Yesterday, CBS ran an amusing story headlined “Trump administration pulls security detail from Mike Pompeo and former special envoy on Iran.” It is widely believed that, while he was CIA Director, Pompeo sabotaged Trump’s attempt to declassify the Crossfire Hurricane binder, which would have completely exonerated the President.
Yesterday, Mockingbird Media chirruped questions at Trump about his stripping security details from Pompeo, John Bolton, and curiously, Trump’s former Iran envoy Brian Hook. Trump shrugged and answered, “when you have protection, you can't have it for the rest of your life.” He then added, offhand, “I mean, there's risks to everything.”
He should know.
Even if he wouldn’t, CBS inadvertently made the case for Trump. First of all, CBS reported that security for just Pompeo and Hook costs two million dollars a month. For Portlanders, that amounts to an eye-watering twenty-four million dollars a year. For just two retired diplomats.
Twenty-four million a year is insane. And that gold-standard security must have especially aggravated the President, who got the D-team protecting him during the election, and wound up getting shot by an amateur, untrained, 22-year-old, first-time wannabe assassin.
CBS’s second and more compelling point was that Trump didn’t start it. According to CBS, in August 2023, the Biden Administration canceled security protection for Trump’s former National Security Adviser Robert O'Brien, who at that time was facing credible and continuing death threats from Iran for his role in the strike on Iranian General Qassem Soleimani. Various Congressmen begged Biden to reconsider, but O’Brien never got his security back.
In other words, Biden did it first. So.
CBS listed a few examples of other former officials who are still receiving security coverage. Interestingly, General Mark Milley (Ret.) was one. Infamously, During Trump’s first term, Milley assured his Chinese counterpart that he would warn China
ahead of time if Trump ever moved to declare war. Then Milley bragged about that act of treason, causing folks to question his general sanity and ask for a wellness check.
Given how things are going, General Milley might want to get some quotes for
private security.
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