President Joe Biden has had trouble trusting members of his Secret Service detail stemming from their support of former President Donald Trump, according to an explosive new book about Biden’s administration.
In his forthcoming book, The Fight of His Life: Inside Joe Biden’s White House, Chris Whipple writes of Biden’s “discomfort” with Secret Service agents who are or were “MAGA sympathizers.”
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“He didn’t trust them,” Whipple wrote, the Hill reported. “Surrounded by a new phalanx of strangers, Biden couldn’t help but wonder, Do these people really want me here?“
Whipple also describes Biden’s doubts about components of Secret Service complaints regarding a March 2021 incident involving Major, the Bidens’ German shepherd, because of where the alleged bite took place.
“Somebody was lying, Biden thought, about the way the incident had gone down,” Whipple wrote.
Whipple’s book, scheduled for wider release on Jan. 17, dishes on other behind-the-scenes details about Biden’s administration. The documentary filmmaker and New York Times bestselling author additionally writes that Biden had been “annoyed” by second gentleman Douglas Emhoff’s gripes concerning Vice President Kamala Harris’s policy portfolio. Her issues include the “root causes” of the migration problems experienced at the southern border and voting access.
“He hadn’t asked Harris to do anything he hadn’t done as vice president,” Whipple wrote of Biden, according to Politico.
Biden, too, has called Harris “a work in progress” to friends, Whipple added.
In a separate excerpt, Biden once repeatedly swore to express his frustration about the situation at the border amid another migrant surge and a “lack of solutions.”
“Meanwhile, illegal immigrants kept arriving. And Biden was furious,” Whipple wrote, according to Fox News. “Aides had rarely seen him so angry. From all over the West Wing, you could hear the president cursing, dropping f-bombs (he’d always apologize when women were present).”
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre has underscored Biden’s confidence in the Secret Service after revelations the federal agency lost many Jan. 6-related emails and messages.
“We believe in following the public records rules,” Jean-Pierre said last summer. “That is something that we believe that should be done, should be followed.”
She added, “But I will say this because this is, I think, important: The president has confidence in the men and women who protect not just him but also his family.”
In the summer of 2021, Jean-Pierre’s predecessor, Jen Psaki, dismissed reporter questions about Major after a Freedom of Information Act request uncovered multiple bite complaints.
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“As we’ve stated previously, Major has had some challenges adjusting to life in the White House,” Psaki said. “He has been receiving additional training, as well as spending some time in Delaware, where the environment is more familiar to him and he is more comfortable.”
