Help Wanted: Secret Service Agents
Two assassination attempts on Donald Trump in nine weeks? It’s clear they’re trying to kill the man the radical left has characterized as a “threat to democracy”.
After Trump took a bullet in Butler, PA we were told that security would be beefed up around the former president.
While the latest would-be assassin didn’t get a shot off, he did get within 400 Yards of the president with an AK-47 style rifle. Plus, it appears the man was loitering on the golf course for about 12 hours.
Disturbing.
It appears the Secret Service didn’t sweep the perimeter of the golf course or even take a peek at the gap in the fence where photojournalists set up to sneak pix of Trump. Once again, they didn’t use drones to surveil the landscape.
Now, when asked under the deafening hum of helicopter blades about more manpower to keep Trump safe, Joe Biden mumbled something about a personnel shortage in the Secret Service.
"The service needs more help," Biden said.
With all due respect, I’m calling b.s. on that.
When Kamala Harris was asked yesterday about whether the Secret Service was doing a good job of keeping her and others safe she delivered another halfwitted word salad that included references to “Ohio” and Florida’s nonexistent “Don’t say gay law.”
What a flake.
With these two in charge, it is any wonder that the nation’s kooks figure it’s a good time to try to assassinate Trump?
According to its website, the US Secret Service has an annual budget of $3 billion. Last year, there was $287 million in leftover funds.
Geez. How many agents - at an average annual salary of $140,000 - could be hired for that amount of dough?
Presently, the agency employs 7,000 people. About 3,600 are special agents.
If there aren’t enough agents on Trump’s detail to secure the perimeter around areas he’s visiting, perhaps the Secret Service could round up another half dozen agents and assign them to protect one of the most famous and controversial people on the planet.
Where does one find these spares?
Oh, I don’t know.
Perhaps the agency could reassign the agents guarding Jimmy Carter.
After all, the 99-year-old president, who is in hospice care and never leaves his home, has enjoyed a Secret Service detail since he was elected president in 1976.
Not to be cruel, but one retired agent in a rocking chair on the Carter front porch could do the job.
Fact is, Trump needs comprehensive, skilled protection. If the Secret Service can secure a public beach so Biden can sunbathe for hours on end, it can find agents to secure golf courses and outdoor rallies for Trump.
If there are any other close calls we’ll have to assume that the administration is deliberately indifferent to the safety of Donald Trump.
Some of us suspect that is true now.
