Certainly they do not have to follow illegal orders or commit crimes. Presidents are not absolute monarchs. The Secret Service is not the President’s private ar

Certainly they do not have to follow illegal orders or commit crimes. Presidents are not absolute monarchs. The Secret Service is not the President’s private army to stage insurrections. Your assessment is too simplistic and naive. And presidential power is limited. It’s not at all obvious that the President should have any kind of right to go wherever he or she pleases. Especially impairing one of the co-equal branches is obviously something that just cannot be legal or else that would just be a huge contradiction.