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I never mentioned Trump. There are plenty of other department heads and managers that will implement these things, they're just as culpable all the way down the line.
Besides, Trump's already had 1.5 attempts, and those show the Secret Service were/are utterly incompetent at active protection now. We saw what they could do, not prevent a sniper from taking multiple shots from a clear rooftop. And letting a guy sit in a bush at the edge of Mar-A-Lago for nearly 12 hours. Not exactly the best protection there, and that's what you get when the primary requirement is loyalty over anything else, the real professionals don't stick around.
There are plenty of heavily armed private security/private military contractors for hire. Fuck, Boeing clearly has at least one hitman on retainer given their recent whistleblowers. You honestly think billionaires of all people would have any problem hiring whoever they wanted to? Hell, most of those companies hire directly from the military anyway, so they have the exact same training, but get paid way better in the private sector to give some fucks.
The people all the way down the line will have full military protection given to them with instructions to shoot anyone who looks at them funny. You have way too much faith in the system. These people do not care about the law. They are the law. America is now a fascist dictatorship.
And billionaires don't have one of the world's largest and most powerful military forces at their disposal, forces that Trump has already announced his intentions to use domestically.
People really need to stop thinking that things are not all that different from before.
They are pulling protection details from people like Fauci, career non-partisan government officials who’ve been branded enemies of the right. Besides the obvious, I’m sure part of the reason was to re-allocate those resources elsewhere.