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Wash. state Desk Jet

(3,426 posts)
Tue Jun 26, 2018, 07:43 PM Jun 2018

Sarah Sanders to receive Secret Service protection

Source: MSN

White House press secretary Sarah Sanders is expected to receive Secret Service protection as soon as Wednesday, two sources familiar with the decision tell CNN, but they did not specify how long it will last.
The Secret Service declined to comment, telling CNN: "For operational security purposes the Secret Service does not comment on its protective operations."
The news comes days after Sanders was asked to leave a small Lexington, Virginia, restaurant because of her role with the Trump administration, a move that has since sparked a national conversation on civility and public service in the age of Trump.
NBC News first reported that Sanders would begin receiving protection.
Sanders did not immediately respond to a CNN request for comment.

Speaking about the restaurant incident during Monday's White House press briefing, Sanders said she and her husband "politely left."
"I was asked to leave because I worked for President Trump," she said, adding, "We are allowed to disagree but we should be able to do so freely and without fear of harm, and this goes for all people regardless of politics."
She continued: "Healthy debate on ideas and political philosophy is important, but the calls for harassment and push for any Trump supporter to avoid the public is unacceptable."
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/sarah-sanders-to-receive-secret-service-protection/ar-AAzdlD3?liBBnb7Kz&ocidBHEA000






