After House Democrats proposed regulations to reduce his Secret Service protection, past president Donald Trump was hurt in an assassination attempt at a Pennsylvania protest on Saturday.
The Denying Infinite Security and Government Resources Allocated to Convicted and Extremely Dishonorable Former Protectees Act ( HR 8081 ), introduced by Democrat Bennie Thompson, the ranking member of the House Committee on Homeland Security on April 19. Democrat Reps. Yvette D. Clarke, Troy A. Carter Sr., Frederica Wilson, Bonnie Watson Coleman, Jasmine Crockett, Joyce Beatty, Barbara Lee, and Steve Cohen co-sposnsored the act.
In a fact sheet containing the act, Thompson wrote in a fact sheet that” Former President Donald J. Trump’s extraordinary 91 felony charges in Federal and State courts across the country had created a fresh exigency that Congress had address to confirm Secret Service protection does not interfere with the judicial administrative process and the administration of justice.” The” Discrised Former Protectees Act” may forbid citizens from receiving Secret Service protection if they often met the requirements for it upon conviction for a national or state felony.
Thompson tweeted a reaction following the assassination attempt on Saturday night, writing he was “glad the former President is secure” and “grateful for law enforcement’s strong answer”. Trump was instantly rushed off the stage by the U.S. Secret Service shortly after shooting and killing the reported shooter.
Thompson, but, had previously expressed motives to cancel Trump’s Secret Service protection if a criminal conviction resulted in a jail sentence. Thompson called Trump’s then-pending criminal conviction a “regrettable” and “unthought-of circumstance” and wanted to ensure he received no” special care” if imprisoned.  ,
Thompson did not respond to the Federalist’s request for comment on how he views his DISGRACE Act in illumination of the assassination attempt against former President Trump on Saturday.
The House Committee on the Judiciary is currently awaiting more action while the bill was referred to it. Following a lawfare test in May, Trump was found guilty of 34 felonies. Sentencing is scheduled for Sept. 18 and may involve jail time.  ,
A” source familiar with Trump’s security detail” previously told The Federalist that Trump’s “detail has been asking for beefed up protection and resources for weeks, but has been rebuffed time and again by Biden’s DHS” . ,
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an independent presidential candidate, has also been repeatedly denied security by the Department of Homeland Security ( DHS).
In rejecting Kennedy’s demand, Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas argued that safety was” not warranted at this time.” Kennedy’s attorney, Aaron Siri, managing partner of federal laws party Siri and Glimstad, wrote a letter to Mayorkas on March 29 calling these “repeated denials” of security and argument from the DHS “politically encouraged”.
” Your disregard for the health of Mr. Kennedy and others in his culture is disgusting”. Siri wrote in the text.
Monroe Harless is a summer apprentice at The Federalist. She recently earned degrees in political science and media from the University of Georgia.
