US President Donald Trump has revoked the state security previously granted to his opponents in the two election campaigns he won - former US Vice President Kamala Harris and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who was also first lady, Reuters reported, quoted by BTA, referring to a memorandum distributed by the White House.
The head of state from the Republican Party, who has already revoked the right to security provided by the Secret Service to former US President Joe Biden and his family, faced Clinton in the 2016 presidential campaign, and last year he competed with Harris, who replaced Biden as Democratic Party nomination.
Trump said that the wave of vandalism directed against the cars and showrooms of his advisor Elon Musk's company "Tesla" is worse than the storming of the Capitol by his supporters four years ago, DPA reported, quoted by BTA.
"When I saw those showrooms and cars burning, it wasn't in two places, it was more like seven, eight, ten - there were explosions everywhere. These are terrorists," Trump told reporters in the Oval Office of the White House last night.
"This wasn't there on January 6, I assure you. "There was nothing like January 6," he added, referring to the storming of the Capitol on that day in 2021, when his supporters stormed the US Congress building but ultimately failed to overturn the results of the election, which Trump then lost to Joe Biden.
Before the storming, Trump had incited the crowd with baseless claims that his election victory had been "stolen," DPA recalls.
Recently, "Tesla" cars have become targets of vandals. The demonstrations are dictated by anger at "Tesla" CEO Elon Musk, who is currently conducting a large-scale purge of employees in the US government administration. Musk was given this task by Trump, even though he does not hold an official ministerial position.
The US president called for those responsible for the vandalism to be investigated as terrorists, warning that they could face 20 years in prison.
"These people will be caught and brought to justice," he said.
One of Trump's first acts after being sworn in for his second presidential term on January 20 this year was to pardon all those convicted of the Capitol storming, including protesters who attacked police officers, as well as far-right extremists who helped organize the storming, DPA notes.