There are some things you just cannot make up, readers, and one of them is just how dedicated the Democrat Party is to placating those in their ranks most prone to failing upwards. The poster child for this that immediately springs to mind when thinking about California, of course, is former Vice President Kamala Harris, who was a U.S. senator and district attorney before being elevated to the executive branch by the powers that be on the Left.
While it's unclear what Kamala plans to do next, we already know what she won't be doing: running for governor of California, and she won't be jaunting around on her new book tour in the company of Secret Service agents, as my colleague Rusty Weiss wrote in a Friday piece on President Trump getting rid of the extra year that Biden signed off on for his VP:
President Trump, in a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Thursday, revoked Secret Service protection from former Vice President Kamala Harris.
It was a directive necessitated by the fact that former President Joe Biden and/or his autopen had secretly authorized the detail to extend well beyond the standard term of protection for former Vice Presidents.
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Unbeknownst to everybody, Biden issued a directive granting Harris Secret Service protection for three times as long as other vice presidents by extending it for an additional full year.
As Weiss also notes in his story, the standard term for protection--which both former VPs Biden and Mike Pence had--is six months.
It was supposed to expire in July, folks.
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Now, if reports are accurate, it appears that California taxpayers will be on the hook for Kamala's protective detail--pardon me, "dignitary protection"-- from state law enforcement officers:
Former Vice President Kamala Harris will receive protection from the California Highway Patrol after President Trump revoked her Secret Service protection, law enforcement sources said Friday.
California officials put in place a plan to provide Harris with dignitary protection after Trump ended an arrangement that gave his opponent in last year’s election extended Secret Service security coverage.
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The decision came after Newsom’s office and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass were in discussions Thursday evening on how best to address the situation. Harris resides in the western portion of Los Angeles.
Color me not at all surprised by this turn of events. Show of hands: who remembers during the 2024 election when the Biden-Harris administration purposely gave more/better-qualified Secret Service agents to First Lady Jill Biden for an event the same weekend as then-candidate Donald Trump was stumping in Butler, PA? And that extra security requests were denied by the USSS for two years?
Anyway, Governor Gavin Newsom's office hasn't confirmed the report about the protection plan, but you can read between the lines on their statement via spokes-shill Izzy Gordon:
Our office does not comment on security arrangements. The safety of our public officials should never be subject to erratic, vindictive political impulses.
I doubt I'm alone in imagining this move was spawned by Kamala staffers hopping on the phone to state and local Democrats after Trump ditched her bonus privilege security on American taxpayers' dime.
It's not like the Golden State has other, more pressing problems it needs to be spending money on, as RedState's Sister Toldjah wrote on Friday, about just the latest promise to clean up California's massive homelessness crisis that Gov. Newsom will likely leave unfulfilled.
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