We're still paying for Secrest Service protection for trump's children

[Poiuyt]

Former administration officials outside of former presidents usually don't receive additional Secret Service protection.

However, former President Donald Trump extended for six months full-time security detail to his adult children and three top officials, including Mnuchin, before leaving office, according to The Washington Post.

The other former Trump administration members granted security were former chief of staff Mark Meadows and former national security adviser Robert O'Brien, according to The Post.

The taxpayer-funded security detail includes former senior advisor Ivanka Trump and her husband, former senior advisor Jared Kushner, along with Donald Trump Jr., Eric Trump and his wife, Lara Trump, and Tiffany Trump.

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/hotel-accommodations-secret-assigned-former-204433559.html

[hlthe2b]

1. So three more months of this damned grifting.

[Baitball Blogger]

2. Six months? So, until July? Can the current president shorted the protection time?

[Darwins_Retriever]

3. Just imagine

If Biden does cut off SS protection to the children and hangers-on early and one of them gets killed. Ooops.

[mobeau69]

4. Agree. Just let this go. Nt

[mopinko]

5. is that why they havent fled the country yet?

expect them to boogie once it runs out.

[Maru Kitteh]

7. I've been hearing for years how Trump & Co. are going to flee. Not happening.

It's not.

[former9thward]

6. This is standard for all presidents.

Almost all presidential families have accepted full Secret Service protection for as long as the law allows. Bill Clinton and George W. Bush even asked for extensions to cover their college-age children for a period after they left office, as did Barack Obama for his daughters. The few exceptions are Ronald Reagan's youngest son, Ron, who declined Secret Service protection during his father's second term, and Richard and Pat Nixon, who canceled their lifetime protection in 1985, to save the government money. They hired their own security detail.

https://people.howstuffworks.com/why-does-the-secret-service-protect-a-presidents-adult-children.htm

[TreasonousBastard]

9. I can see for the family, sort of, but Mnuchin and fellow spongers should pay for their own...

security if they think someone's out to get them.

[Grasswire2]

8. mnuchin, too.

Just read about that yesterday.

[Brother Buzz]

10. I'm kinda OK with the taxpayer-funded security detail, however....

it chaps my butt that they back-bill the Secret Service for lodging