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| It used to be cool to be a U.S. Secret Service agent. |
Maybe we can get Congress to pass a gun reform bill and name it after Trump?
Call it "Take Repsonsible and Universal Management by Protecting all Americans Act."
The TRUMP Americans Act. A bill that will require gun owners to register for insurance, an end to purchases of semi automatic weapons by 2026, hold gun owners accountable for allowing crimes to occur with their firearms and a buyback program.
Let's get Republicans on it.
Protecting a convicted felon.... sheesh.
Alejandro Mayorkas, the Department of Homeland Security security is overwhelmed with the Republicans demanding he handles the U.S.-Mexican border. Now he is being tasked with the Secret Service and the need to protect presidential candidates.
The arm of the Secret Service that protects presidents, vice presidents and their families is nearly 10% smaller than it was a decade ago despite warnings from Congress and a government watchdog that it needed to add agents or risk compromising its mission.
That shortfall resulted in the denial of requests for additional personnel from agents guarding former President Donald Trump over the last two years, but no resource requests were denied for the rally where Trump was shot, a Secret Service official told NBC News. The Washington Post first reported the repeated denial of requests for extra personnel and equipment from Trump's agents.
Anthony Guglielmi, a Secret Service spokesperson, acknowledged in a statement that some requests were denied. "In some instances where specific Secret Service specialized units or resources were not provided, the agency made modifications to ensure the security of the protectee," he said. "This may include utilizing state or local partners to provide specialized functions or otherwise identifying alternatives to reduce public exposure of a protectee."
The day after Trump was wounded, Guglielmi said it was "absolutely false" that Secret Service officials had denied requests for additional resources from the agents guarding him.
Trump continues to stroke tensions despite Biden and Harris personally calling him to wish him well and safety.
The Secret Service is overwhelmed with his antics. Trust me, they can't bubble him but they had warned him that he is stretching the agents with his personal agendas.
You see when Trump goes to his properties, the roads are shut down, agents have to sweep the area and many of the workers are vetted before entry.
Trump has numerous properties and they are under protection of the local, state and federal agencies. He has allowed people inside that aren't vetted. Laura Loomer, Nick Fuentes, Kanye West and Ted Nugent are examples of individuals that need to be vetted.
Since the assassination attempt on Trump, the agency had said that many of these open carry states make their tasks more difficult.
It wasn't at Mar-a-Lago as I earlier reported. It was at Trump International Golf Course in Palm Beach, approximately 10 miles from the former president's residence. The attempted assassin waited for 12 hours and had preparation.
The attempted assassin was apprehended by the law after being spotted on Interstate 95. A witness wrote the license plate down and the readers immediately picked up on it.
He obtained a firearm despite being a felon. So those who sold him the firearm will be arrested soon. He literally scrubbed the registration or obtained it with it being scrubbed.
Many agents are removed from the protection because of the failures. Usually a failure would involve the protectee being injured. But also off duty issues, like the infamous Colombian prostitution scandal tarnished the reputstion. When Obama was to speak at The Summit of Americas, many of the agents had a few girls over. Those girls were either working as honey traps or mercenaries for the cartels. They were to gather intelligence on Obama's detail.
I think that moron Dan Bongino was a part of that crew. I am speculating. I am not saying he did. I mean he is a moron but not a damn fool. Some guy named Joe Bongino was dismissed in Colombia.
The latest congressional budget figures show that the employee head count assigned to protect the president and other senior officials and investigate threats against them dropped by roughly 350 staffers — down from 4,027 in fiscal 2014 to 3,671 in the current fiscal year.
At the same time, the number of people that Protective Operations had to protect grew, and the potential threats it faced became more diverse. Today, the Secret Service faces chronic understaffing for its most high-profile roles and competition from the private sector, which routinely poaches agents for much higher-paying and less punishing jobs.
As the agency is being roundly criticized for failing to adequately protect Trump at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, local and federal law enforcement officials say it’s widely known within policing circles that the organization whose agents would “take a bullet for the president” is overwhelmed.
The Secret Service did not respond to a list of questions about the state of the agency in recent years. Earlier this week, a spokesperson said the Secret Service could not discuss resources for security reasons but praised the agency’s performance.
“Out of concern for operational security, the U.S. Secret Service does not discuss the means and methods used for our protective operations,” the spokesperson said. “Ensuring the safety and security of national leaders and presidential candidates is the core mission of the U.S. Secret Service, the finest protective service team in the world.”
The acting director of the U.S. Secret Service said the agency needs to undergo a complete overhaul of how it protects presidents — a remarkable admission following a second apparent attempt on the life of former President Donald Trump within two months.
“Coming out of Butler, I have ordered a paradigm shift,” Ronald Rowe said at a news conference Monday, referring to the assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania, in July. “The Secret Service's protective methodologies work and they are sound, and we saw that yesterday.”
But, he added, “we need to get out of a reactive model, and get to a readiness model.”
Rowe did not go into detail about his vision for the nearly 160-year-old agency. His comments come at a pivotal moment for the Secret Service.
The agency has been under heavy scrutiny since a gunman managed to fire several rounds at Trump at the rally in Pennsylvania, striking his ear, in what was the Secret Service's biggest security failure since President Ronald Reagan was shot and wounded in 1981. One person was killed at the July 13 rally, and two others were injured.
The incident on Sunday, which the FBI called an apparent attempted assassination of Trump, unfolded at his golf club in West Palm Beach, Florida, after a Secret Service agent spotted a rifle poking out of the bushes outside the course, according to officials. The suspect, Ryan Wesley Routh, 58, had been in the vicinity for nearly 12 hours, according to a criminal complaint.
Routh was taken into custody later Sunday and charged with federal gun crimes.
The Trump campaign asked the Secret Service for increased security on Monday morning, two sources familiar with the request told NBC News. It's not clear how the Secret Service has responded to that request.
When asked about it, Rowe sidestepped the question.
“I’ve had a conversation with the former president,” he said. “The president is aware that he has the highest levels of protection that the Secret Service provides.”
“We constantly evaluate based on threat,” he added. “If we need to ratchet it up additionally, we will.”
The Secret Service has dramatically increased Trump’s security since the shooting on July 13, according to two sources familiar with the agency’s response. The increased security includes more people and more technology.
One source said the Secret Service is doing all it can to protect Trump while also preparing for the United Nations General Assembly next week.
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