How much security protection does Donald Trump get?

The Biden medication has asked Congress for peculiar support to summation spending connected the Secret Service, informing that without it, the work would person "insufficient resources" to heighten its protective operations.

The petition follows the 2nd evident assassination effort connected Donald Trump, with further questions being asked astir Secret Service extortion of the erstwhile president and Republican statesmanlike candidate.

We don’t person the nonstop fig of agents who are assigned to the erstwhile president, but according to Ronald Kessler, an writer who specialises successful the Secret Service, astir 80 would beryllium assigned to Trump astatine immoderate 1 time.

About 300 agents are assigned to the sitting president and vice-president, compared to the 90 to 100 who support a erstwhile president, Mr Kessler said. These totals see each staff, which means Trump would not person that galore agents with him successful each instance.

“The displacement item is ever the aforesaid - this is the adjacent extortion officers adjacent the president - but past there’s counter-sniper teams, counter-assault teams, counter-surveillance teams,” said Michael Matranga, who worked astatine the Secret Service for 12 years nether Barack Obama.

On a day-to-day basis, erstwhile presidents wouldn’t person those further teams, but Trump does, according to Mr Matranga.

“More tin inactive beryllium done. It would beryllium bully to person dogs sweeping bushes oregon an exigency effect squad scanning the area,” helium said.

“But radical request to recognize that the Secret Service request to find a equilibrium wherever the president tin prosecute with constituents oregon bask a circular of golf. They can’t conscionable support him successful a slug impervious box,” Mr Matranga added.

The Secret Service ramped up information earlier the archetypal assassination effort aft receiving quality of an Iranian crippled to termination Trump - and has further accrued its staffing since then.

During a proceeding pursuing the Pennsylvania attempt, the acting Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe told lawmakers they were expanding the usage of drones to cheque areas, improving connection and expanding the fig of information agents.

BBC Verify has asked the Secret Service however galore much agents were fixed to Trump’s information item pursuing the archetypal assassination effort but the bureau has not yet responded.

Jason Russell, a erstwhile Secret Service agent, told BBC Verify that helium had noticed “the fig of agents and the fig of assets that has been fixed to erstwhile president Trump has surely increased”.

“Once helium became the nominee evidently that extortion goes up to different level, wherever you commencement to get further assets… but surely not the level a sitting president oregon vice-president would have,” helium added.

The Washington Post has reported that elder officials astatine the Secret Service repeatedly rejected requests for further extortion from Trump’s information squad successful the 2 years starring up to the effort connected his beingness successful July.

Although the bureau initially denied that specified requests were made, it aboriginal acknowledged that immoderate requests from Trump's information item whitethorn person been rejected.

The Secret Service had a full fund of $3.1bn successful the 2024 fiscal year. This was 9% higher than the erstwhile year’s budget.

Just implicit $1bn of this was allocated to “Protection of Persons and Facilities”.

The work has around 8,000 unit successful total, including peculiar agents, administrative and method personnel.

Nearly fractional (3,671) enactment full-time successful Protective Operations.

A decennary ago, determination were 4,027 radical assigned to support the president and different elder officials, according to NBC News.

“The full fund of the Secret Service is astir the aforesaid arsenic 1 stealth bomber,” Mr Kessler said.

“The full bureau is suffering with a deficiency of wealth and staff,” helium added.

As good arsenic the government's petition to summation spending successful the coming weeks, the Secret Service has separately told Congress that it needs much resources to transportation retired its duties.

“The biggest question I person is not astir the Secret Service’s reaction, but however the fishy knew Trump was going to beryllium connected the play people astatine that time,” Mr Matranga told us.

It isn’t yet known however the fishy knew of Trump's whereabouts connected Sunday.

BBC Verify has been looking done Trump's caller posts connected societal media and helium did not accidental that helium would beryllium playing play astatine his West Palm Beach people astatine the clip and day the assassination effort took place.

Following a rally successful Las Vegas connected Friday, Trump’s run schedule mentions nary different events until a municipality hallway code successful Michigan connected 17 September.

CNN has besides quoted from sources who assertion Trump’s sojourn to the play people was a last-minute summation to his schedule.

However, it would beryllium tenable to presume Trump could beryllium successful Mar-a-Lago astatine the weekend, fixed however often helium travels there.

He besides posted connected X (on 12 September) that helium would beryllium hosting a "State of Crypto Address" connected the evening of 16 September.

Trump has often been filmed and photographed with members of the nationalist astatine his play course, specified arsenic successful this Instagram station from July 2024.