Posted on 10/14/2015 6:13:46 AM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
Edited on 10/14/2015 7:49:59 AM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
Donald Trump on Tuesday said the Secret Service should be giving him protection — and he suggested partisan politics might be why the agency isn’t providing it. In a 90-minute interview with The Hill, the Republican presidential front-runner pointed out that he has attracted large crowds just like Barack Obama did eight years ago as a White House candidate and that by this point in the 2008 cycle, the Illinois senator had Secret
By Foster, Clinton and/or Obama would have the
Secret Service and their criminal illegals murder
Mr. Trump in a nanosecond.
Proactive? LOL, gov't is reactive unless it means growing government and taxes.
Uh doesn’t a drug Lord have a huge bounty on his head? Trump is a hero.
Look at all of the sponsored Trump ‘beatings’ with the pinatas (in tv ads, at promoted events, etc.).
Secret service would be investigating such matters if it was a candidate of another color and party.
Trump isn’t black and isn’t a senator.
So they don’t care. Just sayin.
Didn’t some towel-head recently put a $100K bounty on him?
I thought it was $100M?
Obama was a schill annoinment...
Trump is not
Also from the article:
“A spokeswoman for the Department of Homeland Security said it had not received an official request for protection.”
He should make the formal request, and if they turn him down, then he can complain. Does he really think they’re going to just reach out to him and ask him if he needs help?
I thought that all declared candidates automatically got it. Is that not correct?
I bumped into Paul Ryan at a gun show in Virginia a while back, even he had some kind of federal protective detail with him.
He’s right. And it’s just like Barry to turn him down—after having got the early protection himself.
I’m glad Trump’s at least gone public and I hope he gets it immediately.
“Of course I don’t think they’d want anything to happen. But I would think they should be very proactive and want protection for somebody like me that has 20,000 people at any time,” Trump said. “You would think that they would want to be very proactive, but we have not heard from them.”
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Nope. They want you gone and they don’t care how it’s done.
Petulant, angry, jealous, self aggrandizing, sniping, tiny little man.
Does Barack Obama have a single redeeming quality?
Hey Obama, Republican lives matter more than democrats. Protect the candidate.
Nope. Candidates only get SS protection when one of two things happens: They are nominated by one of the two favored political parties, the Republicans or the Democrats, in convention, OR, the sitting President grants it to them. That's it.
George W. Bush granted protection to Obama way early - before the Dem convention - in the 2008 election.
This is Trumps trump. Like Perot when things get serious and dangerous he may beat a hasty retreat, to count his money ala Scrooge McDuck. I hope he doesn’t.
And we wonder why outsiders don’t step into the ring. The risk is all their personal risk.
All insiders, that are currently holding an office, have taxpayer funded protection.
The system sucks and is designed for the elite circle in D.C.
I wouldn’t trust “agents” dispatched by Obama anyway.
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