If presidents have secret service protection for life and vice presidents for six months how does it work for a vice president who becomes acting president for a while?
If presidents have secret service protection for life and vice presidents for six months how does it work for a vice president who becomes acting president for a while?
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Depends on if they later become president, either by election (e.g. George H.W. Bush) or because the president died in office (e.g. Lyndon Johnson). If either of those apply they get the same Secret Service protection as any other president. If it's a temporary acting presidency they do not. George H.W. Bush, Dick Cheney, and Kamala Harris each spent a few hours as acting presidents while their respective presidents underwent medical procedures involving anesthesia, and lifelong Secret Service protection doesn't apply to either Cheney or Harris.
Of note: the California Highway Patrol is now providing protections for Harris, though I am not sure how they will do that when she is out of California.
I came across this Guardian article about Todd Blanche's interview with Ghislane Maxwell on social media.
While those supportive of Trump have touted these actions as a show of openness, many others have pointed to the questions left unasked – and the people who have not been asked anything at all – as indicating that these disclosures about Epstein were more of a show than any real push for truth. For them the Maxwell transcripts, and the ignoring of victim’s voices, are not a sign of openness; they are a sign of a reluctance to pursue any potentially dangerous truth.
For example, Blanche asked Maxwell whether people around Epstein – including the numerous high-profile and powerful men who had known him – were associating with him for the purpose of sexual encounters. In her reply Maxwell said that some of the “cast of characters” around Epstein were “in your cabinet, who you value as your co-workers”.
Despite the fact that Maxwell had just openly mentioned Epstein associates as being in Trump’s current cabinet, Blanche – a hardened lawyer not known for missing a trick in trial argument – did not pause to ask Maxwell to identify the cabinet members she was referring to.
I'm kind of shocked that this isn't a bigger news story. Maxwell claims that multiple members of Trump's current cabinet "were associating with [Epstein] for the purpose of sexual encounters" and the only press on it are the Guardian and a social media outlet. Leaving completely aside the potentially libelous speculation on who she means or Maxwell's reliability when it comes to the details of her own case, why has this not been mentioned elsewhere? The media can determine what is a news story and what gets turned into a "news event" (e.g. the Clinton campaign's hacked emails), but as near as I can tell this isn't even considered a news story. Has anyone else on the Ship encountered this bit of information (i.e. that multiple members of Trump's current cabinet allegedly took part in sex trafficking minors) anywhere before I mentioned it here?
If presidents have secret service protection for life and vice presidents for six months how does it work for a vice president who becomes acting president for a while?
Asking for a friend ...
Depends on if they later become president, either by election (e.g. George H.W. Bush) or because the president died in office (e.g. Lyndon Johnson).
I guess a better comparison would be with Ford, as both conditions apply to Johnson.
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If presidents have secret service protection for life and vice presidents for six months how does it work for a vice president who becomes acting president for a while?
Asking for a friend ...
Depends on if they later become president, either by election (e.g. George H.W. Bush) or because the president died in office (e.g. Lyndon Johnson). If either of those apply they get the same Secret Service protection as any other president. If it's a temporary acting presidency they do not. George H.W. Bush, Dick Cheney, and Kamala Harris each spent a few hours as acting presidents while their respective presidents underwent medical procedures involving anesthesia, and lifelong Secret Service protection doesn't apply to either Cheney or Harris.
I'm kind of shocked that this isn't a bigger news story. Maxwell claims that multiple members of Trump's current cabinet "were associating with [Epstein] for the purpose of sexual encounters" and the only press on it are the Guardian and a social media outlet. Leaving completely aside the potentially libelous speculation on who she means or Maxwell's reliability when it comes to the details of her own case, why has this not been mentioned elsewhere? The media can determine what is a news story and what gets turned into a "news event" (e.g. the Clinton campaign's hacked emails), but as near as I can tell this isn't even considered a news story. Has anyone else on the Ship encountered this bit of information (i.e. that multiple members of Trump's current cabinet allegedly took part in sex trafficking minors) anywhere before I mentioned it here?
I guess a better comparison would be with Ford, as both conditions apply to Johnson.