http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5889733/Sarah-Sanders-Secret-Service-protection-thrown-restaurant.html
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CNN link
https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/26/politics/sarah-sanders-secret-service-protection/index.html
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Sarah Sanders to receive Secret Service protection (Original Post) Wash. state Desk Jet Jun 2018 OP
Cowards... wcmagumba Jun 2018 #1
No. It is a fantasy to think nobody on the left or far left is violent or capable of violence. . .nt Bernardo de La Paz Jun 2018 #62
OMG!! This is unreal. riversedge Jun 2018 #2
Agree.. oh my we are sooo afraid.. stupidly reins Thekaspervote Jun 2018 #23
That is a wide target to protect! quartz007 Jun 2018 #3
So has anyone tried to harm her??? TNNurse Jun 2018 #4
Obviously. Serious threats count. Secret Service doesn't do this on a whim. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Jun 2018 #64
More wasted money. tRump is really running up the deficit! beaglelover Jun 2018 #5
$16million on GOLF trips so far. Didn't he say something during the campaign about fixing TrollBuster9090 Jun 2018 #14
Sarah Snowflake AKing Jun 2018 #6
How about secret service protection for defacto7 Jun 2018 #7
I read some comments directed at red hen yesterday. They are scary. riversedge Jun 2018 #18
Why? No one has threatened her? LiberalFighter Jun 2018 #8
YOU do not know. I trust the S. Service assessment of threats WE don't know about. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Jun 2018 #57
The snowiest flake ever. Mr. Sparkle Jun 2018 #9
No. Bernardo de La Paz Jun 2018 #65
Get a food taster while you're at it, Sarah. nt Xipe Totec Jun 2018 #10
When you're the most hate-filled administration in history truthisfreedom Jun 2018 #11
Are there actually any Secret Service LEFT to guard Sarah 'Smiley' Huckabee? TrollBuster9090 Jun 2018 #12
Republicans could hire their beloved trigger happy 'on paid leave' police to guard them? Sunlei Jun 2018 #56
All she really needs is somebody to make her dinner reservations FakeNoose Jun 2018 #76
Send her some of 'Snotty Scottie's Pruitt's El Shaman Jun 2018 #13
Fucking snowflake. The Velveteen Ocelot Jun 2018 #15
+1 n/t area51 Jun 2018 #20
They even gave her cheese platters for free LoveMyCali Jun 2018 #34
No. It is unimaginative to think this is about the restaurant. Bernardo de La Paz Jun 2018 #66
No need , El Shaman Jun 2018 #16
Cuz, ya know, I'm sure the restaurant owner would be just fine with Sarah... CincyDem Jun 2018 #17
The restaurant owner needs MontanaMama Jun 2018 #19
That may be true, but the Secret Service doesn't provide it for non-governmental citizens, afaik. nt Bernardo de La Paz Jun 2018 #67
Oh I know that. MontanaMama Jun 2018 #79
Will they keep her away from the dessert bar? benld74 Jun 2018 #21
Now I have heard everything. BigmanPigman Jun 2018 #22
Simply asking for it is not enough. The SecServ decides based on credibility of threats. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Jun 2018 #68
"sparked a national conversation on civility" BumRushDaShow Jun 2018 #24
This is just another show ifihad2 Jun 2018 #25
This. EarthFirst Jun 2018 #30
It is also for intimidation dansolo Jun 2018 #43
Naa,Trumps tired of Sarah, she will be replaced soon with another trumpmouth. Sunlei Jun 2018 #47
+1 ck4829 Jun 2018 #49
No. You are accusing the Secret Service of making a show to prop up the Trump regime. Bernardo de La Paz Jun 2018 #69
The secret service don't decide who they will cover JI7 Jun 2018 #78
This was probably Trump's idea to further the "republican victim" bullshit. madaboutharry Jun 2018 #26
No. The Secret Service independently assesses threats. People can ask but get denied. . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Jun 2018 #70
Because being refused your chopped salad for lunch is a threat? ET Awful Jun 2018 #27
No. Duh. Bernardo de La Paz Jun 2018 #71
Oh puleez..we need secret service protection from sarah 3 names and this entire asiliveandbreathe Jun 2018 #28
Sarah Sanders and the S S can get the hell out ! stonecutter357 Jun 2018 #29
What beef do you have against the SS who protected Obama's people? Same agents. Bernardo de La Paz Jun 2018 #72
No beef at all with the Secret Service . stonecutter357 Jun 2018 #80
I can just hear the next restaurant owners request. Baitball Blogger Jun 2018 #31
She's the real red hen now. miyazaki Jun 2018 #32
Because pork chop bones are pointy. JohnnyRingo Jun 2018 #33
And we're the snowflakes? Get the fuck out of here! Initech Jun 2018 #35
I don't think the Secret Service can Retrograde Jun 2018 #36
Trump is thinking he can have the military do it. KY_EnviroGuy Jun 2018 #37
They can't. Mostly they try to be invisible and non-interventionist. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Jun 2018 #59
Next she'll get tactical pants! FSogol Jun 2018 #63
Sarah needs to receive an exorcism, not SS protection. KY_EnviroGuy Jun 2018 #38
To keep the angry villagers away from Quasimodo? nt Guy Whitey Corngood Jun 2018 #39
I guess I missed the part where the resturant tried to 'harm' Sara... Hugin Jun 2018 #40
Because duh the Secret Service doesn't make decisions like this based on restaurant service. Bernardo de La Paz Jun 2018 #60
Uh... Excuse me, but, Sanders said this herself wrt the so-called restaurant incident. Hugin Jun 2018 #84
You have not supplied evidence that statement triggered the protection. Bernardo de La Paz Jun 2018 #85
I don't owe anyone evidence on an Internet message board. n/t Hugin Jun 2018 #87
So... if the restaurant asks her AND her security to leave rpannier Jun 2018 #41
No. She and security would leave. It is not about the management. Bernardo de La Paz Jun 2018 #73
This is at least in part for his deplorable TV reality show fans LiberalLovinLug Jun 2018 #42
Good grief. demmiblue Jun 2018 #44
She is not an elected official? pwb Jun 2018 #45
Absolutely legal. But not every request is granted unless the SecServ assess threats as real. . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Jun 2018 #74
She and all those Republican haters probably do need SS protection. just like Hitler needed SS. Sunlei Jun 2018 #46
SNOWFLAKE HAB911 Jun 2018 #48
Womp womp. ck4829 Jun 2018 #50
She was asked to leave a restaurant Soxfan58 Jun 2018 #51
You can rest assured that was the least of it. You do not KNOW what was mailed, phoned, etc. Bernardo de La Paz Jun 2018 #58
Excuse me! Soxfan58 Jun 2018 #81
Such a hypocritical asshole. How about some protection for the 3 year olds? Squinch Jun 2018 #52
Has she gotten death threats? lapucelle Jun 2018 #53
Undoubtedly enough for the SecServ to take very seriously. Bernardo de La Paz Jun 2018 #75
Layout of the QWERTY keyboard duly noted. lapucelle Jun 2018 #77
Who's idea was this? I hope she gets her ass grilled about this in her so-called Press briefings! PearliePoo2 Jun 2018 #54
Because she was politely asked to leave a restaurant? Typical right wing snowflake! Nitram Jun 2018 #55
No. Not her decision. :eyes: Bernardo de La Paz Jun 2018 #61
Your faith in the integrity of the secret service and those of it's employ Wash. state Desk Jet Jun 2018 #83
A reasonable reply, and yes, Clinton stated a no brainer. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Jun 2018 #86
The point being Bernardo Wash. state Desk Jet Jun 2018 #88
what a whimpy whiner Rene Jun 2018 #82

wcmagumba

(2,871 posts)
1. Cowards...
Tue Jun 26, 2018, 07:45 PM
Jun 2018

have to be protected from the public they supposedly serve, can't
take any criticism, only dish out the hate...bastards...

