Secret Service Wants Trump to Stop Doing Large Outdoor Rallies
“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.”
After failing to stop the shooter in Butler, Pennsylvania this month, the Secret Service is now advising Donald Trump that he should consider not doing political rallies in outdoor spaces.
Perhaps the Secret Service could just focus more on doing their jobs instead.
The Washington Post reported:
Secret Service encourages Trump campaign to stop outdoor rallies
Secret Service officials encouraged Donald Trump’s campaign to stop scheduling large outdoor rallies and other outdoor events with big crowds after the assassination attempt on the former president in Butler, Pa., according to people familiar with the matter.
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 people familiar with the matter spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe private discussions.
For upcoming events, Trump’s team is scouting indoor venues, such as basketball arenas and other large spaces where thousands of people can fit, people familiar with the request said. The campaign is not currently planning any large outdoor events, a person close to Trump said.
A Trump campaign spokeswoman declined to comment. A spokesman for the Secret Service said the agency does not comment on its protective methods…
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. 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.
Just amazing.
The Secret Service has asked the Trump campaign to stop holding rallies outdoors. pic.twitter.com/Pzp6ETmpAT
— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) July 23, 2024
There were plenty of strong reactions to this on Twitter/X.
Kamala Harris, who bragged about getting 3K at her rally today, is having her administration’s Secret Service tell Trump to stop having his massive rallies. https://t.co/EFQSioeWe6
— Mollie (@MZHemingway) July 23, 2024
Secret Service now encouraging Trump to stop doing outdoor rallies
This isn’t about his safety
It’s b/c the Biden regime wants him to stop holding giant rallies that show his popularity
And now they’re kind of threatening him
“Don’t have huge rallies…or you might get hurt” https://t.co/76O0CZtkV2
— DC_Draino (@DC_Draino) July 23, 2024
The Secret Service is encouraging Trump not to hold large outdoor rallies. This is a stunning admission that they can’t keep him secure and a further attempt to inhibit his campaign effort. Does Kamala have restrictions on what she can say, or how big of crowd she can say it to?
— Not the Bee (@Not_the_Bee) July 23, 2024
If I saw this in The Babylon Bee it’d make far more sense.
The idea that they’d tell Trump to stop holding rallies is embarrassing—for the Secret Service. pic.twitter.com/NweBibDa20
— Mike Lee (@BasedMikeLee) July 24, 2024
Is this a joke?!
Instead of protecting a major Presidential candidate & former President, the Secret Service is asking Trump to do indoor rallies!
Ummmm… 🤨 That doesn’t always work when you have massive events.
Instead, perhaps, they should do their jobs and protect him?? pic.twitter.com/55pGKZP9aR
— Houman David Hemmati, MD, PhD (@houmanhemmati) July 23, 2024
Interesting. Has the Secret Service also asked the Harris campaign to refrain from outdoor rallies? Or does election interference from the federal bureaucracy only run in one direction? https://t.co/kPPaHJvmUe
— John Daniel Davidson (@johnddavidson) July 24, 2024
It's interesting how many rallies occurred without incident.
Then shortly after Biden's debate performance catalyzing a "holy shit we're gonna lose" panic among Dems, this happens.
And it involves the same politicized Secret Service implicated in the Jan 6 pipe bomb scandal… https://t.co/kuHLqmTAAJ
— Darren J. Beattie 🌐 (@DarrenJBeattie) July 18, 2024
Or they can do their fucking jobs better. https://t.co/cYq178i2Ae
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) July 24, 2024
In recent years, a growing number of Americans have lost faith in our country’s institutions but I don’t think anyone had the Secret Service on that Bingo card.
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Bingo!
https://x.com/ofcrdeonjoseph/status/1815915031713964372?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
“Or they can do their fucking jobs better.” Indeed.
Clever move by the regime to limit the size of President Trump’s rallies. Then the left media can clam Willie’s Ho crowds are getting close to Trump’s in terms of size. Maybe Trump needs to pay for private security (Secret Service is refusing requests for additional security anyway) and continue to hold huge outdoor rallies. We know now that even private citizens are more observant than the secret Service anyway.
While I’m sure there would be compensation, I’m betting Trump bros would do it for free.
Lots of veterans with real knowledge and skills at securing outdoor locations and real gun skills.
Heck, I’d organize it locally just for the bragging rights.
The problem is that the Secret Service has complete control over who is allowed to be armed within their perimeter. Even local law enforcement can be barred.
“but I don’t think anyone had the Secret Service on that Bingo card.”
Did we not see was running the SS? An incompetent woman who rose to the highest level of incompetence.
She does need to go back to securing Doritos and leave the tough jobs to someone who can do it.
No Dorito was ever in danger during her tenure. Except for the ones she ate when on one was looking.
