Trump Felony Would Mean Loss Of Secret Service, Perks Under Democratic Bills

As an ex-president now with a felony on his record, Donald Trump would lose his Secret Service protection or the usual perks, like an office, of post-White House under bills sponsored by two House Democrats.

But the idea Trump could forfeit his protective detail because of his conviction on 34 state counts of falsifying business records in New York led one Republican to say Democrats are rooting for Trump’s assassination, even though the bills are unlikely to advance soon.

Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) introduced one of the bills and said he did so after heading up the House committee that looked at the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection attempt at the U.S. Capitol.

“I was disappointed in how the president conducted himself as president. He put a lot of people’s lives in danger. So I saw that,” Thompson told HuffPost.

“But more importantly, why would you want to protect a felon?”

Under the law, Trump as a former president gets a raft of post-presidency perks, including a pension equivalent to the pay of a White House cabinet official (currently $246,400 a year), a travel budget, office space and staff, and, most visibly, Secret Service protection for himself and his wife.

Thompson’s bill , introduced in April, would stop Secret Service protection for a protectee when they are sentenced for a state or federal crime that carries a penalty of at least one year in prison. It would not affect any of the other post-presidency perks Trump enjoys.

Rep. Laura Sanchez (D-Calif.) took a different approach with her bill , the “No Glory for Hate Act” first introduced in 2021 and then reintroduced in September.

Under the bill, a president who had been impeached twice or been convicted of a state or federal crime “relating to actions