Secret Service Director to Depart Post in May

Wheel Of Fish 2 — Trump Administration Wheel of Fish parody. Image by Lenny Ghoul.

The Washington Post is reporting that Randolph “Tex” Alles, will leave his job as Secret Service Director in May.

Press Secretary Sarah Sanders said in a statement that President Trump will “select James M. Murray, a career member of the USSS, to take over as director.”

CNN’s Jake Tapper reported the departure via Twitter Monday afternoon.

Multiple senior administration officials tell CNN that POTUS told chief of staff Mick Mulvaney to fire US Secret Service director Randolph “Tex” Alles, a conversation that took place a week before last. Alles remains in the position as of now but has been asked to leave.
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) April 8, 2019

The announced departure comes just a day after Department of Homeland Security Director Kirstjen Nielsen was resigned/fired.

Our missions as a Department are vast and have never been more vital. You are in the arena- keep up the good fight. Thank you for your sacrifices and those of your families. God bless you and God bless our great country.
— Sec. Kirstjen Nielsen (@SecNielsen) April 7, 2019

The Secret Service made news recently when as Reuters explains a Chinese woman managed to bluff her way into President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Florida resort last month.

Yujing Zhang was arrested and according to prosecutors “she was carrying four cell phones, a laptop computer, an external hard drive and a thumb drive containing what investigators described as “malicious malware.”

On Thursday President Trump said he was “not concerned at all,” regarding security at Mar-a-Lago.

President Trump on security at Mar-a-Lago: "No, I'm not concerned at all." https://t.co/bMGDdm28Ir pic.twitter.com/OCZSUlmJba
— The Hill (@thehill) April 4, 2019

For What It’s Worth

Big concern among Trump administration officials is this perceived purge of senior national security officials — DHS Secy Nielsen and USSS Director fired, ICE director nominee pulled, other senior DHS officials at risk (DHS general counsel, USCIS dir, Acting DHS deputy secy).
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) April 8, 2019

Trump Departures:
Flynn
Walsh
Comey
Dubke
Shaub
McFarland
Corralo
Spicer
Priebus
Mooch
Bannon
Gorka
Icahn
Price
Powell
Manigault
McCabe
Porter
Raffel
Hicks
Cohn
Tillerson
McMaster
Shulkin
Anton
Bossert
Pruitt
Short
Haley
Sessions
Kelly
Ayers
Zinke
Mattis
Shine
McMahon
Nielsen
— Jamie DeRosa (@JamieDeRosa) April 8, 2019

For What It’s Worth

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