Tag Archives: Secret Service

REPORT: Trump Family Needs Strain Secret Service

The New York Times reports: Eleven weeks into the Trump presidency, the Secret Service is grappling with how to constrain the rising costs and unexpected strain that have come with protecting a new first family as large, mobile and high-profile as any in modern American history. To keep up, dozens of agents from New York and field offices across the …

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Over 125,000 Sign Petition To Melania Trump: Get Out Of New York City Or Pay For Your Own Security Detail

The International Business Times reports: Nearly 50,000 people [JMG: 127K at this writing] had signed a Change.org petition by Tuesday morning demanding First Lady Melania Trump move in with President Donald Trump in their new White House presidential pad in an effort to reduce the costly taxpayer expense of protecting the first family as they live in separate states. New …

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Secret Service Requests Additional $60M To Protect Trump Family’s “Unusually Complicated Lifestyle”

The Washington Post reports: The U.S. Secret Service requested $60 million in additional funding for the next year, offering the most precise estimate yet of the escalating costs for travel and protection resulting from the unusually complicated lifestyle of the Trump family, according to internal agency documents reviewed by The Washington Post. Nearly half of the additional money, $26.8 million, …

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Laptop Containing National Security Intel Including Trump Tower Floor Plans Stolen From Secret Service

The New York Daily News reports: A laptop computer containing floor plans for Trump Tower, information about the Hillary Clinton email investigation and other national security information was stolen from a Secret Service agent’s vehicle in Brooklyn, police sources told the Daily News. Authorities have been frantically searching for the laptop since it was stolen Thursday morning. Some items stolen …

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Secret Service Investigates Two Of Their Own Agents For Taking Selfies With Trump’s Sleeping Grandson

Mother Jones reports: A source with knowledge of the information tells Mother Jones that two Secret Service agents who were assigned to protect Donald Trump III, President Donald Trump’s grandson, took selfies with the eight year old while he was sleeping. The incident is now under investigation. The source was clear that the agents were not under investigation for criminal …

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Intruder Breaches White House Grounds

CNN reports: A man carrying a backpack was arrested Friday night after breaching security at the White House complex and was discovered by a Secret Service officer by the south entrance to the executive residence, officials said. The incident happened just before midnight while President Donald Trump was at the White House. A Secret Service source said the intruder might …

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NEW YORK CITY: Trump’s Realtors Tout Secret Service Presence As “Hot New Amenity” In Trump Tower

There will never be an end to the grifting. Via Politico: The U.S. Secret Service is the hot, new “amenity” in the Trump Tower, where desperate brokers are trying to lure well-heeled clients into the building on Fifth Avenue that has served as President-elect Donald Trump’s home as well as his campaign and transition headquarters. Less than a week after …

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NEW YORK CITY: Secret Service Considers Paying Trump $1.5 M/Year To Rent Full Floor Of Trump Tower

CNN reports: The US Secret Service is considering renting one floor in Trump Tower to protect President-elect Donald Trump and his family by turning it into a 24-7 command post, a law enforcement official told CNN Friday. According to Jared Horowitz, who is with Newmark Grubb Knight Frank and responsible for available commercial space at Trump Tower, the floors available …

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NEVADA: Donald Trump Rushed Off Stage After Shouts Of “Gun!” – Protester Had No Weapon [VIDEO]

NBC News reports: Donald Trump was rushed off stage by the Secret Service while delivering speech in Reno, Nevada, Saturday night after someone in the crowd yelled “gun” but no weapon was found. “Immediately in front of the stage, an unidentified individual shouted “gun”. Secret Service agents and Reno Police Officers immediately apprehended the subject,” the Secret Service said in …

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Trump Denies Meeting With Secret Service

Of course he does. Via Politico: Republican nominee Donald Trump is pushing back against a report that he had a conversation with the Secret Service following his comments on Second Amendment supporters, which many interpreted as him inciting violence against Hillary Clinton. CNN reported that the Secret Service had a conversation with Trump after his remark Tuesday that Second Amendment …

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Secret Service Speaks To Trump About Death Threat

The press is merely saying Trump was “spoken to.” We can presume it was more like a chastising. CNN reports: A US Secret Service official confirms to CNN that the USSS has spoken to the Trump campaign regarding his Second Amendment comments. “There has been more than one conversation” on the topic, the official told CNN. The campaign told USSS …

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Democrats Demand That Secret Service Investigate Trump For Assassination Threat Against Hillary Clinton

The Hill reports: Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) says Donald Trump’s controversial line about “Second Amendment people” qualifies as an assassination threat against Hillary Clinton. Other Democrats joined Murphy in condemning Trump’s remarks. “This is simple – what Trump is saying is dangerous,” Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook said in a statement. “A person seeking to be President of the United …

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OAKLAND: Secret Service Leaps To Protect Bernie Sanders After Protesters Rush Stage [VIDEO]

CNN reports: At least four people at a Bernie Sanders rally in Oakland rushed the stage Monday evening, spurring Secret Service agents to jump onto the raised platform and protect him. The Democratic presidential candidate was uninjured and continued speaking, but not before several agents hugged him and pushed him away from the microphone. The identities of the individuals, who …

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OHIO: Secret Service Rushes To Donald Trump’s Aid After Rally Protester Grabs At His Leg [VIDEO]

NBC News reports: A Donald Trump rally took a dramatic turn Saturday when a disturbance broke out behind him — causing Secret Service agents to jump on stage and form a wall around the candidate amid the commotion. A campaign spokeswoman told NBC News that a man at the Dayton, Ohio, event “attempted to breach the secure buffer and was …

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TIME Reporter Scuffles With Secret Service During Black Lives Matter Protest At Trump Rally [VIDEO]

From the Daily Beast: A reporter was allegedly kicked and choked by security Monday afternoon at a rally for presidential candidate Donald Trump in Radford, Virginia. Fellow reporters have identified the manhandled member of the press as Time photographer Chris Morris. Details on what led to the confrontation are scant. Breitbart is claiming it was the Secret Service agent that …

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Bomb Threats Clear White House Briefing Room And Senate TSA Hearing

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Drone Crashes On White House Lawn

Via ABC News: Secret Service spokesman Brian Leary issued the following statement Monday morning: “On 1/26/15, at approximately 3:08 a.m., a Secret Service Uniformed Division officer posted on the South Grounds of the White House complex heard and observed a ‘quad copter’ device, approximately two feet in diameter, flying at a very low altitude and ultimately crashing on the southeast …

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Teabaggers: Hang Obama

“Hang the lying Kenyan traitor! There’s plenty of trees in this [White House] front yard. He wouldn’t be the first one hanging from one of these trees. Snap his neck and watch him choke to death.”

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Secret Service Director Resigns

The Tea Things are thrilled. Because they are so concerned about the president’s safety.

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FLORIDA: Secret Service Calls On GOP Candidate Who Said “Hang Obama”

Via the Tampa Bay Times: Say you’re a rookie political candidate eager to raise your profile. Here’s one sure way to do that that you DO NOT want to try: Publicly call for the president of the United States to be hanged. That’s what Republican state House candidate Joshua Black did on Twitter yesterday. It generated an widely read article …

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