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December 19:Trump
private security force ‘playing with fire’ ... The president-elect
continues to employ a battalion of retired cops and FBI agents to protect him
and clamp down on protesters.
August 21: The Secret Service can no longer
pay hundreds of agents it needs to carry out an expanded protective mission – in
large part due to the sheer size of President Trump's family and efforts
necessary to secure their multiple residences up and down the East Coast.
August 24: ... while Donald Trump's
presidential travel is indeed one factor straining the agency, it is not the
only one. The problem is a confluence of issues: Statutory mandates that cap
salary and overtime, an increase in the number of protective assignments, and a
diminishing number of agents.
August 25: Presidents, their families, and
their staffs ... do need protection. But President Donald Trump has stretched
the limit of propriety when it comes to security spending ...
His administration has ordered the Secret Service to protect
35% more people than his predecessor’s did. This includes overseeing the
security of his sons as they make business trips all over the globe to improve
the Trump family’s bottom line. One example is Eric Trump’s trip in January to
Uruguay to promote the Punta del Esta Trump property. The taxpayer’s tab was
over
$100,000.
Another example is Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump’s recent skiing trip.
http://fortune.com/2017/08/25/trump-secret-service-budget-money-illegal/
October 18: Beverly Hills Wants To Tear Down
Donald Trump's Wall. The Secret Service Is Hedging
The increase was voted on after Secret Service Director Randolph “Tex” Alles
warned during an August interview with USA Today that more than 1,000 agents
have already hit their annual federally mandated cap,
December 19:Trump
private security force ‘playing with fire’ ... The president-elect
continues to employ a battalion of retired cops and FBI agents to protect him
and clamp down on protesters.
President-elect Donald Trump has continued employing a private security and
intelligence team at his victory rallies, and he is expected to keep at least
some members of the team after he becomes president, according to people
familiar with the plans.
The arrangement represents a major break from tradition. All modern presidents
and presidents-elect have entrusted their personal security entirely to the
Secret Service, and their event security mostly to local law enforcement,
according to presidential security experts and Secret Service sources.
January 17: New Secret Service Costs for
Trump at Mar-a-Lago Revealed ... And you thought your New Year’s Eve was pricey.
The Secret Service spent $26,457.28 to rent lights, generators, tables and tents
from companies near President Donald Trump’s Florida estate, signing contracts
that all ended early in the new year.
March 3: Man shot himself outside White
House, President Trump out of town
The man approached the fence line, removed a concealed handgun and fired several
rounds, none of which appear to have been aimed at the White House, a Secret
Service spokesperson said.
May 31: The US Secret Service overpaid
presidential campaigns an estimated $4 million for plane travel during the 2016
election, a government watchdog says ...
July 17: A Secret
Service agent traveling as part of President Donald Trump's security detail died
Tuesday in Scotland after suffering a severe stroke.
October 25: Secret
Service slams New York Times’ fictional Trump assassination story: ‘Outrageous
and an insult’
“While we understand this is a work of fiction, the insinuation that the U.S.
Secret Service would participate in the assassination of a President is
outrageous and an insult to the men and women of this agency.
The Times Book Review section published a series of short stories Tuesday that
dreamed up possible outcomes of the Robert Mueller probe and explored Trump’s
relationship with Russia.
One of the stories on the Times' online Book Review page -- to be published in
Sunday's print edition -- is titled, “How it Ends,” by Zoe Sharp – a chilling
story about a drunken Russian’s plot to murder the president with a Makarov
pistol. Sharp’s particular story doesn’t mention Trump by name, but it’s no
secret as the collection of stories is headlined, “Five novelists imagine
Trump’s next chapter.”
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/secret-service-slams-new-york-times-fictional-trump-assassination-story-outrageous-and-an-insult
