Overview

• The altercation occurred at about 2:30 a.m. on May 21 outside former President Obama’s $8 million Washington home, with two Uniformed Division officers seen grappling and trading blows.
• RealClearPolitics reporter Susan Crabtree published video and audio in which one agent can be heard calling for a supervisor before threatening to “whoop this girl’s ass.”
• A Secret Service spokesperson confirmed both agents were pulled from duty and are the subject of an internal investigation under the agency’s strict code of conduct.
• Unnamed sources told Crabtree the fight stemmed from one agent’s anger over her shift replacement arriving late.
• This incident echoes an April 2024 altercation involving Kamala Harris’s detail and follows leadership changes after security lapses during last summer’s near-assassination attempt on President Trump.