TNNurse

(6,911 posts)
4. So has anyone tried to harm her???
Tue Jun 26, 2018, 07:48 PM
Jun 2018

Apparently not or we would have heard. She is as big a whiny ass as her boss.

TrollBuster9090

(5,953 posts)
14. $16million on GOLF trips so far. Didn't he say something during the campaign about fixing
Tue Jun 26, 2018, 08:01 PM
Jun 2018

Medicare's financial problems by getting rid of "waste, fraud, and abuse?"

Wait! Is he supposed to be eliminating it, or CREATING it? He's doing a great job of the latter.

truthisfreedom

(23,113 posts)
11. When you're the most hate-filled administration in history
Tue Jun 26, 2018, 07:57 PM
Jun 2018

You’ll obviously set records on security spending. Of course they’re paranoid. They want hate. They create it. They’re making our great country an intensely dangerous place.

TrollBuster9090

(5,953 posts)
12. Are there actually any Secret Service LEFT to guard Sarah 'Smiley' Huckabee?
Tue Jun 26, 2018, 07:58 PM
Jun 2018

Scott Pruitt has 85 of them guarding his office door, and another 20 guarding the EPA 'cone of silence.' I'd be surprised if there are any left to guard Huckabee.

Sunlei

(22,651 posts)
56. Republicans could hire their beloved trigger happy 'on paid leave' police to guard them?
Wed Jun 27, 2018, 09:14 AM
Jun 2018

They're not working anyway and taxpayers do have to continue their salaries because Police Union says so.

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,280 posts)
15. Fucking snowflake.
Tue Jun 26, 2018, 08:02 PM
Jun 2018

She was politely asked to leave a restaurant. There were no insults, raised voices, violence or threats of violence, but she gets SS protection on our dime. Fuck that.

Bernardo de La Paz

(48,789 posts)
66. No. It is unimaginative to think this is about the restaurant.
Wed Jun 27, 2018, 10:03 AM
Jun 2018

No threats? You have read all her mail, email, texts, items left at her places, etc.? No you have not. But the Secret Service has obviously read enough to have decided there exist real threats of possible violence against her. That is what they do.

So many in this thread are oblivious to the reality that there are violent people on the left and far left

CincyDem

(6,283 posts)
17. Cuz, ya know, I'm sure the restaurant owner would be just fine with Sarah...
Tue Jun 26, 2018, 08:06 PM
Jun 2018



...if she had her two earpieced goons standing at the door.

MontanaMama

(23,242 posts)
79. Oh I know that.
Wed Jun 27, 2018, 10:54 AM
Jun 2018

Just making the point that the T Humpers are threatening the owner’s life. Lying Sarah is in no danger.

BigmanPigman

(51,432 posts)
22. Now I have heard everything.
Tue Jun 26, 2018, 08:33 PM
Jun 2018

Next Stephen Miller, Milo and Ann Coulter will be asking for protection. It is all for PR optics. It will be on Fux Ruse next.

BumRushDaShow

(127,323 posts)
24. "sparked a national conversation on civility"
Tue Jun 26, 2018, 08:40 PM
Jun 2018

WTF? Where were the "conversations on civility" when Drumpf was encouraging his supporters to punch people out and telling cops to commit brutality?

As people have noted over and over - the media has normalized their behavior and when people push back, the same media chides them for doing so.

ifihad2

(36 posts)
25. This is just another show
Tue Jun 26, 2018, 08:41 PM
Jun 2018

... big drama... trying to demonstrate that anybody against trump and his mob are dangerous and protection is necessary ... what an effing act ... what about Maxine ... any extra security for her ... waiting for orange jackass to call on the 2nd amendment people on that one ...

Sunlei

(22,651 posts)
47. Naa,Trumps tired of Sarah, she will be replaced soon with another trumpmouth.
Wed Jun 27, 2018, 07:28 AM
Jun 2018

he never 'liked' her type.

Bernardo de La Paz

(48,789 posts)
69. No. You are accusing the Secret Service of making a show to prop up the Trump regime.
Wed Jun 27, 2018, 10:10 AM
Jun 2018

The people in the SecServ are much more dedicated than that.

