Worse?
The guy has made his life putting down people ….
And?
On top of those things?
He NEED crowds and adulation to get thru the day….
No former President has cost the American public and the Secret Service so much attention and handling….
Trump & Co. have grown to see the agency as ‘HIS” private palace guard…..
The agency’s job is ONLY to protect him and his wife…..
And they cannot do this alone….
The rely on the assistance from state , local and other federal agencies to get the job done….
Covering Trump has eclipsed any other former proteee….
And he does NOT make things easy….
The series of events in early July illustrates the extraordinary challenges facing the Secret Service as it attempts to protect Trump — a former president running for office again and one of the world’s most recognizable people. He not only holds large-scale campaign rallies — as he plans to do this week — but also routinely hangs out with scores of people at the Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Fla., and his other resorts.
The difficulties have prompted numerous arguments over the past 3½ years between agency officials, Trump and his advisers. His aides grew increasingly angry as many of their requests for additional security were rebuffed by the Secret Service, according to eight people familiar with the events, who like others for this story spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe internal discussions. They were also enraged that his Secret Service detail and team were not told for 30 minutes as police officials searched for a reported suspicious person at the July 13 rally who turned out to be the gunman, Thomas Matthew Crooks.
Trump aides say they had sometimes been forced to cancel or reschedule events when aides felt the venues were not going to be sufficiently secure. They described repeatedly being denied pleas for more snipers, bomb-sniffing dogs, magnetometers and specialty teams to protect Trump, often because agency higher-ups said extra resources were not available. Trump and his campaign have a close relationship with his security detail….
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Current and former officials also said the agency has never been asked to provide such a heavy layer of protection to a former president and that the levels provided even before the shooting went beyond Secret Service guidelines. Some agency officials have grown frustrated with requests from Trump’s team to schedule events that seem especially challenging to protect, two of the people said.
Anthony Guglielmi, a spokesman for the Secret Service, declined to comment on the warnings before the Doral event, the interactions that troubled agents at his social clubs or the tensions between Trump, his team and the Secret Service detail. …
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[Bill Gage, a former Secret Service agent who worked on presidential protection during the Obama and George W. Bush administrations,] said Trump’s politically amped-up rhetoric and the hyperbolic political environment increase the need for additional protection for Trump.
“This is an environment where people not figuratively but literally hate political leaders from the other parties,” Gage said. “Trump has alienated half the country. Not being political here but that’s the reality.”…..
Note….
The agency HAS to deal with the possiblity that Trump might be sent to jail meaning agents would have to do jail time details with Trump….
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