Secret Service employee placed on leave for Charlie Kirk comments

(NewsNation) — A U.S. Secret Service worker has been placed connected administrative permission aft violating the agency’s codification of behaviour successful a societal station astir the assassination of Charlie Kirk.

In a connection to NewsNation, the bureau said, “The U.S. Secret Service volition not tolerate behaviour that violates our codification of conduct. This worker was instantly enactment connected administrative leave, and an probe has begun.”

On Thursday, Sen. Marsha Blackburn released a letter she had written to the bureau calling for “this agent’s contiguous termination” aft they suggested connected Facebook that Kirk deserved to beryllium murdered.

In response, Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell posted connected societal media: “It is unacceptable for subject unit and Department of War civilians to observe oregon mock the assassination of a chap American. The Department of War has zero tolerance for it.”

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said his squad is tracking akin posts “very intimately — and volition address, immediately. Completely unacceptable.”

Officials with the U.S. Air Force, Army, Coast Guard, Navy, Marine Corps and National Guard besides issued societal media statements saying they are alert of “inappropriate comments being made by immoderate connected societal media,” and added that “such comments are reprehensible, tasteless and retired of enactment with our values.”