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Two days can change everything. As Trump walked to his chair at the Republican National Convention hall in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, it was clear that Saturday’s incident was anything but a distant memory. While Trump seemed relaxed, smiling and bearing only a small bandage on his right ear, he was surrounded by a clearly reinforced
A large number of Secret Service agents walked behind, in front of, and alongside Trump in very close proximity. The number of agents assigned to the rope line separating Trump from convention attendees was also unusually large. Befitting the political pageantry of convention events, the Secret Service will normally maintain at least a pretense of distance from a protectee as said person walks to his or her seat or the stage.
Not so here. In an obvious Secret Service effort to ensure maximal protection for Trump’s person and to deter copycat attackers from aspiring to replicate would-be assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks’s antics on Saturday, Trump walked within a de facto human fortress on Monday., the Secret Service has assigned Trump a HAMMER team. The HAMMER unit serves as the Secret Service’s tactical response team for critical medical, chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear events.
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