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Former Secret Service Agent Suggests Agency Has Political Bias Against Trump Following Second Assassination Attempt

From the Daily Caller News Foundation
A former Secret Service agent alleged on Tuesday that political bias has permeated the agency, following a second assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump, during an appearance on Fox News. (Screenshot/Fox News)
A former Secret Service agent alleged on Tuesday that political bias has permeated the agency following a second assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump.
In an appearance on “The Ingraham Angle,” former Secret Service agent Richard Staropoli accused the Secret Service of allowing “personal political feelings to permeate the senior most levels,” and suggested a breakdown in the nonpartisan integrity that the service is mandated to uphold. Staropoli further alleged that bias has trickled down to field agents, potentially compromising their duty to protect.
“He [Trump] describes it as the most dangerous business, a very dangerous business, it shouldn’t be. This is why the Secret Service exists, yet somewhere along the line, they’ve allowed their own personal political feelings to permeate the senior most levels of the Secret Service,” Staropoli told Laura Ingraham. “And that has made its way down to the level of the field agents, the Secret Service is broken. They are not doing their job.”
WATCH:
Trump described campaigning as a “dangerous business” during a Tuesday Town hall in Michigan, according to USA Today. Trump hosted the town hall just days after Secret Service agents foiled an assassination attempt at his Florida golf course on Sunday, which follows a previous attack in July where Trump was wounded and an attendee killed at a Pennsylvania rally.
With a career spanning over two decades, including high-stakes assignments with Presidents Clinton and Bush, Staropoli said he understood the pressures and challenges of the job, however, the recent failures around Trump’s security disturbs him. He argued that the agency should have anticipated the threat at a location Trump frequented.
“The Secret Service with a $4 billion budget and 7 ,000 employees can’t predict and can’t pre-post an event that’s going to happen on a golf course,” he added. “That the president not only owns but has been golfing on every Sunday for the last 20 years.”
Staropoli delved into the details of the first assassination attempt allegedly orchestrated by Thomas Crooks, emphasizing the agency’s missteps throughout the process.
“Let’s add in the fact that you exposed of the body the way too quickly, you contaminated that crime scene and quite simply has any Secret Service agent even interviewed the family what what’s going on here,” he added. “They have left totally unresolved questions and have fed into conspiracy theories that we will be talking about 50 and 60 years from now, this could have all been avoided if the acting director simply would have stepped in front of the cameras right from the outset.”
The Secret Service requested a budget increase from Congress following the second assassination . Amidst negotiations, some lawmakers advocated for more funds while others demanded new leadership.
The Secret Service did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment.
2025 Federal Election
RCMP memo warns of Chinese interference on Canadian university campuses to affect election

From LifeSiteNews
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police singled out China as the only nation of interest, noting that the ‘threat posed by the People’s Republic and its powerful security and intelligence apparatus’ remains a ‘concern.’
An internal briefing note from Canada’s top police force warned that agents of the Communist Chinese Party (CCP) are targeting Canadian universities to intimidate them and in some instances challenge them on their “political positions.”
The December 3, 2024, memo titled On-Campus Foreign Interference from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) did not mention specific universities by name but noted that foreign interference was sophisticated and came solely from China.
The memo stated that as Canada’s academic institutions rely on “open, creative and collaborative environments” to foster independent debate, some “foreign intelligence services and government officials including the People’s Republic of China can exploit this culture of openness to monitor and coerce students, faculty and other university officials.”
“On university campuses foreign states may seek to exert undue influence, covertly and through proxies, by harassing dissidents and suppressing academic freedoms and free speech that are not aligned with their political interests,” the RCMP noted in the memo.
The memo noted that foreign agents’ influence in “public debate at academic institutions” may lead to them sponsoring “specific events to shape discussion rather than engage in free debate and dialogue.”
“They may also directly or indirectly attempt to disrupt public events or other on-campus activities they perceive as challenging their political positions and spread disinformation, undermining confidence in academic discourse and expertise,” the memo observed.
Notably, the memo singled out China, and thus the CCP, as the only nation of interest, noting that the “threat posed by the People’s Republic and its powerful security and intelligence apparatus including malign activities targeting our democratic institutions, communities and economic prosperity” remains a “concern.”
Some of the activities that foreign agents engaged included the recruitment of CCP sympathizers and “in some instances,” noted the memo, saw students be “pressured to participate in activities that are covertly organized by a foreign power.”
“Universities can also be used as venues for ‘talent spotting’ and intelligence collection in specific circumstances,” the memo stated.
The final report from the Foreign Interference Commission concluded that operatives from China may have had a hand in helping to elect a handful of MPs in both the 2019 and 2021 Canadian federal elections. It also concluded that China was the primary foreign interference threat to Canada.
According to hearings from a 2021 House of Commons Special Committee on Canada-China Relations, there were numerous documented incidents of CCP intimidation.
For example, a Tibetan Canadian, Chemi Lhamo, testified she got death threats after she ran for student council president at the University of Toronto’s Scarborough campus.
“There were comments saying the bullet that would go through me was made in China,” she said, noting that “Community members of the allied nations who are subjected to the Chinese Communist Party’s colonial violence are not alien to these tactics. We have witnessed China’s interference and influence not just in our university campuses but also in our communities.”
Earlier this week, LifeSiteNews reported that Canada’s Security and Intelligence Threats to Elections Task Force (SITE) confirmed the CCP government was behind an online “operation” on WeChat to paint Prime Minister Mark Carney in a positive light.
Canadians will head to the polls in a general election on April 28.
LifeSiteNews reported last week that the Liberal Party under Carney, has thus far seen no less than three MP candidates drop out of the election race over allegations of foreign interference.
LifeSiteNews recently reported how the Conservative Party sounded the alarm by sharing a 2016 video of Carney saying the Communist Chinese regime’s “perspective” on things is “one of its many strengths.”
As reported by LifeSiteNews, a new exposé by investigative journalist Sam Cooper claims there is compelling evidence that Carney and former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau are strongly influenced by an “elite network” of foreign actors, including those with ties to China and the World Economic Forum.
COVID-19
Biden Admin concealed report on earliest COVID cases from 2019

