agencies in the country to have at least 30% of their forces be women by the year 2030. One of the reasons? Because women make fewer arrests.
This 30x30 initiative and the way Cheatle is implementing it in hiring decisions and training qualifications was a major focus of an online petition and its whistleblowers' concerns that it was impacting Secret Service training, readiness, and performance. This petition was circulating BEFORE the assassination attempts against Trump.
I'm told by the time Cheatle left under pressure from Congress after J13, she boosted women agents and uniformed officers to 24% -- just 6% shy of the 30x30 pledge.
Crabtree also noted a source in the Secret Service who said such an accidental discharge could derail an agent's career.
Gotta take gun safety seriously, ladies!
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