The Secret Service is shaking up assignments for President-elect Joe Biden’s detail because of concerns about some agents’ worrisome ties to Donald Trump, The Washington Post reported. Biden supporters have expressed fears that some agents are too closely politically aligned with the outgoing president, sources told the Post. In another instance, Secret Service agents assigned to Trump tried to persuade their colleagues not to wear masks on trips in order to please the president, contradicting recommendations from administration health experts, the Post has previously reported. More than 130 Secret Service officers who helped protect Trump and Vice President Mike Pence either tested positive for COVID-19 or were forced to quarantine because of contact with infected co-workers, the Post reported last month. The change in Biden’s protective detail will give him the “comfort of the familiar,” a former Secret Service executive told the Post.

Source: Huffington Post January 01, 2021 05:03 UTC