Commander, Biden’s canine retains biting Secret Service brokers
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden’s canine Commander is within the canine home after biting a number of Secret Service brokers and sending one to the hospital.
The president’s pup was concerned in 10 biting incident assaults, according to records obtained by the conservative group Judicial Watch by way of a Freedom of Data Act request, between October 2022 and January.
In a single occasion, a Secret Service agent needed to be handled at a hospital after being bitten by Commander, a German Shepherd who was gifted to the Bidens in December 2021 after the Biden household despatched one other canine, Main, to stay with household pals following a series of biting incidents.
A redacted electronic mail detailing the November incident that resulted in a Secret Service agent being sent to the hospital for analysis mentioned the particular person had to make use of a “metal cart to protect” themselves from a second assault. After the assault, an officer who reached out to the damage agent referred to as the account “freaking loopy” and referred to Commander as “that silly canine” in a redacted electronic mail.
“What a joke,” the officer mentioned. “If it wasn’t their canine he would have already been put down – freaking clown wants a muzzle – hope you get to feeling higher.”
Days later, an agent described one other incident involving Commander, this time close to the Kennedy Backyard on the White Home. Commander raced out of the backyard, and away from first girl Jill Biden, biting the agent, based on the redacted memorandum.
A collection of emails in December detailed the first dog biting an agent on the White Home after “POTUS requested to take Commander (on the leash) to the Kennedy Backyard. As soon as on the KG, POTUS took Commander off the leash to run free.”
“POTUS was current and convened within the very fast interplay of Commander and appeared involved about SA who professionally continued to the South Floor drive for protection.”
“POTUS” references a shorthand for the president of the US.
Commander continues to stay with the Bidens and was on the White Home on Tuesday, a spokeswoman for the primary girl mentioned.
“The White Home advanced is a singular and sometimes worrying surroundings for household pets, and the First Household is working by way of methods to make this case higher for everybody. They’ve been partnering with the Secret Service and Govt Residence workers on extra leashing protocols and coaching, in addition to establishing designated areas for Commander to run and train,” Elizabeth Alexander, a spokeswoman for the primary girl, mentioned in a press release.
Alexander mentioned that per the Secret Service, “every incident referenced was handled equally to comparable office accidents, with related notifications and reporting procedures adopted.”
Anthony Guglielmi, chief of communications for the Secret Service, mentioned in a press release that whereas brokers don’t take care of or deal with the primary household’s pets, they work with White Home workers to “reduce opposed impacts in an surroundings that features pets.”
“We take the protection and wellbeing of our workers extraordinarily critically. Company workers are inspired to report any job-related accidents to their quick supervisors for acceptable documentation,” he mentioned. “As such, we’re conscious of previous incidents involving first-family pets and these situations have been handled equally to comparable office accidents, to incorporate with related notifications and reporting procedures adopted.”
The primary household adopted a cat, Willow, final 12 months. One other canine who got here to the White Home with the Bidens died in a number of months into his time period. Champ, additionally a German Shepherd, died in June 2021.