Well, there are always changes in the Secret Service detail when there are new Presidents. Besides, it's “smart to give the incoming president the comfort of the familiar,” says a former Secret Service executive. “You want him to be with people he knows and trusts, and who also know how he operates.”
You'd think that having familiar secret service agents was the norm for new presidents, not just reelected ones, or former Vice Presidents returning after a four-year time gap.
In Biden's case, that four-year gap means that the 34-year-old guy who trotted alongside a slow-moving limo when Biden was Veep might now be a 38-year-old guy who may not have done anything overly strenuous in four years. Will he huff and puff in the crisp January air three weeks from now? Will they all? We shall see.
One thing you won't hear from the Secret Service is that some agents on the current detail are fans of President Trump -- the country's first (and hopefully only) president who poses a genuine threat to democracy.
You wanna rely on people who might share beliefs with Q-zawhatsies -- for instance, that Democrats are really lizard people from outer space? Didn't think so.
Some of the agents in charge during Trumplestiltskin's term told other agents not to wear masks in Trump's presence, according to The Hill, and you don't want those people either.
So a new broom is a-sweeping in the Secret Service details around the new President.
Thank God for that.
Note: I wrote this piece. The text is a photo of a .pdf of the Facebook page on which it appears.
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