The Colombia prostitution scandal cost nine Secret Service agents their careers.
Now another agent is in handcuffs – this time caught with his pants literally down in a Miami hotel while protecting the President of the United States.
And the agency that nearly let Trump get assassinated in Butler can't seem to stop embarrassing the man it's sworn to protect.
What Happened at the DoubleTree
John Spillman, 33, was working exterior security for President Trump at the PGA Tour's Cadillac Championship in Miami on Sunday when hotel guests at the DoubleTree by Hilton near Miami Airport reported something disturbing.
They were in the lobby around midnight when Spillman followed them.
They later found him masturbating outside their hotel room.
Security personnel found him again on the sixth floor – pants down, doing the same thing.
Miami-Dade Sheriff's Office arrested him.
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Richard Macauley, chief of the U.S. Secret Service Police, called the conduct "unacceptable" and said it "stands in stark contrast to the professionalism and integrity" he demands from his personnel.
Spillman is now on administrative leave pending criminal proceedings and an internal investigation.
This Is Not a One-Time Thing
The Secret Service has been rotting from within for over a decade.
In 2013, a supervisor left a bullet in a woman's hotel room at the Hay-Adams – steps from the White House – and tried to force his way back in to retrieve it.
In 2014, a contractor with a gun and an assault record rode an elevator with President Obama – and no one knew he was armed until he was fired on the spot and handed it over.
In 2015, two senior agents crashed an official vehicle into a White House barrier while drunk.
In 2017, an agent on Vice President Pence's detail was suspended for visiting a prostitute at a Maryland hotel.
That same year, Secret Service officer Lee Robert Moore was fired after Delaware State Police caught him sending explicit photos of himself to a detective posing as a 14-year-old girl.
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This isn't a scandal. It's a pattern.
They Still Haven't Been Held Accountable for Butler
The worst failure of all came on July 13, 2024, in Butler, Pennsylvania.
Thomas Matthew Crooks opened fire on President Trump from a rooftop 150 meters away – a rooftop the Secret Service had been warned about.
One man died. Corey Comperatore dove over his wife and daughters to shield them from the gunfire and was shot in the head.
The DHS independent review found the Secret Service had become "bureaucratic, complacent, and static." It warned that without serious reform, "another Butler can and will happen again."
Director Kimberly Cheatle resigned in disgrace.
And last year, the agency finally – after months of delay and a Senate subpoena – suspended six agents.
The harshest punishment handed out: 42 days without pay.
Not fired. Not prosecuted. Forty-two days.
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That's the mentality protecting the President of the United States.
The Man Who Said Nobody Would Get Fired
After Butler, Secret Service Deputy Director Matt Quinn went on camera and told the American people this: "We aren't going to fire our way out of this."
That sentence tells you everything.
Corey Comperatore is dead. The President of the United States was a quarter-inch from dying. And the man running the agency's discipline process looked into the camera and announced that nobody was losing their job over it.
Quinn wasn't removed. He was allowed to set the terms of accountability for the people who failed on his watch.
That's the agency protecting Donald Trump right now.
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Spillman's arrest is one agent making a grotesque decision in a Miami hotel.
But Quinn's statement is a management philosophy – and it explains why the Secret Service keeps producing agents like Spillman.
When the consequences for nearly getting a president killed are 42 days without pay, what exactly do you think the consequences are for everything else?
Trump has survived two assassination attempts. He's survived an agency that knew a gunman was on that roof and couldn't stop him. He's survived bureaucrats who protect each other instead of him.
He deserves better than luck.
Sources:
- Paul Bois, "Secret Service Agent Arrested for Alleged Public Masturbation in Miami," Breitbart, May 4, 2026.
- "Secret Service suspended 6 personnel without pay or benefits after Trump assassination attempt," CBS News, July 2025.
- "USSS Chairman Report Final," Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, July 2025.
- "Prostitutes, Grenades and Drunk Driving: 20 Years of Secret Service Scandals," U.S. News & World Report, July 2024.
- "The Secret Service's history of sex and alcohol scandals," CNN, April 2017.
