You’d be daft to be a man of Donald’s wealth and stature and not have some decent personal security, but it looks like the Orange Menace may have overstepped the mark just a little.

During his 15-month run at the White House, Trump has spent a whopping $432,201 (R6,2 million) on security details. You can kind of understand his stance, given that he is hated by large swathes of the general population, but some think it’s more than a little over the top.

The Daily Beast have gone in depth into some of Trump’s past dealings with security, and we’ll start with former NYPD detective Bo Dietl, who often provided security for Donald back in the day:

According to Dietl, Trump would use him to “deter” his opponents—particularly in the lawless arena of casinos.

“I’ve handled stuff—personal issues as far as investigations and certain things,” Dietl told me, “where if he would ask me a question about somebody, say that was going after him, and then we would do our investigation and we would deter—say if someone was targeting Donald on something, and going after him, I would do some confidential investigation for him as far as to deter anybody going after Donald.”

Dietl declined to get into specifics, but used as an example “shareholders” in Atlantic City “doing something” and sending an attorney after Trump. So Trump, in Dietl’s telling, sent Dietl after the attorney.

“We kind of deterred that attorney because what we did was we investigated the fact that [the] attorney wasn’t exactly cleaner than the Board of Health, you know what I mean?” he said.

Dietl remembered telling him, “‘Hey, if you don’t back off me, I got this on you.’ So, it was like a showdown… He hired me to get to the guy. So I went to visit the guy who was trying to fuck Trump, and I says, you know, I think you better think about this. He’s got this, this and the other thing—it was enough to be very bad for that person.”

In the end, Dietl said, the issue, “just mysteriously went away.”

Asked how often he’d deterred people for the Republican nominee in this manner, Dietl said, “Well, I’ve always been there for Donald.”

There’s plenty more on who Trump has protecting him and how they’re doing it (read the full article HERE), but that above ties in nicely with the image of the power-hungry bully we’ve come to see all too often this past year or so.

[source:dailybeast]