One of the Secret Service agents who failed to secure the rooftop of the AGR building at President Trumps Butler, Pennsylvania, rally on the day of the July 2024 assassination attempt remains employed by the agency and is again performing protective duties.
According to the Gateway Pundit, Myosoty Miyo Perez was among the agents responsible for security at the Butler rally, where 20-year-old Thomas Crooks managed to access the AGR building roof, take aim at President Trump from an elevated position, and open fire. A Secret Service countersniper ultimately killed Crooks, but not before President Trump was shot in the ear and local firefighter Corey Comperatore was fatally struck, a tragedy that raised profound questions about competence and accountability within the agency.
To date, only six Secret Service agents tied to the Butler security breakdown have been temporarily suspended without pay, a response many critics view as woefully inadequate given the gravity of the failure. Perez was among those six, yet she remains with the Secret Service, and President Trump has personally barred her from coming anywhere near him.
RealClearPolitics reporter Susan Crabtree has revealed that Perez is still serving as a Secret Service agent and was recently assigned to a team helping protect President George W. Bush. The agent, Myosoty Miyo Perez, is supposed to be sidelined from providing any security protection for current or former U.S. officials, according to sources in the Secret Service and Department of Homeland Security community, Crabtree reported, underscoring the disconnect between internal expectations and actual practice.
Crabtree further noted that at a Christmas party in 2024 with his entire Secret Service campaign detail, President Trump pointedly remarked that one person was missing because he did not want her anywhere near him. Yet not only was Perez on the team helping protect Bush yesterday the Secret Service Miami Field Office documented her participation with photos and touted their seamless coordination and steady professionalism during Bushs visit on its LinkedIn page, Crabtree wrote, highlighting the agencys public praise for an agent at the center of a national security scandal.
Protecting our nations current and former Presidents is at the core of our mission, the LinkedIn post says. Visits like todays require detailed planning, seamless coordination, and the steady professionalism of the men and women who execute them. That glowing language stands in stark contrast to Perezs internal reputation as an unserious agent known for partying and posting on social media from security assignments, including from Mar-a-Lago, as Crabtree previously reported.
Congressional investigations into the Butler debacle concluded that Perez was too inexperienced to oversee security for a large outdoor rally of that scale, a finding that raises questions about who placed her in that role. Yet her two supervisors, Nick Olszewski and Nick Menster, who also signed off on the Butler security plan, were never disciplined and instead received significant promotions.
Olszewski was elevated to chief of the Inspection Division, part of the Office of Professional Responsibility charged with ensuring accountability and integrity across the agencys operations, while Menster was made the second agent in charge of the Lara and Eric Trump protective detail.
Miyo was given a slap on the wrist administrative leave for 10 to 41 days. Now shes back doing protective roles like nothing happened, Crabtree observed, a situation that underscores a broader pattern: when catastrophic failures occur, Washingtons bureaucracy protects its own while the public, and in this case a sitting President, bear the risk.
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