Secret Service to Protect Trump, Carson as Threats Grow
By Todd Beamon | Saturday, 17 Oct 2015 05:45 PM

The Secret Service will give agent protection to Ben Carson and Donald Trump while heavily upgrading Hillary Clinton's existing detail, a Washington source close to the agency’s plans confirmed to Newsmax.

The deployment of agents around Republican candidates Trump and Carson is set to begin as early as next week. Approximately two dozen agents will be assigned to each candidate.

Clinton, the Democratic front-runner, has had Secret Service protection since leaving the White House as first lady in 2001, but her detail will be heavily upgraded by the agency’s move.

The agency's decision was primarily triggered by a significant number of threats to Carson, including death threats and terrorist chatter, the source said.

The threats to the retired pediatric neurosurgeon have been "off the charts," the source said. Polls show Carson either tied with Trump for front-runner status or in second place.

Armstrong Williams, Carson's business manager, told Newsmax he could neither "confirm nor deny" the Secret Service protection. “We don’t comment on security matters involving Dr. Carson,” he said.

But Newsmax has learned that the Secret Service and other federal agencies, including the FBI, became increasingly alarmed in recent weeks as their own monitoring activities indicated that Carson faced serious danger.

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

Unlike Carson, Republican front-runner Trump has officially requested Secret Service protection.

The billionaire noted that he has drawn "by far the biggest crowds" of any candidate at his events. He also said that President Barack Obama had received protection at this stage of his first campaign in 2008.

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

Eric Trump, one of the candidate's three sons, also expressed concerns about his father's safety on the campaign trail. Trump has five children.

"My father's my best friend," Eric Trump told Fox News on Friday. "He's my idol. He's my boss.

"We work side by side. We spend every weekend together," he added. "He's really my best friend in the world."

The younger Trump estimated that as many as 30,000 or more people have been attending Trump rallies.

"There's mobs of people, and the energy, it's incredible," Eric Trump said. "But it really only takes one."

Read Latest Breaking News from Newsmax.com http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/trump-c.../#ixzz3osH7phnb

Quote: Rufus T Firefly wrote in post #3

---

Zitat

---

while heavily upgrading Hillary Clinton's existing detail

---

Off topic, but can you imaging being an SS agent assigned to that detail? I wonder if supervisors use that as punishment - as in " . . . late for work again today, Agent Smith? Well, I'm putting you on the Hilliary Xlinton detail for the next week. And if you're late again, you'll be on it for a month."

---

ROFLMA