President Donald Trump announced late on Wednesday that he had nominated Sean Curran, the head of his personal Secret Service security detail, to serve as director of the U.S. Secret Service.
Curran was one of several quick-thinking agents who rushed onstage to defend Trump during an attempted assassination on July 13. Trump called the appointment of Curran an “honor” in a Truth Social post.
“Sean is a Great Patriot, who has protected my family over the past few years, and that is why I trust him to lead the Brave Men and Women of the United States Secret Service,” the president wrote.
“He is brilliant leader, who is capable of directing and leading operational security plans for some of the most complex Special Security Events in the History of our Country, and the World. He proved his fearless courage when he risked his own life to help save mine from an assassin’s bullet in Butler, Pennsylvania. I have complete and total confidence in Sean to make the United States Secret Service stronger than ever before,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post.
Soon after the announcement was made, former Secret Service agent and conservative media mogul Dan Bongino seemed to put out an ominous tweet on X (formerly known as Twitter).
“Don’t blame me. I tried,” Bongino posted. It’s unclear what exactly the post was referring to, but many of the comments underneath the tweet were from users who said they wanted Bongino to serve as director of the U.S. Secret Service.
“Curran has a very good reputation among most agents and in the broader Secret Service community as a whole, though some have expressed concern that he lacks managerial experience and will need to have to switch gears and change his personality from a shift agent and team leader to a much more forceful presence to truly shake up the agency, clean house, and bring about the reforms that so many current and former agents believe the agency desperately needs,” Real Clear Politics reported.
In other news, the Trump administration intends to challenge sanctuary city policies by threatening to bring charges against state and municipal officials who oppose federal immigration enforcement, according to a recent Justice Department document.
Federal prosecutors who choose not to pursue such immigration cases would be promptly sent to the Justice Department for examination and possible prosecution, according to the memo from acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove.
The three-page directive demonstrates how the Trump administration has been working for weeks to draft memos that they believe will be more resilient to legal challenges, according to CNN.
“Federal law prohibits state and local actors from resisting, obstructing, and otherwise failing to comply with lawful immigration-related commands and requests,” the memo reads. “The U.S. Attorney’s Offices and litigating components of the Department of Justice shall investigate incidents involving any such misconduct for potential prosecution.”
The department’s civil division is directed in the letter to assist in identifying state and municipal laws and policies that “threaten to impede” Trump’s immigration measures and to file legal challenges against them.
While the department waits for Pamela Bondi to be confirmed as attorney general, Bove’s memo refers to the modifications as interim policy guidance.
On Tuesday, Trump signed two additional executive actions that targeted DEI: a memo to repeal a Biden administration policy that gave preference to DEI hiring at the Federal Aviation Administration and an executive order to end discrimination in higher education and the workplace through sex- and race-based preferences under the pretense of DEI.
In the executive order signed Tuesday, Trump sought to protect Americans from discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.
He said these civil rights protections “serve as a bedrock supporting equality of opportunity for all Americans” and that he “has a solemn duty to ensure that these laws are enforced for the benefit of all Americans.”
