As Kamala Harris prepares to embark on a book tour in September, it seems like she won’t be getting the security detail she had hoped for. On Monday, President Donald Trump signed a memorandum that would end Harris’s Secret Service protection, according to the New York Times .
Though former vice-presidents are usually accompanied by the Secret Service for only six months after they leave office, President Joe Biden had extended Harris’s protection for a year, per the Times . The newspaper’s source said that as the first Black, female vice-president and presidential nominee, she has received more threats and faces more risks than the average politician.
Trump, of course, has a history of yanking Secret Service protection as a form of petty revenge against his critics. In January,