Quote:The Secret Service launched an investigation after an SS agent tried to smuggle his wife on a plane accompanying President Trump’s visit to Scotland.

President Trump landed in Turnberry, Scotland on Friday as part of a 5-day visit to the UK.

According to RealClearPolitics, a Secret Service Agent, who happens to be a new trainee, tried to bring his wife, an Air Force employee, with him on the trip to Scotland.

The agent reportedly flew his wife to Maryland where she received an officials Secret Service briefing and took a bus to Joint Base Andrews before she was told to leave, according to RCP.

“The agent in question is a Phase 1 agent (new trainee in first years on the job) who was written up multiple times for misconduct at the Rowley Training Center where agents go through their preliminary training to become agents and can wash out if held to proper standards, according to two sources in the Secret Service community,” RealClearPolitics reporter Susan Crabtree said.

Secret Service spokesman Anthony Guglielmi released a statement to RCPolitics:

“The U.S. Secret Service is conducting a personnel investigation after an employee attempted to invite his spouse – a member of the United States Air Force – aboard a mission support flight. The aircraft, operated by the U.S. Air Force, was being used by the Secret Service to transport personnel and equipment. 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. No Secret Service protectees were aboard and there was no impact to our overseas protective operations.”

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@RCPolitics
EXCLUSIVE on the Secret Service agent who tried to have his wife accompany him to Scotland on a Secret Service cargo carplane.

Trump, however, seems very confused by the details -- did the Secret Service brief him or his staff about it?

If so, he might need a re-brief.

When asked by the Daily Mail's White House reporter
@GeoffEarle
about my reporting from over the weekend, Trump seemed to think the agent tried to smuggle his wife in a non-pressurized area of the C-17 Air Force plane, what's known as a carplane in Secret Service parlance.

Trump:

"That's a weird deal. The wife in the car...Wouldn't you think that might be a little dangerous? I don't know if that has proper compression. I don't know that's a strange one. I just heard that two minutes ago. I think [USSS Director] Sean [Curram] is taking care of it."

In fact, as I reported over the weekend and again yesterday, the Secret Service agent's wife in question is an Air Force employee. Air Force employees can ride Air Force planes on a "Space Available" basis, but that does not usually include on Secret Service missions.

There was a misunderstanding or miscommunication that she would be allowed to ride along with the Secret Service agents because she is an Air Force employee. However, a supervisor put a stop to it -- likely because it would have set really bad precedent and breed resentment that other wives are not allowed to travel free of charge along with the agents.

The question is whether a supervisor or someone else on the presidential detail okayed it before the agent attempted to get his wife on the carplane to Scotland.

Secret Service spokesman Anthony Guglielmi has told me the agency cannot answer that questions because it will be part of it's investigation.