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The Secret Service Failed. What’s That Have to Do with DEI?
Videos of female agents fumbling after Trump was shot have drawn ire on social media. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
Last year, the agency’s director promised it would promote more women. Videos of female agents fumbling after Donald Trump was shot haven’t helped her cause.
By Rupa Subramanya
07.15.24 — U.S. Politics
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Questions are being raised about the Secret Service, after it failed to protect former president Donald J. Trump from an assassination attempt. Influential Americans, from lawmakers to commentators, have drawn a link between the almost-catastrophic security breach and the Service’s new DEI policies—specifically, the attempt to increase the number of wom…

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Rupa Subramanya
Rupa Subramanya is a writer for The Free Press. She lives in Ottawa, Canada.
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