We all remember, all too clearly, that fateful day in Butler, Pennsylvania, when, at the height of the 2024 presidential campaign, a presidential candidate and former President of the United States was nearly assassinated by a gunman who had somehow set himself up on an unattended rooftop with line-of-sight to the podium. President Trump escaped death by, literally, a whisker - and in so doing, gave us the most powerful political image since President Reagan at the Brandenburg Gate, thundering, "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!"
The Secret Service agent in charge of securing the scene at Butler, PA, was suspended after that event. Myosoty “Miyo” Perez was in charge; her name was on the blame line. Now, on Friday, we learned that she has been suspended yet again, after failing to disclose her marriage to a foreign national for nine months.
The Secret Service agent who was in charge of developing and executing the failed security plan for the 2024 rally where President Trump was nearly killed has been suspended and is under internal agency investigation for allegedly improperly reporting her relationship with and eventual marriage to a foreign national, several sources told RealClearPolitics.
This suspension is the third one in a year and a half for the agent, Myosoty “Miyo” Perez, who served as the “site agent” for the Butler campaign rally where a would-be assassin shot Trump’s ear, killed retired firefighter Corey Comperatore, and seriously injured two others in the crowd.
A site agent is in charge of planning and executing the security plan for rallies and other events that presidential and vice-presidential candidates, as well as presidents and vice presidents along with Cabinet officials, attend. Others, such as the lead agent and counterparts from local field offices, as well as supervisors, also usually contribute.
This seems grounds for immediate dismissal, if not prosecution.
But wait! There's more!
Despite the ongoing congressional investigations and internal Secret Service review of her role in the Butler failures, Perez quietly married a Brazilian foreign national last April without notifying the agency, according to a copy of her marriage certificate located on the Brevard County public records website and according to sources familiar with the timing of when she informed the agency of her marriage. Upon learning of the marriage, the agency suspended her and issued an internal “Do Not Admit” notice.
The internal Secret Service investigation is examining whether the woman Perez was dating and married last year had overstayed her visa and was facing a deportation order, multiple sources familiar with the matter told RCP.
This is a person who was placed in a critical position of trust by the Secret Service, by the Executive Branch of the United States of America's federal government, and not least of all, by the taxpayers who expect competence from people such as these - no matter how many times we are disappointed. And Myosoty Perez has failed, not once, not twice, but thrice.
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This last case, the unreported marriage, shows more than incompetence. It shows a shocking case of bad judgment, along with a shocking disregard for the rules and expectations of her being an agent in the Secret Service. As for the Butler affair, the ineptness reportedly goes much higher:
Yet the reality of the situation was that Perez, because of her inexperience and detailed knowledge about running a big outdoor rally, had no business planning and leading security that day. She was set up to fail by bosses, including Curran, who served as Trump’s campaign detail leader at the time and is now leading the Secret Service, according to dozens of Secret Service sources inside the agency and those who have retired after lengthy careers.
This may be true, but it doesn't excuse Perez from being in charge of the scene; her name is forever on the blame line. And this latest screwup on her part is just the icing on the betrayal-of-trust cake.
It's unclear whether Perez will ever be removed from her position. Almost two years after the Butler, PA, attempt, no one involved in that cluster foul-up has been held to account. But, in the best revenge of all on the would-be assassin and those who cheered him on, Donald Trump is once more President of the United States.
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