‘A Weird Deal’: Secret Service Agent On Trump’s Detail Tried To Sneak Wife Onto Plane To Scotland

President Donald Trump confirmed on Tuesday that Secret Service Director Sean Curran is addressing what could have been a major security breach after an agent attempted to sneak his wife aboard a transport plane accompanying the president to Scotland.

The incident was first reported by RealClearPolitics National Political Correspondent Susan Crabtree over the weekend. The USSS Dallas agent reportedly flew his wife, a member of the U.S. Air Force, to Maryland, and she received an official Secret Service briefing on the trip. The agent’s wife then rode a bus to the distinguished visitor lounge at Joint Base Andrews, where she was finally discovered and told to leave, Crabtree reported, citing five Secret Service sources.

Trump told reporters on Air Force One on his way back to the United States on Tuesday that the Secret Service incident was a “weird deal,” according to RealClearPolitics White House reporter Phillip Melancthon Wegmann.

“Wouldn’t you think that might be a little dangerous?” Trump added.

The president said that he had confidence Director Curran would “take care of it.”

The agent who attempted to bring his wife along for the president’s trip to Europe is reportedly in his first year on the job, which means he is still a new trainee, according to RealClearPolitics. The agent has reportedly been in trouble before, as he was written up for misconduct on several occasions while completing his preliminary training at the Rowley Training Center.

Secret Service spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said that the agency has opened an investigation into the incident.

“Prior to the overseas departure, the employee was advised by supervisors that such action was prohibited, and the spouse was subsequently prevented from taking the flight,” Gugliemi added. “No Secret Service protectees were aboard and there was no impact to our overseas protective operations.”

It’s unclear if the agent has been suspended as the Secret Service conducts an investigation or if he is still on the job.

The Secret Service has faced public scrutiny for months following the assassination attempt on Trump last July, when a shooter climbed onto a roof near the rally stage in Butler, Pennsylvania, and fired off eight shots before he was shot and killed by Secret Service snipers. Questions still swirl around how the shooter, Thomas Matthew Crooks, was able to get so close to Trump with a rifle without being stopped by Trump’s detail.

Weeks later, Secret Service agents sprang into action to stop an apparent assassination attempt on Trump at his golf course in West Palm Beach, Florida.

While Trump was in Scotland, security around him was forced to tighten as demonstrators in Aberdeen and Edinburgh gathered to protest his visit to the country, according to the BBC.