Don Jr.’s ex-wife Vanessa and Tiffany both got ‘inappropriately – and perhaps dangerously – close’ to their Secret Service detail while Donald Trump was president, according to a new book.
Vanessa, 43, allegedly ‘started dating one of the agents who had been assigned to her family’ at some point between Trump taking office in January 2017 and him leaving the White House in January 2021.
Vanessa was married to the president’s eldest son Don Jr., 43, from 2005 before she filed for an ‘uncontested’ divorce in 2018.
The bombshell claims of a ‘close’ relationship with an agent are made in ‘Zero Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service’, the new book from Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Carol Leonnig.
The book, published by Random House and due for release May 18, is described as the ‘first definitive account of the rise and fall of the Secret Service, from the Kennedy assassination to the alarming mismanagement of the Obama and Trump years, right up to the insurrection at the Capitol on January 6.’
Vanessa and Tiffany were often seen spotted out and about with their Secret Service personnel. There is no indication the agents pictured with them are those at the center of the allegations.
Don Jr.’s now-ex-wife Vanessa and Tiffany both got ‘inappropriately – and perhaps dangerously – close’ to their Secret Service detail while Donald Trump was president, according to a new book. Vanessa and Don Jr pictured in September 2019 with an agent
Vanessa is spotted with a secret service agent in December 2017. There is no suggestion this agent is the person she had an alleged ‘close’ relationship with
Leonnig writes in the book, seen by The Guardian, that Secret Service agents had reported the relationship between Vanessa and the unnamed agent.
But the agent did not face disciplinary action because neither he nor the Secret Service were official guardians of Vanessa at the time, according to the book.
It is not clear when the alleged tryst is said to have taken place.
In 2017, Don Jr. reportedly asked that and his family have their 24-hour Secret Service protection removed because they wanted more privacy.
This led to Vanessa and their five children being left with ‘a rotating set of temporary agents’ which they didn’t like, the Washington Post reported.
Ultimately, the Secret Service detail was restored later that month.
Vanessa then filed for an uncontested divorce in March 2018.
It is not clear if Vanessa’s apparent relationship with the agent was before or after this date.
The bombshell claims are made in ‘Zero Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service’, the new book from Washington Post reporter and Pulitzer Prize-winner Carol Leonnig
The couple wed at Mar-a-Lago in 2005 and welcomed their first child Kai in 2007.
They went on to have four more children together.
Speculation started brewing that a split was on the cards some time before Vanessa filed for divorce.
Page Six reported that Vanessa had been consulting divorce lawyers even before Trump entered the White House, with insiders saying they had been living separate lives for some time.
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Things reportedly worsened after he took office and the family were thrust into the spotlight more.
In February 2018, Vanessa was rushed to hospital when she opened a letter addressed to Don Jr. at their Manhattan home containing a white powder, amid fears it was an anthrax attack.
The substance was later found to be harmless but the experience was said to be ‘terrifying’ for Vanessa.
Vanessa leaving her apartment in February 2018 with an agent to do the school run. There is no indication the agent is the person at the center of the claims made in the book
Other sources said Vanessa was ending the marriage because Don Jr treated her ‘like a second-class citizen’ and kept her on such a tight budget she had to turn to her mother for financial help.
There were also rumors of infidelity with Celebrity Apprentice star Aubrey O’Day claiming she had an affair with Don Jr.
O’Day claimed she and the president’s son had an affair after meeting on the show in 2011.
The alleged affair came to an end in 2012 when Vanessa found messages between the pair, she claimed.
Vanessa and Don Jr’s divorce was finalized at the end of 2018, with the couple putting on a united front with a joint statement the following February where they said they ‘committed’ to raising their five children together.
Don Jr’s ex-wife is not the only member of the Trump family the book claims grew close to a Secret Service agent while enjoying taxpayer-funded protection.
Leonnig writes that Tiffany, Trump’s only child with second wife Marla Maples, ‘began spending an unusual amount of time alone with a Secret Service agent on her detail’ after splitting up with a boyfriend.
The alleged relationship raised eyebrows among Secret Service leaders, the book claims.
Tiffany and her fiancé Michale Boulos exit Air Force One at the Palm Beach International Airport in January
In 2017, Tiffany was spotted protectively putting her hand on an agent’s arm in New York City as they crossed the street together on her way to meet her mom for dinner. it is not clear if this is the agent mentioned in the book
‘[They] became concerned at how close Tiffany appeared to be getting to the tall, dark and handsome agent,’ Leonnig writes.
The book says both Tiffany and the unnamed agent denied anything was going on between them but the agent was later reassigned to another post.
In 2017, Tiffany was spotted out in New York City with her Secret Service agent.
The then-24-year-old was photographed protectively putting her hand on the agent’s arm as they crossed the street together on her way to meet her mom for dinner.
It is not clear if this agent was the one linked to the president’s daughter.
Agents are forbidden from entering into relationships with the people they protect because it could impact their judgement on the job.
The book reveals it isn’t clear if the then-president was aware of the rumors circling his two family members.
However, it claims Trump did want agents removed for other reasons – namely that they were too short or fat.
‘I want these fat guys off my detail,’ Trump is reported to have said, possibly confusing office-based personnel with active agents, the book reads.
‘How are they going to protect me and my family if they can’t run down the street?’
