Invasion Of The Orangemen

Nothing to be alarmed about folks, President Hair Furor is only going to have his own private security force on top of any Secret Service protection, even after he takes office in January, in order to "deal with protesters" at the rallies and events he continues to want to have.

President-elect Donald Trump has continued employing a private security and intelligence team at his victory rallies, and he is expected to keep at least some members of the team after he becomes president, according to people familiar with the plans. 

The arrangement represents a major break from tradition. All modern presidents and presidents-elect have entrusted their personal security entirely to the Secret Service, and their event security mostly to local law enforcement, according to presidential security experts and Secret Service sources.

But Trump — who puts a premium on loyalty and has demonstrated great interest in having forceful security at his events — has opted to maintain an aggressive and unprecedented private security force, led by Keith Schiller, a retired New York City cop and Navy veteran who started working for Trump in 1999 as a part-time bodyguard, eventually rising to become his head of security. 

Security officials warn that employing private security personnel heightens risks for the president-elect and his team, as well as for protesters, dozens of whom have alleged racial profiling, undue force or aggression at the hands Trump’s security, with at least 10 joining a trio of lawsuits now pending against Trump, his campaign or its security. 

“It’s playing with fire,” said Jonathan Wackrow, a former Secret Service agent who worked on President Barack Obama’s protective detail during his 2012 reelection campaign. Having a private security team working events with Secret Service “increases the Service’s liability, it creates greater confusion and it creates greater risk,” Wackrow said. 

“You never want to comingle a police function with a private security function,” he said, adding, “If you talk to the guys on the detail and the guys who are running the rallies, that’s been a little bit difficult because it’s so abnormal.”

The word you need to be using isn't "abnormal" it's "authoritarian".  Private security details without public oversight and answerable only to Trump, "controlling" protesters?  That's what dictators do, guys.  This is the Orange Brigades here, Trump's private army. These are the actions of a man who knows just how much the people hate him and he doesn't care.

If Obama had done this in 2008 or especially 2012, he'd have been impeached the moment one of these guys tried to cash a paycheck.

This is a serious, serious problem and nobody seems to care to try to do anything about it.