Irving Berlin’s last musical was a largely forgotten show called “Mr. President” (1962). One of the silly songs below his usual high standards included the lyric “The Secret Service makes me nervous.”
That’s how I felt after the agency, charged with protecting the president, delivered a report that said it could not find the person responsible for bringing cocaine into the White House. No fingerprints on the plastic bag. No DNA. No video of someone who might have placed it in a small locker in a visitors’ area where cellphones and other prohibited items are stored until one departs. In one of the most secure buildings in the world. With cameras and monitoring devices in plain view and also hidden on every floor. NBC News reported the agency failed to interview anyone about the incident.
The Secret Service managed to find marijuana in the White House last year. Twice. No one was arrested because the amount was under the legal threshold for federal charges, nor did it rate as a misdemeanor under D.C. law. Drugs alter the mind. Perhaps we should call it real artificial intelligence. It might explain some of the bad policies of this, and previous, administrations.
My family has been attending various White House functions since the Coolidge administration. My maternal grandfather and first lady Grace Coolidge were first cousins. A picture I treasure is of my mother (age 9), grandmother and great-grandmother standing in the White House driveway next to President Warren Harding in 1922. Harding died the following year and Vice President Coolidge became president.
I suspect if any of them had been asked where they could find drugs they would have been directed to a nearby pharmacy. That addictive drugs are now found in a hallowed building where great presidents once served and saved the nation is another indication of how far we have sunk when it comes to what used to be called standards.
Predictably, but not without cause, some Republicans and conservative media are crying “cover-up” and wondering why no scandal has touched the Biden family. They want to know if Hunter Biden is living in the White House and whether, given his admitted problems with drugs, there might be a connection between him and the cocaine? Clear answers to these and other questions have not been forthcoming from the press office, or anywhere else.
An editorial in The New York Post put it well: “We’re supposed to believe the men and women charged with protecting the president can’t find who dropped an 8-ball in the West Wing? No. Way. In. Hell. It’s the White House, not a rest-stop Arby’s bathroom.”
Like so many other accusations of alleged scandal when it comes to the Biden administration, expect this one to be swept under the rug. If the White House press secretary is again asked about it, expect her to say reporters should address inquiries to the Secret Service, or “that issue has been settled.”
If this were a one-off, it might — might — be excused, but it seems part of a pattern when it comes to dishonesty, lack of transparency (transparency was one of the first things Joe Biden promised when he took office), the cashing in by family members through alleged money laundering and dealings with foreign entities in possible violation of the law.
When one is a Democrat the rules appear to be different. The legacy media seem to do all they can to shield members of that party from any accountability. In Washington, it seems everybody has something on somebody else. That’s why one hardly ever sees an apology, a resignation, a firing, impeachment and conviction, or jail time for any misdeeds. Donald Trump may be the exception.
And people wonder why the trust level in our institutions is low and falling.
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Obviously the Secret Service makes Bidens dog Commander nervous too.....he has bitten them
10 times in a year.......even Joe's dog is above the law.
Don, Jr. took a White House tour.-Case closed.
Hunter will get ahold of some fentanyl laced cocaine before to long......he won't live long
Enough for any trials for treason.
Aside from the Biden family being a bunch of
Crackheads, the Secret Service has been known
To be a bunch of partiers too, and they like hookers and cocaine as much as Hunter does.
Trump needs to implement mandatory drug tests on every federal employee, as well as lie detectors to see if they are getting money from
Foreign countries and too see if they use political bias in their positions.
trump doesn't get to 'implement' anything. He lost the election dumb a s s!
It ain't over til the fat lady in the pink tutu sings.
You should go ahead and live that dream.
Still high hopes for Biden? Ha ha......he's done.
But your 'pink tutu' dream keeps on rollin.
You're the one wearing it you sick ph-uck.
The fat lady is singing, Ewe-Gene, you're just not paying attention.
The Indictment Fairy is expected again within the first two weeks of August. You guys better hurry up with your civil war.
Still having wet dreams of Trump in prison huh?
Biden has taken millions in bribes in a quid pro quo scheme to basically sell our foreign aid...
That is a crime. Now refresh my memory about all of Trumps crimes. What did he do exactly?
How much money did he receive illegally?
Let's see-34 felony counts in connection with hush money payments to a porn star.
37 felony counts for mishandling classified documents and impeding investigators. That's just so far. Possible charges in Georgia include solicitation to commit election fraud, conspiracy to commit election fraud, intentional interference with performance of election duties, interference with elections, false statements, perjury, influencing witnesses and racketeering.
Possible Jan. 6th charges- obstruction of an official proceeding, conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to make false statements, inciting or aiding in insurrection, wire fraud, money laundering.
Yes........the alleged same crime counted 34 times
Makes him sound like dillinger. All made up leftist
BS. Funny how you liberals are totally ignoring the millions in bribes to the Bidens. And that they
Paid no taxes on any of those millions. You really
Are the scum of the earth.
Funny thing about crimes Ewe-Gene. There has to be evidence, not just BS you get from Parler and Facebook.
Get your head out of your azz you leftist tool, they found bank deposits to over a dozen Bidens
From foreign companies.
"They" found bank deposits? Who exactly are "they"? Steve Bannon? Tucker Carlson? Margie Sporkfoot? Some guy on Facebook?
The FBI whistle-blowers you dingus.
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