Bernardo de La Paz

(48,789 posts)
72. What beef do you have against the SS who protected Obama's people? Same agents.
Wed Jun 27, 2018, 10:12 AM
Jun 2018

Much more dedicated than you are giving them credit.

miyazaki

(2,221 posts)
32. She's the real red hen now.
Tue Jun 26, 2018, 09:04 PM
Jun 2018

I can see protests with red hen costumes. She's marked herself for life. Good job.

JohnnyRingo

(18,581 posts)
33. Because pork chop bones are pointy.
Tue Jun 26, 2018, 09:33 PM
Jun 2018

Well, her life is going quite swimmingly since she signed on with Trump. Next she'll need a royal food taster and an armored security motorcade with a flak jacket. Living the American dream!

Retrograde

(10,073 posts)
36. I don't think the Secret Service can
Tue Jun 26, 2018, 11:14 PM
Jun 2018

prevent people from refusing to serve her or asking her pointed questions. At least I hope not.

Having Secret Service protection seems to be a status symbol in the Trump regime. At some point there are not going to be enough trained agents to cover all the operachiks who think they deserve it.

KY_EnviroGuy

(14,483 posts)
38. Sarah needs to receive an exorcism, not SS protection.
Wed Jun 27, 2018, 12:53 AM
Jun 2018

Maybe that's what the restaurant owner intended - to rid themselves of the devils hiding in little Sarah.

........ ............

Hugin

(32,779 posts)
40. I guess I missed the part where the resturant tried to 'harm' Sara...
Wed Jun 27, 2018, 12:58 AM
Jun 2018


I heard they even comped her the Trump... Uh, I meant to say, Cheese plate they'd ordered.

Bernardo de La Paz

(48,789 posts)
60. Because duh the Secret Service doesn't make decisions like this based on restaurant service.
Wed Jun 27, 2018, 09:57 AM
Jun 2018

You are not psychic or possessed of super powers to see everything they have received about threats to her: calls, emails, texts, shouts, stuff left at places, mail sent, etc.

It's amazing how few people replying to the OP can see past the restaurant issue as if that is the only expression of opposition she is receiving.

Hugin

(32,779 posts)
84. Uh... Excuse me, but, Sanders said this herself wrt the so-called restaurant incident.
Wed Jun 27, 2018, 02:17 PM
Jun 2018

Sara said this herself... From the article and it is what I was referencing.



"We are allowed to disagree but we should be able to do so freely and without fear of harm, and this goes for all people regardless of politics." - Sara Huckster



:p

Bernardo de La Paz

(48,789 posts)
85. You have not supplied evidence that statement triggered the protection.
Wed Jun 27, 2018, 02:35 PM
Jun 2018

But it is much more likely that there were credible threats of some kind, not from the restaurant, and those threats triggered the request for protection.

rpannier

(24,304 posts)
41. So... if the restaurant asks her AND her security to leave
Wed Jun 27, 2018, 01:31 AM
Jun 2018

Do they plan on staying?
She was asked to leave and she did. She was not threatened or harassed by management

Bernardo de La Paz

(48,789 posts)
73. No. She and security would leave. It is not about the management.
Wed Jun 27, 2018, 10:15 AM
Jun 2018

Please have more imagination and understand that the threats the Secret Service has seen and assessed are realistic enough to trigger the protection. You can't just ask for protection and get it automatically.

LiberalLovinLug

(14,154 posts)
42. This is at least in part for his deplorable TV reality show fans
Wed Jun 27, 2018, 04:52 AM
Jun 2018

I'm sure Trump and his inner circle of p****ygrabbing billionaires thought it would also help to raise more alarm bells, adrenaline, and violence/chaos in his deplorable army, as if they weren't jacked up enough already on guns, oxi, and a taste for revenge on their enemies, as dictated by Fox News and RW radio shows. Now dear sister Sarah has to have Secret Service to protect her against the dark state funded antifa liberal terrorists too. Its getting out of hand, first asked to leave a restaurant, what will it be next?..people stopping believing anything you say?. News like that presumes that they are needed because of a real threat. The threat level has risen from green to light green. Oh my gosh....I'm melting.

Sunlei

(22,651 posts)
46. She and all those Republican haters probably do need SS protection. just like Hitler needed SS.
Wed Jun 27, 2018, 07:24 AM
Jun 2018

Not protection from "words from protesters",

but protection from some unbalanced people or even perhaps protection from some foreign criminal element who wants to permanently silence them.


jesus, Republican traitors & Republican haters cost Americans billions & billions in funding we could spend on other things.

