Trump now receiv­ing ‘approx­i­mate’ lev­el of secu­ri­ty as Biden: May­orkas

Home­land Secu­ri­ty Sec­re­tary Ale­jan­dro May­orkas said for­mer Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump’s Secret Ser­vice pro­tec­tion is com­pa­ra­ble to that of Pres­i­dent Joe Biden fol­low­ing the sec­ond assas­si­na­tion attempt over the week­end.
May­orkas told atten­dees at a Politi­co sum­mit Tues­day after­noon in Wash­ing­ton that the DHS agency had increased the Repub­li­can pres­i­den­tial nominee’s lev­el of pro­tec­tion.
“Should [Trump] get the same lev­el of secu­ri­ty as sit­ting pres­i­dents? There’s now been bipar­ti­san calls for that,” Politi­co Mag­a­zine senior writer Ankush Khardori asked.
“The Unit­ed States Secret Ser­vice has indeed enhanced the for­mer president’s secu­ri­ty …