California Highway Patrol to protect Harris after Trump pulls Secret Service protection
The California Highway Patrol (CHP) will provide security for former Vice President Kamala Harris after former President donald Trump revoked her Secret Service protection. Typically, former vice presidents receive six months of secret Service detail after leaving office, but Harris’s protection had been extended unusually by President Joe Biden. Following Trump’s memorandum ending her protection, California officials arranged new security coverage through the CHP. Governor Gavin Newsom’s office has not commented on the arrangement, emphasizing that public officials’ safety should not be influenced by political motives. The removal of Secret Service protection may complicate Harris’s upcoming book tour promoting her presidential campaign memoir. A recent Secret Service threat assessment found no credible threats against Harris. This is part of a pattern where Trump previously revoked protection from other former officials, including John Bolton and Mike Pompeo.
California Highway Patrol to protect Harris after Trump pulls Secret Service protection
The California Highway Patrol will take over security for former Vice President Kamala Harris after President Donald Trump revoked her Secret Service protection.
Harris’s Secret Service had been atypically expanded by former President Joe Biden beyond the six months after leaving office, typically allocated to former vice presidents. After Trump ended the protection in a memorandum on Thursday, California officials scrambled to add new security for Harris. Sources told the Los Angeles Times that the CHP has been allotted to cover her.
Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) would have to approve the agreement, but his office remains silent.
“Our office does not comment on security arrangements,” Newsom spokeswoman Izzy Gordon told the outlet when asked about the arrangement. “The safety of our public officials should never be subject to erratic, vindictive political impulses.”
The stripping of Secret Service protection from Harris could complicate her upcoming book tour for her short-lived presidential campaign memoir, “107 Days.” The tour has 15 stops, including international visits.
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A recent threat assessment from the Secret Service found no credible evidence of a threat to Harris’s safety, according to the Associated Press.
Harris’s loss of Secret Service protection isn’t the first such case, as Trump stripped former National Security Advisor John Bolton and former CIA director Mike Pompeo of their Secret Service protection earlier this year.
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