One of the odder and sordid subplots of President Joe Biden‘s journey to and through the White House is how the Secret Service has continually tried to cover up possible scandals for him despite the president’s reported distrust of the agents as “MAGA sympathizers” and predilection for offending his detail.
Recall that when cocaine coincidentally appeared in the White House just as admitted drug addict Hunter Biden moved in with his father, the Secret Service changed its story about the Schedule II narcotic’s location within the mansion and quickly wrapped up its investigation with no conclusion into the culprit.
Now, CNN reports that the Bidens’ third family dog is perhaps even more violent than the older brother sent out to pasture for a similar pattern of biting.
Commander Biden, the German shepherd brought in to replace one biting dog that died and another biting dog that was “sent to live with family friends,” bit Secret Service personnel in at least 24 incidents reported in documents obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request.
The assaults detailed are as violent as they are graphic.
“I sustained two puncture marks and the skin was broken with blood present,” one agent wrote, filing a report from an April 23, 2023, bite to the Department of Labor. Two months later, White House staff had to halt tours of the East Wing for nearly a half-hour “due to blood from the incident being on the floors in the areas of the Booksellers.”
The next month, while the president was vacationing in Rehoboth Beach, one agent had to receive six stitches after a “severe deep open wound” caused the agent to lose “a significant amount of blood.”
“The recent dog bites have challenged us to adjust our operational tactics when Commander is present — please give lots of room (staying a terrain feature away if possible),” a Secret Service memo admitted last summer. “We will continue to keep [REDACTED] in our sight but must be creative to ensure our own personal safety.”
The Biden administration has continually tried to evade past stories of the serial biting incidents by not just Commander but also the late Champ and quickly discarded Major. But the documents reveal the Secret Service was sounding the alarm again shortly after Commander was brought into the White House at the end of 2021.
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“I was concerned about him getting out of the residence or being without a leash for others safety [sic] and mine,” a special agent wrote after being bitten by Commander on Oct. 2, 2022. Three days later, another warned he was “worried about the family pet’s behavior escalating and that I was worried something worse was going to happen to others.”
From his son’s criminal investigation implicating the president in a possible impeachment to the serial violence of multiple family pets, Biden cannot keep his own house in order. Why should voters expect him to keep the White House in shape, let alone safe for the Secret Service, which is paid specifically to protect the president?