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After more than a month of checkpoints and sheriff’s patrol cars snaking around the perimeter of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home, Palm Beach County officials are calling for help to fit the bill. In a letter signed by County Mayor Maria Sachs, Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw and Town of Palm Beach Mayor Danielle Moore, they detail how the Sheriff’s Office will have spent $6.8 million by heightening security for the “Trump detail.” That accounts for the “extraordinary measures for security” required by the Secret Service ahead of the November election to protect the homes around Mar-a-Lago and Trump himself. “I don’t think we’ve ever had a situation where we have been in such a conflict-ridden campaign, where violence seems to be everywhere,” Sachs said.