

Instead, he was focused on “repeatedly” trying to remove agents he believed were too short or overweight from his detail. Leonnig, whose 2015 Pulitzer was awarded for her reporting on security failures at the Secret Service, notes that it’s not clear if Donald Trump was aware of what Secret Service personnel were discussing in regard to his daughter and daughter-in-law. Tiffany is now engaged to Michael Boulos, the son of a Lebanese billionaire, who apparently popped the question in the waning days of the Trump administration. Leonnig also writes that Tiffany Trump, Donald Trump’s daughter with his second wife, Marla Maples, broke up with a boyfriend and “began spending an unusual amount of time alone with a Secret Service agent on her detail.” Secret Service leaders, the book says, “became concerned at how close Tiffany appeared to be getting to the tall, dark and handsome agent.”īoth Tiffany Trump and the agent said nothing untoward was happening, Leonnig writes, and pointed out the nature of the agent’s job meant spending time alone with his charge. While agents are prohibited from forming personal relationships with the people they are assigned to protect, as such feelings could affect their judgment, the individual Vanessa was seeing was apparently not subject to disciplinary action because “neither he nor the agency were official guardians of Vanessa Trump at that point.”Īccording to Leonnig, Vanessa wasn’t the only Trump gal with an eye for the men assigned to the family: In Zero Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Carol Leonnig reports that Vanessa, the ex-wife of Donald Trump’s eldest son, started dating one of the agents who had been assigned to the family “ shortly” after her 2018 divorce from Junior, according to The Guardian, which obtained a copy of the book.

For example, if you found yourself married to Donald Trump Jr., the mortifying, simpleminded, sheep-killing son of the 45th president, whose own father seems to despise him, you’d almost certainly replace him with a Secret Service agent, as Vanessa Trump, who found herself in that very situation, understandably decided to do. And yet, in many cases, it actually works in entirely predictable, obvious, and reasonable ways.

It works, as they say, in mysterious ways.
