Secret Service Agents Frustrated With Trump’s Unnecessary Coronavirus Risks

President Trump waves from a motorcade outside Walter Reed Medical Center, accompanied by Secret Service agents on Sunday.

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Secret Service agents generally don’t talk publicly about their work, for obvious reasons. But privately, they’ve been grumbling.

“I think there is a lot of frustration,” says J.J. Hensley, a novelist who used to work for the Secret Service. He’s still in touch with colleagues, and says it’s been a tough campaign season for them.

“Agents are already worrying about guns and knives and bombs,” Hensley says. “Now they have to worry about COVID-19.”