Former bodyguard maintains role as top Trump protector
WASHINGTON — During Jared Kushner’s visit to Iraq this week, one man stood out from the military uniforms and business suits. At a table with top Iraqi Kurdish leaders, an imposing figure in an Adidas athletic jacket sat next to President Donald Trump’s trusted son-in-law and senior adviser.
Meet Keith Schiller, Trump’s former bodyguard.
That might seem like a peculiar assignment for the director of Oval Office operations. But Trump’s request that Schiller accompany Kushner as an extra measure of protection underscores that the president feels most comfortable having Schiller around, despite the sophisticated security surrounding Trump and his family.
Nearly two decades after he began working part time for Trump’s security team, the 58-year-old former New York detective who distinguished himself crashing through doors in drug busts as the “ram guy” is still the man standing beside a president who is crashing through Washington.