Is Trump At Rrisk of Assassination? What Ronald Reagan’sson Said About President Elect’s Safety

Former President Ronald Reagan’s son, Michael, tweeted Thursday he is concerned over President-elect Donald Trump’s safety.

Reagan Legacy Foundation head Michael Reagan on 'PoliticKING with Larry King' on June 11, 2015. [Ora.tv]

President Reagan was shot and seriously wounded March 30, 1981, as
he exited the Washington Hilton Hotel in the nation’s capital. The
gunman, John Hinckley Jr., thought he could impress actress Jodie Foster
with the action. He was sentenced to a mental facility but was declared
competent and freed in September.

Michael Reagan tweeted he is concerned about Trump because “my father was shot by a crazy, there are more now.”

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Trump has a personal bodyguard, former New York Police detective
Keith Schiller, and is planning to install him at the White House,
People.com reported. Politico reported
last month Trump plans to continue using private security after he is
sworn in, an arrangement that breaks with tradition. All modern
presidents and presidents-elect have trusted the Secret Service to for
their safety.

Trump spent more than $1 million on security during his campaign,
Federal Election Commission reports showed. Trump’s security force
traveled the country, supplementing the Secret Service and policing his
campaign appearances.

Schiller joined the Trump organization in 1999 and became director of security in 2004.
Protecting Trump could get costly, especially if he decides to spend time in New York. Officials say it costs $500,000 a day to protect the president-elect.

New York Police have asked Congress for $35 million to reimburse
the city for costs of protecting Trump during the transition period, but
so far, only $7 million has been offered, John Miller, deputy
commissioner of intelligence and counterterrorism, told WNYM, New York, in mid-December.

“It’s not fair to New York City because ... this is an unfunded federal mandate," he said.

"We really won’t be able to gauge the long-term costs … until we
know: Is he coming home every weekend? Is he stopping in on week nights?
Is he taking vacations here?”

Four U.S. presidents have been assassinated: Abraham Lincoln, James
Garfield, William McKinley and John F. Kennedy. There have also been a
number of attempted assassinations, the first against Andrew Jackson in
1835 outside the Capitol. Attempts also were made against William Howard
Taft, Theodore Roosevelt, Herbert Hoover, Franklin Roosevelt (which
resulted in the death of Chicago Mayor Anton Cermak), Harry S. Truman,
Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Bill
Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama.

Is Trump At Rrisk of Assassination? What Ronald Reagan’sson Said About President Elect’s Safety
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