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Related: About this forumSecret Service Is 'Aware' of Trump's 'Second Amendment' Comments Against Clinton
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Secret Service Is 'Aware' of Trump's 'Second Amendment' Comments Against Clinton
http://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/davidbadash/secret_service_is_aware_of_trump_s_second_amendment_comments_against_clinton
by David Badash
August 09, 2016 5:59 PM
Former Secret Service Agent Says Trump Is 'Coming Pretty Close to the Edge'
The U.S. Secret Service has issued a statement in the wake of Donald Trump issuing a veiled call for "the Second Amendment people" to take action against Hillary Clinton before she is allowed to place justices on the Supreme Court. The agency is responsible for the safety of all living Presidents, current and past, as well as their families, and of presidential candidates.
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Secret Service spox Cathy Milhoan: "The US Secret Service is aware of the comments. We will not be offering any additional statements."
4:03 PM - 9 Aug 2016
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"The US Secret Service is aware of the comments," Secret Service communications director Cathy Milhoan said in a statement, according to several reporters and Bloomberg News. "We will not be offering any additional statements."
TIME magazine just published an interview with an unnamed former Secret Service agent who says Trump "is coming pretty close to the edge here," and if it were an ordinary American who made the comments Trump made, "youd go out and interview them."............
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Secret Service Is 'Aware' of Trump's 'Second Amendment' Comments Against Clinton (Original Post)
riversedge
Aug 2016
OP
onehandle
(51,122 posts)1. If I had said that I would be enjoying a full cavity search right now.
Your target is orange and has very, very small hands.
Secret Service, please proceed.
C_U_L8R
(45,002 posts)2. Trump does not deserve Secret Service protection
How dare Trump ask his supporters to shoot at these magnificent protectors and patriots.
Pull Trump's detail now,
riversedge
(70,238 posts)4. It is ironic--the Secret Service protecting Trump at the same time he says dangerous comments
about his opponent!
get the red out
(13,466 posts)3. Ordinary Americans
Ordinary Americans would be interviewed for this, but someone with a mass of very angry followers gets a pass.