The Secret Service is mandated with providing lifetime protection to United States Presidents. With Donald Trump in prison, some folks voice reservations around this task. As I see it, lockup will significantly facilitate Donald’s safety.
Sitting and former Presidents are frequently, often unpredictably, on the move. For the Secret Service, this engenders complex logistical challenges. Shaking hands with a curbside crowd, campaigning in the Mall of America, standing before thousands at a rally, a Whopper at Burger King, in the Presidential Limo or Airforce One, North Dakota to Ukraine the Secret Service assumes a Bad Guy lurks around the next corner and pledges to “take one” for the PODUS.
Should the nightmare of a second Trump Administration ensue, inmate Donald’s activity would be rigidly structured and circumscribed. In the mess hall, common areas, on the “yard,” two or three Secret Service could remain within two steps of their Man. In guard towers, a couple could keep an eye on the general population. At night an agent could sit outside his cell door.
In deference to his position, through a doorway in his eight-by-ten cell, Trump could access a few-hundred-square-feet office, staffed twenty-four-seven by a couple of top-secret level assistants. From here, computers, speakers, and monitors would ensure real-time communication with anyone, anywhere on Earth. Cabinet meetings, conferences, speeches, and the State of the Union could be staged-managed.
To keep Donald Trump really safe, ”lock ‘im up!”
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