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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Mon Oct 5, 2020, 02:08 PM Oct 2020

Secret Service agents criticize Trump car ride: 'This should never have happened'

Multiple Secret Service agents are criticizing President Trump's brief appearance in an SUV outside Walter Reed Medical Center Sunday evening, accusing the president of putting his protective detail in unnecessary danger.

"He's not even pretending to care now," an agent who requested anonymity told The Washington Post.

"That should never have happened," another unidentified agent, who works in both the presidential and first family detail, told CNN. "The frustration with how we're treated when it comes to decisions on this illness goes back before this though. We're not disposable."

Agents are authorized to decline requests that would place the president at risk, but not those that would put themselves at risk.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/secret-service-agents-criticize-trump-car-ride-this-should-never-have-happened/ar-BB19Ium3?li=BBnb7Kz

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Secret Service agents criticize Trump car ride: 'This should never have happened' (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 2020 OP
"Agents are authorized to decline requests that would place the president at risk... " grumpyduck Oct 2020 #1
Too bad they couldn't find a convertible. It would've kept Agents safer. NightWatcher Oct 2020 #2
NO SHIT Skittles Oct 2020 #3

grumpyduck

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1. "Agents are authorized to decline requests that would place the president at risk... "
Mon Oct 5, 2020, 02:12 PM
Oct 2020

There's a difference between putting themselves at risk to protect the president, and putting themselves at risk because the president is a dumbshit who doesn't give a rat's ass about anyone else.

I so wish some of these guys would stage some kind of a walkout.

"We're not disposable." That says it all.

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