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Calls Grow to Increase Former President Donald Trump’s Security

WSJ What’s News

The Wall Street Journal

Daily News, News

4.14.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2024

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

P.M. Edition for Sept. 16. The Wall Street Journal’s Ryan Barber on why the U.S. Secret Service is rethinking its approach to the presidential candidates’ protection. And the U.S. power grid survived another brutal summer, but just barely. Energy reporter Katherine Blunt on what it needs to keep going. Plus, Boeing freezes hiring, as it buckles in for what could be a costly strike. Tracie Hunte hosts. Sign up for the WSJ's free What's News newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Calls grow to boost Donald Trump's security amid concerns about candidate safety.

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Trump's status as a former president who's also now the nominee again is really

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prompting this wider reassessment of the Secret Services calculus here.

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And Boeing issues a hiring freeze as it grapples with a costly strike.

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Plus, the U.S. Paragrid barely survived a brutal summer. What needs to happen to keep it going.

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that move the world today.

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The suspected gunman in yesterday's apparent assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump appeared in a Florida courtroom today.

1:09.0

Ryan Wesley Ruth is facing several federal gun charges, including possessing a firearm with a wiped out serial number and having a gun despite being a felon.

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The FBI is investigating the incident as an assassination attempt, the second threat on Trump's life in as many months.

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Trump said today that the suspect was influenced by Democrats, many of whom have portrayed him as a threat to democracy.

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Both President Joe Biden and Trump's Democratic rival Vice President Kamala Harris

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has said they were briefed on the incident and condemned political violence.

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The apparent assassination attempt

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spurred more calls to increase the former president security and raised

1:49.2

fresh doubts about whether the Secret Service is capable of protecting both presidential candidates

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giving the rising risk of political violence.

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