Bernardo de La Paz

(48,789 posts)
58. You can rest assured that was the least of it. You do not KNOW what was mailed, phoned, etc.
Wed Jun 27, 2018, 09:53 AM
Jun 2018

We do no know and I think it is very short-sighted and unimaginative to think that the Secret Service made this decision because of her being asked to leave a restaurant.

Bernardo de La Paz

(48,789 posts)
75. Undoubtedly enough for the SecServ to take very seriously.
Wed Jun 27, 2018, 10:19 AM
Jun 2018

I don't know if they have assessed the threats against Maxine Waters (note spelling) or if they have even been asked to.

lapucelle

(18,040 posts)
77. Layout of the QWERTY keyboard duly noted.
Wed Jun 27, 2018, 10:44 AM
Jun 2018

I believe that the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the United States Capitol Police, Threat Assessment Section, a federal prosecutor, a federal grand jury, and a federal court have assessed at least one threat against against W̷a̷y̷e̷r̷s̷ (damn that QWERTY keyboard!) Waters.

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-waters-death-threat-20180416-story.html

PearliePoo2

(7,768 posts)
54. Who's idea was this? I hope she gets her ass grilled about this in her so-called Press briefings!
Wed Jun 27, 2018, 08:25 AM
Jun 2018


I heard the Secret Service is already stretched thin and blown through their budget having to protect all the fucking, trump spawn as the assholes travel all over the globe making corrupt business deals.

A press Secretary needs protection? Protection from whom or what?

What a crock of shit.



Wash. state Desk Jet

(3,426 posts)
83. Your faith in the integrity of the secret service and those of it's employ
Wed Jun 27, 2018, 02:08 PM
Jun 2018

is most certainly worthy of honorable mention. However I must say it does seem to me somewhat of a stretch , the timing I mean of the press release informing the people Sarah Huckabee Sanders will have secret service protection . Not being one to deny a thing called coincidence, I must say it does seem somewhat sketchy. Was it the restaurant thing one may ask ones self ,could that little thing be the reason - ?. What about president Donald, he seemed to be infuriated ,according to his tweets-, about the dirty filthy windows at the Red Hen , and a building in severe need of painting ,filth and disgust he had to say. Oh yes he was quick to jump on the whoop dee do . Very Quick. And the secret service, it is after all a federal entity subject to influence ,the powers that be . I cannot imagine a direct presidential order to expedite secret service protection to the order of the immediate for Sarah,signed by The Donald himself, after all that would leave a paper trail.


I would assume, in good faith of course , there must be some type of valid reasoning ,seemingly so at the very least.

And to yer point about the same secret service that was there before Mr. Trump, and after he leaves the office of the presidency forever.

Presidents come and go but the secret service is there to stay.


At least Spicy was funny, Spicy in the bushes, Spicy in the window,Spicy didn't,'t get an audience with the pope.


And lastly Bernardo ,it does seem somewhat odd the location of the restaurant in a small town that voted blue in a red state. Something about that invites suspicion. That doesn't mean there was anything suspicious about their reason for choosing that particular location.


Bill Clinton had some nice words for Sarah Huckabee Sanders, but he went on to say ,if you want civility ,quit stirring the pot of hate and divide. And guess what, thats a no brainer, you know (DUH).


Wash. state Desk Jet

(3,426 posts)
88. The point being Bernardo
Wed Jun 27, 2018, 05:42 PM
Jun 2018

It seems to me ,most of the post's indicate nobody seems to believe the dedication of secret service agents to protect Sarah Huckabee Sanders is not in some way connected to the situation that occurred at the Red Hen restaurant in Lexington Va. After all it is indeed a well known fact Huckabee Sanders father is well connected to a certain religious political order and the power in those numbers are Donald Trump's lust.


That to a given, it would not be too far in a stretch to suspect the secret service was under pressure to release that information .And given Donald Trump's uncontrollable temperament whereby he fly's off in a rage over most anything that displeases him,Well, one can only imagine what it must have been like at and in the White house since the situation happened.



How it is those republicans go after those small towns of seemingly little significance in the turning of the big wheels and somehow it goes up like a volcanic eruption. Fort Lee N.J. ,Lexington Va. my oh my. But, who would see it ?

Rene

(1,183 posts)
82. what a whimpy whiner
Wed Jun 27, 2018, 01:00 PM
Jun 2018

she treats the news reporters horribly I cringe with embarrasment that she;s a "spokesperson" and who are those women that scream for people to get out of the room at end of briefings....that is just AWFUL. a terrible way to treat people.

I am so thoroughly ashamed by who is in our White House....and how they all behave.. no class.

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