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According to documents and emails acquired by Mara Verheyden-Hilliard, the executive director of the Partnership for Civil Justice, the president’s demand set off chaos the night before as changes had to be made that resulted in a U.S. Secret Service official apologizing “… to colleagues for the planning process, calling it a ‘$#!t show.'”
[..] Verheyden-Hilliard shot down Bernhardt’s “record of determination” approving the use, stating, “All they are really doing is putting window dressing on something that is clearly illegal.”