Trump hails secret service’s ‘vicious dogs’ & ‘ominous weapons’ ready to push back WH protesters

30 May, 2020 13:18 / Updated 5 minutes ago

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US President Donald Trump has fired off a series of tweets in which he boasted about the effective security measures used to keep the White House safe during protests in the capital.

He began by thanking the US Secret Service for their “totally professional” and “very cool” handling of demonstrators who gathered outside the president’s residence. But the praise quickly took an unexpected turn, with Trump theorizing about what would have happened to any protesters had they managed to scale the White House fence.

Donald J. Trump

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Great job last night at the White House by the U.S. @SecretService. They were not only totally professional, but very cool. I was inside, watched every move, and couldn’t have felt more safe. They let the “protesters” scream & rant as much as they wanted, but whenever someone....

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“Big crowd, professionally organized, but nobody came close to breaching the fence. If they had they would have been greeted with the most vicious dogs, and most ominous weapons, I have ever seen. That’s when people would have been really badly hurt, at least,” he wrote.

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