does "make the trip" here mean "join the trip？"
The second factor was the absence of Jerry Behn, the Head of the Secret Service White House Detail. In deciding that he would not make each Presidential trip Behn had not only broken precedent; he had left his agents without a leader.

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Yes, it means he did not accompany the president on every trip, but only some of them.

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