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No Trump Isn’t The Only One Threatened With Assassination

I just found those with a cursory Google search. I’m sure there have been many more and even more than that for President Biden.

Trump’s SS team seems to be at his mercy (recall how he insisted on standing up at the Butler event and screaming “fight, fight! against their wishes) and according to these reports he has consistently refused to let them provide proper security at his golf courses. The Washington Post reports:

Soon after Donald Trump became president, authorities tried to warn him about the risks posed by golfing at his own courses because of their proximity to public roads. Secret Service agents came armed with unusual evidence: not suspect profiles or spent bullet casings, but simple photographs taken by news crews of him golfing at his private club in Sterling, Va.

They reasoned that if photographers with long-range lenses could get the president in their sights while he golfed, so too could potential gunmen, according to former U.S. officials involved in the discussions who, like most others interviewed for this story, spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the matter’s sensitivity.

But Trump insisted that his clubs were safe and that he wanted to keep golfing, the former officials said. These preferences posed problems for his protection that former Trump aides, Secret Service officials and security experts said have only intensified in the years since he left the White House, as his security detail shrank and agents no longer maintained as extensive a perimeter guarding his movements. A Trump spokesman did not respond to a request for comment.

Trump never liked all the security at this properties and since he’s left the White House it’s gotten lax:

People who have played at Trump’s club in West Palm Beach said they were surprised they weren’t screened more extensively or kept away from the former president. One person who played last year said he wasn’t asked any questions or subjected to a bag search. After he finished his round, this person said, he walked into the clubhouse and took a corner table near where Trump later came to dine.

Trump’s security was bolstered following the July 13 shooting in Butler. The size of the Secret Service team protecting him on the links on Sunday was similar to the resources provided when he was president. A drone was in use Sunday to give agents an overview of the course, countersurveillance agents were deployed to survey the area, and protective intelligence agents were on hand to assess possible risks, according to a Secret Service official briefed on the security plan.

The former president has expressed appreciation for the stepped-up security, which includes armed men among his golfing patrons, but he has sometimes shown flashes of annoyance about the spectacle, said people who have been with him.

“People are coming to play golf,” he recently told an associate. “They don’t want to see that.”

Maybe there’s a reason the nuts are able to get so close to him but it isn’t Kamala Harris saying that a man who refused to accept his loss and incited and insurrection is a threat to democracy.

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