Secret Service staffing shortage prompts Trump campaign to move Wisconsin rally

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: CBS News

September 26, 2024 / 2:51 PM EDT


Former President Donald Trump's campaign scrapped plans for an upcoming outdoor rally in Wisconsin after the Secret Service said it did not have the personnel needed to secure the site, multiple sources told CBS News. The rally was set to take place outdoors at an airport on Saturday, but Trump will instead deliver remarks at a smaller indoor arena in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin.

The Secret Service said it was short-handed due to the ongoing annual meeting of the United Nations General Assembly in New York. The service is responsible for providing security for foreign dignitaries while they are in the U.S.

A senior Secret Service official briefed on the planning for the Wisconsin rally said the agency was "never configured to provide such an elevated level of protection for an increasing number of protected." The official was granted anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media.

"Our personnel and equipment are being pushed to their limits to sustain the current operational tempo," the official said. "This proposed Wisconsin event also took place during the United Nations General Assembly, where the Secret Service is responsible for the safety and security of over 140 world leaders amid a challenged global threat level."

Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-wisconsin-rally-secret-service/

[Oopsie Daisy]

1. LOL! I suspect that this story is invented or exaggerated to "explain away" and justify having a smaller venue *

* when the reality is likely that the larger venue would look obviously under-filled and empty.

[AZ8theist]

10. I think you may be right!

Since when does the SS publicly discuss details of their "operational tempo"???

[forgotmylogin]

12. Por que no los dos?

Both things can be true!

[onetexan]

13. yup, my first instinct as well

[Pinback]

14. The rally has been moved to the First Baptist Church basement.

Bring a covered dish and say hi to your neighbors.

Attendees will each receive 1 share of DJT stock!

[Oopsie Daisy]

15. The funniest jokes are the ones that could maybe be true...

[bucolic_frolic]

2. Congress feels great! More money, too iate to hire anyone on the fly

[johnnyplankton]

3. Maybe he'll hold it at a McDonald's and kill 2 birds with one stone...

(He's been saying at rallies that he'll go to Mickey D's and man the grill for a half-hour because Kamala worked there in college)

[brewens]

4. Nothing prevents them from hiring all the security they need. If he did, he sure as shit wouldn't pay what he reamed us

for at MAGA-Lardo.

[usonian]

5. If the Secret Service removed every kook and gun nut from a Trump rally

there would be nobody left in the crowd.

[BumRushDaShow]

6. ...

[cstanleytech]

7. Uh huh, I suspect it is an attempt to slow the speed at which people can flee from his rallys.

[twodogsbarking]

8. Can't they hold it at a school. That would be safe, right.

[niyad]

9. Prairie du Chien, WI, pop.5,506 per 2020 census.

[LeftInTX]

11. At least he's taking their advice for once!