Donald Trump’s campaign has started using plainclothes private intelligence officers to identify and forcibly remove protesters from the GOP candidate’s often rowdy rallies, according to a Tuesday Politico report.
Politico reported that several members of Trump’s private security detail dressed in street clothes for a Friday rally in New Orleans. One of those security officers, Eddie Deck, told reporters that he was tasked with intelligence work researching potential protesters.
The article also charges that Trump’s plainclothes security guards helped escort Black Lives Matter demonstrators from the rally in New Orleans.
Trump campaign spokeswoman Hope Hicks did not respond to Politico’s request for comment.
Protesters affiliated with Black Lives Matter and pro-immigrant groups are a fixture at Trump’s packed campaign events, and security is tight as a result. In addition to his private security team, Trump has had a Secret Service detail accompany him on the campaign trail since November.
Last week, a Secret Service agent slammed a Time magazine photographer to the ground after he stepped outside the press pen to take pictures of a group of protesters being removed from a Virginia rally. Local police say the Trump campaign asked them to remove a group of black students from a Friday event at Georgia’s Valdosta State University, too.
Ah, nothing like some good ol’ brownshirt activity to ensure that no dissenters are in the audience.
Same thing with the Nazi Salute-- helps to identify who didn’t salute at your local Trump Nuremburg Rally, so you can persecute them later.
Your remarks are great.
And they are NOT snark to me in any way
Beat me to the punch. I was going to comment that their clothes may be plain, but their shirts are all the same shade of brown.
I’m not sure the Third Reich reference is appropriate here.
These are infiltrators and secret informants – not just thugs, but snitches.
I prefer an obvious Post-War reference.
#TrumpStasi
Right, plainclothes: plain brown wrappers, in fact.