Despite drawing massive crowds and having a $100 million bounty on his head from a Mexican drug lord, billionaire presidential candidate Donald Trump has not been given the Secret Service protection he’s requested from the Obama Administration.
And Obama’s indifference could be putting the GOP front-runner, who is currently paying for his own security, in harm’s way.
In an interview with The Hill, Trump pointed that he’s attracted huge crowds, just like Barack Obama did as a presidential candidate during the 2008 election cycle. And by this point in that cycle, Obama had Secret Service protection.
Obama was placed under Secret Service protection in May 2007, the earliest ever for a presidential candidate. The reason? Large crowds and security threats, just like Trump is currently facing.
“Personally, I think if Obama were doing as well as me he would’ve had Secret Service [earlier]. I have by far the biggest crowds.” Trump said in the interview.
And Hillary Clinton, as a former First Lady, had a Secret Service detail for the entirety of both the 2008 and 2016 campaigns.
No word has emerged from the Secret Service on when, or if, they’ll provide Trump protection.
“They’re in no rush because I’m a Republican. They don’t give a sh*t,” Trump said jokingly during his interview.
Federal law allows candidates to seek protection if they meet a series of standards, including public prominence as measured by polls and fundraising.
The Associated Press contributed to this article
Talk about Dirty Politics and the Congress demonstrating that they don’t give a damn leaving that Bastard in Our White House!!!
You got that right.
Obama is spending too much on training other military and not on the things he should be.
Good point! So much money for other countries military , but ours? Shrink the budget outer veto. And Congress caves.
Don’t worry big boy, they’re not packing guns on their sides at his speeches like they did Pres. Obama. He’s not getting death threats every day and night like Pres. Obama was and still is , that bastard Trump has only one death threat.
Your a moron!
That is BS…Prove it!
and brainless
AND, ONCE AGAIN, THE AMERICAN PEOPLE SIT BACK, SAY NOTHING, DO NOTHING.
WELL I DEMAND !!!!!!!!! DONALD TRUMP GET SECURITY FROM THE GOVERNMENT !!!!!!!!!!!!!
WILL ANYONE ELSE DEMAND THIS SAME THING ???
LETS START USING OUR PHONES CALLING OUR REPS. SENATORS, CONGRESSMEN, THE WHITE HOUSE.
MAYBE THAT WILL GET THEIR ATTENTION
You are right, it seems like the American people just don’t care.
Molly;
Some don’t, but MOST do !…..The corruption, especially in D.C., is very,very, DEEP !
Most Americans care, but most are LAZY AND COMPLACENT FROM PHARMACEUTICALS, HEAVY METALS IN VACCINES, FLUORIDE IN THE WATER , GEO-ENGINEERING PUMPING CHEMICALS IN OUR AIR, EATING GMO’S and DISTRACTIONS FROM MIND NUMBING MEDIA! A very well executed plan DESIGNED to do the very thing we are WITNESSING WITH OUR OWN EYES !
We got a bunch of drunks, perverts, thieves for Congress
would you trust Obama’s secret service?
Lets Call John F. Kennedy and ask him what he thinks about White House security!!
Yep
D. Trump is better off with his own security. I know that I would not trust anything, (even a dog walker) out of the Obama administration. Would you trust them with you life?
Yes we will demand it!! I firmly believe having a bounty on a candidates head levied by a foreign drug lord with connections in America warrants IMMEDIATE Secret Service. I like Mr. Trump and consider him a “National Treasure”!
With the rampant corruption in the government, I hope Donald Trump continues to have his own security. The scariest words “I’m from the government and I am here to help you!”
I agree 100%. I have a good idea why they don’t want to protect Trump.
Kathy I DO so AGREE with YOU. Donald SHOULD have Secret Service protection. There is NO reason why Donald should have to supply his own. Ofcourse knowing Obama he will tell them to look the other way if something should arise. For we know Obama has ties in Mexico so he just might let the bad guys in and tell his people when and where they will be so they can look the other way. So Donald just might want to make sure he keeps his people there as well. For I want him to be our next President!! For I WANT to see the WALL go up between Mexico and the USA!!!
I agree with you and will make the calls to my representatives.
Obama cares nothing about Constitutional Conservatives. Trump is White and Obama is half White.Obama is a RACIST and has been showing it since elected. Hillary has government paid security, And so should Trump!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Mr. Trump should employ a lot of heavily armed ex seals to protect him if he gets no word from the secret service for his protection. Why is it that that the dems are protected by armed agents and Mr. Trump, who truly loves America is not?
