Concerns about the president’s well-being have led to a lawsuit after a watchdog group’s attempts to get answers about how Secret Service “walked him into a potentially dangerous ambush.”
Ever since a wannabe assassin managed to open fire during then-former President Donald Trump’s July 13, 2024 Butler, Pennsylvania rally, which preceded another attempt on his life two months later, ample concern has been raised over his protective detail.
With more security concerns cropping up since Trump’s return to the White House, Judicial Watch filed a lawsuit ahead of Christmas to get answers from the Department of Homeland Security, said to be stonewalling the watchdog group with regard to Code Pink activists getting “within arm’s length of the sitting president” with “access to knives, and who knows what else …”
Speaking with the New York Post about the suit filed Dec. 18, Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton expressed, “I’m just really concerned about the president’s safety.”
“He was almost killed twice supposedly under the protection of the Secret Service and then they walked him into a potentially dangerous ambush,” he contended regarding the Sept. 9 incident when Code Pink activists were able to get tables at Joe’s Seafood, Prime Steak & Stone Crab near the president’s party which included Vice President J.D. Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and War Secretary Pete Hegseth.
“Free D.C. Free Palestine. Trump is the Hitler of our time!” the radicals could be heard chanting as they displayed Hamas sympathizing standards adjacent to Trump’s path.
In a video obtained by CNN, you can see the president is approached by protestors chanting “Free DC” and “Free Palestine” as he makes his way to his table pic.twitter.com/593jx6qMc7
— Samantha Waldenberg (@Sam_Waldenberg) September 10, 2025
The lawsuit filed against the DHS seeks to “compel compliance with the Freedom of Information Act” after submitting a FOIA request the day after the incident for all Secret Service communications among officials in the Presidential Protective Division pertaining to Code Pink’s presence at the restaurant, including “All emails sent between USSS officials and any email account ending in @codepink.org.”
“These people were allowed to get within arm’s length of the sitting president with knives and who knows what else in the restaurant available to them,” Fitton told the Post as the suit asserted that DHS failed to respond by the latest deadline of Dec. 9, thus deeming Judicial Watch “to have exhausted its administrative appeal remedies.”
Likewise, former FBI Assistant Director Chris Swecker said, “I can’t believe they would let random people sit in that close proximity to them. That’s crazy,” as he likened the “unbelievable security lapse” to the “days when Abraham Lincoln would ride down Pennsylvania Avenue in his coach and buggy with no protection.”
On top of the confirmed assassination attempts on Trump in 2024, the Code Pink protest came on the heels of a separate incident at the end of August when a member of the Trump National Golf Club Washington, DC, managed to bring a firearm into the facility despite being searched by Secret Service while the president was at the Virginia golf club, the Post reported.
“The US Secret Service takes the safety and security of our sites very seriously, and there are redundant security layers built into every one,” a spokesperson for the agency told the newspaper. “Video surveillance indicates the club member was never in close physical proximity to the President’s location at any point while at the golf club.”
Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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