Skip to content
  • Categories
  • Recent
  • Tags
  • Popular
  • Users
  • Groups
Skins
  • Light
  • Cerulean
  • Cosmo
  • Flatly
  • Journal
  • Litera
  • Lumen
  • Lux
  • Materia
  • Minty
  • Morph
  • Pulse
  • Sandstone
  • Simplex
  • Sketchy
  • Spacelab
  • United
  • Yeti
  • Zephyr
  • Dark
  • Cyborg
  • Darkly
  • Quartz
  • Slate
  • Solar
  • Superhero
  • Vapor

  • Default (No Skin)
  • No Skin
Collapse

The New Coffee Room

  1. TNCR
  2. General Discussion
  3. Bolton

Bolton

Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved General Discussion
100 Posts 12 Posters 1.8k Views
  • Oldest to Newest
  • Newest to Oldest
  • Most Votes
Reply
  • Reply as topic
Log in to reply
This topic has been deleted. Only users with topic management privileges can see it.
  • Doctor PhibesD Doctor Phibes

    https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvg49jz7v8no

    President Donald Trump has revoked security protection for former top US health official Anthony Fauci, who has faced death threats since leading the country's Covid-19 response.

    "You can't have a security detail for the rest of your life because you work for government," Trump told reporters, when asked about the decision on Friday. "It's very standard."

    This week, Trump also revoked security protections for his former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, his former National Security Adviser John Bolton and former envoy Brian Hook, who all faced threats from Iran.

    Dr Fauci has now hired his own private security team that he will pay for himself, US media report.

    Asked whether he felt responsible for the officials' safety, Trump said on Friday: "They all made a lot of money. They can hire their own security too."

    Dr Fauci was previously protected by federal marshals, and then a private security company, which was paid for by the government, according to the New York Times.

    One of Dr Fauci's most vocal Republican critics, Kentucky Senator Rand Paul, had called for his security to be revoked.

    He wrote in a post on X on Thursday that he had "sent supporting information to end the 24 hr a day limo and security detail for Fauci".

    "I wish him nothing but peace but he needs to pay for his own limos," he said.

    Trump has also revoked the security clearances of 51 intelligence officials who had claimed that Hunter Biden's laptop had "all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation."

    taiwan_girlT Offline
    taiwan_girlT Offline
    taiwan_girl
    wrote on last edited by
    #90

    @Doctor-Phibes said in Bolton:

    "You can't have a security detail for the rest of your life because you work for government," Trump told reporters, when asked about the decision on Friday. "It's very standard."

    Did President Trump have government provided security after he left the president office? 🤔

    HoraceH 1 Reply Last reply
    • taiwan_girlT taiwan_girl

      @Doctor-Phibes said in Bolton:

      "You can't have a security detail for the rest of your life because you work for government," Trump told reporters, when asked about the decision on Friday. "It's very standard."

      Did President Trump have government provided security after he left the president office? 🤔

      HoraceH Offline
      HoraceH Offline
      Horace
      wrote on last edited by
      #91

      @taiwan_girl said in Bolton:

      @Doctor-Phibes said in Bolton:

      "You can't have a security detail for the rest of your life because you work for government," Trump told reporters, when asked about the decision on Friday. "It's very standard."

      Did President Trump have government provided security after he left the president office? 🤔

      Yes, ex-presidents get SS protection for life, by law.

      Education is extremely important.

      taiwan_girlT 1 Reply Last reply
      • HoraceH Horace

        @taiwan_girl said in Bolton:

        @Doctor-Phibes said in Bolton:

        "You can't have a security detail for the rest of your life because you work for government," Trump told reporters, when asked about the decision on Friday. "It's very standard."

        Did President Trump have government provided security after he left the president office? 🤔

        Yes, ex-presidents get SS protection for life, by law.

        taiwan_girlT Offline
        taiwan_girlT Offline
        taiwan_girl
        wrote on last edited by
        #92

        @Horace said in Bolton:

        @taiwan_girl said in Bolton:

        @Doctor-Phibes said in Bolton:

        "You can't have a security detail for the rest of your life because you work for government," Trump told reporters, when asked about the decision on Friday. "It's very standard."

        Did President Trump have government provided security after he left the president office? 🤔

        Yes, ex-presidents get SS protection for life, by law.

        I was actually trying to be sarcastic. 🙂

        1 Reply Last reply
        👍
        • taiwan_girlT Offline
          taiwan_girlT Offline
          taiwan_girl
          wrote on last edited by taiwan_girl
          #93

          As good a place as any to put this.

          https://apnews.com/article/hunter-biden-trump-secret-service-ashley-50eba3fcd1ef9d2580fb4bc464d229f6

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

          and

          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.

          1 Reply Last reply
          • X Offline
            X Offline
            xenon
            wrote on last edited by
            #94

            Is it normal to announce this?

            1 Reply Last reply
            • jon-nycJ Online
              jon-nycJ Online
              jon-nyc
              wrote on last edited by
              #95

              The announcement is the point.

              Only non-witches get due process.

              • Cotton Mather, Salem Massachusetts, 1692
              1 Reply Last reply
              • JollyJ Offline
                JollyJ Offline
                Jolly
                wrote on last edited by
                #96

                Hunter has a detail of 18 agents, all of which he took to South Africa.

                “Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”

                Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton

                1 Reply Last reply
                • 89th8 Offline
                  89th8 Offline
                  89th
                  wrote on last edited by
                  #97

                  It's cute you believe a number Trump made up.

                  But the petulant child needs to bully. "When they go low, we'll go even lower" should be his motto. Good role model!

                  1 Reply Last reply
                  • JollyJ Offline
                    JollyJ Offline
                    Jolly
                    wrote on last edited by
                    #98

                    I didn't get that number from Trump, lad.

                    “Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”

                    Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton

                    1 Reply Last reply
                    • JollyJ Offline
                      JollyJ Offline
                      Jolly
                      wrote on last edited by
                      #99

                      BTW, it's 30 agents, total. 13 for Ashley, 17 for Hunter. Sorry that I was off by one on Hunter.

                      “Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”

                      Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton

                      1 Reply Last reply
                      • 89th8 Offline
                        89th8 Offline
                        89th
                        wrote on last edited by
                        #100

                        Where did you get the number from? I only saw references to Trump saying hunter "had up to 18 agents" in South Africa with him.

                        1 Reply Last reply
                        Reply
                        • Reply as topic
                        Log in to reply
                        • Oldest to Newest
                        • Newest to Oldest
                        • Most Votes


                        • Login

                        • Don't have an account? Register

                        • Login or register to search.
                        • First post
                          Last post
                        0
                        • Categories
                        • Recent
                        • Tags
                        • Popular
                        • Users
                        • Groups