Everyone who wants to see Mr. Trump in the white house as our president should be praying and calling on Almighty God to protect him, Ben Carson, Ted Cruse, Trey Gadey and all who are patriotic to the nation. This current evil and corrupt admin needs to be cleaned out from top to bottom, and pray that God will bring this nation back to her proper standing as the superpower she once was.
ialthough i am canadian i follow the US very carefully…..Keet the last person is 100% right. Trump is one of very few that identify the corruption in washington. the democratic debate there was no mention of israel and iran and the useless agreement they made. Both canada and the us have to get back to putting GOD back into our countries…..paul
Amen! God first!!
God says a nation that’s turns back to him, He will heal!!
Amen
AMEN! The Americas need to Praise God for a change!
Amen
And he should send the bill to Obummer. Trump is the man that can do the job.
Amen to that! OBama needs to go! And that is exactly why he does the stupid things he does. He’s retaliating against America, for many reasons. 1 reason is because , He is just Evil! God Bless America and I pray for Donald Trump! He is the man to clean up the mess in America and the White House! Trump 2016!!!
Go Trump Go! All the way to Washington DC and into the White House.
Absolute Trump should have secret service protection. Go Trump! Bye obama
Amen
All the presidential candidates should be provided with similar levels of government protection. If Ms. Clinton has Secret Service protection the same should be offered the other mainstream candidates. Of course with Hillary they may want to have law enforcement close to her so they can nab her if an arrest warrant is issued.
If something should happen to Mr. Trump, the people should blame this president and take it out on the Democrats when they go to the polls in 2016.
But the Democrats won’t hold Obama to it. They are just as evil as they were when they elected Obama and the same ones are going to vote in Killary Clinton if they get the chance.
Why would Obama Hussein care? His approval numbers can’t go lower. He can’t even travel and back other dems in their bid for potus since nobody likes him, his work, and corruption,,,,ring a bell? Can you spell Hillary?
Trump 2016
Last Call for the USA
Killary the lying murderous who has been hiding sex scandals for Billy boy for decades!
This is just one of hundreds of cases where NOBAMA has gone against A huge block of US Citizens that want to see some action on a practice that has gone on as long as I remember (Secret service protect tion) afforded to all candidatest , and NOBAMA is just showing his pettiness and disregard to anyone who is sick and tired of watching him bring down our country. I have always felt that he is not a citizen of our GREAT country, and everyday he reinforces my opinion of him. That is what we get for electing a gay as the leader of the greatest nation that ever existed. SHAME on us. (By the way, I did not vote for him either time!
You are right! I can’t say what I’m thinking or I would be in trouble even f it is the truth.
Hey zerObama. Trump leads the field of over a dozen by far. He has a $100M bounty on his life as a result of YOUR failed immigration policy.
Pull your head out of your butt and get SS protection on the GOP front runner , maybe it’ll turn your hair brown again.
You’re showing your lack of conviction
Get it done mow. Maybe you’ll gain 1 approval point, since you have always claimed to be non partisan
`I said from the very start, when trump started to go up in the poles, that he would need some security, or some one would make sure he never became president. The man is to open about what he would and can do for America. And the good old boys are not going to let that happen. They would not be in control of moneys for their pockets. So trump needs to hire and keep his own security and theirs if he can get some. I’m not sure if I could trust them.
Mr Trump should pay for the BEST secret/security service and when he is President reimburse himself for all costs. Don’t ask O anymore just DO IT! You have the permission of We the People! Please get protection… besides divine protection.
I’m with you all the way.
Donald Trump is MUCH safer with his own security. I would never trust ANY security provided by our Government so long as Obama is President!! If he were assigned Secret Service, he would need to hire his own “security guards” to protect him from the Secret Service!! I am very concerned re the welfare of Donald and often reflect back to what happened to Ross Perot, whose live and family were threatened with death!!
Hey Donald, KEEP on paying for your OWN security if you want to live. Or ask John Kennedy how HE feels about it. OOPS, forgot, he’s DEAD because of SOMEONE (?) in the SECRET Service. Oh well, draw your OWN conclusions.
