President Donald Trump removed Hunter and Ashley Biden’s Secret Service detail after learning of the ‘ridiculous’ cost to taxpayers in a move that will definitely leaves Joe Biden red faced.
Joe Biden gave his children six months of Secret Service protection after he left office. He’s not the first president to do so. Trump also gave his children six months of protection after his first term. – he extended Secret Service protection to his four adult children for six months after he left office in 2021.
But Trump blasted Biden’s son for going to South Africa and taking his detail, citing the high cost to the U.S. taxpayer. Hunter’s wife Melissa Cohen is originally from South Africa.
Hunter has 18 agents. Ashley has 13 in her detail.
The president’s announcement came hours after a reporter asked Trump about Hunter’s detail. The president said he had not been aware of it but would look into it.
‘Hunter Biden has had Secret Service protection for an extended period of time, all paid for by the United States Taxpayer.
The cost to the taxpayer could run up to $500,000. Additionally, the Secret Service is stretched thin given their protection of President Trump and his children.
Trump continued, ‘There are as many as 18 people on this Detail, which is ridiculous! He is currently vacationing in, of all places, South Africa, where the Human Rights of people has been strenuously questioned,’ Trump wrote on Truth Social.
‘Because of this, South Africa has been taken off our list of Countries receiving Economic and Financial Assistance. Please be advised that, effective immediately, Hunter Biden will no longer receive Secret Service protection. Likewise, Ashley Biden who has 13 agents will be taken off the list.’
Ashley Biden lives and works in Philadelphia.
Typically, former presidents and first ladies are protected by Secret Service for life, but their children are not guaranteed protection after they turn 16 unless the president gives it to them.
Hunter Biden was photographed in Cape Town last week, staying in a $500-a-night beachfront villa.
The Biden children aren’t the only ones to lose their government protection. In the first month of his presidency Trump removed security details for his former National Security Adviser John Bolton and Dr. Anthony Fauci.
