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Remember Champ biting specific members of the secret service?

Dogs know. Dogs always know.

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Yeah, that’s why some rip kids’ faces off, they all deserve it.

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Also why they shit on grass. They know.

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Shh, stop being rational, doggos are le magical social creatures

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That was actually Major, their younger dog at the time. Champ was their elderly dog who died a couple years ago. They since got a younger pup, Commander, and he too, has been biting staffers, but I don’t know if they revealed which agencies the victims work for. Maybe Commander is copying what his elder brother does, but iirc Major doesn’t live in the White House too often nowadays. He might just have the same intuition.

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In case anyone, like me, wants a source for Pence refusing to get in the car with the Secret Service. It’s from the book “I Alone Can Fix It.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/04/26/pence-car-raskin-comments/

The “terrified” part is speculation, but potentially true.

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Sounds to me like Pence was tipped off.

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I wonder if they would have used ‘the VP has been kidnapped by Antifa!’ as justification for the insurrection act.

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They were chanting “hang Pence” and literally, physically building a gallows. The intentions were quite clear.

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Do we have any proof that the messages were deleted on the instruction of the White House? I’ve always thought they arranged the mass-deletion on their own - but it was a very busy time and I might well have missed the bit about them being ordered to delete them.

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Well it helped Trump, was against policy, and they answered to him.

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All true. However, there’s a difference between being told/ordered to do a thing, and thinking (on your own), “Hey if I do this thing it’ll cover my ass and help my side”. OP is claiming they were told to do it - and that may be true, but I’d like some proof toward that.

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Some of those that work forces are the same that burn crosses

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Bad bot.

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not a bot. I remember getting a shirt and was excited because its related

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Shouldn’t background checks for Top Secret clearances that involve employees in closer contact with important government officials screen out those with links to radical ideologies?

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Bold of you to assume the Trump administration would’ve been screening them out.

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There’s a question on the SF-86

https://news.clearancejobs.com/2020/01/12/extremist-groups-and-your-clearance/

The vetting can be done as was done with the National Guard deployed to DC:

https://www.rand.org/blog/2021/02/what-the-capitol-siege-means-for-the-future-of-security.html

Even National Guard members deployed to serve as an extra layer of security at the inauguration were vetted by the FBI to ensure no infiltration by potential insider threats; 12 National Guard members were removed due to security concerns. One Army reservist with a current security clearance and access to a naval munitions depot in New Jersey was also arrested in connection with the assault on the Capitol.

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Wow. So much for background checks.

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They did the background checks - just not in the way most people expected.

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