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The Secret Service Failed. What’s That Have to Do with DEI?
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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The Secret Service Failed. What’s That Have to Do with DEI?

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 based in Ottawa, Canada. She began her writing career at The Wall Street Journal India with a weekly column focusing on the intersection of economics, politics, and public policy. Her work has been cited in The New York Times, Financial Times, and The Guardian among others. She is a former columnist for the National Post.
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