Trump Is Maintaining His Own Scary Private Police Force, Alarming Security Experts

[womanofthehills]

The Secret Service is not enough for Donald Trump. That's the message our president-elect is sending to America with his decision to retain his private security and intelligence team into his presidency, a dangerous move that, according to security experts, "heightens risks for the president-elect and his team, as well as for protesters, dozens of whom have alleged racial profiling, undue force or aggression at the hands Trump’s security," as Politico reported Monday.

http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/trump-maintaining-his-own-scary-private-police-force-alarming-security-experts

[flamingdem]

1. If he can afford this he should pay for Melania's

Secret Service protection or get his goons to protect her

[duffyduff]

2. Sounds like he is channeling Idi Amin

with the goon squads.

[politicaljunkie41910]

3. That's fine as long as we taxpayers don't have to pay for it. We also shouldn't have to pay for

a second set of security detail in New York for the Secret Service (particularly since the floor is vacant now and hasn't been receiving any rent for it), just because his wife doesn't want to live with him. And paying Trump rent for an entire floor at Trump Tower that's already vacant simply because his wife refuses to relocate to Wash D.C. is further proof that Trump is just trying to see how much money he can make running for president and being president while doing nothing to prepare himself for the work it takes to actually BE president.

He doesn't want to do any of the work required to keep this nation safe, (i.e. attend daily security briefings so that he can LEARN what he doesn't know about what real threats are out there, and what Putin has in store for the US and the rest of the world) because he's too lazy to concern himself with the threats that he doesn't think exist.

[WilliamH1474]

4. I agree 100%

I had no clue that he was charging them (the SS) to stay in his building.

I mean come the F on that is outrageous.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

5. Fascist move, but I'm okay with it.

I'd prefer to see Trump and his personal goons get hurt someday instead of government employees who are obligated to protect him.