{"id":56699,"date":"2024-09-28T12:38:28","date_gmt":"2024-09-28T16:38:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=56699"},"modified":"2024-09-28T12:38:28","modified_gmt":"2024-09-28T16:38:28","slug":"a-level-playing-field-would-be-nice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=56699","title":{"rendered":"A Level Playing Field Would Be Nice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On September 24th, <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/4897526-senate-trump-secret-service-protection\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Hill<\/a> reported:<\/p>\n<p class=\"keep\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The Senate on Tuesday approved a bill to boost former President Trump\u2019s level of Secret Service protection, putting it one step away from becoming law less than two weeks after he was the subject of a second assassination attempt.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"keep\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The bill, which was proposed by Reps. <span class=\"person-popover\" data-nid=\"1033827\"><a class=\"person-popover__link\" href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/michael-lawler\/\">Mike Lawler <\/a><\/span>(R-N.Y.) and Ritchie Torres (D-N.Y.) in the House days after the first assassination attempt, would require the\u00a0Secret Service to \u201capply the same standards\u201d to figure out how many agents should be used to protect the president, vice president, and those running for offices granted such protection.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On Friday, <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/09\/26\/biden-administration-denying-protection-assets-for-trump-forces-him-to-cancel-wisconsin-rally\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Federalist<\/a> reported:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Former President Donald Trump was recently forced to cancel a campaign rally in Wisconsin because the federal task force in charge of safety denied him adequate protection resources.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>On Tuesday, Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., sent a letter to the acting director of the Secret Service detailing the allegations of a whistleblower who said the event was canceled because the nation\u2019s premier security agency lacked \u201csufficient assets\u201d to keep the Republican presidential nominee safe.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>\u201cOther whistleblowers with knowledge of Secret Service planning protocols allege that failure to provide protection for a major public event is highly unusual and that a sitting president would never be denied resources in this way,\u201d Hawley wrote.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is disgusting. The entrenched bureaucracy is doing everything it can to elect Kamala Harris. They don&#8217;t care about her abilities or qualifications&#8211;they just want to make sure President Trump doesn&#8217;t get elected and actually drain the swamp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On September 24th, The Hill reported: The Senate on Tuesday approved a bill to boost former President Trump\u2019s level of Secret Service protection, putting it one step away from becoming law less than two weeks after he was the subject &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=56699\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12426,8625,10589,2815,16833,6700,11815,9533,11882,3162],"class_list":["post-56699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-josh-hawley","tag-kamala-harris","tag-president-trump","tag-secret-service","tag-secret-service-protection","tag-security","tag-the-federalist","tag-the-hill","tag-whistleblower","tag-wisconsin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56699"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56700,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56699\/revisions\/56700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}