President Joe Biden on Monday asked Congress to provide the Secret Service with the resources it needs to protect former President Donald Trump, who was the victim of two assassination attempts in just over two months.
Vice President Kamala Harris, a political opponent of President Trump, I didn't say She said in a statement Monday that the Secret Service needs more resources.
“Let me be clear: The Department of Defense needs more help, and I think Congress should meet their needs,” Biden told reporters outside the White House.
The agency “must decide whether it needs to increase staffing,” the president added.
House Speaker Mike Johnson also believes Trump needs more security, but his track record of fulfilling campaign promises remains poor.
On Sunday, authorities arrested Ryan Wesley Routh, 58, on suspicion of trying to assassinate President Trump while he was playing golf in South Florida.
Routh appears to be aligned with neoconservative politics and frequently posts about the conflict in Ukraine and Russia. He has tried to recruit volunteers to fight against Russia. The New York Times Interviewed “We're in the middle of a war,” Rouse said of the effort to recruit volunteers to go to Ukraine and join the war.
Routh was apparently a Trump supporter in 2016. Opposed They will depose him by 2020. “We will re-enslave the American people,” he said. Posts Earlier this year, Rouse reportedly put a Harris-Biden bumper sticker on the truck outside his Hawaii home and donated to the Democratic Party's fundraising machine.
In a book about the Ukraine war, Rouse encourages Iran to assassinate Trump and alleges that Trump “carried out” the January 6 attacks, according to excerpts circulated on social media – echoing Democratic talking points repeated in the media.
Politicians from both the right and left condemned the assassination attempt, but the mainstream media was quick to Condemned They argued that the inflammatory rhetoric that sparked the political violence came from Trump, not Democrats.
Wendell Fsebo is a political reporter for Breitbart News and a former war room analyst for the Republican National Committee. He is the author of: The Politics of Slave MoralityFollow Wendell “X” @WendellHusebø or The truth of society @WendellHusebo.
