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It's official: Secret Service now guarding Trump, Carson around the clock - at taxpayer expense
dailymail.co.uk ^
| J. Taylor Rushing
Posted on 11/05/2015 12:00:17 PM PST by RoosterRedux
The two front-runners in the Republican race for the 2016 presidential nomination just got a bigger entourage.
The Department of Homeland Security has authorized 24-hour Secret Service protection for billionaire Donald Trump and retired surgeon Ben Carson, who are swapping the top spots in all major national polls of GOP candidates.
The taxpayer-funded expense was authorized by DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson after consulting with a small panel of congressional leaders.
The request comes about two weeks after the Trump and Carson campaigns formally requested the protection.
*snip*
The two candidates will receive 260 agents between them, according to Fox News.
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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: carson; elections; trump
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To: RoosterRedux
Surprised Trump wouldn’t stick with his own security.
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posted on
11/05/2015 12:01:36 PM PST
by
jessduntno
(The mind of a liberal...deceit, desire for control, greed, contradiction and fueled by hate.)
To: hoosiermama; onyx; Jane Long; V K Lee; conservativejoy; RitaOK; Black Agnes; nopardons; ...
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posted on
11/05/2015 12:01:59 PM PST
by
RoosterRedux
(Trump: As long as you are going to be thinking anyway...think big.)
To: jessduntno
The Secret Service gives the Trump team access to gov’t intel.
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posted on
11/05/2015 12:03:12 PM PST
by
RoosterRedux
(Trump: As long as you are going to be thinking anyway...think big.)
To: RoosterRedux
Good. I’d rather pay for this than Michelle’s trips or Irans weapons any day
They’re targets.
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posted on
11/05/2015 12:03:56 PM PST
by
stanne
To: jessduntno
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posted on
11/05/2015 12:04:15 PM PST
by
stanne
To: RoosterRedux
It's official: Secret Service now guarding Trump, Carson around the clock - at taxpayer expense I'm curious. Do they have a pool of these guys sitting around or are these the ones that could no longer put up with Hildabeast's outbursts?
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posted on
11/05/2015 12:04:42 PM PST
by
The Sons of Liberty
(Politicians should be forced to wear the logos of the special interest groups they are beholden to.)
To: jessduntno
His own security is not privy to national security information updates in a timely fashion.
He needs to have a security detail that has top national security information access.
Ex: They can get him out of an area where terrorism is thought to be about to take place, and his own team wouldn’t even know about it.
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posted on
11/05/2015 12:06:41 PM PST
by
DoughtyOne
(It's beginning to look like "Morning in America" again. (Comment on YouTube under Trump Free Ride.))
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posted on
11/05/2015 12:07:10 PM PST
by
DJ MacWoW
(The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
To: RoosterRedux
Will Trump charge them rent like Biden does?
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posted on
11/05/2015 12:07:19 PM PST
by
mowowie
(`)
To: jessduntno
I don't think there is any rule that says he can't have his own security in addition to secret service protection.
As for the taxpayer expense, that's the price we pay for allowing insane liberal moonbats to roam about freely.
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posted on
11/05/2015 12:07:22 PM PST
by
Vigilanteman
(ObaMao: Fake America, Fake Messiah, Fake Black man. How many fakes can you fit into one Zer0?)
To: RoosterRedux
It's official: Secret Service now guarding Trump, Carson around the clock -
at taxpayer expense Well yeah, it's at the taxpayer's benefit too.
If something were to happen to Trump, it could be a very big loss to the nation if he can do what he says he intends to.
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posted on
11/05/2015 12:08:26 PM PST
by
DoughtyOne
(It's beginning to look like "Morning in America" again. (Comment on YouTube under Trump Free Ride.))
To: RoosterRedux
That's right, during the primary when Moochel Obama complained the racist whites in America were going to murder her husband before he gets elected was being guarded by the secret service and of course the Chinese paid for it not the tax payers of the United States. Even today, the secret service are being paid by the Chinese not the tax payers of the US!
How could I have ever forgotten that/s off
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posted on
11/05/2015 12:08:29 PM PST
by
paratrooper82
(82nd ABN DIV. 1/508th BN Alfa Team Leader 2nd civil war is coming to the USA)
To: DoughtyOne
To: RoosterRedux
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posted on
11/05/2015 12:09:59 PM PST
by
rrrod
(just an old guy with a gun in his pocket.l)
To: RoosterRedux
I don’t mind paying for this. As long as a certain other detail is thinned a bit to compensate.
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posted on
11/05/2015 12:09:59 PM PST
by
Bloody Sam Roberts
(Democracy is not freedom. Democracy is simply majoritarianism. It is incompatible with real freedom.)
To: RoosterRedux
I though Secret Service protection for leading candidates was standard operating procedure?
To: RoosterRedux
Before the libs start bitching and moaning, they need to know that the SS began guarding Hussein in September of 2007.
To: jessduntno
Quite frankly Trump must have bells the size of churchballs when making public appearances after the Mexcian drug cartel threats.
To: RoosterRedux
So that’s like 5 agents each, 24 x 7. Plus a little overhead.
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posted on
11/05/2015 12:11:58 PM PST
by
USMCPOP
(Father of LCpl. Karl Linn, KIA 1/26/2005 Al Haqlaniyah, Iraq)
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