By Reagan Reese, Daily Caller News Foundation | March 17, 2025
President Donald Trump announced on Monday that he is revoking the Secret Service protection of former President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden. Trump wrote in a Truth Social post that both Hunter Biden and his sister Ashley Biden will be having their Secret Service protection revoked, “immediately.” The president explained that Hunter had as many as 18 Secret Service agents on his detail while Ashley had 13 agents who will also be removed.
“Hunter Biden has had Secret Service protection for an extended period of time, all paid for by the United States Taxpayer. There are as many as 18 people on this Detail, which is ridiculous! He is currently vacationing in, of all places, South Africa, where the Human Rights of people has been strenuously questioned. Because of this, South Africa has been taken off our list of Countries receiving Economic and Financial Assistance,” Trump wrote in the post.
“Please be advised that, effective immediately, Hunter Biden will no longer receive Secret Service protection. Likewise, Ashley Biden who has 13 agents will be taken off the list,” he continued.
The former president’s son was recently spotted in South Africa on vacation, while being protected by a Secret Service detail, according to reports. Under federal law, former presidents and their spouses are to receive life-long Secret Service protection but immediate family members over 16-years-old do not receive such. Biden extended the details for his children for an additional six months before he exited office. Trump did the same in his first term.
While visiting the Kennedy Center earlier on Monday, Trump hinted at making such a move to Hunter’s detail, though it was the first time he was learning of such.
“I would say if there are 18 [Secret Service agents] with Hunter Biden, that will be something I look at this afternoon,” Trump told reporters.
After months of insisting from both Biden and his staff, the former president issued a pardon for Hunter Biden ahead of leaving office. A Delaware jury convicted Hunter Biden in June of knowingly possessed a gun while suffering a drug addiction, in addition to making false statements on the purchase document.
“No reasonable person who looks at the facts of Hunter’s cases can reach any other conclusion than Hunter was singled out only because he is my son — and that is wrong. There has been an effort to break Hunter — who has been five and a half years sober, even in the face of unrelenting attacks and selective prosecution. In trying to break Hunter, they’ve tried to break me — and there’s no reason to believe it will stop here. Enough is enough,” Biden wrote in his pardon.
Regan Reese is a white house correspondent at the Daily Caller News Foundation
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