Zero Fail Quotes

“One Secret Service officer called the armed protesters “patriots” seeking to undo an illegitimate election, and falsely claimed to her friends that disguised Antifa members had started the violence.”
― Carol Leonnig, Zero Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service

“The Secret Service was still overwhelmingly an agency of cops who preferred long prison sentences for bad guys rather than sentencing reform, who, like Trump, tended to speak dismissively about women, minorities, and immigrants. A large number of the Service’s agents and officers, unlike so many other career civil servants in Washington, were pleased to see the man who spoke their language step onto the White House’s North Portico on Inauguration Day to enter his new home.”
― Carol Leonnig, Zero Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service

“What few realized was that clusters of agents, including some on Trump’s detail, were openly rooting for Trump, a fact hiding in plain sight. On Facebook and other forums, some of these public servants who promised to be above party were promoting Trump’s debunked conspiracy theories”
― Carol Leonnig, Zero Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service

“President Trump contracted the virus, a security failure as well,”
― Carol Leonnig, Zero Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service

“(What the Secret Service didn't know was that Melania Trump was also using the delay for leverage and personal financial gain; she wanted to renegotiate her prenuptial agreement with Trump to sweeten the settlement she'd receive in a divorce and secure a future role for her son in Trump's company.)”
― Carol Leonnig, Zero Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service

“House complex describing the incident as “a”
― Carol Leonnig, Zero Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service

“My fellow Americans,” he declared, “our long national nightmare is over….Our Constitution works; our great Republic is a government of laws and not of men. Here the people rule.”
― Carol Leonnig, Zero Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service

“Trump asked a question to be sure he understood. These guys weren’t pervs, right?”
― Carol Leonnig, Zero Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service

“THE SERVICE HAD given Trump the code name Mogul in honor of his success as a business owner and executive.”
― Carol Leonnig, Zero Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service

“BQA’d.”
― Carol Leonnig, Zero Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service

“That previous March, a 1 a.m. crash in Islamorada that involved two Secret Service officers prompted a deep-dive internal investigation. It revealed many of the officers on the trip had hit the local sports bar hard that night for shots of tequila. A supervisor ended up having to drag the men out of the bar, and at least one vomited all over their rented van. They were technically on duty at the time and supposed to be preparing to receive the Obama family for a few days of vacation early the next morning.”
― Carol Leonnig, Zero Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service

“On average, they still worked half their days off.”
― Carol Leonnig, Zero Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service

“Officers were working half their days off.”
― Carol Leonnig, Zero Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service

“Prostitution was legal there,”
― Carol Leonnig, Zero Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service

“Una Mas Cerveza por favor.”
― Carol Leonnig, Zero Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service

“Alex Jones,”
― Carol Leonnig, Zero Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service

“Wizard Railton Loy, a tall man with wire-rimmed glasses and a handlebar mustache,”
― Carol Leonnig, Zero Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service

“Special Agents in Charge”
― Carol Leonnig, Zero Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service

“SAICs—special agents in charge,”
― Carol Leonnig, Zero Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service

“A classified FAA radar system, known as Tigerwall, gave the Service the ability to see in real time any planes coming into the airspace of the nation’s capital and getting dangerously close to the White House.”
― Carol Leonnig, Zero Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service

“president’s”
― Carol Leonnig, Zero Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service

“hung in the balance.”
― Carol Leonnig, Zero Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service

“optics”
― Carol Leonnig, Zero Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service

“He read the leaflets of socialist and anarchist groups, and he believed the government was helping rich business owners exploit America’s lower classes and ignoring their poverty.”
― Carol Leonnig, Zero Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service

“He wasn’t interested in the boring work of governing, to ensure the agency’s long-term health, and instead the employees of the Secret Service took a major hit for Trump. Rather than get the boost of money the previous administration and members of Congress had pledged, the Service—which turned 155 years old in 2020—was stuck on the same hamster wheel, its staff racing to keep up with Trump’s jaunts, its agents waiting months to get paid for their extra sweat, its essential security system repairs delayed yet again.”
― Carol Leonnig, Zero Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service

“in honor of his success as a business owner”
― Carol Leonnig, Zero Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service

“Federal bankers estimated that one-third to one-half of the paper currency floating through the country in 1865 was fake.”
― Carol Leonnig, Zero Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service

“Ortega’s friends traced his troubles to about a year earlier, when he had become agitated watching an antigovernment film. The movie, called The Obama Deception, was written and produced by Alex Jones, a Texas-based conspiracy theorist and talk show host. It claimed that a cluster of wealthy families were engaged in a conspiracy with President Obama and had installed him in the White House to use the government to surveil and hurt the interests of most Americans. Soon Ortega bought a powerful rifle and began practicing his aim.”
― Carol Leonnig, Zero Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service

“acquiesced.”
― Carol Leonnig, Zero Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service