Mere hours after a cadre of Secret Service agents risked their lives to shield Donald Trump from a would-be assassin’s fire, members of the former president’s security detail were themselves coming under attack.
“There should not be any women in the Secret Service,” rightwing commentator Matt Walsh wrote on X, posting a video showing three female agents ushering Trump into an SUV. “These are supposed to be the very best, and none of the very best at this job are women.”
Amid the intense scrutiny of the agency’s alleged failings in preventing Saturday’s assassination attempt in Pennsylvania, misogynist views such as Walsh’s have been endorsed by several influential voices on the right.