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Trump Lunges at Female Reporter Asking About Those Supposed $5K Checks
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Before or after the punch connects makes little difference to the corpse, but it's possible if it's the right person I guess.
What you're saying doesn't make sense to me, as a person who has trained to react to similar situations. I'm going to switch to talking about this as a generic bodyguard protecting a client situation because it feels wrong to talk about striking the president, even in self defense.
A person who defends themselves by punching once as a quick reaction is not going to be taking a threatening posture. In fact, they'll be on the back foot backing away. Any decent bodyguard wouldn't be considering using lethal force at that moment. They would be getting in between their client and the boxer. They're not blind to the fact that it was their client who made the aggressive move, and the other person was just reacting and trying to get away.
And I don't think it matters much who the people involved are. As long as they've developed those boxing reflexes, even a person who is just a boxing gym regular would react faster than the fastest bodyguard. This is because one person is reacting on pure instinct, while the other has to make a judgement.
A bodyguard's job is not to simply execute any person who their client attacks.
Except we're not talking about a regular bodyguard are we. We're talking about protecting an office, not a person. An idea, not a human being. It does not matter of the office holder is right or wrong in that moment. The office must be protected, and that includes from people with a rightful grievance against its current occupant.
Uhh.... Secret Service definitely, 100%, see themselves as protecting a person.
I can see what you're saying, though. If the Secret Service agents were all switched out for demigods who have superhuman reflexes and who think completely unlike humans, then you certainly wouldn't be wrong here.
No not demigods. Zealots maybe, though I will grant you that depends on the agent.
i mean, people have a lot of different images of them. I view them in black suits with big mustaches, dark sunglasses, tasers and bear spray on the hip and big badges that say TREASURY on them. Florsheim shoes. Squeak a little on the right foot. I bet Michael Gross would do a great job hold on i gotta write this part into my vampire screenplay. I might be getting them confused with IRS agents tho.