Trump Demands Military Aircraft Protect Him In Final Weeks Of Campaign

The Trump campaign is demanding that the federal government provide him with military aircraft to travel in during the final weeks of the campaign because Donald Trump is afraid that Iran is going to try to kill him. The request came weeks after stories suggested that Iran had been working on assassination plans, though none of those plans seemed to be viable or even possible. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins explains what’s happening.

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Donald Trump's campaign has decided to take the unprecedented step of asking, well, technically demanding that the federal government give him not only military aircraft to travel in, but also to institute no fly zones over all of his properties and give him fully armored military vehicles to travel around in as he finishes his campaign. Now, the reason that the Trump campaign, in fact, it was campaign co-manager Susie Wiles, that put in this ridiculous request to the Secret Service. The reason they're doing, uh, reason they're doing this, excuse me, is because of the recent reports that suggest that the country of Iran was somehow working on assassination plans of Donald Trump, which of course never actually materialized in any real RA way to constitute a real threat. But nevertheless, Trump says, Hey, Iran wants to kill me, so you have to give me military equipment so that I can go about the country and do my stupid little rallies.

Here is what the Washington Post has reported in emails over the past two weeks from campaign manager Susie Wiles to Ronald Rowe Jr. The head of the Secret Service. She expressed displeasure with the Secret Service and said that the campaign recently had to cancel a public event at the last minute because of a quote, lack of personnel from the Secret Service. Instead only putting Trump in a small room with reporters while said, Trump's campaign is being hampered in its planning because of threats and expects to hold far more events in the final weeks of the campaign. She also wrote that the US government has not been able to provide with the campaign views as an extensive enough plan to protect Trump. Representative Michael Waltz, a Republican from Florida, a Trump ally also wrote a letter to the Secret Service asking for military aircraft or additional protection for Trump's private plane.

According to a copy of the letter reviewed by the Post, now, the Secret Service is maintained saying like, listen, we, we we're giving you everything we've got. We're giving you the best possible protection. Yes, we know we had the event in Butler, Pennsylvania. Everybody dropped the ball on that. There's no doubt about it. But since then, we've tightened up, okay? But we're, we're not going to let you fly around in a military airplane and then get in an up armored Humvee to go from the airport to your rally. Like, we don't do that. That's literally never been done in the history of campaigning here in the United States. What they have done, however, is instituted these like temporary, no-fly zones over Donald Trump's properties, which for

The record is also unprecedented. But if you're in an airplane and you wanna fly over Mar-a-Lago, you're gonna quickly be intercepted by military air aircraft or just straight up shot down. So they're doing what they can and what they can, by the way, seems to be a hell of a lot. But here's what Donald Trump wants. We know that this man wants to be a dictator. He is not shy about saying that dictators don't fly around and drive in regular cars. Heck no. They get the military, they have that show of force everywhere they go, and that's what Donald Trump wants. It's not because he's afraid of an assassin, it's because he wants to look stronger. And with the Secret Service denying this request, it also works in his favor. 'cause now he gets to say, oh, the government, they won't even protect me. I'm out here all alone. There's nobody to save me. You people have to protect me 'cause the government has turned its back on me. They want something to happen to me. That'll be the talking point. So even though he lost this fight, he still wins because he gets to use it and say, oh, they're intentionally putting me in harm's way.