President Trump plans to announce Secret Service agent Sean Curran, who heads his detail, to be the agency’s director, according to three sources in the Secret Service community.
Curran, who has served in the agency for more than two decades, leads a team of roughly 85 agents who protect the president-elect and has done so over the last two and a half years of his presidential campaign. Curran has the closest relationship to Trump of any current agent and is usually physically closest to him at any given moment in the innermost ring of Secret Service security dedicated to protecting the incoming president’s life on a daily basis.
Curran was one of the first agents to leap on top of Trump during the assassination attempt against the then-Republican nominee for president during the rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, and can be seen to the right of Trump in the iconic photo of him with a blood-stained face pumping his fist in the air, surrounded by agents against the backdrop of an American flag.