Ex-Secret Service Agent Backs Trump's Decision to Pull Hunter Biden Protection

Donald Trump's push to revoke Hunter and Ashley Biden's Secret Service protection has found some support from an ex-Secret Service agent.

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00:00Well, I think it's a good thing because from an optics viewpoint, you know, when you're

00:05talking about paring down the amount of expense and spending in the government via Elon Musk

00:10and Doge, how do you justify the protective details and the taxpayer expense involved

00:16with providing a level of protective detail from the Secret Service to Hunter and Ashley

00:21Biden when there's no threat to support that?

00:24This is incredibly expensive.

00:25I think, though, a better way to look at this is think about the meticulous level of detail

00:30that goes into everything that Donald Trump does.

00:33The better question is, how is it that he was able to turn off the protective detail

00:37for folks like John Bolton and Mike Pompeo, who had significant adverse intelligence threats

00:44directed at them and their families, yet Hunter and Ashley Biden was allowed to slide through?

00:50Which leads me to ask the better question, did President Trump and the White House even

00:54know that this protective detail was turned on?

00:57Somebody needs to ask, when was the president made aware of this?

01:00And I've got to tell you, I think this is one of the inherent problems of the current

01:04leadership of the Secret Service, right?

01:06They were so heavily compromised and so Biden biased.

01:10No one's been reprimanded.

01:12No one's been fired or forced to resign.

01:14It's my personal belief that the leadership of the Secret Service never disclosed to the

01:19current director of the Secret Service, Sean Curran, who was one of President Trump's first

01:24picks, that they were providing a protective detail to Hunter and Ashley Biden.

01:29And how would they have not done that?

01:30I think because they said, you know what, this will be over in six months.

01:33We're not even going to mention it.

01:35And I think that's what happened here.

01:37That number, that's on the low side.

01:38That doesn't reflect the additional assets that are in place from the Secret Service,

01:42such as advance agents, site agents, hotel agents, liaison agents.

01:48So that 32 number for both of those details can easily become 50 or more.

01:54Let's also keep in mind the climate in South Africa.

01:58You're not going to put Hunter and Ashley Biden up in a five-star hotel and the Secret

02:02Service detail is going to be 10 miles down the road at a $49 a night Motel 6.

02:08This is incredibly expensive to maintain the level of protective detail on both Hunter

02:14and Ashley Biden.

02:15Not to mention, I'm sure the two of them are not traveling in coach on Iberia Airlines,

02:20right?

02:21They're traveling probably in business or first class accompanied by the Secret Service.

02:26Once again, this is at the expense of the taxpayer.