Trump plans to continue with his own security team and taxpayers will bear the costs..

[HipChick]

http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2016/12/19/trump-security-force-playing-with-fire.html?via=desktop&source=copyurl



President-elect Donald Trump has made the unusual choice to continue employing his own private security team instead of leaving the task up to the Secret Service. “It’s playing with fire,” said former Secret Service agent Jonathan Wackrow, who worked on President Obama’s detail during his 2012 campaign. Having a mix-and-match security team working events in tandem with the Secret Service “increases the Service’s liability, it creates greater confusion, and it creates greater risk,” Wackrow said. Trump is expected to continue that same system through his presidency, Politico reports. All modern presidents have up to now deferred to the Secret Service, leaving just event security to local law enforcement. Breaking from the norm, Trump has instead elected to maintain his own private security force, which is led by retired veteran and New York City cop Keith Schiller. “You never want to comingle a police function with a private security function,” Wackrow said. “If you talk to the guys on the detail and the guys who are running the rallies, that’s been a little bit difficult because it’s so abnormal.

[Maru Kitteh]

1. Is it wrong that I hope this literally backfires on him in the worst possible way?

[KittyWampus]

5. Can we say "his loss would be our collective gain"?

[Jeroen]

2. Yes, it is

[PJMcK]

12. Are you replying to post #1? (n/t)

[Jeroen]

14. Yes n/t

[KittyWampus]

3. I said on DailyKos that Trump has a death wish. Many people disagreed.

It's almost like suicidal terrorism or people who intentionally wave a gun at a police office wanting to end their life.

[pangaia]

29. It is not a death wish, it is the beginning of the American WAFFEN SS!

[gordianot]

4. It is difficult to prioritize the dangers Trump represents.

A private security force privately funded is near the top. Public money going into such a force implies some Congressional oversight. A privately funded force with cover provided by the Commander in Chief is terrifying.

[elehhhhna]

15. Tonton Macoute

[CrispyQ]

6. Jeez, what could possibly go wrong with this setup?

And the hits just keep on coming.

[SamKnause]

7. Fine.

Withdraw the Secret Service detail.

Let Trump pay for his private security.

Make him sign a waiver; if him or a family member are assassinated

the responsibility will be solely on Donald J. Trump.

Problem solved.

If this fuck wad does not want the Secret Service protection, so be it.

This entire family is sickening to their very core.

No rules or laws apply to them.

[pangaia]

31. NO!!! He is creating exactly what Hitler did !!

Do you want that?

[kerouac2]

8. Wanna bet he'll have a body double, too.

can't believe anyone would be willing to take one for this fraud, though...

[Maru Kitteh]

9. Somewhere a newly sprayed orange old guy is being instructed to eat KFC 4 times a day. nt

[VOX]

24. Hahaha! Thanks for the laugh on an otherwise shitty day...

We are in for some serious hard times and all sorts of weirdness. But humor is a welcome balm, thanks.

[Maru Kitteh]

38. Oh VOX, I enjoy so many of your posts. I'm glad to return a portion of the favor, and

I am happy it made you smile.

And you're right, today was a shitty day.

[dumbcat]

10. Where does it say the taxpayers will bear the costs

for his private security force? I read the whole article and didn't see it. Can you point it out? Thanks.

[ManiacJoe]

36. My guess is that they assume

their pay will come out of the generic "white house team/staff" budget.

The Secret Service will only let such nonsense go so far.

[smirkymonkey]

11. His own personal SS.

This can only turn out badly.

[2naSalit]

19. Indeed...

[pangaia]

33. EXACTLY...., Why is everybody arguing over who will pay ??

And making jokes.
This is not funny!!

[suffragette]

13. That's so he can continue this type of strong arming. Secret Service would not know his

bidding, act on it, then willingly take the phony blame, in full knowledge that they had acted just as he wanted by removing the reporter.

https://m.

[bettyellen]

28. Agree- it's part of his control freak tendencies and likely also to hide his cocaine use....

His older son seems to be very heavily addicted and I've no doubt he feels like he will need it if the jobs half as hard as people say. I'm guessing this has a whole lot to do with him holing up in the tower and not wanting to live in DC. I bet they have a four year supply upstairs already in some flunkies apartment.

[suffragette]

35. I shudder to think of the people gaining power under his regime.

Not just the ones he's wanting to appoint, but their connections as well.

People like Erik Prince and James O'Keefe now have a supporter in the White House.

(Geez, I typed that White Hose for a minute and almost left it like that given the ramifications).

It's fucking unreal.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

16. It seems that

we have our first "Grifter-in-Chief"

[gordianot]

17. There have been others, Trump promises to perfect the grifting.

Much like Communist Russia and Nazi Germany perfected thuggery. Thugs would be an added bonus to Trumpery.

[muntrv]

18. Fine, as long as we the taxpayers don't have to pay for it.

Withdraw the Secret Service and see who does a better job.

[Luz]

20. Let me guess...he ownes a security company??

[dixiegrrrrl]

23. My first question, too.

Great minds and all that.......

[BlueStater]

21. Whatever. It will be his own dumbass fault if some lunatic blows his head off then. n/t

[zipplewrath]

22. I suspect

The article seems to imply that this is not a replacement for the Secret Service, but for local LOE's at various events. The SS will still have responsibility for his personal protection, but his security team will be deciding who gets in and who does not. He may decide it isn't worth it when he finds out that they don't have the same authority to arrest and detain that the local LOE's do.

[VOX]

25. Muscle. Like any gangster or dictator, Drumpf needs muscle...

Not for security, strictly, but goons who will attack without question when ordered.

A hard rain's gonna fall.

[Turbineguy]

26. Taxpayers are a bit like

shareholders. In a word, suckers.

[pangaia]

27. WAFFEN SS!!!! Where are out dem reps in all this,

and EVERYTHING this shitbag is doing and saying.
Where is their push back?
What are they waiting for?? The boxcars to start rolling !!

Fuck, man.....

[spanone]

30. the privatization of the secret service.

imagine if President Obama did this....imagine.

[C_U_L8R]

32. They need slick black uniforms with Trumpish regalia

and shiny boots that snap together so obediently
when the Donald Fuehrer is around. (((vomit)))

[drray23]

34. Its a way to get around the 1st amendment.

The secret service can not eject protesters unless they are a security risk. Private security is not bound by the first amendment. Another interesting historical tidbid.

Do you know what ss stands for as in Hitler's waffen ss?

It is Schutzstaffel which was the "protection squadron" that was initially formed in the 1920's to police the political rallies hitler was having all across germany. As Hitler power grew culminating with him winning election They morphed into the military force dedicated to enforce and carry out the horrors the fuhrer ordered..


Trump wants his current security detail from his rallies to continue to serve him. Think about it.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

37. I can see it now -- a bullet is heading dRump's way and the Secret Service guy steps out of the way

and tells the private security guard, "You take it. You're paid more than me."