{"id":18718,"date":"2016-12-19T21:49:27","date_gmt":"2016-12-19T21:49:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=18718"},"modified":"2016-12-19T21:49:51","modified_gmt":"2016-12-19T21:49:51","slug":"secret-service-not-good-enough-for-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=18718","title":{"rendered":"Secret Service not good enough for Trump?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/secreat-service.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-18719\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/secreat-service-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"secreat-service\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/secreat-service-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/secreat-service.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Donald J. Trump keeps breaking with established norms, even as he prepares to become president of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>For example, as the president-elect, Trump is being\u00a0provided the best security in the world, courtesy of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Secret Service agents are at his disposal 24\/7.<\/p>\n<p>However, Trump is continuing to employ private security officials at those rallies. They are using aggressive tactics to quell protestors who occasionally have their voices heard at Trump rallies.<\/p>\n<p>Is this the right thing to do? Is this appropriate for a president-elect who&#8217;s already being guarded by the finest <em>publicly paid<\/em> security service in the world?<\/p>\n<p>I think not.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2016\/12\/donald-trump-security-force-232797\">http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2016\/12\/donald-trump-security-force-232797<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Security officials are concerned that use of the private officers puts Trump and his staff &#8212; and his family &#8212; at heightened risk. One official noted that the presence of the private security agents creates potential confusion among the Secret Service detail assigned to protect the president-elect and his family.<\/p>\n<p>So, why doesn&#8217;t Trump simply rely on the security protocol that taxpayers will be funding?<\/p>\n<p>These folks are damn good at what they do, Mr. President-elect.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald J. Trump keeps breaking with established norms, even as he prepares to become president of the United States. For example, as the president-elect, Trump is being\u00a0provided the best security in the world, courtesy of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Secret Service agents are at his disposal 24\/7. However, Trump is continuing to employ &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=18718\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Secret Service not good enough for Trump?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1353,1424,3725,6780],"class_list":["post-18718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-department-of-homeland-security","tag-donald-trump","tag-presidential-security","tag-us-secret-service"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18718"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18721,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18718\/revisions\/18721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}