re: Are the secret service more like navy seals or the poofy hat redcoats in London

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If you’re talking plainsclothes SS and you get close enough to “frick with them” they will frick you up

Uniformed SS is a different story

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One experience from the 2016 NRA-ILA Forum. I'm disabled so they had to get the bomb dog out to check me. Then the only way to get down to the media section on the floor was through the back stage area. I dealt with a ton of uniformed SS individuals. My impression was that they were very competent and vigilant (especially for a guy who wasn't president yet) but were professionals in being polite with the public. Conversely I saw pictures of several sharp shooters up on the roof of an adjacent building. I also saw plain clothes guys in back who cycled out into the crowd as the public was let in. My impression was that people respect the suits more while the plain clothes would kick the uniformed's asses.

The funny thing about it all is 1 year earlier (before the Golden escalator ride) Trump held a press scrum out in the hallway. Watching the last two days has me amazed at the number of SS he has with him.

I'll be interested next Friday when he speaks at the NRA-ILA Forum in Indy. I have a strong feeling that it's going to be a circus with all the left wing nuts. Of course Hogg is too big of a coward to show up and protest himself.