A Secret Service agent abandoned her post to breastfeed five minutes before Donald Trump's North Carolina rally on Wednesday.
The site supervisor found the woman in a side room with family members, according to RealClearPolitics' Susan Crabtree.
Three sources inside the Secret Service told Crabtree that the female agent left her post without asking permission from the site supervisor.
Five minutes before Trump's motorcade arrived, the site agent found the woman breastfeeding her child "in a room that is supposed to be set aside for important Secret Service official work, i.e. a potential emergency related to the president," Crabtree said.
The agent was accompanied by two unauthorized family members in a side room set aside for emergencies, the report said. Crabtree noted that Secret Service agents are not permitted to bring children to protective assignments.
The woman and her family "bypassed the Uniformed Division checkpoint and were escorted by an unpinned event staff into the room to breastfeed," the report said. "Unpinned means they have not been cleared by the Secret Service to be there."
The agent was working out of the Atlanta field office. A Secret Service spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said the incident is under investigation.
"All employees of the U.S. Secret Service are held to the highest standards. While there was no impact to the North Carolina event, the specifics of this incident are being examined. Given this is a personnel matter, we are not in a position to comment further."
The shocking security lapse comes roughly a month after Trump was almost assassinated at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
The gunman was perched on an obvious rooftop, leaving him able to shoot at Trump from less than 200 yards. Trump narrowly survived by turning his head, causing the bullet to graze his ear.
Public trust in Secret Service has plummeted since the July 13 assassination attempt, which is under investigation by Congress and the FBI.
The Secret Service's former director, Kimberly Cheatle, resigned over the shocking security failures that led to the shooting.
Trump has refused calls from Secret Service to stop doing events outdoors, and he is even pledging to return to Butler for another rally. Secret Service will start using bulletproof glass to protect Trump while he's on stage.
