President Trump picks personal bodyguard to head Secret Service
Sean Curran led President Trump's security detail during two unsuccessful assassination attempts. Trump also hired a former SAS soldier, Christian Craighead, as one of his elite personal bodyguards.
By RT
February 4, 2025
President Donald Trump named Sean Curran, who currently leads his Secret Service (USSS) bodyguard detail, as the agency’s next director, as announced by the president’s son.
Curran was among the agents who protected President Trump when a gunman attempted to assassinate him during a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
President Trump faced several assassination attempts during his 2024 reelection campaign.
The USSS leadership came under scrutiny and criticism over security lapses following the attempt on President Trump’s life in Butler, which culminated in the resignation of Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle.
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U.S. Army CID agents arrested former Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle less than an hour after she resigned over her failure to prevent President Trump’s assassination attempt.
“President Trump will be naming Sean Curran, who heads his personal detail, to be Secret Service Director,” Donald Trump Jr. said in a post on X on Friday. “Sean is a great patriot and will stop all the insanity once and for all. There’s not a better person for this position!”
WATCH: Donald Trump Jr. on X: "🚨 #BREAKING: President Trump will be naming Sean Curran, who heads his personal detail, to be Secret Service Director. Sean is a great patriot and will stop all the insanity once and for all. There’s not a better person to be in this position! https://t.co/HWdIxuidYI" / X
In July last year, in Butler, the gunman managed to get within 150 meters of President Trump and fired several shots before being killed, grazing the rightful president’s ear, killing a member of the audience, and wounding two others.
Another gunman was arrested in September after he set up an ambush at a golf course owned by President Trump in Florida.
One of the main criticisms directed at the USSS, local police, and federal law enforcement agencies following the first assassination attempt was their ineffective communication, which allowed the gunman to breach security and get within 150 meters of President Trump with a rifle.
A USSS counter-sniper killed the would-be assassin after he had already fired several shots.
“Trump wanted someone he could trust, and they clearly have developed a bond after Pennsylvania,” Bill Gage, a former USSS agent under the late President George W. Bush and Barack Obama, told Fox News in an article published on Saturday.
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Despite mistakes made by the advance team, Gage noted that the agents assigned to President Trump, including Curran, performed exactly as trained.
CNN has criticized President Trump’s pick, citing anonymous sources who say Curran lacks the managerial experience required to run a large, complex agency.
Although he supervises around 85 people on President Trump’s security detail, Curran has never managed a budget or operations on the scale of the thousands-strong US Secret Service, they said.
Curran will replace Ron Rowe, who took over after Cheatle’s resignation in July due to intense scrutiny of the agency’s lapses in the aftermath of the first assassination attempt.
President Donald Trump also hired a former Special Air Service soldier, Christian Craighead, as one of his elite personal bodyguards. Craighead will be part of the security team for President Trump's inauguration in Washington on January 20th.
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