{"id":1485570,"date":"2022-05-20T11:46:26","date_gmt":"2022-05-20T15:46:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1485570"},"modified":"2022-05-20T11:46:40","modified_gmt":"2022-05-20T15:46:40","slug":"two-secret-service-agents-sent-home-from-bidens-south-korea-trip-after-alleged-drunken-altercation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/two-secret-service-agents-sent-home-from-bidens-south-korea-trip-after-alleged-drunken-altercation\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Secret Service Agents Sent Home From Biden\u2019s South Korea Trip After Alleged Drunken Altercation"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftwo-secret-service-agents-sent-home-from-bidens-south-korea-trip-after-alleged-drunken-altercation%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1485570&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>Two U.S. Secret Service employees were sent home from South Korea, where President Joe Biden is visiting, after an alleged drunken altercation.<\/p>\n<p>A small number of <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/04\/11\/biden-secret-service-fbi-iran-pakistan\/\">Secret Service<\/a> employees reportedly went bar-hopping in <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/04\/15\/jen-psaki-south-korea-japan-visits-white-house\/\">South Korea<\/a> earlier this week while awaiting Biden\u2019s arrival, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/05\/20\/politics\/secret-service-agents-south-korea\/index.html\">according<\/a> to CNN. Two members of that group \u2013 a special agent and a physical security specialist \u2013 later left the bars, and one of the Secret Service employees subsequently fought with the driver of a cab and two Korean citizens, CNN reported, citing a source familiar with the situation.<\/p>\n<p>The two employees involved in the incident were sent back to the U.S., according to a Secret Service spokesman. Neither had been assigned to Biden\u2019s detail, Fox News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/secret-service-agents-south-korea-drunken-altercation-cab-driver-source?intcmp=tw_fnc\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BREAKING?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BREAKING<\/a>: NBC News is reporting that we have yet another Secret Service incident as two agents were just sent home from Seoul, South Korea following a drunken incident and argument a few days ago over a taxi outside what is now President Biden\u2019s hotel. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mlCxtT6Pgy\">pic.twitter.com\/mlCxtT6Pgy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CurtisHouck\/status\/1527629899825041411?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 20, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThe Secret Service is aware of an off-duty incident involving two employees which may constitute potential policy violations. The individuals will be immediately returned back to their post of duty and placed on administrative leave,\u201d Secret Service spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said in a statement according to CNN.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was no impact to the upcoming trip. We have very strict protocols and policies for all employees and we hold ourselves to the highest professional standards. Given this is an active administrative personnel matter, we are not in a position to comment further,\u201d Guglielmi added.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/04\/29\/biden-china-japan-korea-white-house\/\">Biden<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/asia-pacific\/biden-south-koreas-yoon-meet-amid-worries-about-north-korea-2022-05-19\/\">began<\/a> his tour in South Korea on Friday with a visit to a Samsung Electronics semiconductor plant. North Korea is expected to be a key topic during the trip, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/asia-pacific\/biden-south-koreas-yoon-meet-amid-worries-about-north-korea-2022-05-19\/\">according<\/a> to Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>This incident follows another recent scandal involving Secret Service members. In April, it was discovered that two men allegedly spent years posing as federal law enforcement officers and, in the process, built up relationships with members of the Secret Service. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/04\/07\/two-men-allegedly-pretended-to-be-federal-law-enforcement-buying-lavish-gifts-for-secret-service-officers\/\">(RELATED:\u00a0Two Men Allegedly Pretended To Be Federal Law Enforcement, Buying Lavish Gifts For Secret Service Officers)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two U.S. Secret Service employees were sent home from South Korea, where President Joe Biden is visiting, after an alleged drunken altercation.A small number of Secret Service employees reportedly went<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":125,"featured_media":1485590,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1485570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1485570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/125"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1485570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1485570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1485590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1485570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1485570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1485570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}