Protection from Carson and Trump

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"Donald Trump and Ben Carson ask for 24-hour secret service protection", The Guardian (Reuters) 10/19/2015 [emphasis added]:

“The Department of Homeland Security has now received official requests for secret service protection from both the Carson and Trump campaigns,” spokesman SY Lee said.  

The requests, if approved, would activate 24-hour protection from the two candidates, involving 260 agents, Fox News reported on Monday, citing unidentified sources.

[h/t Mark Dowson]

 



5 Comments

  1. Francois Lang said,

    October 20, 2015 @ 8:58 am

    I don't think 260 agents is enough to protect the American public from those two.

  2. marie-lucie said,

    October 20, 2015 @ 9:32 am

    Great example of syntactic ambiguity, resolved in an unintended manner by (I suppose) hasty copying and pasting.

  3. Andrew (not the same one) said,

    October 20, 2015 @ 9:46 am

    I'm not sure if I have told this story before, but anyway: A BBC commentator on the inauguration of George Bush (Sr) said 'and now we see that the the head of the Secret Service has moved across to protect the new President from the former President'.

  4. David L said,

    October 20, 2015 @ 10:43 am

    You'd think the DHS could protect itself from Carson and Trump without needing to bring in outside assistance.

    [(myl) The phrase "The Department of Homeland Security has now received official requests for secret service protection from both the Carson and Trump campaigns" suggests that it's the Secret Service that needs to be protected…]

  5. Jen said,

    October 21, 2015 @ 2:18 am

    According to the changing the guard sign outside Buckingham Palace, 'The new guard takes over the formal duty of protecting the queen from the old guard'!

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