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Trump says he's ending Secret Service protection for Biden's adult children

apnews.com Trump says he's ending Secret Service protection for Biden's adult children

President Donald Trump said Monday he was ending “immediately” the Secret Service protection details assigned to Joe Biden’s adult children, which the former president had extended for six months shortly before leaving office in January.

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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The pettiest president strikes again.
Set that precedent, Donnie. Set it.
- No Democrat would ever do the same, he's safe.
  
  No Democrat now, sure... But the ones that get elected after Trump, that's another story.
Nice whoever comes after trump should end his secret service detail and the ones for all his little nazi offspring too
- Wow. You really think there's going to be another election?
  
  I don't understand how so many people don't realize how serious shit is at the moment.
  
  Of course, he has a bunch of children you can vote for.
  
  This election is the most important one of our lifetimes!
  
  He's got to die eventually, no?
- He'll be dead by then and he knows it.
Ending it 3 months early... hell I was going to say how Petty sounding but yeah course it is.
- 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?"
I hear Canada is nice this time of year. They might relax their drug-related restrictions for Hunter.
- I hear he's got a huge hog.
They should move.
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.
- Posting about it on social media seems to be thinly veiled stochastic terrorism
  
  That is pretty fucked up indeed. I still doubt anyone attacks them or anything.
- 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.
  
  Right, I'm talking about the time length. 6 months normally versus 2 months here. In the grand scheme of things, not that big of a deal. It's not like they would have had lifetime protection and now he's cancelling that.
- No. How the fuck would you think that's normal?
  
  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.
- normal? for the diaper-in-chief to be a petty whiny little baby? yup.
- Forcefully ending the protection early despite it being established by the previous president? Hell no.
- Everything Trump does is normal. For a dumb rapist conman.
- abby something
- Petty, but not unprecedented. It’s pretty normal.
  
  Has any other president canceled their predecessors USSS protection for offspring early?

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