Trump’s private security force ‘playing with fire’
The Secret Service isn’t happy about Trump’s private security force that protects him and clamps down on protesters.
Click here for reuse options!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.
But Trump — who puts a premium on loyalty and has demonstrated great interest in having forceful security at his events — has opted to maintain an aggressive and unprecedented private security force, led by Keith Schiller, a retired New York City cop and Navy veteran who started working for Trump in 1999 as a part-time bodyguard, eventually rising to become his head of security.
Security officials warn that employing private security personnel heightens risks for the president-elect and his team, as well as for protesters, dozens of whom have alleged racial profiling, undue force or aggression at the hands Trump’s security, with at least 10 joining a trio of lawsuits now pending against Trump, his campaign or its security.
“It’s playing with fire,” said Jonathan Wackrow, a former Secret Service agent who worked on President Barack Obama’s protective detail during his 2012 reelection campaign. Having a private security team working events with Secret Service “increases the Service’s liability, it creates greater confusion and it creates greater risk,” Wackrow said.
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Buford2k11 December 19th, 2016 at 08:00
Trump is a true madman…we are witnessing history folks…we are seeing the last of a free America…Trump is going to morph into our worst nightmare…what we have seen so far is quite tame compared to what we are about to experience…I have lost hope and any kind of thoughts for our future that does not involve violence, hatred, and the agenda that Trump has shown us…Alan…I hope you can help….
Foundryman December 19th, 2016 at 11:47
The media will not report the truth about Trump, it has been complicit and supportive of him from the start.
The fact that they spend hours talking about Michele Obama losing ‘hope’ instead of the Russian hacking makes that clear as ice. The Russian meddling in the election is the biggest thing to happen since Pearl Harbor, and yet all we get is a passing reference and a long Trumpian denial.
Budda December 19th, 2016 at 08:13
Well, when one of Dumps security team hinders the Secret Service folks I hope they prosecute them.
anothertoothpick December 19th, 2016 at 09:13
pumpkin heads Sturmabteilung or SA will soon be facing their version of “Night of the Longknives anyway.
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eyelashviper December 19th, 2016 at 10:43
The whole article is worth reading, and is quite alarming.
If anyone had any questions about tRump ignoring protocol, ethics, rules, regulations, and laws, they need to wake up.
We are all in for a bad time.
Foundryman December 19th, 2016 at 11:40
The secret service should just say “Us or Them”. Why should the SS put their lives on the line when there is Trumps private cops wondering around with guns? Somebody is going to get killed, it might as well be the wannabees.
jybarz December 19th, 2016 at 11:53
Well, let’s hope they have a shoot out and get Maggot-elect in the crossfire.
maggiemoo December 19th, 2016 at 12:39
And I guess taxpayers will be paying for them.
anothertoothpick December 19th, 2016 at 12:51
pumpkin head claims he made $12.5 million off of his election.
In other words he took that republican donor money and put it right into his own pocket.
StoneyCurtisll December 19th, 2016 at 12:53
Who needs the Secret Service when he has the SA…
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Willys41 December 19th, 2016 at 22:16
How long till Trump starts seizing all privately held firearms?