Trump is not picked by C.F.R. and Royal Institute of International Affairs in London and would not support the Tri-Lateral goal of Mexico,USA and Canada merger. The Tri- Laterals are composed of CFR. members. They would like no protection of Trump for the reasons above as they and an inner circle of men have an internationalists control the future!
There are interests that want immigration from the south and from third world thru the regular system of immigration to destroy nationalism and vote to keep the Democrats in . They are here to work the system and yes , the Republicans as well. Trump needs all the security possible and in many other ways I will not mention. We have many traitors from within working for the internationalists goals to make the U.S. just another second rate power like the rest of the sucker Countries.
I also agree. Mr. Trump deserves protection from our goverment, just the same as obama had ! Just keep your own also to keep all of them honest.
Obama hates Trump, especially because he challenged his U.S. citizenship and demanded to see his original birth certificate and made quite a stink over it a few years ago…. just one reason of many. If I were Trump, I think the last people I’d trust with my safety and security, and essentially with my life, is the Obama Administration.
Trump may be entitled to government protection, but @ what cost?
I believe if Trump accepts government protection he will probably experience one of those wierd, unexplainable, heart attacks, a plane/helicopter crash, or some other freak incident that seems prevalent to those who challenge the current regime.
Is he entitled?, of course, is he properly protected while under government protection?, not worth the chance.
You get what you pay for!
You made your point Trump, we all see it, now save your life,
Cover your own a$$!!
On the very first day, Obama become president, I said and have the note,,we have now entered the Apocaliptic times …
I can’t understand; he wasn’t born in U.S. he didn’t serve in the army, he may not be moslim ,but he is from moslim descendent ,
he isn’t white and from minority group only 13% of blacks ;who was it possible for the whites to give him the power, is this a coincidence, destiny, prophecy, or what??? can someone explain.
Mr. D. Trump take care of your security, to be secure.
Republicans are not doing their job properly, open yours eyes…
If you control both houses , what are you doing this days ??? .??? .???. Against each other?
The Repubicans
I wouldn’t trust anything from the government, Donald should hire former special operations operators ie:SEALS, FORCE RECON, GREEN BERETS. He can afford good protection and forget about the secret service that onumbnuts could provide.
I am tired of those in Washington D.C. who are trying to cut back on the Armed Forces of this great nation. Is it time to bring back the draft so our country is safe. Just look at the world today, is the USA next to have front page photo’s of bombing and people lying dead in it’s street. Is Obama doing the cut backs so the next President has his hands full when he takes office?
Those in Congress needs to help this great nation return to the status of it’s past. We have no more Hero’s who will standup and fight for the people, after all its about the people for the people of this nation. It’s not to late so take actions.
Kenneth Neal
I absolutely agree with Elaine D. on Oct. 15:12:22 !!! Donald Trumph should not be without reimbursement of the security he has had to pay for, dating back to May 01, 2015. If Mr Trumph requests it, then it should happen. However, as Elaine D. suggested, I agree that if Mr. Trumph does not want to trust Obama Secret Service, then, he should be allowed to be reimbursed the cost. We have not the full information as to where ObSecServ loyalty may be thrust against or for.
Obama wants us to surrender our right to bear arms. Obama gave billions to Iran and weapoms to the drug cartel in Mexico and the rebels in Syria. Obama’s Sec of State Hillary Clinton put The United States and our citizens in danger with her e-mails, and let’s not forget Bengazi. Obama and Clinton have Secret Service protecting them…and with what? Guns, no less. Down with Obama. Down with Hillary. Trump for President2016!
If I were Trump, I would feel more comfortable WITHOUT obamas security around me and rather mine!
Trump can afford the very best living in this country to protect him, later after becoming president reimburse himself.
Why let a muslim brotherhooder chose a full fledged American presidential security team!
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Obama needs to be impeached god only knows how much more damage he can do in a year.
Just where did Musicman get his info that Obuma receives death threats day and night? News to me. I’ve never been a big Trump fan, but all that has changed in the recent weeks/months. He may be a little rough around the edges, but his messages are loud and clear. All the other Republican candidates look like wimps in comparison. America needs Donald Trump and the sooner the better. And if Mr. Trump is actually allowed to be the Republican candidate, will Jeb Bush act like a five-year-old and not back him? Perhaps he prefers Hillary/Killary’s type of government – lie after lie and never accountable for anything. Let’s hope the electorate gets their collective heads out of the sand and puts an America-loving man in the highest office in the land. GO TRUMP – 2016