MxM News
Quick Hit:
A newly uncovered Defense Department report reveals that seven U.S. troops may have contracted COVID-19 during the 2019 World Military Games in Wuhan—months before the official pandemic timeline. The Biden administration kept the report from the public for over two years, despite a legal requirement to release it.
Key Details:
- A December 2022 Pentagon report shows seven U.S. service members showed COVID-like symptoms after attending the 2019 Wuhan games.
- The Biden administration withheld the report, which was required by law to be made public in 2022, until it was quietly posted online in March 2025.
- Evidence contradicts Biden officials’ 2021 claims and adds weight to theories that COVID-19 leaked from a Chinese lab before December 2019.
Diving Deeper:
The Biden administration withheld a critical Pentagon report for more than two years, one that sheds new light on the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic. According to documents obtained by the Washington Free Beacon, seven U.S. military service members may have contracted COVID-19 during or shortly after the 2019 World Military Games in Wuhan, China—a full two months before China officially acknowledged the outbreak.
The report, completed in December 2022, was mandated for public release by the National Defense Authorization Act. Yet, the administration only passed it to select Congressional committees and failed to make it publicly accessible as required. It wasn’t until March 2025 that the report quietly appeared on a Defense Department site under a section dedicated to “quality-of-life” issues—far from public view.
This revelation directly contradicts claims made by Biden administration officials in 2021, including then-Defense Department spokesman John Kirby, who stated there was “no knowledge” of any infections among the U.S. participants. The Trump administration had also denied early on that troops were tested or showed symptoms, citing the timing of the games before China’s outbreak announcement.
Held just miles from the Wuhan Institute of Virology—where controversial, U.S.-funded gain-of-function research was conducted—the 2019 games have long drawn suspicion from national security and public health experts. Prominent biologist Dr. Richard Ebright told the Free Beacon the report confirms that COVID was already circulating and likely leaked from the Wuhan lab: “This new information strengthens U.S. and allied intelligence data.”
Adding more context, athletes from European countries such as France, Germany, and Italy also reported flu-like symptoms in Wuhan, describing the city at the time as unusually empty—a “ghost town.” All seven American service members recovered quickly, and the Pentagon has not revealed when it first became aware of the cases.
Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) called the report’s concealment an “outrage,” noting it directly undermines the long-promoted narrative that COVID began at a Wuhan wet market in December 2019. “Taxpayers deserve to know the truth,” she said. “This report should have been made public immediately.”
Congressional Republicans have consistently asserted that the Wuhan games were among the first super spreader events of the pandemic. In 2021, House Foreign Affairs Republicans issued findings supporting that theory. Meanwhile, multiple federal agencies—including the CIA, FBI, and Energy Department—now publicly believe COVID most likely originated from the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
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