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US Right Takes Aim At Women Secret Service Agents Who Protected Trump

A woman Secret Service agent can be seen helping to bundle a bloodied Donald Trump from the stage after an assassination attempt in Pennsylvania on July 13 (Credit: AFP)

As questions swirl over how a would-be assassin managed to get anywhere near Donald Trump, some conservatives are blaming the Secret Service for hiring the women agents who threw themselves into the line of fire to protect the former president.

Women are too short, too weak -- and in some cases, too overweight -- to protect someone like Trump, according to people on the US political right who accused the Secret Service of "woke" hiring practices they say nearly got the former president killed.

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