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Trump Wants Secret Service Protection

October 14, 2015 at 9:01 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 36 Comments

Donald Trump told The Hill that “the Secret Service should be giving him protection — and he suggested partisan politics might be why the agency isn’t providing it.”

Said Trump: “I want to put them on notice because they should have a liability. Personally, I think if Obama were doing as well as me he would’ve had Secret Service [earlier]. I have by far the biggest crowds.”

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