Commander Biden, resisting the urge to chunk the president on the Truman Balcony, on July 25, 2022.
Photo: Adam Schultz/The White House through AP)/AP
During his complete time in workplace, Joe Biden has generated fewer scandals that Donald Trump did throughout a mean week in his presidency. Trump served up a real scandal smorgasbord, from terrible issues like instigating an revolt to enjoyable stuff like hawking canned beans from the Oval Office. But the massive Biden controversies are all repetitive and miserable. His son Hunter is a recovering addict who’s carried out some extraordinarily sketchy issues (however by no means took a job in his dad’s administration). Joe might have mishandled labeled paperwork (however not in a enjoyable approach). Biden is arguably too old to do the job (however so was Reagan, and our different choice is a man who’s old and likewise unhinged).
These are issues we in all probability ought to be speaking about, however they’re not the type of factor anybody actually desires chat about with co-workers on the water cooler (or, let’s be actual, over Slack).
However, there’s one Biden debacle that you may actually sink your enamel into (pun meant): His canine Commander biting his approach by means of the White House.
This story has all the pieces you want in a great White House scandal: It’s distinctive, it’s bloody but entails no fatalities, and the president’s response is really mystifying. Plus it simply retains on going! On Thursday, we discovered that Commander bit dozens of individuals and actually left a path of blood within the White House.
The Bidens have lengthy been stricken by pet drama. They moved into the White House with two German shepherds, Champ and Major. Sadly, inside just a few months Champ had passed away and Major was rehomed with household pals after biting a mere two folks on the White House. Then (whereas we had been nonetheless awaiting the arrival of the White House cat) a 3rd German shepherd burst onto the scene: three-month-old Commander.
Last July, we discovered that Commander had bitten seven folks on the White House, based on information obtained by the conservative authorized group Judicial Watch. By the top of September, the variety of recognized Commander assaults was as much as 11. On October 4, the Daily Mail reported that the canine had bitten a twelfth person — and there have been photographs of Commander chomping on a groundskeeper’s wrist!
Even extra extremely, the White House was completely unprepared when reporters inquired about why the Bidens had been letting their canine use White House personnel as chew toys.
And when Commander was lastly booted from the White House days later, officers solely revealed that he’d been moved to some undisclosed location. “Commander is not presently on the White House campus while next steps are evaluated,” Elizabeth Alexander, the First Lady’s communications director, mentioned in an announcement on the time.
Today, Commander is reportedly residing “with other family members.” But he’s nonetheless terrorizing the Biden administration from afar. After reviewing lots of of pages of information obtained by means of a Freedom of Information Act request, CNN and the Washington Post revealed that the canine bit Secret Service brokers 24 instances. And Commander’s chunk rely is definitely greater than that, because the information solely cowl October 2022 by means of July 2023 and don’t embrace beforehand reported incidents involving different personnel.
The new batch of paperwork included some really wild particulars. Secret Service leaders had been so fearful concerning the biting incidents that they started monitoring them on a spreadsheet. Agents modified their habits and issued inner warnings in an try and keep away from additional mauling, per CNN:
“The recent dog bites have challenged us to adjust our operational tactics when Commander is present — please give lots of room,” an unnamed assistant particular agent accountable for USSS’ Presidential Protective Division wrote to their workforce in a June 2023 electronic mail, warning that brokers “must be creative to ensure our own personal safety.”
In October 2022, an unnamed Secret Service technician described an incident and mentioned they had been “worried about the family pets behavior escalating and that … something worse was going to happen to others.”
As beforehand reported, an agent was despatched to the hospital in November 2022 as a result of a chunk from Commander. The new paperwork reveal that seven months later, Commander briefly shut down White House excursions when he injured an agent so badly that he left against the law scene, based on the Post:
On one event in June (2023), Commander ran towards, knocked down and bit a particular agent so deeply that the person required stitches and excursions of the East Wing of the White House had been stopped for about 20 minutes as a result of blood had spilled on the ground.
Commander launched a bloody attack within the White House and continued residing there for 4 months! What was Joe pondering? Exactly how many individuals did this canine chunk? What does this say about White House safety? Are the Bidens irresponsible pet homeowners?
Forget impeaching the Homeland Security secretary for doing his job; these are the questions House Republicans ought to be asking. And if Trump was good, he’d be hammering Biden on bitegate, too. Americans have robust opinions on correct pet care, and it’s the one subject the place the earlier administration was squeaky clear (as a result of Trump hates dogs).
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