Trump Tower security may take over two floors -cost millions

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THE Secret Service is in negotiations with the Trump Organisation to take over two vacant floors in the gilded 68-storey Fifth Avenue tower, law enforcement sources told The New York Post.
The US federal agency and the NYPD plan to run a 24/7 command post out of the space that would be housed at least 40 floors below Trump’s $90 million penthouse triplex, where wife Melania and their 10-year-old son Barron will continue to reside at least through the Spring, The New York Post reports.
Republican President-elect Donald Trump embraces his wife Melania Trump, as their son Barron looks on.
The first 26 floors of the glass-clad skyscraper are commercial tenants while the remaining levels are luxury apartments. But several commercial floors are currently vacant, sources said.
The Secret Service is eyeing two contiguous floors for over 250 agents and cops, sources said. New York Police Department protective barricades to regulate pedestrian traffic in front of Trump Tower. The Secret Service must protect the president and his family wherever they go, including visits back to their permanent homes.
For example, the Secret Service paid Vice President Joe Biden $2200-a-month, to rent out a cottage next to his Wilmington, Del. home, according to a 2011 article in The Washington Times.
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