Trump to resume outdoor rallies after Secret Service proposes new security plan: Report



Former President Donald Trump will resume his outdoor rallies after the Secret Service made an exception for him to be protected by bulletproof glass, according to multiple reports.

The Secret Service plans to surround Trump's podium with bulletproof glass, two federal law enforcement officials told CBS News. Citing "multiple sources," ABC News confirmed the report of the Secret Service utilizing bulletproof glass to protect the former president.

'This isn't just a piece of glass but a large, bulky, and heavy armored glass that will require extensive logistics capability, normally reserved for large-scale outdoor events.'

The Secret Service declined to comment on the report to both news outlets.

Trump campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung told ABC News that the campaign does not comment on security measures relating to former President Trump.

The security measure is typically reserved for protecting sitting presidents. However, the Secret Service is making an exception for Trump following the assassination attempt against him during his July 13 rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.

The use of ballistic glass was first proposed by former Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle shortly after the assassination attempt but before her resignation from the agency.

Retired senior Secret Service agent Don Mihalek told ABC News, "The Secret Service use of UpArmored glass around former President Trump is another step to ensure the campaign is and remains secure. This isn't just a piece of glass but a large, bulky, and heavy armored glass that will require extensive logistics capability, normally reserved for large-scale outdoor events."

The assassination attempt against Trump was the first attempted assassination of a presidential candidate since George Wallace in March 1972. Wallace was shot four times and paralyzed from the waist down from the shooting in Laurel, Maryland.

Following the shooting, the Secret Service reportedly urged Trump not to hold any outdoor rallies ahead of the 2024 presidential election.

On July 23, NBC News reported that Trump planned to stop holding outdoor rallies, according to two sources familiar with his campaign’s operations.

Since the July 13 assassination attempt, Trump has held nearly a dozen campaign events; all of them have been held indoors.

On July 31, Trump said he isn't "giving up on the outdoor rallies" during a campaign rally at an indoor arena in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

"They'd prefer that we be in an arena. I don't know why. But we're not giving up the outdoor rallies," Trump told the crowd. "You know, all those people that we had to turn away today, at an outdoor rally you can have."

Weeks before the Butler shooting, there were reportedly intelligence reports that Iran was plotting an assassination attempt against Trump, allegedly prompting the Secret Service to beef up security around the former president.

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Hillary Clinton compares Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler, says MAGA supporters are like Nazis



Hillary Clinton recently likened former President Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler. She also compared MAGA supporters at Friday's Trump rally to Nazis.

Earlier this month, Trump held a rally in Youngstown, Ohio. Near the conclusion of the rally, some Trump supporters made a one-finger gesture that was likely an endorsement of the QAnon conspiracy theory.

Trump held his latest rally in Wilmington, North Carolina. During Friday's event, a handful of attendees made the pointing finger gesture. However, security at the Trump event are seen on video asking people to stop making the hand motion.

\u201cWhen the crowd holds up their fingers again at the Trump rally tonight to give the QAnon sign, security moves through them and has them put it down.\u201d
— Ron Filipkowski \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\udde6 (@Ron Filipkowski \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\udde6) 1663984595

PBS "NewsHour" correspondent Lisa Desjardins was at Friday night's rally, and said, "Confirmed with people at Trump rally who held 1 finger up that they meant it as a symbol of QAnon’s 'Where We Go One We Go All' and further… Security staff here fanned out and told people to take down their fingers. That is a reason why – maybe main reason - we saw fewer" finger gestures than in the previous rally.

"The man in this photo held up 1 finger and told me he meant it as a WWG1WGA sign – and then the security guard in the next photo told him to take it down. He was furious 'that's my Constitutional right!' The man in the crowd told me after I saw that interaction happen," Desjardins wrote on Twitter.

Desjardins said the security staff "clearly had been directed to watch for this kind of gesture and to shut it down."

\u201cThe man in this photo held up 1 finger and told me he meant it as a WWG1WGA sign - and then the security guard in the next photo told him to take it down.\n\nHe was furious \u201cthats my Constitutional right!\u201d the man in the crowd told me after I saw that interaction happen.\u201d
— Lisa Desjardins (@Lisa Desjardins) 1663975110

Hillary Clinton said the MAGA supporters making the finger gesture were like Adolf Hitler supporters doing the Sieg Heil salute of the Nazis.

On Friday, Clinton spoke at the Texas Tribune Festival in Austin, Texas.

