Trump advances with a purge in the US secret service – ElSol.com.ar – Diario de Mendoza, Argentina

US President Donald Trump on Monday decided to replace Chief of the Intelligence Randolph Alles by James Murray, another agent of the agency charged with protecting the US president, as rumors of a widespread purge in his country. national security team.

"The director of the US Secret Service, Randolph 'Tex' Alles, has done a great job at the agency over the past two years, and the President is grateful for his more than 40 years of service in the country, "he wrote. in a statement, the White House spokeswoman, Sarah Sanders.

"Mr. Alles will soon be stepping down and President Trump has chosen James M. Murray, a career member of the Secret Service, to replace him as director from May," the spokeswoman said.

Sanders' message came shortly after several media reported that Trump had asked his acting chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, to fire Alles.

Murray, for whom there is little public information, will not need confirmation from the Senate to replace Alles, who ran the Secret Service since April 2017, three months after Trump came to power. .

The secret services depend on the Ministry of National Security, headed up until now by Kirstjen Nielsen until Sunday.

After the resignation, Trump appointed Kevin McAleenan as Acting Secretary of National Security. According to several media, it is expected to appoint a more demanding candidate to lead this body responsible for immigration.

According to rumors, Trump would like to change other leaders of the migration apparatus, including the head of the Citizenship and Immigration Service (Uscis), L. Francis Cissna, and the General Counsel of the Department of Homeland Security, John Mitnik.

The White House did not motivate Alles' dismissal, but secret services were criticized as a result of the case of Yujing Zhang, a woman who managed to break into Trump's private Florida club early April. -at the C.

Zhang, who faces up to five years in prison and fined $ 350,000, managed to get into first control of the club with two Chinese pbadports, four cell phones, a hard drive, a laptop and the device with the "malware" (malicious program), according to a lawsuit to which Efe had access.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) opened an investigation last week to determine whether this incident could be related to a possible spying operation in China.

This survey also includes Cindy Yang, a businesswoman who photographed with Trump in February in Mar-a-Lago and runs a consulting firm that promises Chinese businessmen contacts with the company. President's environment.

However, Trump said last week that "I could not be happier with the secret services" and that the body responsible for its protection "did a fantastic job from the first day", which contradicts the decision to evict your boss