Kamala Harris will receive protection from the California Highway Patrol after Trump revoked her Secret Service protection, law enforcement sources said Friday.
California officials put in place a plan to provide Harris with dignitary protection after Trump ended an arrangement that gave his opponent in last year’s election extended Secret Service security coverage.
Trump signed a memorandum on Thursday ending Harris’ protection as of Monday, according to sources not authorized to discuss the security matter.
Wrong! Or, at least, in Lincoln’s case, you’re both kind of correct. Lincoln had, at the insistence of Secretary of War Edwin Stanton, at least one company of Union cavalry assigned to his protection. This was in addition to Ward Lamon, a personal friend of Lincoln’s from his lawyer days who took it upon himself to act as his bodyguard. Indeed, Lamon and Pinkerton clashed over the President’s security even before the war broke out. Pinkerton claimed an assassination plot was afoot in the lead up to Lincoln’s inauguration in early 1861. There is some debate over the validity of these claims, as Pinkerton’s intelligence gathering capabilities seem to have been greatly exaggerated. Regardless, the cabinet took these claims seriously enough to change Lincoln’s travel plans at the last minute, and he arrived in DC under the cover of night and with only Lamon present with him during the legs of the journey where Pinkerton claimed the most danger lie. Once inaugurated, and in the midst of the war, his protection became a military matter, which is when the cavalry companies stepped in. However, he routinely delighted in giving them the slip. In 1864, someone took a pot shot at him whilst riding through DC, and he was forced to take his protection more seriously. It was at this point that the DC police assembled a 4 man permanent bodyguard detail.
So, depending on when exactly you’re looking, Lincoln’s protection detail could have consisted of 2 companies of Union Army troops, Pinkertons, a self-appointed bodyguard cum lawyer pal, 4 police officers, a Freedman valet/bodyguard (William Henry Johnson), and a partridge in a pear tree.
I’m not a fan of Harris but I support this.
She would have been an amazing president compared to what we have now.
A crusty cum sock on a stick would have been an amazing president compared to what you have now
Or a maggoty cum fart even
She would’ve continued the slow slide into fascism that brought about Trump in the first place. She would’ve been better than Trump, sure. But after her, we would’ve gotten another figure like Trump.
Right so by your own words… when given the option to slow the slide versus jumping head first into accelerating it…
accelerationism be like
Or finally elevate someone like Bernie Sanders to actually reverse the trend downwards. But he’s too old now.
Yup Silver bullet. Real deep thinking…
You’re arguing for Harris to be a silver bullet by your own logic. What a smug hypocrite.
It feels morally wrong to say I would have liked to have kicked that can another few decades down the road, but I would really have liked that as opposed to personally watching the downfall of my nation live and in color.
But I suppose so would any who live to see such times.
Okay, now do the CDC
In case there was still any question of if Harris was a cop.
Imagine being a member of the secret service, and following this fucking idiots orders to not protect his political opponents… The absolute shame across the board of those in any form of LAW enforcement, and following out the most unamerican orders seen this side of Russia… You are all scum. Because of people like you, dictators are allowed to be dictators. Because you, their right and left hands, do the their evil bidding. Shame on you. Shame on you all.
I mean, the FBI is totally compromised at this point anyways. I wouldn’t count on them protecting me if I was the political opposition to Mango Mussolini.
