Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2017/08/ex-secret-service-agent-debunks-usa-todays-fake-news-on-trump/#LRLrc3odeGP8xRzU.99That’s fake news, contends former Secret Service agent Dan Bongino, arguing the story, “Secret Service depletes funds to pay agents because of Trump’s frequent travel, large family,” leaves the reader with the false impression Trump is bilking taxpayers.
The story quotes Secret Service Director Randolph “Tex” Alles saying that “more than 1,000 agents have already hit the federally mandated caps for salary and overtime allowances that were meant to last the entire year.”
“The president has a large family, and our responsibility is required in law,” Alles said. “I can’t change that. I have no flexibility.”
Bongino, writing at ConservativeReview.com, said the reason the Secret Service is forced to work its agents on unsustainable overtime and travel schedules has little to do with the size of Trump’s family.
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“The portfolio of protectees expanded dramatically after the September 11 attacks during the G.W. Bush administration, too,” he said. “It also has little to do with the travel schedule. Barack Obama kept a heavy travel schedule throughout most of his presidency. It has everything to do with the Secret Service’s unsustainable, and growing, portfolio of responsibilities outside the protection sphere.”
Bongino, who joined the Secret Service in 1999 and resigned in 2011, is the author of the New York Times bestseller “Life Inside the Bubble: Why a Top-Ranked Secret Service Agent Walked Away From It All.
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2017/08/ex-secret-service-agent-debunks-usa-todays-fake-news-on-trump/#LRLrc3odeGP8xRzU.99
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