Was Secret Service tied to effort to strip Trump of security detail? Records requests seek answers

Just the News ^ | 20 Jul, 2024 | Bethany Blankley

[MtnClimber]

How involved were Secret Service staff with a Democratic congressman’s office to strip former President Donald Trump of his Secret Service detail, if at all?

How involved were Secret Service staff with a Democratic congressman’s office to strip former President Donald Trump of his Secret Service detail, if at all? A U.S. Army veteran judge advocate and director of a nonprofit organization wants to know.

James Fitzpatrick, director of the Center to Advance Security in America, filed Freedom of Information requests with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security inquiring about Department of Homeland Security Legislative Affairs’ and Secret Service’s staff potential involvement with House Democrats, who filed a bill to strip Trump of his USSS detail in the event that he were sentenced to prison.

Nine House Democrats cosponsored a bill in April, led by U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., who chaired the bipartisan select committee to investigate the Jan. 6 attacks. After the shooting, one of Thompson’s staffers, who has since been fired, reportedly said in a Facebook post the shooter needed shooting lessons so he wouldn’t “miss the next time.”

While the bill went nowhere in the Republican-controlled House, Fitzpatrick has questions about how the writing of the bill came about, including how involved USSS staff were in crafting it – if at all– just months before the agency’s “apocalyptic security failure” in protecting Trump from the assassination attempt, as critics have called it. The former president survived, Trump and others argue, because he turned his head at the exact time the bullet would have hit it, missing his brain by an estimated millimeters and grazing his right ear instead.

The Center Square asked Thompson’s office if he or his staff sought the input of Secret Service staff to craft the bill. It also asked if he still holds the position that if Trump were sentenced to prison in the future, that he and his family should be stripped of USSS security detail. His office has yet to respond.

Eight other House Democrats cosponsored his bill: Troy Carter of Louisiana, Barbara Lee of California, Frederica Wilson of Florida, Yvette Clarke of New York, Bonnie Watson Coleman of New Jersey, Jasmine Crockett of Texas, Joyce Beatty of Ohio, and Steve Cohen of Tennessee.

After the assassination attempt, Thompson said his bill would not have impacted Trump’s USSS security detail at the rally. He told a local Mississippi news outlet, “My bill would not have affected the Secret Service’s presence during this tragic event. It aims to clarify lines of authority when a protectee is sentenced to prison and is in the custody of another law enforcement agency,” the congressman said. “That does not apply to the former President.”

Fitzpatrick disagrees, saying, if Thompson’s bill had passed, “former President Trump would not have had any USSS protection at his rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, and the results could have been even more catastrophic.” He agreed that Thompson’s reasoning was true, “but that is likely only to the rescheduling of the sentencing.”

[MtnClimber]

It is clear that the Secret Service minimized the effectiveness of President Trump’s security detail by taking away His normal (experienced) detail in collaboration with Jill Biden.

[nopardons]

BTTT

[SMARTY]

How much further down into the sewer do we have to go before we hit bedrock?

[The Louiswu]

If they did they were either hoping for an incident or they were complicit in the attempt, either way there is MASSIVE wrong doing and a full, transparent investigation is called for.

[Liz]

BGRND Democrat Bennie Thompson, ranking member, House Committee on Homeland Security, introduced the absurdly named “Denying Infinite Security and Government Resources Allocated toward Convicted and Extremely Dishonorable (DISGRACED) Former Protectees Act (HR 8081)” on April 19, 2024.

Dem co-sponsors: <><>Yvette D. Clarke, <><>Troy A. Carter Sr, <><>Frederica Wilson, <><>Bonnie Watson Coleman, <><>Jasmine Crockett, <><>Joyce Beatty, <><>Barbara Lee, <><>Steve Cohen.

Question: who put these Democraps up to facilitating a Trump assassination?

Cong Bennie Thompson <>headed the infamous Jan. 6th Commission <>crafted the bill w/ eight Dem co-sponsors to strip Trump of S/S detail. <>was a black separatist early on (his resume enhancer?)

The Trump assassination attempt was obviously discussed in Thompson's congressional office. Thompson aide and field director, tax paid “civil rights” activist, jacqueline Marsaw tweeted she wished the assassin had “better aim.”

[BradyLS]

“Beneath the sewage is more sewage. It’s sewage all the way down…”

[BradyLS]

Amen!

[fireman15]

From the article, “former President Trump would not have had any USSS protection at his rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, and the results could have been even more catastrophic.”

The illusion of safety provided by the current DEI force of malevolent fools was obviously more dangerous to President Trump than if he had hired his own group of competent individuals. The Presidential bodyguards, AKA the secret service has a long history of incompetence going back to the Lincoln assassination. This is another example of history repeating itself.

“Parker was both Lincoln's bodyguard and the guy drinking with John Wilkes Booth next door at the Star Saloon minutes before Booth left to kill Lincoln. Parker didn't know Booth was out to kill the president that night, but a bodyguard's job is pretty much assuming everyone is out to kill his client. Unfortunately, Parker wasn't the Kevin Costner bodyguard type.”

“As one of the first police officers in Washington, DC, Parker wasn't exactly a stellar performer. He was known for conduct unbecoming an officer, being drunk on duty, sleeping on the job, and routinely visiting brothels. We know that because those were the charges he repeatedly faced before police boards of inquiry.”

https://coffeeordie.com/lincoln-bodyguard

Was the Lincoln assassination aided by those supposedly providing protection?

[ridesthemiles]

IF JILL THINKS SO HIGHLY OF FEMALE AGENTS_—THEN HER DETAIL OF AGENTS SHOULD ALL BE 5’ TALL WOMEN WHO CANNOT HOLSTER A GUN.

[mware]

Now it appears ATF is somehow involved. Local law enforcement took photos of assassin’s body. At guy in gray suit told them to send those photos to a specific cell phone number. It is not clear at this date if he showed his credential. In any case photos were sent to ATF.

[MtnClimber]

IF JILL THINKS SO HIGHLY OF FEMALE AGENTS_—THEN HER DETAIL OF AGENTS SHOULD ALL BE 5’ TALL WOMEN WHO CANNOT HOLSTER A GUN.

I agree. Jill should be showing her support for the DEI she pushes onto others.

[gibsonguy]

The incompetence and personnel shortage are diversions. They DID have people who had eyes on the shooter for over a half an hour and they allowed him to get the shots off before they moved on him. That is the story. MSM is determined to keep the focus off of that.

[MCSETots]

Interesting isn’t it? Democrats have no problem with providing SS support for convicted felon drug addict Hunter Biden.

Hell, they’re OK with making him a czar to FJB . . .

[wardamneagle]

We may never know....not one press briefing by major agency....

[Gay State Conservative]

Later

[Joe Boucher]

Secret service like damned near All the federal gub mint is horse shit worthless