President Donald Trump’s Secret Service detail has one job: protect the president. Yet even after a 2024 assassination attempt in which then-candidate Trump was shot in the ear while campaigning in Butler, Pennsylvania, there are appalling lapses in security.
In September, the president went to dinner with Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Vice President JD Vance. He chose Joe’s Seafood, Prime Steak & Stone Crab, about a block from the White House.
According to reports, when the president and company approached their table, several people who later identified themselves as members of the feminist group CODEPINK stood inches from Trump, chanting: “Free D.C., Free Palestine, Trump is the Hitler of our time.”
How did the Secret Service let them get so close?
The watchdog group Judicial Watch has been trying for three months to get information on how the protesters got advance notice about Trump’s closely held movements, the New York Post reported.