Secret Service vacates Trump Tower command post in lease dispute with presidents company

[octoberlib]

By Carol D. Leonnig, David A. Fahrenthold and Jonathan O'Connell August 3 at 5:32 PM
The Secret Service has vacated its command post inside Trump Tower in Manhattan following a dispute between the government and President Trump’s company over the terms of a lease for the space, according to two people familiar with the discussions.

Previously, the Secret Service had stationed its command post — which houses supervisors and backup agents on standby in case of an emergency — in a Trump Tower unit one floor below the president’s apartment.

But in early July, the post was relocated to a trailer on the sidewalk, more than 50 floors below, a distance that some security experts worry could hamper the agency that protects the president’s home and family.

On Thursday, a spokeswoman for the Trump Organization said the government should seek space in another location.

“After much consideration, it was mutually determined that it would be more cost effective and logistically practical for the Secret Service to lease space elsewhere,” spokeswoman Amanda Miller wrote in an email to The Washington Post.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/secret-service-vacates-trump-tower-command-post-in-lease-dispute-with-presidents-company/2017/08/03/7338de16-785d-11e7-8f39-eeb7d3a2d304_story.html?tid=sm_tw&utm_term=.248c89a5200e

[Squinch]

1. This is how stupid Donald Trump is. This right here.

[onethatcares]

2. no, I think it probably has something to do

with greed. A change in rates sounds like the problem.

We all know the chump doesn't do anything but pad his own pockets.

[Achilleaze]

7. The Republican draft dodger in chief has his own security goons

He really doesn't want the Secret Service around, because they've taken loyalty oath to the United States of America. The Republican draft dodger wants only armed goons who are loyal to him.

[BannonsLiver]

3. Weren't Melanoma and the boy supposed to be moving to the White House?

Haven't heard anything about that lately.

[octoberlib]

4. I think they did. Barron's enrolled in school at some christian academy in Maryland I believe.

[Doodley]

5. I assume the Secret Service collected all the survailance information they needed -

"Previously, the Secret Service had stationed its command post in a Trump Tower unit one floor below the president’s apartment."

[suffragette]

6. "A trailer on a sidewalk" Wow. Way to diss the people there to protect you.