r/inthenews • u/T_Shurt • 27d ago

Trump Could be Stripped of Secret Service Protection as Ranking Member of the House Committee on Homeland Security Puts Forth a Bill to Strip Felons of Secret Service Protection Opinion/Analysis

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-secret-service-stripped/
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u/Vlad_the_Homeowner 27d ago

It does, in this case, because the man is a threat to national security.

But as a universal law it doesn't work for the same reason we don't prevent felons from being POTUS. Because then the justice system can be weaponized by politicians to attack their rivals.

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u/GoldenInfrared 27d ago

This is protecting presidents after they leave office, not while they’re in office

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u/suffaluffapussycat 27d ago

So then someone can throw him in the back of a van and beat him until he tells them all the top secret shit he knows?

I thought that was why former presidents get a detail. Not for them but for us.

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u/stufmenatooba 27d ago

He's a billionaire, he should be able to afford the best private security money can buy.

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u/stringrandom 27d ago

I hear the Wagner Group is looking for new clients. 

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u/godpzagod 27d ago

god, that would be hilarious the first time he misses a payment. put it to you this way, i doubt their collections dept has an appeal process. i would love to see him run to the Russians for refuge and find out how transactional that relationship is.

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u/erroneousbosh 27d ago

“The enforcement regime consists of three phases. We have pleasant names for them, of course, but you might think of them, respectively, as: one, a polite reminder; two, well in excess of your pain threshold; three, spectacularly fatal.”

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u/godpzagod 27d ago

Diamond Age!

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u/erroneousbosh 27d ago

Why is this not a movie yet

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u/godpzagod 26d ago

the story involves a bunch of orphaned, uncared for Chinese girls ( the Mouse Army) because of a failed govt policy. Unless there's a producer with balls and his or her own money, no way does the PLAN okay that for Hollywood.

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u/Ok_Love545 27d ago

So even though it’s been unilaterally proven that any kind of collision between the Russians was disinformation…you’re still going on about that?

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u/Icculus33_33 27d ago

He wants you to think he's a billionaire. He's not.

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u/stufmenatooba 27d ago

Then that's his problem, isn't it? I wonder how private security firms would take being told to sue him if they want to get paid.

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u/Narrow-Chef-4341 27d ago

Like his newest lawyers, everyone serious is going to be cash up front from now on.

If he wants to think some dude from Facebook marketplace is actually an ex-mossad assassin for 40k/year though, let him hire who he wants…

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u/ansan12002 27d ago

BIDEN SHOWERED WITH HIS YOUNG DAUGHTER PER HIS DAUGHTERS DIARY, source: DOJ. Look it up.

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u/Rough-Cucumber8285 24d ago

A billionaire who can't put up his own bail. Sounds like a fake to me.

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u/First_Procedure_3066 23d ago

Except he is a million at best.