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The Secret Service has been a dumpster fire for decades.

• ganzuul 5y ago
  By design or by incompetence?
• jacquesm 5y ago
  Yes, but really: in a role like that accepting gifts without immediately reporting even the attempt of such gifts up the chain to ask for guidance on how to play it seems to be beyond stupid, that's not just your garden level variety of incompetence but something entirely different.
  • ilamont 5y ago
    They’ve gone through countless hours of ethics courses, including (at minimum) a yearly refresher that covers _exactly_ what to do if you feel like you’re being bribed, etc. They knew what they were doing. https://twitter.com/Angry_Staffer/status/1512515586491879435 https://twitter.com/Angry_Staffer/status/1512515586491879435
    • jacquesm 5y ago
      That would be my guess as well. There is no way this would happen if it didn't have an element of will behind it.
• ceejayoz 5y ago
  For example: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/dec/31/joe-biden-secret-service-team-trump-loyalty https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/dec/31/joe-biden-se... > Joe Biden is expected to receive Secret Service protection with a new team that is more familiar to him and replacing some agents amid concerns that they may be politically allied with Donald Trump.