{"id":37348,"date":"2025-01-17T01:37:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-17T07:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=37348"},"modified":"2025-01-17T05:39:53","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T11:39:53","slug":"trump-expected-to-replace-secret-service-director-sources-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=37348","title":{"rendered":"Trump expected to replace Secret Service director, sources say"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">President-elect&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/alerts\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a>&nbsp;is expected to announce before Monday that he plans to replace the director of the Secret Service, multiple sources told ABC News.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">While the Secret Service hasn&#8217;t officially been notified of any change, agency officials are operating under the assumption that the current acting director, Ronald Rowe, won&#8217;t be extended, Secret Services sources said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The leading candidate for the job is Sean Curran, the current head of Trump&#8217;s protective detail, multiple sources told ABC News.<a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/accountability-occurring-us-secret-service-director-house-panel\/story?id=116467833\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Rowe was appointed as acting director of the agency after Kimberly Cheatle&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/secret-service-director-kimberly-cheatle-resigns-sources\/story?id=111990439\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">resigned in July 2024<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Cheatle came under scrutiny for the agency&#8217;s failure to prevent the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/timeline-trump-assassination-attempt-unfolded-rally-pennsylvania\/story?id=111933309\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">assassination attempt<\/a>\u00a0on Trump&#8217;s life at his rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/trump-expected-replace-secret-service-director-sources\/story?id=117770794\">abcnews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President-elect&nbsp;Donald Trump&nbsp;is expected to announce before Monday that he plans to replace the director of the Secret Service, multiple sources told ABC News. While the Secret Service hasn&#8217;t officially been notified of any change, agency officials are operating under the assumption that the current acting director, Ronald Rowe, won&#8217;t be extended, Secret Services sources said. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":37349,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[5368,6942,1348],"class_list":["post-37348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-director","tag-secret","tag-service"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37348"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37350,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37348\/revisions\/37350"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/37349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}