(TruthAndLiberty.com) – In mid-April, House Democrats introduced a bill to strip convicted felons of Secret Service protection, a move intended to target Trump.
During former President Donald Trump’s criminal trial over falsifying business records to cover hush money payments, Democratic Rep. Bennie Thompson (Mississippi), who chaired the disbanded January 6 Committee, introduced legislation to remove Secret Service protection from those convicted of a felony carrying a minimum one-year prison term.
The legislation would have automatically removed Secret Service protection for anyone receiving such protection after being convicted.
The bill, provocatively called the DISGRACED Former Protectees Act, was introduced by Thompson, who suggested “current law” didn’t “anticipate how Secret Service protection” would be impacted by a felony prison sentence of a former President.
The proposed legislation has recently made its way back into the spotlight following the attempted assassination of the former President on Saturday.
Since the introduction of the bill, a 12-person jury found Trump guilty of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records, which, had the bill been passed into law, would mean the Secret Service would not have been at Saturday’s rally when a would-be assassin managed to strike Trump’s right ear.
As Trump was hit, he ducked to the ground, and Secret Service agents rushed the stage surrounding him before escorting him off. The former President was later treated at a local hospital before returning to his New Jersey home.
However, Thompson’s name wasn’t only thrown into the spotlight because of the introduction of the controversial bill following the failed assassination attempt. A staffer of the Mississippi lawmaker also posted on social media that the assassin shouldn’t “miss next time.”
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