Trump's Brownshirts

[octoberlib]

Trump private security force ‘playing with fire’
The president-elect continues to employ a battalion of retired cops and FBI agents to protect him and clamp down on protesters.


GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — President-elect Donald Trump has continued employing a private security and intelligence team at his victory rallies, and he is expected to keep at least some members of the team after he becomes president, according to people familiar with the plans.

The arrangement represents a major break from tradition. All modern presidents and presidents-elect have entrusted their personal security entirely to the Secret Service, and their event security mostly to local law enforcement, according to presidential security experts and Secret Service sources.

But Trump — who puts a premium on loyalty and has demonstrated great interest in having forceful security at his events — has opted to maintain an aggressive and unprecedented private security force, led by Keith Schiller, a retired New York City cop and Navy veteran who started working for Trump in 1999 as a part-time bodyguard, eventually rising to become his head of security.

Security officials warn that employing private security personnel heightens risks for the president-elect and his team, as well as for protesters, dozens of whom have alleged racial profiling, undue force or aggression at the hands of Trump’s security, with at least 10 joining a trio of lawsuits now pending against Trump, his campaign or its security.

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/12/donald-trump-security-force-232797

[MFM008]

1. forceful security

only can do so much.

[tblue37]

2. K&R for visibility. nt

[Tommy_Carcetti]

3. The Madman's got his own little Berkut.

[octoberlib]

8. +1

[Initech]

4. We are witnessing a president who does not have the best interests of the people in mind.

[Arkansas Granny]

5. I wonder how much profit DT is making from this arrangement.

[muntrv]

6. Fine, withdraw the Secret Service from Trump, see how good of a job his private security does at

protecting him.

[Mr.Bill]

13. I think I will write to my California state legislators

to pass a law prohibiting all California law enforcement officers from using taxpayer money to provide security for him, since he seems to have it handled by himself.

[eShirl]

7. weird

not normal

[Chasstev365]

9. Grand Rapids, MI?

Is Eric Prince's Blackwater involoved? How about the Devos family?

[octoberlib]

10. The article doesn't say but my guess would be yes.

[Fast Walker 52]

11. once again, so incredibly fucked up!!!

[Mc Mike]

12. Also posted in general discussion by jpak, here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141643966

[Coyotl]

14. Any connections between Trump's retired FBI group and Comey/Giulliani?

Were they agents who worked for either of them while in the FBI?

[octoberlib]

16. I wouldn't be surprised if there were connections.

And the campaign paid $28,000 for security services to a company called ASIT Consulting, which is owned by a 62-year-old former FBI agent named Don Albracht, who has been known to film and occasionally taunt protesters.

But by far the biggest recipient of Trump security cash is a company called XMark LLC, which boasts on its website that its employees have expertise in surveillance, “close quarter battle” and “tactical shooting skills" and that the firm “provided all PPD [personal protection detail] for Mr. Trump’s campaign travel to include all advance work and coordination with local law enforcement agencies, in support, throughout the country, until being relieved by the United States Secret Service in mid-November of 2015.”

[geretogo]

15. Why should Trump use government secret service , he is CEO of the Corporate State

now as he is dissolving government and privatizing everything in the country including
private thugs as body guards .

[ffr]

18. Next step will be disolving the CIA and FBI

Sorry Comey, you did it to yourself. And you thought you were just Fcuking us. hahahaha

Unfortunately, the FBI and CIA, once out of the way, will basically put us under tRump's SS style security service and we'll be on our way to repeating 1930s Germany.

Quite brilliant when you think about it. He must be following Hitler's playbook in doing this slowly, step by step. And with 63 million apologists on his side to agree with each of his liberty stealing steps, the ugliness of the 1930s can't be far off.

[Cryptoad]

17. Can they do that niffy GooseStepping?

[uponit7771]

19. "retired cops and FBI agents" ... smmfh