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Secret
Service agent reportedly put on leave over Facebook comment that Charlie Kirk
'spewed hate and racism'
The
Secret Service, the agency that provides security to the president, the
vice-president and visiting foreign officials, has reportedly suspended an
agent who posted a critical comment about the conservative activist Charlie
Kirk on Facebook.
According
to a screenshot posted online by a conservative reporter for Real Clear
Politics, after Kirk was killed, the agent, Anthony Pough, shared video of
Kirk’s infamous comment, in 2023, that a Black congresswoman did not have “the
brain processing power to otherwise be taken really seriously” and “had to go
steal a white person’s slot to go be taken somewhat seriously”.
Above the
video, the agent wrote to his Facebook friends that anyone “mourning this guy”
should unfollow him on the social network. “He spewed hate and racism on his
show.”
“At the
end of the day, you answer to GOD and speak things into existence,” he added.
“You can only circumvent karma, she doesn’t leave.”
In
response to the Real Clear Politics report, Marsha Blackburn, a Republican
senator from Tennessee, wrote the director of the Secret Service demanding that
the agent be fired for what she called his celebration and attempt to justify
Kirk’s assassination.
“This
employee was immediately put on administrative leave, and an investigation has
begun,” the Secret Service said in a statement to CNN and other news outlets on
Friday.
Susan
Crabtree, the reporter who first discovered the agent’s post also shared
screenshots of other posts, including one in which the agent called Pete
Hegseth’s decision to fire the Black air force general CQ Brown Jr as chair of
the joint chiefs of staff “racism.” Three months before Hegseth took office, he
had told a podcaster the next defense secretary had to “fire the chairman of
the joint chiefs” because any general “that was involved in any of that DEI
woke shit has got to go.”
Another
post from Pough shared by Crabtree mocked Donald Trump for refusing to rule out
a recession in 2025.
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