Trump Secret Service detail noticeably reinforced at Republican National Convention
By
Tom Rogan
July 16, 2024 4:30 am
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Newly coronated as the 2024 Republican nominee for president, Donald Trump has made his first public appearance since the Saturday assassination attempt.
Two days can change everything. As Trump walked to his chair at the Republican National Convention hall in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, it was clear that Saturday’s incident was anything but a distant memory. While Trump seemed relaxed, smiling and bearing only a small bandage on his right ear, he was surrounded by a clearly reinforced Secret Service detail.
A large number of Secret Service agents walked behind, in front of, and alongside Trump in very close proximity. The number of agents assigned to the rope line separating Trump from convention attendees was also unusually large. Befitting the political pageantry of convention events, the Secret Service will normally maintain at least a pretense of distance from a protectee as said person walks to his or her seat or the stage. The agency does not usually want presidential candidates to feel claustrophobic or to risk being perceived as vulnerable or elitist.
Not so here. In an obvious Secret Service effort to ensure maximal protection for Trump’s person and to deter copycat attackers from aspiring to replicate would-be assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks’s antics on Saturday, Trump walked within a de facto human fortress on Monday.
This reflects a broader concern.
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