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New Secret Service Director Sean Curran spent seven years protecting President Donald Trump both on and off the campaign trail, and this week, he revealed in a special interview that he was willing to go to prison alongside the 47th president had lawfare in New York been successful.
Curran candidly told CBS, “Look, if it came to it, I’d be sitting right next to him. That’s how much I care for him. That’s how much I felt that he deserved the level of protection that any of our protectees should get. There’s nothing I would have not done for him.”
According to the Secret Service, Curran served as the Special Agent in Charge of the Donald Trump Detail, “where he strategically led the physical multi-state protection portfolio for the 45th President, in a dynamic environment which required executive decision-making, innovation, flexibility, and resourcefulness.”
Curran’s stint with the Secret Service began in 2001.
While he was protecting President Trump following his first term in the White House, the 47th president was hit with a swirl of cases that could have resulted in prison time, had he been convicted and sentenced. This presented a slate of logistical problems for his detail, although some may have wondered if the Secret Service could indeed protect a president, even in in jail.
“We had serious conversations about it, and I at one point told him, he and I might be – getting a lot closer,” Curran told the outlet.
He said the Secret Service would have approached protecting Trump in prison like an owned site to facilitate his safety. “It’s still a law, you know, whether someone is in prison or not,” Curran told CBS. “The law still dictates that we have to protect them.”
President Donald Trump announced that he was appointing Curran as the next Secret Service director just two days after taking office in January.
He wrote in an official statement, “It is my great honor to appoint Sean Curran as the next Director of the United States Secret Service. Sean is a Great Patriot, who has protected my family over the past few years, and that is why I trust him to lead the Brave Men and Women of the United States Secret Service.”
Many Americans may also recognize Curran from the now-famous photo of President Donald Trump holding a raised fist onstage at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, moments after being shot in the ear by a would-be assassin’s bullet. Curran was the most prominent agent in the photo helping Trump get to his feet.