The Guardian has obtained a copy of a new book, written by award winning Washington Post reporter Carol Leonnig, that claims that at least two members of Donald Trump’s family got “inappropriately close” to secret service agents while they were in the White House.
In the book, Zero Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service, Leonnig writes that Vanessa Trump, the now ex-wife of Donald Trump Jr, started dating an agent who had been assigned to her family shortly after the couple’s divorce in 2018.
Though secret service agents are not allowed to form personal relationships with those they protect, the agent involved did not face disciplinary action as neither he nor the agency were official guardians of Vanessa Trump at that point.
Another family member, Tiffany Trump was also “spending an unusual amount of time alone with a Secret Service agent on her detail,” after she broke up with her boyfriend Leonnig writes. Secret Service leaders “became concerned at how close Tiffany appeared to be getting to the tall, dark and handsome agent”.
Both Trump and the agent claimed nothing happened, but the agent was subsequently reassigned.
It is not clear if Donald Trump knew about some members of his family close relationship with agents of the Secret Service.
