I'm now seeing much scholarly and expert discussion of how a jailed Trump would affect his Secret Service protection. Unprecedented set of theoreticals, but bottom line is that everyone seems to agree that it would be worked out one way or another.
*Now* seeing or *not* seeing?
Well if it helps, the Secret Service protection operates "Under the direction of the Secretary of Homeland Security," not under orders from the person being protected.
So really, at most it would come down to a disagreement between Biden's cabinet officials, that #Biden himself would ultimately settle.
To emphasize the important part: the #SecretService does not operate on its own, and definitely doesn't answer to #Trump so at the end of the day Biden gets to say how the protection would be continued if the complication of prison came up.
@volkris Biden would never get involved, he'd leave it to the officials. The experts note that there are several paths to dealing with the situation, and there are some precedents to call upon in similar (though of course not identical) contexts.
The problem with that statement is that every single thing they do is only through the authority of Biden, in whom is vested the executive power of the federal government. It leaves him responsible for everything that's done, since it's all done under his ultimate purview.
If two of Biden's reportees are disagreeing about what Biden would have them do, then it's inescapably up to him to resolve the situation and clarify what he wants done.
It's no different from any run-of-the-mill disagreement where two employees are arguing about what the boss said to do. Well, it's up to the boss to work that out.