Of COURSE they’re trying to limit outdoor rallies. Can’t have the Bad Orange Man showing up the newly anointed Kommie-la, can we? Trump should sign up Blackwater to do security for him: they could hardly do worse than the USSS. I’m sure Erik Prince would be delighted to get on board.
Blackwater would be a really bad choice, in terms of optics, IMO. Trump doesn’t want to be associated with that baggage.
If you would do your fucking job, SS, this wouldn’t be an issue.
You don’t expect DEI hires to do a professional’s job, do you?
Surely there must be a technological solution to this. With the huge bloated administrative budget is there no room for an impregnable shield? The president could stand alone against his podium surrounded by an open skeletal framework that would lower bullet proof walls in a microsecond.
Or, they could just put up some bullet-resistant glass walls around the podium. He’s using a mike anyway. One would think, with the millions in contributions that his campaign is collecting, that they could take a few cheap but effective measures on their own dime.
Good idea. There are a bunch of companies that make portable stand-mounted wrap around bullet-resistant glass “screens” specifically for a VIP speaking at a podium. It’s definitely an effective extra layer of passive protection, and in the larger scheme of things, not terribly expensive.
Instead of a PopeMobile, a TrumpMobile.
And not one of them pansy electric ones, either.
Now the pressure is really being ratcheted on that NYC judge to jail Trump.
It’s their last card. They’ll have to play it. The MSM can only brainwash just so many people into believing that cackling idiot is the second coming of Obama. They’ll have no choice.
Sentencing Trump to prison in September seems likely in democrat circles given Harris’ recent inflammatory rhetoric this week about Trump being a convicted felon, a cheat and a rapist, causing her faithful to chant, “Lock Him Up.”
Let’s hope Judge Merchan adheres to the recent SCOTUS immunity ruling, orders a stay of adjudication or execution of Trump’s sentencing, or tosses the case completely.
That NY judge should be locked up. Put him on display, allow people to pelt him with sticky balls of fecal matter, for $1000 campaign contributions. at every campaign stop.
Since we can’t do that, how about criminal color of law prosecution? From what I can tell, judges can be prosecuted. If I am wrong, enlighten me..
Judges can be prosecuted if they commit crimes. There is no evidence that Merchan committed one. There is no such thing as “criminal color of law prosecution”, and in any case Merchan did not prosecute anyone.
Judges have absolute immunity when exercising their judicial function, but I think that’s only from civil suit, not from criminal prosecution.
Of course there’s no “evidence”; no one honest has been allowed to investigate.
Well, they could protect him there….
Like they did Epstein?
today is the deadline given by SCOTUS for New York to answer MIssouri’s complaint.
https://clashdaily.com/2024/07/alvin-bragg-where-do-we-stand-on-that-election-interference-lawfare-lawsuit/
And NY responded
Time to replace the entire “leadership” of the Secret Service.
They have just admitted that they won’t do their work.
Of course they would have to stop. It looks really bad when one guy can draw overflow crowds on a day’s notice in the other guy can’t fill a broom closet
Come now, Kamala’s crowds are a significant improvement over that. She’s drawing what,
30,0003,000300 people? That’s not counting the press, so it’s like an order of magnitude better than Joe did.Or even attract a fly.
Flies she can attract, Oy vey!
You can find plenty such “fly attractions” in a cow pasture – and I don’t mean the cows.
It does look bad. But thanks to the connivance of the MSM, nobody notices it.
I mean, that story is four years old, and it just about barely made a ripple then.
Vice President Airhead certainly can attract followers. All both of them.
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More and more I wonder whether SS stands for Secret service, by the way they’re not very good at keeping secrets. Or does it stand for Schutzstaffel
Anti Dog-Eat-Dog….if you can’t win, force the competition to lose with you.
Revenge porn is escalating beyond sanity and into MADness.
The lefts answer to everything is either more money or bans. Now that the aura of the SS is trash, their inability is apparent.
A whole bunch of people pointed out the shooter to law enforcement.
Hire those people to run Secret Service.
So….the politicized Secret Service want The Donald to do all his future rallies in the basement that Joe doesn’t need any more?
I mean, it kind of makes sense. The height of the Secret Service Agents won’t matter there…. if a short woman weighs as much as a taller male her body mass can be used to block the entrance door closed just as well as the taller man.
Bonus DEI points for you! You just made obesity a checkbox!
Maybe Trump should just stay in his basement and not go outside at all. The new generation of Secret Service agents are closer to mall cops than body guards. Heck they don’t even go on sloped roofs.
I suggest that Trump dismiss his Secret Service detail with prejudice.
He can get volunteers to fill security needs, retired SS, SF, snipers, etc.
Seriously, the SS could not have done worse in Butler. If it weren’t for a slight twist of the head, Trump would be dead right now.
