Trump shouldn’t use the Secret Service as a campaign prop

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The Republican Party has released a new campaign ad supporting Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign. That ad relies heavily on Trump’s Secret Service detail to present Trump as powerful and confident.

The ad might look good, but the GOP should not be enveloping the Secret Service in partisan politics. Just as President Joe Biden was wrong to use U.S. Marine sentries as props during his darkly partisan 2022 speech in Philadelphia, Trump is wrong to present those who protect him as political operatives.

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