Unlike the feds who always dress alike when they attend conservative rallies.
Posted on 09/28/2024 9:37:13 AM PDT by george76
The Secret Service recently forced former President Donald Trump to cancel a campaign rally in Wisconsin over lack of ‘assets.’..
President Donald Trump was recently forced to cancel a campaign rally in Wisconsin because the federal task force in charge of safety denied him adequate protection resources.
On Tuesday, Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., sent a letter to the acting director of the Secret Service detailing the allegations of a whistleblower who said the event was canceled because the nation’s premier security agency lacked “sufficient assets” to keep the Republican presidential nominee safe.
“Other whistleblowers with knowledge of Secret Service planning protocols allege that failure to provide protection for a major public event is highly unusual and that a sitting president would never be denied resources in this way,” Hawley wrote.
Wisconsin was one of several key rust belt states Trump narrowly won in 2016, and then lost by just roughly 20,000 votes in 2020. According to the latest aggregate of surveys maintained by RealClearPolitics, Harris is leading Trump by less than 1 point in the state, whereas Biden led by more than 6 points at the same point in the race.
Trump’s canceled campaign event in contrast to Vice President Kamala Harris’ ability to roam the nation safely marks just the latest double standard in the race when it comes to the candidates’ security.
After a series of agency failures opened the door to a failed assassination attempt on Trump this summer, the Republican candidate was told to no longer hold outdoor campaign events.
“The Secret Service did not return an email from The Federalist requesting comment,” Senior Elections Correspondent Matt Kittle reported. “So it’s not clear whether the agency has made the same requests of Vice President Kamala Harris.”
Trump survived another attempt on his life this month when a gunman lined up a scoped “AK-47-style rifle” within just 300 to 500 yards of the former president on his West Palm Beach golf course. Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw said that even two months after he was shot in Butler, Pennsylvania, Trump still did not have the full protection of an incumbent president.
“At this level that he is at right now, he’s not the sitting president. If he was, we would have had this entire golf course surrounded. But because he’s not, security is limited to the areas that the Secret Service deems possible,” Bradshaw told reporters.
Rep. Mike Kelly, R-Penn., said last week the Secret Service had restored Trump’s protection to the levels they were when he was president. The Senate also sent bipartisan legislation to beef up security for major presidential candidates to the White House this week. Trump also said this week he had set a date for his triumphant return to the fair grounds where he was shot in Pennsylvania. The Republican presidential nominee will campaign there on Oct. 5, just four days after the vice presidential debate.
G@* they’re desperate 🙄
They’re gonna lose anyway
“Rust belt” state label is really ignorant and offensive. I know it’s petty.
I thought they changed venues for this wisconsin rally?
To be fair, there was a super important LGBTQ+ conference at Disney World which took a lot of their A team off line. After the last debacle they just couldn’t roll the dice again with the B / C Team.
Didn’t Kamala have an event in Milwaukee?
Also, was this affected by the Secret Service DEI office sending agents to Disney World?
The SS is going to get the political equivalent of a colonoscopy without sedation when the new administration takes office.
Senior SS officials better hope Trump is taken out because their careers will be over when Trump gets back in the corner office.
Turnabout is fair play.
Would Trump hand over the JV SS teams for Biden’s security? Pick some folks from the White House janitorial employment training facility and offer them a day off if they watch a video on being a secret service agent and then assign them to Joey and Jilly?
Trump should do what many of us have suggested: Hire a dozen special forces assets. I betcha they’d love the assignments.
just as an FYI, no sedation colonoscopy is an option offered at pretty much all facilities. It is very common in Europe.
Avoids the problem of transportation support for 24 hours.
There’s no pain. It’s just 30 minutes of discomfort.
A number of Senior SS have already resigned, including the Director. They know what's coming. I am so disappointed in the Secret Service.
The Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs released an interim report on the Trump shooting.
<><>Senators examined at least 2,800 pages of Secret Service documents
<><>interviewed dozens of SS agents and local law enforcement officials.
<><>found SS inaction directly related to numerous SS failures
<><>SS failures in planning, communications, intel sharing and l/e coordination.
<><>Chairman Gary Peters: “Every failure was preventable.”
The tax-subsidized SS is well-staffed
<><>stunning SS payroll numbers are coming out of the Trump shooting debacle.
<><>there’s 7100 Secret Service Special agents and 2800 Task Force Officers,
<><>plus Uniformed Division SS officers, Technical Law Enforcement officers,
<><>and SS administrative, professional, and technical personnel
<><>all sucking off the tax-paid govt payroll.
<><>Complete with perks, privileges, eternal Cadillac healthcare, bonuses, and pensions.
<><>Roughly half of the Secret Service’s $3 billion budget is spent on “protective services”
<><>SS has a robust taxpayer financed cybercrime division,
<><>state-of-the-art forensic labs
<><>and a threat-assessment center that studies “how to mitigate and train against threats.”
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Unlike the feds who always dress alike when they attend conservative rallies.
Will this be the pattern?
No Trump rallies in battlegound states?
Trump was denied the SS assets for his rally n Wisconsin. Wisconsin’s Supreme Court has also decided that RFKJ stays on the ballot even though he gave them ample time to remove him.
Election interference at the fed and State level.
I think Trump is being lied to about all these hit squads to stymie his campaigning.
Bongino would be good at that.
Thank you Owen. I have had both versions.
Welcome to “our democracy”.
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