Clinton said, "I remember as a young student, you know, trying to figure out, how people get basically brought in by Hitler. How did that happen? I'd watch newsreels and I'd see this guy standing up there ranting and raving, and people shouting and raising their arms. I thought, 'What's happened to these people? Why do they believe that?'"

She continued, "You saw the rally in Ohio the other night, Trump is there ranting and raving for more than an hour, and you have these rows of young men with their arms raised. I thought, 'What is going on?'"

Clinton theorized, "So there is a real pressure – and I think it is fair to say we're in a struggle between democracy and autocracy."

\u201cHillary Clinton likens Trump supporters to Nazis during remarks at the Texas Tribune Festival in Austin\n\n"What\u2019s happened to these people?"\n\nhttps://t.co/fWLON5d2b3\u201d
— Jon Levine (@Jon Levine) 1664029708

Taylor Budowich – a spokesman for Trump – blasted Clinton for "using some of the most disgusting smears imaginable."

"It seems like perpetual-failed-candidate Hillary Clinton’s basket of deplorables has run stale, not unlike herself," Budowich told Fox News. "It's pathetic, it’s divisive, and it is further cementing her legacy of cringe."

During the 2016 presidential campaign, then-candidate Hillary Clinton denigrated half of Trump's supporters as a "basket of deplorables."

"You know, just to be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables," Clinton said in September 2016. "The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic — you name it. And unfortunately there are people like that. And he has lifted them up."

Earlier this month, President Joe Biden proclaimed that Trump and MAGA Republicans "represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic."

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Trump to hold in-person White House event on Saturday, head to Florida on Monday for first rally since COVID-19 diagnosis



President Donald Trump will hold an in-person event at the White House on Saturday, less than a week after he was hospitalized at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center to treat his coronavirus diagnosis. President Trump will also return to the campaign trail with a rally in Florida on Monday, his first public gathering since announcing his COVID-19 diagnosis 10 days ago.

On Saturday, President Trump will hold an in-person event, where he will give his address from the balcony of the White House. Trump's speech is titled "Remarks to Peaceful Protesters for Law & Order," according to an invitation.

ABC News reports that the event is scheduled in conjunction with a previously planned event organized by conservative activist Candace Owens, founder of the Blexit organization, a movement that encourages minorities to "realize the American Dream" and not to blindly support the Democratic party.

"He'll address the crowd from the Truman Balcony off of the Blue Room, a large state room on the main floor of the White House. More than two thousand guests have been invited, according to a person familiar with the event," Politico reports.

Attendees will begin to arrive at the White House South Lawn at 11:30 a.m., and the president will speak at 2 p.m., according to an invitation.

"All attendees are required to bring masks with them, and they will be instructed to wear them while on the White House grounds," a source told CNBC. "The participants must also submit to a coronavirus 'screening,' the source said, which will include a temperature check and a brief questionnaire."

"The health and safety of all attendees is our priority and following CDC guidelines is strongly encouraged," the source said.

On Thursday, White House physician Dr. Sean Conley said in a memo that he fully anticipates "the president's safe return to public engagements" on Saturday. Conley said President Trump has responded "extremely well to treatment" and there are no signs of "adverse therapeutic effects." Conley added that the president's condition "has remained stable and devoid of any indications to suggest progression of illness."

Throughout the week, Trump has said that he no longer experiences any COVID-19 symptoms.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention states that people with no coronavirus symptoms "can be with others after 10 days have passed" since a positive viral test for COVID-19.

President Trump will resume his reelection rallies on Monday in Sanford, Florida. The president's MAGA rally will be held at the Orlando Sanford International Airport, a makeup date for the event that was canceled when Trump was first diagnosed with coronavirus.

Attendees of the rally will need to sign a coronavirus liability waiver.

"By registering for this event, you understand and expressly acknowledge that an inherent risk of exposure to COVID-19 exists in any public place where people are present. In attending the event, you and any guests voluntarily assume all risks related to exposure to COVID-19, and waive, release, and discharge Donald J. Trump for President, Inc.; the host venue; or any of their affiliates, directors, officers, employees, agents, contractors, or volunteers from any and all liability under any theory, whether in negligence or otherwise, for any illness or injury."

On Thursday, Trump said he wanted to do a rally in Pennsylvania the day after the Florida campaign event.

Several members of Trump's orbit have also recently tested positive for coronavirus, including former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany, immigration policy advisor Stephen Miller, senior White House adviser Hope Hicks, former counselor to the president Kellyanne Conway, and first lady Melania Trump.