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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHere is the phone number for the US Secret Service....
202-406-5708. Call them and report the threat made by Trump. If they get enough calls maybe they'll do it. I'm making my call after dinner. Let's do it.
Trust Buster
(7,299 posts)already done. She's a disgrace.
still_one
(92,454 posts)emulatorloo
(44,211 posts)still_one
(92,454 posts)mrmpa
(4,033 posts)I'm confused.
still_one
(92,454 posts)3. This kind of call could be interpreted as disrupting the operation of the secret service
But please go at it. I don't think screwing around with the secret service is a wise move
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)" call could be interpreted as disrupting the operation of the secret service..."
What specifically leads you to believe that?
still_one
(92,454 posts)Trust Buster
(7,299 posts)emulatorloo
(44,211 posts)is a good idea. As in wastes their time.
blogslut
(38,019 posts)This is unwise, unsafe and unnecessary.
Warning - autoplay video at the link: http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2016-08-09/trump-suggests-second-amendment-people-could-stop-clinton
Trust Buster
(7,299 posts)a threat. This is serious. I will not surrender my country to this fool.
Drahthaardogs
(6,843 posts)They are hardly set up to handle an influx of complaints about Donald Trump. Do you want to start an online petition too? They are already understaffed, overworked, and underpaid.
I can assure you they all let out a collective "Ah FUCK", when this jackass spouted this remark. Their job just got harder because there are indeed loons in this country who will probably heed Donald's call to arms against Hillary. They are well aware of what just happened and they are more concerned with keeping her and Bill safe now than answering silly phone calls.
They don't need this.
Travis_0004
(5,417 posts)The secret service is already aware of the issue, and a few hundred people wasting their time is not going to help things.
Trust Buster
(7,299 posts)Big_K
(237 posts)Think about what the agents protecting Clinton must think. Their job just got harder and they personally are more in danger. If I was one of Trump's Secret Service agents, I'd pull that POS aside and tell him to knock it the fuck off.
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)Don't waste their time and phone lines.
Several teams of armed highly trained men surround the candidates 24/7. They've got this.
Trust Buster
(7,299 posts)NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)They are some of the best trained, hardest working professional agents I've ever had the pleasure to work with.
You're messed up if you think they are behind a threat to Hillary.
Trust Buster
(7,299 posts)mrmpa
(4,033 posts)but if there is inaction, what does that say?
yeoman6987
(14,449 posts)All they have to do is take him aside and investigate.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,047 posts)They are not a polling outfit. They do not choose what action to take depending on whether there are 100 calls for one tip or 100,000.
The agents were there. They heard it live and in person.
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)napkinz
(17,199 posts)By Doug G. Ware
Aug. 9, 2016
WILMINGTON, N.C., Aug. 9 (UPI) -- The U.S. Secret Service could potentially take a step unprecedented in American political history -- investigate one of the candidates it is assigned to protect.
The agency said it is "aware" of a remark made by GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump at a North Carolina campaign stop on Tuesday, which appeared to some a thinly-veiled quip about threatening Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton with gun violence.
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2016/08/09/Secret-Service-aware-of-Trumps-2nd-Amendment-remark-about-Clinton/4071470788911/
?@SecretService
The Secret Service is aware of the comments made earlier this afternoon.
https://twitter.com/SecretService
ileus
(15,396 posts)ileus
(15,396 posts)You know they're wanting to anyway, that's why the own guns. (or so I keep reading from the banner types)