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The Republican president on social media objected to what he said were 18 agents assigned to Hunter Biden’s protective detail while in South Africa this week. He said Ashley Biden has 13 agents assigned to her detail and that she too “will be taken off the list.”

There was no immediate reaction from the former president’s office.

Former presidents and their spouses receive life-long Secret Service protection under federal law, but the protection afforded to their immediate families over the age of 16 ends when they leave office. But outgoing presidents can extend protection for those who might otherwise not be eligible for up to six months after they leave office, something Biden did for his children and Trump did for his family after leaving office in 2021. Former Presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush also extended protection for their families for a period.

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[-] LonstedBrowryBased@lemm.ee 75 points 1 day ago

Nice whoever comes after trump should end his secret service detail and the ones for all his little nazi offspring too

[-] riskable@programming.dev 9 points 21 hours ago

He'll be dead by then and he knows it.

[-] Malidak@lemmy.world 74 points 1 day ago

Wow. You really think there's going to be another election?

[-] ripcord@lemmy.world 44 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I don't understand how so many people don't realize how serious shit is at the moment.

[-] ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

It's probably denial.

[-] slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 7 points 22 hours ago

Of course, he has a bunch of children you can vote for.

[-] jonne@infosec.pub 8 points 1 day ago

He's got to die eventually, no?

[-] VieuxQueb@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 day ago

Then it's time for Trump jr. To take the King position ?

[-] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 4 points 22 hours ago

I think it might be Barron. The media has been starting to glaze him and give him some air time and float his name. Don Jr has been doing tons of really cringe campaigning for El Presidente, but given he hasn't really been talked about in the media, I don't think they're floating him next

[-] Bonesince1997@lemmy.world 177 points 1 day ago

The pettiest president strikes again.

[-] Sanctus@lemmy.world 137 points 1 day ago

Set that precedent, Donnie. Set it.

[-] samus12345@lemm.ee 77 points 1 day ago

No Democrat would ever do the same, he's safe.

[-] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 34 points 1 day ago

No Democrat now, sure... But the ones that get elected after Trump, that's another story.

[-] coyootje@lemmy.world 42 points 1 day ago

Bold of you to assume there will be another election

[-] GoodEye8@lemm.ee 31 points 1 day ago

Also bold of him to assume the democratic party is capable of change.

[-] samus12345@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago

Not too bold, since states run elections, and blue states will continue to run normal ones. Red, states, though? Oh, those'll be corrupt up the wazoo.

[-] eldavi@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago

and they're a majority by almost 2:1, guaranteeing republican victories going forward.

[-] samus12345@lemm.ee 1 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

Yup. It's grim nationally, but at least blue states have a change of not being total shitholes within.

[-] eldavi@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 hours ago

until the republicans use the federal gov't to force things in their favor and the last election shows that democratic support is waning everywhere; even in blue states.

[-] samus12345@lemm.ee 1 points 4 hours ago

If the constituents democratically choose to abandon democracy (like what happened at the federal level last year), then yes, until then.

[-] njm1314@lemmy.world 63 points 1 day ago

Ending it 3 months early... hell I was going to say how Petty sounding but yeah course it is.

[-] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 34 points 1 day ago

That makes it worse. It means the only reason to do it is to call attention to the removal of protection, like "Will no one rid me of this turbulent ~~priest~~ opposition member?"

[-] rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works 29 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I hear Canada is nice this time of year. They might relax their drug-related restrictions for Hunter.

[-] glitch1985@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

I hear he's got a huge hog.

[-] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago

They should move.

[-] rigatti@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

OK so this is actually pretty normal?

Edit: For all the Lemmings out there having trouble understanding, you don't have to read the article, but at least read the summary. Their USSS protection would end in a few months anyway. Trump is a colossal asshole, yes, but they're only getting a few months less of USSS protection. The length of time they get protection is fairly normal.

[-] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 78 points 1 day ago

Posting about it on social media seems to be thinly veiled stochastic terrorism

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[-] AmidFuror@fedia.io 23 points 1 day ago

Trump did for his family after leaving office in 2021.

It's normal to extend it. It's not normal for the next President to end it. Especially when that hypocrite did it for his own offspring just 4 years earlier.

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[-] Ele7en7@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago

No. How the fuck would you think that's normal?

[-] rigatti@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

This is how the fuck:

"But outgoing presidents can extend protection for those who might otherwise not be eligible for up to six months after they leave office"

It would end in a few months anyway. Yeah he's being petty and he's a dickhead, but it's not that big of a difference.

[-] Ele7en7@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago

Thank you for proving my point. I think you need to look up the definition of normal, because you obviously don't have a fucking clue what normal is.

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[-] adarza@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 day ago

normal? for the diaper-in-chief to be a petty whiny little baby? yup.

[-] Ganbat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 day ago

Forcefully ending the protection early despite it being established by the previous president? Hell no.

[-] drzoidberg@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago

Everything Trump does is normal. For a dumb rapist conman.

[-] PaulBunyan@lemm.ee 5 points 1 day ago

Petty, but not unprecedented. It’s pretty normal.

[-] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Has any other president canceled their predecessors USSS protection for offspring early?

[-] HubertManne@piefed.social 4 points 1 day ago

abby something

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