![]() ![]() Secret Service leaders, the book says, “became concerned at how close Tiffany appeared to be getting to the tall, dark and handsome agent”.Īgents are prohibited from forming personal relationships with those they protect, out of concern that such feelings could cloud their judgment. Leonnig also writes that Tiffany Trump, Donald Trump’s daughter with his second wife, Marla Maples, broke up with a boyfriend and “began spending an unusual amount of time alone with a Secret Service agent on her detail”. ![]() Leonnig reports that the agent concerned did not face disciplinary action as neither he nor the agency were official guardians of Vanessa Trump at that point. Vanessa Trump filed for an uncontested divorce in March 2018. In her new book, she writes that Secret Service agents reported that Vanessa Trump, the wife of the president’s oldest son, Donald Trump Jr, “started dating one of the agents who had been assigned to her family”. With Philip Rucker, Leonnig also co-authored A Very Stable Genius: Donald J Trump’s Testing of America, a well-received 2020 White House exposé. ![]() She was also part of the Post team which won a Pulitzer for its work on Edward Snowden’s leaks about National Security Agency surveillance techniques and reported extensively on Russian election interference and links between Trump and Moscow. The first definitive account of the rise and fall of the Secret Service. ![]() Leonnig won a Pulitzer prize in 2015, for her reporting on security failures at the Secret Service. Zero Fail as its meant to be heard, narrated by Maggi-Meg Reed, Carol Leonnig. Zero Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service, by the Washington Post reporter Carol Leonnig, is published next week. ![]()
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