The Secret Service is dealing with yet another scandal that should terrify every American.
An agent assigned to Vice President JD Vance's protective detail just got caught handing over sensitive security information to a woman he met on Tinder.
And what this agent confessed about himself will make you question who the Secret Service is hiring to protect our leaders.
O'Keefe Strikes Again With Undercover Dating App Sting
James O'Keefe's media group pulled off another bombshell investigation using their signature tactic — sending an undercover reporter on dates with a loose-lipped government official.
Tomas Escotto, a Secret Service agent on Vance's detail, met the O'Keefe Media Group operative on Tinder in October.
The agent whipped out his Secret Service credentials when she asked to see them.
Then he started talking about things that could get the Vice President killed.
Escotto gave away how many agents surround Vance, when shift changes happen, and how advance security teams operate.
He texted photos taken aboard Air Force Two with Vance.
The images contained metadata showing exactly when and where they were taken.
Escotto sent messages revealing Vance's travel plans days before they happened, telling his Tinder date which states the Vice President would visit and how long he'd stay.
The agent even acknowledged in writing that he'd signed nondisclosure agreements.
He told the woman he couldn't share certain information or he'd "get in trouble" — then proceeded to share it anyway.
The Biden Voter Who Just Became a Citizen
Here's what should alarm everyone about this security breach.
Escotto told the undercover reporter that his 2020 vote for Joe Biden was his first time voting.
"I wasn't a citizen," he explained. "I got my citizenship in 2018."
The Secret Service hired this guy only two years after he became a citizen.
That means Escotto has served on two vice presidential protective details despite being an American for less than a decade.
He also confessed that he hates Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
"They're deploying tactics that shouldn't be deployed," Escotto complained about ICE agents covering their faces during raids.
So the Secret Service put someone who opposes Trump administration policies on the detail protecting Trump's Vice President.
Pattern of Secret Service Failures Under Scrutiny
The Escotto scandal comes four months after a jury convicted Ryan Wesley Routh of attempting to assassinate Trump at his Palm Beach golf course.
The Secret Service failed to secure the perimeter of that course, allowing Routh to lie in wait with a rifle.
That embarrassment pales compared to the Butler, Pennsylvania rally shooting in July 2024 where Thomas Matthew Crooks nearly killed Trump.
The agency's DEI-focused director Kimberly Cheatle claimed agents weren't stationed on the rooftop Crooks used because it was "too steep" — a laughable excuse that forced her resignation.
Cheatle's top priority was making women 30 percent of new agents by 2030, not protecting presidential candidates from known threats.
A Senate report later revealed the agency knew about classified threats to Trump ten days before Butler but failed to share that intelligence with anyone protecting him that day.
The Secret Service denied Trump's security detail at least ten requests for additional resources during the 2024 campaign, including counter-sniper teams and enhanced drone detection systems.
Six agents received suspensions over Butler — but nobody got fired, and the agent in charge that day, Sean Curran, actually got promoted to Director.
Hiring Practices Raise National Security Questions
Deputy Director Matthew Quinn acknowledged in a memo that Escotto violated agency standards.
The agent is now on administrative leave with his security clearance suspended.
But how did someone who became a citizen in 2018 end up protecting the Vice President by 2023?
Secret Service positions require U.S. citizenship and Top Secret clearance involving extensive background investigations.
The rules are clear: agents need unquestioned allegiance to the United States and must be free from any undue foreign influence.
Newly naturalized citizens face additional scrutiny because investigators can't easily examine their backgrounds in countries of origin.
Yet Escotto sailed through that process in under two years.
The O'Keefe video dropped just days after a "trans woman" tried breaking into Vance's Ohio home on January 5.
Real threats exist against the Vice President, and agents like Escotto just handed potential attackers a security roadmap.
Think about that.
A guy who became American six years ago is now guarding the Vice President.
He voted for Biden and hates ICE.
And he's spilling state secrets to impress women on dating apps.
The Secret Service ordered all personnel to retake anti-espionage training after this breach.
More training won't fix what's broken here — the agency hired someone who shouldn't have been anywhere near the Vice President in the first place.
Sources:
- R. Cort Kirkwood, "Secret Service Agent Who Divulged Vance Security Details Has Been a Citizen Less Than 10 Years," The New American, January 14, 2026.
- Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, Report on Secret Service Failures, July 13, 2025.
- O'Keefe Media Group, "U.S. Secret Service Agent Reveals Vice President JD Vance's Location and Security Details," January 14, 2026.
- CBS News, "Before Butler shooting, Secret Service denied multiple requests to bolster Trump's security detail," July 13, 2025.
