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President Joe Biden apparently ripped into outgoing President Donald Trump over items he encountered that Biden’s predecessor left for him at the White House before leaving office. What’s more, Biden made some startling remarks about why he doesn’t trust his Secret Service detail.
The revelations were made in an upcoming book by documentarian and writer Chris Whipple for the time, “The Fight of His Life: Inside Joe Biden’s White House.” According to the book, Biden could not stomach anything that reminded him of Trump, including a golf simulator, a big-screen TV, and even the Resolute Desk that Trump used during his term.
While showing a friend the golf simulator, Biden reportedly said, “What a fucking asshole.”
Whipple also claimed that Biden was distrustful of the Secret Service and felt they could secretly be loyal to Trump, writing the agency “is full of white ex-cops from the South who tend to be deeply conservative,” describing them as “MAGA sympathizers.”
“Wary of his own Secret Service agents, the president no longer spoke freely in their presence,” he wrote, according to the New York Post.
Biden also refused to believe that the first family’s German shepherd, Major, was biting Secret Service agents.
“Look, the Secret Service are never up here. It didn’t happen,” Biden claimed while pointing out the location of the alleged attack. At one point, reports said that agents were bitten eight days in a row. The president believed “somebody was lying … about the way the incident had gone down,” Whipple wrote.
Biden “wasn’t taking any chances,” Whipple noted. “Wary of his own Secret Service agents, the president no longer spoke freely in their presence.”
The New York post added:
The hard feelings were soon returned, according to internal Secret Service missives released last year in response to Freedom of Information Act requests by the conservative transparency group Judicial Watch.
One Secret Service agent insisted that the president personally pay to repair a ripped coat after he was attacked by Major on March 6, 2021, as Joe and first lady Jill Biden came inside from the White House Tennis Pavilion.
The attack that Biden denied occurred took place two days later — on March 8 — at about 7 a.m. as an agent was in the second-floor residential area with the first lady.
“Without warning or provocation, Major barked loudly at [the agent] … and charged,” according to a heavily redacted incident report.
“Having no time to seek cover from the attack, [the agent] turned away from the dog as he bit into [redacted] right leg,” the account added.
Biden’s then-chief protective agent David Cho wrote in an email about an hour after the incident: “Major bit one of the agents this morning. The agent is OK, but does have bruising and a puncture.”
The same agent was reportedly bitten a second time by Major as well, though it is not clear when that incident took place. A photo of the agent’s injuries exists, the New York Post reported, but it has yet to be publicly released.
On March 9, 2021, then-White House press secretary Jen Psaki revealed a single dog attack.
“The first family’s younger dog, Major, was surprised by an unfamiliar person and reacted in a way that resulted in a minor injury to the individual,” Psaki said at a press briefing.
According to subsequent communications, the agent in question snapped back at Psaki.
“NO I didn’t surprise the dog doing my job by being at [redacted] as the press secretary just said! Now I’m pissed,” the agent attacked a day earlier wrote to a co-worker.
The colleague responded, “SMH. .. hope you didn’t get hurt to [sic] bad.”
“Secret Service records indicate that Major Biden’s attacks began earlier than previously known and continued for months — afflicting many protective agents, a National Park Service worker and a White House visitor,” The Post noted further.
According to the agency’s internal communications, the attacks from Major continued until at least May 2021.
