Trump has been overcharging the secret service for years. Why wouldn't efforts to limit his grifting be in place?
Perhaps they just hit the limit of their budget
Dude fuck him
He tried to kill America. If he gets back in office he plans to put the axe to any secret service personnel who don’t get on board with the murder. Just tell him no, go fuck yourself, insurrectionists don’t get protection and favors provided by the systems they’re insurrectioning. Figure out your own fucking security and count your blessings that we’re leaving you alone to do that much until the courts get their act together hopefully.
Hijacking the systems that are intended to be used by people who aren’t enemies to the country, and everyone going along with it like everything’s normal, is a key way that fascists slip into the systems which they then use to do terrible things.
There is a time and a place for democratic norms. He should have a trial, he should have lawyers, he shouldn’t just get assassinated and the country explode into civil war. But don’t give him fucking secret service protection. Now, or if he wins, or after he’s inaugurated.
He is the enemy to the system.
The system better wake the fuck up and start treating him that way. All this inviting the wolf in the house and showing him where he can sleep in the fucking guest room and where the coffee is is how we got Hitler.
pretty good policy if it only applies to him imo
In general, I'd like to see secret service protection for ex presidents limited to only to basic everyday security. Their homes, offices, daily commuting, errands, family events, etc. the kind of stuff that any regular private citizen has to do.
Anything above and beyond that they should have to arrange their own security services. No one is making private citizen trump hold rallies and invite throngs of people to gather around him while he stands up on a stage, most of us don't do that, and if we do we're certainly on the hook for security if we need it.
Now being a presidential candidate, he's also entitled to usss protection within 120 days of the general election, which I suppose I can agree with, and that would have kicked in for him on 7/8, so a few days before the assassination attempt, so I guess this might still be their mess to deal with if we think they should have to provide security for campaign events.
Awww, gee whilikers that's too bad. Anyways,
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