November 15, 2024 – Trump-hating Antifa member and online extremist is a US Secret Service Agent

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Thomas Jack Hamil (Credit: Justice Report)

The Secret Service is investigating an agent who has been accused of having Antifa and anarchist ties and who allegedly lashed out at Trump as someone with “Nazi-ass policies” and called his supporters “chodes” and “neo-Nazis” in several social media posts.

The posts clearly call into question whether this agent can provide adequate protection to President-elect Trump during the transition of power, the inauguration, and afterward. The agent, from what I’ve been told, has about six years of experience and is in Phase 2 of his career is assigned to Vice President Kamala Harris’s protective detail.

After internet sleuths and an online publication called Justice Report.net published details of what they described are the agent’s online posts, a Secret Service spokesman tells me that agency officials heard about the accusations and have “modified” the agent’s duties and launched an internal probe into the social media posts.

(Credit: Justice Report)

“The U.S. Secret Service recently became aware of alleged social media posts by an employee that have prompted an internal review,” Secret Service spokesman Anthony Gugilielmi tells me in a statement. “We are taking this matter seriously, and this employee’s assigned duties have been modified while this review is underway.” “These comments in no way represent the views or values of the Secret Service, and we maintain and enforce rigorous codes of conduct governing employee actions both on and off duty,” he added.

After the social media posts came to light, the agent deleted his accounts so any internal agency review would need to verify those deleted accounts as his. That’s apparently why he hasn’t been disciplined more severely and swiftly, although there’s a precedent, which I describe below, for disciplining agents while continuing to pay them until they hit certain retirement dates so they can retire with full pay and retirement benefits.

The controversy over the agent’s anti-Trump social media posts as the nation prepares for a transfer of power to Trump echo a similar incident in early 2017, just before Trump’s first inauguration. At that time, a senior female agent, Kerry O’Grady, suggested in an October 2016 Facebook post that she didn’t want to take a bullet for Trump if he was elected. I broke that story in early 2017. O’Grady was the leader of the Denver Field Office at the time.

O’Grady was not disciplined for the Facebook post until after I wrote this piece: Washington Examiner

The Secret Service placed her on paid administrative leave for more than two and a half years, giving her what amounted to a paid vacation until she reached a retirement milestone in early 2019 even though she had reached her settlement with the Department of Homeland Security in Oct. 2017.

Here’s that stor[y] that I wrote in 2019: 

Justicereport.net has described the agent who made the Nazi references about Trump and his supporters as a devout follower of “antifascist shock jock Robert Evans.” Evans, a former editor at the humor website Cracked.com, has written for an online outlet called Bellingcat and has operated several podcasts. In mid-2020, Evans joined a class-action lawsuit against the City of Portland for police use of force against the Antifa-led protests responding to the death of George Floyd.

The issues surrounding the latest accusations related to an agent’s inappropriate online media posts raises serious and ongoing questions about the internal vetting and hiring standards at the Secret Service. Historically, USSS leadership handled hiring decisions, but in recent years human resource officials with no protective experience in the agency have been making the hiring decisions with DEI priorities taking precedent over other security qualifications/experience, according to several sources in the Secret Service community.

I’m told the agency, over the last decade, has dramatically lowered standards for drug use and physical fitness issues that previously would have been disqualifying. The agency also doesn’t require mental health screening for prospective recruits, an issue that several whistleblowers have repeatedly raised a problem in an era marked by lower hiring standards.

I’ve been working on this story all week, but @AMrAndyNgo, an intrepid reporter who provided outstanding coverage of the 2020 Antifa riots in Portland and Seattle was able to break the issue about the agent’s alleged social media posts late Friday afternoon, citing “internet sleuths” who first discovered the incendiary online comments.