Immediately, the general public and media were outraged at the possible implication that Trump just threatened or incited violence against Hillary Clinton.<\/p>\n
On September 26, 2016, I filed a FOIA request to the United States Secret Service for all records pertaining to this. I asked for:<\/p>\n
“…any investigation, report, letter(s), memo(s), email(s), etc. that may pertain to this comment and possibly perceived threat.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n I ask that you also include any correspondence between any member of the Trump presidential campaign, attorneys for Mr. Trump, and any communication to\/from Donald Trump himself, that pertain to these comments.”<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n The following are the records received.<\/p>\n After a FOIA Appeal of the above release, I was able to get the Secret Service to release the additional documents:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Background On\u00a0August 9, 2016, at a rally in Wilmington, N.C., Donald Trump said the following while campaigning to become President of the United States: “So here, I just wrote this down today. Hillary wants to raise taxes — it’s a comparison. I want to lower them. Hillary wants to expand regulations, which she does bigly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5074,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","transcript_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[51,2],"tags":[1110,715,737,1073,920],"class_list":["post-5071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-controversies","category-government","tag-2nd-amendment","tag-controversies","tag-donald-trump","tag-secret-service","tag-threats"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\tDocument Archive<\/h3>\n
United States Secret Service<\/h4>\n
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\u00a0Donald Trump’s ‘Second Amendment people’ comment Documents, Released by Secret Service September 20, 2017<\/a> [137 Pages, 34.8MB]<\/h4>\n\u00a0Donald Trump’s ‘Second Amendment people’ comment Documents, Released by Secret Service November 8, 2017<\/a> [103 Pages, 9.3MB]<\/h4>\n\u00a0Letter from the Committee of Homeland Security, Bennie G. Thompson, Reporting Donald Trump to the Secret Service<\/a> [5 Pages, 1.3MB]<\/h4>\n