The U.S. Secret Service has placed an employee on immediate leave who made negative comments about Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk after his death. “The U.S. Secret Service will not tolerate behavior that violates our code of conduct. This employee was immediately put on administrative leave, and an investigation has begun,” a U.S. Secret Service spokesperson told Fox News Digital. JUST IN: A Secret Service employee has been placed on immediate leave after celebrating the assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk in a social media post that accused him of spreading "hate and racism," Fox News Digital confirmed. "The U.S. Secret Service will… pic.twitter.com/AwnZaBEgBY — Fox News (@FoxNews) September 12, 2025 “If you are Mourning [sic] this guy .. delete me. He spewed hate and racism on his show,” Anthony Pough wrote, according to Real Clear Politics national political correspondent Susan Crabtree. “If that’s all it takes to set you off, that’s dangerous to have around,” one source in the Secret Service community told Real Clear Politics about the agent’s social media post after Kirk’s death. “I’m mostly concerned about the morals of a person sworn to protect the rights of others to engage in politics and exercise free speech, celebrating the death of someone exercising those same rights,” the source added. “Several of the agent’s Facebook posts negatively comment on Trump, his administration, and its policies, but nothing that I’ve reviewed is as pointed and offensive as this agent’s post about Kirk’s death,” Crabtree wrote. “I’m told this agent, who is in Phase 2 of his career, is not on a detail that would be regularly charged with protecting Trump. Yet, all agents, at times, are called off their official details/duties to contribute to presidential coverage of some kind or another,” she continued. EXCLUSIVE and #BREAKING: This is a current Secret Service agent, stating in a Facebook post, that Charlie Kirk deserved what he got. "You can't circumvent karma, [sic] she doesnt [sic] leave." The comments are similar to the incendiary remarks now former @MSNBC… pic.twitter.com/XMdTcPHP7k — Susan Crabtree (@susancrabtree) September 11, 2025 More from Fox News: “Especially when we should be mourning the innocent children killed in Colorado,” he continued, referring to the Evergreen High School shooting that left two students injured on Wednesday. Real Clear Politics reported Pough was in “Phase 2” of his career with the agency, but had not yet been assigned a detail regularly protecting President Donald Trump. The Secret Service has three phases for special agents, with Phase 2 focused on protective assignments and Phase 3 focused on “post-protective field, protection, or headquarters assignment,” according to the Secret Service’s website. Pough blamed “karma” for Kirk’s assassination in the inflammatory Facebook post. “At the end of the day, you answer to GOD and speak things into existence. You can only circumvent karma, she doesnt [sic] leave,” he wrote. “Let me be clear, politically motivated attacks in our nation are increasing — seemingly every day,” Secret Service Director Sean Curran said in a memo to staff, according to CBS News. “The men and women of the Secret Service must be focused on being the solution, not adding to the problem,” Curran added. Here's the full official statement from a UlS. Secret Service spokesperson: "The U.S. Secret Service will not tolerate any behavior, which violates our code of conduct. We are aware of the employee's social media post from today, and the individual has been placed on… https://t.co/F3ehrvbTt1 — Susan Crabtree (@susancrabtree) September 11, 2025 CBS News noted: Curran’s memo, sent Thursday night and addressed to “the Men and Women of the Secret Service,” said he was reminding employees “we swear an oath to those we protect to conduct ourselves with the highest standards of conduct on and off duty.” “When our actions draw public attention for the wrong reasons, we fall short of that duty and compromise the trust essential to fulfill our mission,” Curran continued. He concluded, “We must operate every day without bias towards political affiliation. We owe it to ourselves and those we are sworn to protect. Any distractions, otherwise, will not be tolerated.”