Secret Service Threatens Trump: Stop Your Massive Rallies, Or Else
M.D. Kittle
The same agency that failed to protect former President Donald Trump from a would-be assassin’s bullet is now asking the GOP’s presidential candidate to stop holding large outdoor campaign rallies. The request from the grossly incompetent (at best) federal agency stinks of election interference and sounds a lot like a threat.
As The Washington Post first reported Tuesday evening, the U.S. Secret Service is “encouraging” the Trump campaign to halt the large-scale events his supporters have grown accustomed to.
“In the aftermath of the shooting, agents from the Secret Service communicated their concerns about large outdoor rallies going forward to Trump campaign advisers, three people familiar with the matter said,” the Post reported, not naming its sources.
Trump’s team, at least according to the Post story, is scouting larger indoor arenas to accommodate thousands of rallygoers. The campaign “is not currently planning any large outdoor events, a person close to Trump said.”
The Secret Service did not return an email from The Federalist requesting comment, nor did an official from the Trump campaign. So it’s not clear whether the agency has made the same requests of Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democrat Party establishment’s anointed fill-in for President Joe Biden after the cognitively depleted executive’s X account posted a statement announcing he is dropping out of the campaign. If the Trump-hating Post asked that question, it didn’t report the answer in its story.
‘Direct Threat’
House Oversight and Accountability Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., told Fox News that it “would be a shame” if the Secret Service shut down the outdoor rallies.
“I think people enjoy going to them and I think, you know, you can get more people outdoors than indoors,” Comer said. “He attracts a big crowd, obviously. I think the president will do what the president wants to do.”
Others were more pointed.
“If I saw this in The Babylon Bee it’d make far more sense,” Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, mocked the agency on his X account. “The idea that they’d tell Trump to stop holding rallies is embarrassing — for the Secret Service.”
“This is unreal,” Trump backer “End Wokeness” wrote on X. “Secret Service is now asking the Trump campaign to stop doing outdoor rallies. How about you do your f*ing jobs?”
“This is a direct threat from the regime to Trump: if he doesn’t stop trying to win, they’ll make sure the next attacker doesn’t miss. We all know what they’re doing,” tweeted Federalist CEO Sean Davis.
Blaming Trump
The Post devoted several column inches to what a burden Trump’s outdoor rallies have been for an agency that glaringly failed its mission to protect him. The Post’s narrative is anything but subtle: Trump — and his penchant for massive campaign rallies — is to blame for his near-assassination.
“The rallies have long been viewed as onerous by the Secret Service because they include complicated outdoor venues with thousands — if not tens of thousands — of people,” the Post’s Josh Dawsey writes. “Most other former presidents rarely appear in public, and when they do, they usually appear in settings such as conferences and restaurants with fewer people. Trump requires a much larger security footprint than other past presidents because he holds so many large events.”
But Trump isn’t merely a former president showing up to a haughty cocktail party with D.C. elites. He’s the GOP’s candidate for president, whether the Post and their Democrat pals like it or not.