Donald Trump should be protected as if he were a sitting president

Another chilling security threat, another collective sigh of relief — and a stroke of good fortune: an alert Secret Service agent who spotted the barrel of a gun in the bushes and fired his own weapon at the threat while Donald Trump golfed in Florida on Sunday afternoon. Still, Ryan Wesley Routh should never have been able to get between 300 and 500 yards from the former president, armed with an SKS-style rifle..