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high-profile MAGA activist claim president donald trumpwhose life is in danger due to careless behavior Secret Service Details.
Tom Fitton, director of the conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch, said new york post One episode in particular stood out to him serious violation security.
On September 9, Trump’s dinner at a Washington, D.C., restaurant was disrupted by “Code Pink” protesters who managed to get within a few feet The video shows the faces of the president and other cabinet officials. The protesters, who chanted “Free Palestine” and called Trump “Hitler,” were eventually escorted out.
“These people were allowed to hold knives at arm’s length from the sitting president and who knows what else was available to them in the restaurant,” Fitton told the newspaper.
“I’m really concerned about the safety of the president,” Fitton added. “He was almost killed twice, supposedly with Secret Service protection, and then they put him in a potentially dangerous ambush,” he said of the September incident at Joe’s Seafood, Prime Steak & Stone Crab.
The protesters were not violent, but Fitton expressed concern that they were apparently able to obtain accurate information about Trump’s private dinner.
Fitton, whose watchdog group has more than 2 million followers on social media, is not the only one to criticize the Secret Service over Trump’s run-in with Code Pink.
Former FBI Assistant Director Christ Swecker described the incident as an “incredible security lapse.”
“I can’t believe they let random people sit that close to them,” he told reporters postal”, adding, “This is crazy. It’s like the days when Abraham Lincoln rode his horse-drawn carriage and buggy down Pennsylvania Avenue without any protection.
Code Pink’s DC organizers previously revealed daily beast Getting up close and personal with the president is easy Make a reservation In the restaurant.
“We thought it was just going to be Trump, we didn’t know it was all his cabinet members, we didn’t think they would be in such an open room — we thought he would be in separate areas — and we were positioned very close to them,” Olivia DiNucci told the outlet in September.
On December 18, Judicial Watch filed a lawsuit in federal court seeking to obtain “all internal emails and text messages from U.S. Navy officials in the Presidential Protection Unit regarding the presence of Code Pink protesters at the restaurant.”
It also seeks any communications between the Secret Service and accounts affiliated with the feminist anti-war group Code Pink.
The lawsuit was filed after the Secret Service reportedly failed to comply with a Freedom of Information Act request filed by Judicial Watch in September.
“We do not comment on pending or proposed litigation,” a Secret Service spokesperson told independent. “Any official communication will be through applicable court filings.”
Judicial Watch also filed a Freedom of Information Act request regarding two assassination attempts against Trump during the 2024 campaign.
The first incident occurred in Butler, PennsylvaniaOn July 13, a gunman shot Trump during a rally. A bullet grazed his ear and narrowly missed hitting the president in the head. The second incident occurred at Trump’s home Florida Golf Club On September 15, a man was found carrying a rifle on the premises.
Another apparent blunder occurred in August at Trump National Golf Club in Virginia, when the Secret Service failed to detect a guest carrying a handgun while the president was there.
“The U.S. Secret Service takes the security of our sites very seriously and has redundant layers of security built into each site,” a Secret Service spokesman said at the time, adding that no one with a weapon had ever come into close contact with Trump.