Author: Christina Zhao / Source: Newsweek
After Donald Trump instructed White House acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney to remove U.S. Secret Service director Randolph Alles from office this week, a new report revealed that the president had soured on the Secret Service director long before his departure from office.
The White House confirmed Alles’ departure on Monday after reports began emerging earlier in the day of his removal. “United States Secret Service director Randolph ‘Tex’ Alles has done a great job at the agency over the last two years, and the President is thankful for his over 40 years of service to the country,” White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in a statement. “Mr. Alles will be leaving shortly and President Trump has selected James M. Murray, a career member of the USSS, to take over as director beginning in May.”
Alles’ departure comes amid a shake-up of top staffers in the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). After Homeland Security secretary Kirstjen Nielsen posted her resignation letter to Twitter on Sunday, two other officials, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services director Francis Cissna and Office of the General Counsel’s John Mitnick, were also rumored today to be on their way out.
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