Report: Trump, Carson to receive Secret Service protection -- The Hill

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Report: Trump, Carson to receive Secret Service protection

The Hill
Meghashyam Mali
10/17/2015

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The Secret Service is extending protection to GOP presidential contenders Donald Trump and Ben Carson, while beefing up Dem front-runner Hillary Clinton's security, according to a report from Newsmax on Saturday.

Trump and Carson will receive agents as early as next week, with each candidate being assigned approximately two dozen agents. The report cites a source close to the agency's planning.

The move comes days after Trump, the GOP front-runner, told The Hill in an exclusive interview that he should have Secret Service protection.

Trump noted that he had attracted large crowds on the trail and pointed out that Barack Obama had agents protecting him by this point in the 2008 presidential cycle.

“I want to put them on notice because they should have a liability,” he told The Hill. “Personally, I think if Obama were doing as well as me he would’ve had Secret Service [earlier]. I have by far the biggest crowds.”

“They’re in no rush because I’m a Republican. They don’t give a shit,” Trump added as a joke.

Trump has relied on his private security detail to protect him on the campaign trail. He reportedly bolstered that security team after receiving a threat linked to the family of escaped Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman. Trump has been a critic of Mexico and immigration from that country.
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The Last Refuge / The Conservative Treehouse
10/17/2015

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Amid increasing threats from foreign and domestic terror entities (ISIS, Mexican Drug Cartels and BLM, etc.) NewsMax is reporting presidential candidates Donald Trump and Dr. Ben Carson will begin receiving Secret Service protection.

The Secret Service will give agent protection to Ben Carson and Donald Trump while heavily upgrading Hillary Clinton’s existing detail, a Washington source close to the agency’s plans confirmed to Newsmax.

The deployment of agents around Republican candidates Trump and Carson is set to begin as early as next week. Approximately two dozen agents will be assigned to each candidate.

[…] The agency’s decision was primarily triggered by a significant number of threats to Carson, including death threats and terrorist chatter, the source said. ...

The news is particularly beneficial to Donald Trump’s campaign because he has been the visible target from domestic terrorism entities who hide under the auspices of social justice networks like La Raza and Black Lives Matter and spring upon the campaign crowd with various intents.

While discussion and/or presentation of violent leftist activity has been avoided by the Trump campaign, the concern has been clearly evidenced ‘between-the-lines’.

With the larger security apparatus of the Secret Service now engaged, it will be much more difficult for radical and violent activists to sneak into venues inhabited by both the Carson and Trump campaigns.

The additional security of the Secret Service will similarly avoid a repeat of the post-event danger experienced by Candidate Trump after a recent Richmond Virginia rally. Earlier last week the BLM agitators tried to rush the Trump campaign convoy in Virginia prompting a massive swarm of State Police to respond to urgent calls from local authorities outside the venue.

The Richmond incident was not reported by MSM; however, it perhaps the reason why Donald Trump and his campaign began to raise the concern to the larger media on the day following the altercation.

Regardless of what has precipitated the decision, it is generally a good idea in today’s climate of highly-charged politics to have all candidates protected from extremists who have thrived in the era of President Obama’s openly vitriolic cheer leading of violence.
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