Posted on 08/15/2024 2:55:00 PM PDT by DFG
The U.S. Secret Service is making arrangements for former President Donald Trump to resume outdoor campaign rallies by surrounding his podium with bulletproof glass, multiple sources told ABC News.
The measure is typically used exclusively for sitting presidents, but the Secret Service is making an exception following the first attempted assassination of a presidential candidate since George Wallace in 1972.
The Secret Service declined to comment on its use of ballistic glass.
Trump campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung said the campaign does not comment on security measures relating to Trump.
The Secret Service recommended that Trump stop holding outdoor rallies last month after a gunman in Butler, Pennsylvania, fired at him from a rooftop 400 feet from the stage, nicking his ear. A man in the crowd was killed in the attack.
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I’m all for that idea but how about the audience they need to be protected too
So it’ll be a bomb next time.
Yeah. That’ll work.
a “popemobile” for the Donald would have to be renamed “The Trumpmobile”!
What this is telling the public, the SS can no longer do its job.
If President Trump declined to appear in person for sentencing, would Merchan sentence him or order him jailed in absentia ?
A bit late but welcomed!
This is the democrat’s SS. The bullet proof glass won’t be bullet proof.
I sometimes wonder how this nation and the world would be if JFK had agreed to the bubble top on his limo on that November day in Dallas. It’s really fruitless to imagine these things but I’m convinced the country has gone downhill since then.
At the rally or on the plane. Another possibility is drug him right before the debate.
Bullet-proof glass made in China, no doubt.
They’ll be sure to get their best Secret Service agent to install this glass.
Right after she gets through breast feeding her baby.
It had been raining all morning on November 22, 1963 and at the last minute the sun came out so they took the bubble top off the limo at JFK’S insistance.
My thought too.
How about do their damned jobs?
The Trump campaign would do better to turn over the security at rallies to a team of old men who post on Free Republic. They’re more reliable and probably better shots. Not to mention smarter
Abc reports the gun men’s bullet “nicked” the ear...looked to me like it went through the ear. You get nicked while shaving. You don’t get blood like that unless you nick your veins or arteries... They easily could have said “struck” the ear...
MSM always gotta put leftist spin on everything. Make a bullet shot at your head just a mere “flesh wound”
I hate the MSM monopoly.
That’s good, as long as they don’t allow random people to fly drones over the rally sites.
Or allow SS agents to abandon their post to breastfeed their baby.
Only one side seems to be in danger.
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