Trump revokes Secret Service detail for political opponent Kamala Harris

Former Vice President Kamala Harris, who is currently the president of the United States, has been informed by White House officials that the president has suspended his political opponent’s Secret Service protection.

According to the reports, Harris will lose protection from the federal law enforcement agency on September 1 due to the change that was made on Friday.

Former vice presidents typically receive six months of Secret Service protection when they leave office, but Joe Biden, the president, quietly signed a directive extending protection for his deputy shortly before his term ended in January.

Trump is facing two assassination attempts in the run-up to the November 2024 election, which is a particularly hot time in US politics.

In the run-up to Trump’s 107-day defeat, Harris had supplanted Biden as the Democratic nominee.

Harris, who has maintained a low profile since her resounding defeat, is scheduled to launch a book tour later this year shortly after receiving the protection’s removal. She will be present at a number of public events as a result.

The book will provide a “behind-the-scenes account” of her mad-dash campaign, which came after Biden’s disastrous decision to run for re-election despite growing concerns over the octogenarian’s advanced age, according to Harris, the former attorney general of California and the first woman and woman of color to hold office.

In response to the action, senior adviser to Harris, Kirsten Allen, spoke diplomatically.

According to the Reuters news agency, “the vice president is appreciative of the United States Secret Service’s professionalism, dedication, and unwavering commitment to safety.”

Some critics criticized Trump for his violent attacks on Harris on the campaign trail, which included calling him “radical” and “extremist” and using numerous anti-Black tropes.

That raises the possibility of retaliation in addition to Trump’s pardon of supporters who staged political violence at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021.

Tanisha Long, a community organizer from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, wrote on X that “he’s spent months pardoning his supporters and green-lighting political violence.”

Kamala Harris’ Secret Service protection was canceled after he “created his own personal lynch mob of bigots” (p. 2).

Trump’s former national security advisor John Bolton and other political foes had previously requested his former ally’s security clearance.