Just where do the US Secret Service executive detail's loyalties lie?
And how robust is that?
There'd been a brief discussion of this late last month on Mastodon.
It turns out that the US was far closer to testing this on Jan 6, 2021 then we'd previously realised. From the Washington Post about a week ago:
Former Secret Service agents and national security officials emphasized the even more horrible events that could have unfolded on Jan. 6 if either Pence’s or Trump’s detail leaders had made different choices. They described the unimaginable scenario in which the president and vice president set out on a violent collision course at the Capitol, two leaders with opposing goals meeting up, accompanied by their dueling security guards and Trump’s chaotic army of protesters. Trump, after all, had been pressuring Pence to refuse to go along with the final count of electors, and some rioters were chanting, “Hang Mike Pence!”
Secret Service detail against Secret Service detail.
Mastodon thread for those interested: https://mastodon.social/@thomasfuchs/108556735275891866
