The head of the Secret Service is setting the record straight over reports that President-elect Trump is bucking precedent by electing to keep his own private security force as he prepares to be sworn in on Jan. 20.
“There is no friction at all” with Trump’s own private security personnel, Secret Service chief Joseph Clancy said Saturday.
Clancy said the Secret Service has the “sole responsibility” of guarding the President and the first family, and Trump’s private security group are not armed and would not interfere with any plan or procedure the Secret Service must take to secure the president.
“They are not in our meetings,” Clancy explained in an interview with CNN published Saturday. “They are not armed. They are more of a staff function than a security function. We don’t interact with them.”
