Trump ends Secret Service protection for Harris
President Donald Trump canceled the secret service protection organized by Joe Biden for Kamala Harris before leaving the office.
As a former vice president, Ms. Harris had the right to take six months of this extra security after leaving the post in January.
His protection was extended by a manager directive signed by his former boss, but this was canceled by Trump in a note by the BBC of Thursday.
Harris comes only weeks before Harris started a national book tour in 2024, a short -lived and ultimately unsuccessful presidential campaign, “107 days” to introduce “107 days”.
A copy of a letter seen by the BBC dated 28 August directs the procedures related to any security authorized by the executive memorandum, beyond the requirements of the law for Harris, from September 1, to Harris.
A high -level White House official confirmed the movement.
Sources familiar with the situation, BBC’s US news partner CBS’nin a recent threat assessment, the detail of the legally compulsory six -month period can not find anything to find anything, he said.
In 2008, the US Congress enacted a law that allowed the former vice president of the Secret Service to provide protection to children under the age of 16 after leaving the post.
A little more than seven months have passed since Harris ended his post in January in January.
Harris’s husband Doug Emhoff ended his own protection on 1 July at the end of the legally compulsory period given to the spouses of the former vice -presidents.
The loss of Harris’s secret security protection means that he will lose the proactive threat intelligence to describe and prevent any potential threats to protect him and his property in Los Angeles.
If the price of similar protections is specially financed, it can add to millions of dollars a year.
California Governor Gavin Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, expressed anger in the announcement.
“This is another act of revenge after a missing political retaliation list in the form of ignition.” He said.
The Mayor of La said that it was in jeopardized Harris and would be sure that he was safe in Los Angeles.
Since his return to the White House in January, Trump has canceled secret service protections, including the former director of the former president’s children Hunter and Ashley Biden and the former director of the National Institute of Infectious Diseases.
A few former former Trump officials and ally canceled their guards, including Foreign Minister Mike Pompeo and John Bolton, a former national security advisor who became a vocal critic.
During his term of office, Harris encountered various security threats and former secret service officials, the dangers, the first woman to serve the office and the fact that the first color is united, he said.
For example, in August 2024, a virginia man, Harris and former president Barack Obama was accused of online threats to kill, kidnap or injure.
In an earlier incident in 2021, a 39 -year -old Florida said that he had sent a video to his imprisoned husband, where he exhibited a gun and could make a “hit” in 50 days.