Harris, et al can go straight to hell. She and hers are excellent rationale for doing to the federal government what Musk did to Twitter.
I agree.
Legally, he CAN’T do that. SS provides “protection” for candidates and former Presidents, and they won’t allow it.
Trump’s Campaign should stick with outdoor rallies and demand Mayorkas and the USSC do their jobs. They might want to contact Dan Bongino or Congressman. Eli Crane (R-AZ) to call their retired sniper and MP buddies to be Trump’s security force going forward.
Wow! Talk about a chicken with its head chopped off! Have any of you brilliant security pros looked at some of the videos from Ukraine where drones have changed modern warfare forever? They are being used to kill individual soldiers, tanks, and radar installations. There are suicide drones that self-destruct by crashing into the target and there are bombing drones that release bombs and then return home. The US government is trying everything to stop them and only having marginal success. As of now, there is no guaranteed method of preventing a drone attack. The person operating it can be miles away from his target and have no fear of being caught. Ten times the SS presence at the event would not have stopped a drone attack. The USSS knows this and that is why they have asked Trump to stop outside events, not politics. Have any of you noticed that not one single agent has mentioned assassination by drone attack? That’s because they have no sure defense against them.
Nice attempt at fear-mongering.
But, that threat has existed for years. It’s not something suddenly realized from 2 weeks ago.
(Also, there are are a few decent defensive methods against drone attacks. At least in that sort of location with a determined, focused security perimeter.)
“”there are are a few decent defensive methods against drone attacks””
And low tech – like a 12 ga. shotgun.
They actually make “net” rounds for 12ga specifically for knocking quadcopter style drones down, too.
For commercially available drones it’s pretty easy to jam their control signals. Further, when you have a limited area to search, it’s a piece of cake to pick up a drone on radar.
Military grade drones are, of course, a different matter, but if someone launches a military grade drone at a political event, a war has just started.
Stay in your basement then, please. You do not want to stub your toe.
The fact is that this was entirely preventable and did not involve a “drone assassination” but a shooting. If nothing had happened, since you appear to have inside information with the Secret Service, would there have been a call to stop the outdoor rallies?
Or maybe they can just do their fucking job for a change
A different, crazy idea…
Build Donald a suit of armor. Make it somewhat Iron Man-like. After all, the first fanfic bit on Kamala was her as Captain America. (And the dude behind her with the arm coming out of his head.) And Trump fans would probably love it and think it’s a great joke.
This is the Secret Service admitting they’re incompetent.
Naw, they don’t want the contrast between the vast Trump rallies and the tiny Kackles ones.
This is the Secret Service declaring that they will continue to be “incompetent”, at least as regards President Trump.
yeah I thought that myself but sirhansirhan found a way inside a hotel
Not that it matters.
RFK was shot by a deep-state weenie standing BEHIND him.
All Sirhan’s bullets were accounted for, and they were all wild misses.
Just ask RFK Jr.
The Secret Service (Traitor Joe) gets its wish.
Next, the Secret Service will recommend that Trump drop out of the race … for the chillen’!!
What a complete sh*tshow this country has become.
there is no 100% way to insure safety
but having the law enforcement on the pro american agenda
WOULD BE A NICE FN START!!!
To mis-quote the Bible:
“Kamala has her thousands, and Trump his ten thousands”
Given that for leftists the end justifies the means, I’ve been expecting an attempt on Trump’s life. It’s their last resort if lawfare and state media lies can’t stop him. I’ve assumed they were hoping a crazy nut job would do it for them but absent that, they would probably arrange it. And of course the secret service reports to the Biden administration. The question is whether Crooks a lone nut job or an agent of the regime? Did the SS leave a gap on the off chance that a nut job would find it? Or was this a set up and he was directed to that location by someone? From the regime’s perspective, the real failure is that President Trump is still alive. Of course the shooter was immediately shot dead – dead men tell no tales. And now the regime will investigate itself and tell us what it wants us to hear. I’m not that confident in the congressional investigation either. The IC/deep state I’m sure has plenty of leverage over enough Congress critters to make sure their report toes the line as well. I hate thinking like this, but the IC/deep state has been actively working for eight years to first overthrow President Trump, and eventually destroy him.
Well, here’s a list of “indoor” venues that should be adequate for his rallies, if he can get reservations.
(Seems to be an anchor, not a hotlink)
“Secret Service Wants Trump to Stop Doing Large Outdoor Rallies”
Fuck you. No.
The government was created to serve the people… NOT the other way around. Your “convenience” doesn’t circumscribe our liberties.
Hmmm. I thought I checked that. Let me try again. Link.
That works.
“Stop doing outdoor rallies or we might let another shooter through.” Is the message. Blatant election interference.
Trump should call Eric Prince and get a few of the former Blackwater boys as a private protective detail.