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GRAND RAPIDS, Michigan President-elect Donald Trump has continued employing a private security and intelligence team at his victory rallies, and he is expected to keep at least some members of the team after he becomes president, according to people familiar with the plans.
The arrangement represents a major break from tradition. All modern presidents and presidents-elect have entrusted their personal security entirely to the Secret Service, and their event security mostly to local law enforcement, according to presidential security experts and Secret Service sources.
But Trump who puts a premium on loyalty and has demonstrated great interest in having forceful security at his events has opted to maintain an aggressive and unprecedented private security force, led by Keith Schiller, a retired New York City cop and Navy veteran who started working for Trump in 1999 as a part-time bodyguard, eventually rising to become his head of security.
Security officials warn that employing private security personnel heightens risks for the president-elect and his team, as well as for protesters, dozens of whom have alleged racial profiling, undue force or aggression at the hands Trumps security, with at least 10 joining a trio of lawsuits now pending against Trump, his campaign or its security.
Its playing with fire, said Jonathan Wackrow, a former Secret Service agent who worked on President Barack Obamas protective detail during his 2012 reelection campaign. Having a private security team working events with Secret Service increases the Services liability, it creates greater confusion and it creates greater risk, Wackrow said.
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/12/donald-trump-security-force-232797
no_hypocrisy
(46,067 posts)personal injury and/or death, false imprisonment, violation of Civil Rights, etc. because they aren't state-employed.
BTW, the private security isn't being billed to us, is it?
n2doc
(47,953 posts)edhopper
(33,556 posts)not civil laws suits.
no_hypocrisy
(46,067 posts)And Trump could be added as a defendant as an employer (negligent hiring), agency, etc.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)since he - as a bigly Draft & Tax Dodging Republican with Russian backing - is a liar and a coward who makes enemies and thus can trust no one.
edhopper
(33,556 posts)black or brown?
n2doc
(47,953 posts)That would be historically appropriate.
malthaussen
(17,184 posts)You may recall that Mr Pinkerton got a big boost to his company by protecting Mr Lincoln as the latter moved through Baltimore on the way to Washington. He then became the chief of espionage for the U.S. in the Civil War (no CIA then, of course), and the bloated estimates of Confederate capabilities his operatives turned in fed the timidity of the General-in-Chief George McClellan to the point where he was paralyzed by indecision, and probably prolonged the war by years. No matter, Mr Pinkerton made large bank from it.
-- Mal
n2doc
(47,953 posts)Justice
(7,185 posts)Does Trump pay for them or do American taxpayers pay for them?
Do private security people get any sort of rights because working with Trump? So if they hit someone or shoot them - are they a private citizen doing that or some member of law enforcement?
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)I think we can all agree this is not gonna be a boring regime.
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,166 posts)uponit7771
(90,335 posts)lpbk2713
(42,751 posts)And the mouth breathers can't get enough of it.
For now.
Coventina
(27,093 posts)SamKnause
(13,091 posts)Now pull the Secret Service detail.
Let Trump pay for private security.
Problem solved.
If he, or anyone in his family is assassinated it will be on the heads
of his private security.
Fuck him and his entire fucking family.
Is every rule or law in this country going to change to accommodate this lying
bloated sack of shit ???