The Republican president on social media objected to what he said were 18 agents assigned to Hunter Biden’s protective detail while in South Africa this week. He said Ashley Biden has 13 agents assigned to her detail and that she too “will be taken off the list.”
There was no immediate reaction from the former president’s office.
Former presidents and their spouses receive life-long Secret Service protection under federal law, but the protection afforded to their immediate families over the age of 16 ends when they leave office. But outgoing presidents can extend protection for those who might otherwise not be eligible for up to six months after they leave office, something Biden did for his children and Trump did for his family after leaving office in 2021. Former Presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush also extended protection for their families for a period.
OK so this is actually pretty normal?
Edit: For all the Lemmings out there having trouble understanding, you don’t have to read the article, but at least read the summary. Their USSS protection would end in a few months anyway. Trump is a colossal asshole, yes, but they’re only getting a few months less of USSS protection. The length of time they get protection is fairly normal.
Posting about it on social media seems to be thinly veiled stochastic terrorism
That is pretty fucked up indeed. I still doubt anyone attacks them or anything.
Maybe, maybe. But the way stochastic terrorism works is you just roll the dice against long odds over and over and eventually someone does what you’re suggesting.
Maybe not, but maybe they will.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_no_one_rid_me_of_this_turbulent_priest%3F
Trump did for his family after leaving office in 2021.
It’s normal to extend it. It’s not normal for the next President to end it. Especially when that hypocrite did it for his own offspring just 4 years earlier.
Right, I’m talking about the time length. 6 months normally versus 2 months here. In the grand scheme of things, not that big of a deal. It’s not like they would have had lifetime protection and now he’s cancelling that.
This is how the fuck:
“But outgoing presidents can extend protection for those who might otherwise not be eligible for up to six months after they leave office”
It would end in a few months anyway. Yeah he’s being petty and he’s a dickhead, but it’s not that big of a difference.
Thank you for proving my point. I think you need to look up the definition of normal, because you obviously don’t have a fucking clue what normal is.
