It Is Forbidden To Use The Toilet At Ivanka Trump's House, The Secret Service Has To Rent An Apartment

Jared Kushner dan Ivanka Trump (Sumber: Wikimedia Commons)

JAKARTA - The United States Secret Service (US) was forced to rent a small studio apartment in Washington DC, near the home of Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump. The reason is that the Secret Service members are not allowed to use the toilet in the house of the president's son. Even though they themselves were in charge of securing Ivanka's house.

The apartment is needed to provide facilities for resting in the Kalorama environment, said the source. The neighborhood is a popular residential area for officials and diplomats, as well as Donald Trump's daughter and son-in-law. Former President Barack Obama also owns a neighborhood home.

Quoting CNN, Friday, January 15, 2021, the Kushner-Trump house is large, with an area of 5,000 square feet, has six bedrooms and seven bathrooms. However, agents in the family protection section could not enter the house, said the source. Though this person neglected to say whether it was at Kushner's request or because of secret agent protocol.

Sources noted that apartment rentals are not only for providing toilet facilities, but also as a resting room for agents in the area. There is also an office space with internet and a printer, as well as a kitchen, where agents can eat after long shifts and for long hours.

Earlier, The Washington Post newspaper reported that since September 2017, the federal government has rented the apartment for 3,000 US dollars per month or more than 100,000 US dollars to date. White House spokesman Judd Deere denied that Kushner did not allow their Secret Service agents to use the bathroom in his home.

"This is just another false narrative. When discussions about protecting their home initially took place in 2017, Ivanka and Jared explained that their home would always be open to wonderful male and female agents. However there was a decision by the USSS to be made for agents to seek other accommodation," said Deere.

"The Kushner family has great respect for the soldiers and women and for the US Secret Service as a whole. The home will always be open to them and they are very grateful for their service over the past four years," he added.

A Secret Service spokesman said they were making every effort, especially at a residence, to carry out protective operations with minimal impact on households. In accordance with this practice, Secret Service personnel do not request access to facilities in private residences. Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner did not prohibit agents from accessing their homes, including the use of bathrooms.

Two law enforcement officials said that the facilities inside the Kushner Family home had been designated from the start not to be used by Secret Service agents. One official said they did not know the reason for this rule, while others said it was established by Ivanka and Jared.

The first time it happened

Another The Washington Post report said Secret Service agents' predicament was unique, in that they had to find a safe bathroom outside the Kushner-Trump residence. A law enforcement official with knowledge of the situation said "This is the first time I have heard of Secret Service agents having to go to this extreme to go to the bathroom."

The US Secret Service spent months trying to provide the facilities. This includes a portable toilet that was eventually moved after complaints from neighbors.

Later, law enforcement officials told The Washington Post newspaper that agents began using the bathroom in the garage that was turned into a command post at Barack Obama's home used by his security officers. That option ended when Obama's agents banned Trump-Kushner agents from using their bathrooms after a Secret Service supervisor "left an unpleasant mess" in the bathroom before the fall of 2017.