This is getting out of hand!
Reports of another incident involving Joe Biden’s pet dog, Commander, biting a Secret Service agent have sparked various reactions on social media. Some have speculated that the dog’s behavior could be attributed to its intuitive sense regarding the loyalty of the Secret Service to the president.
According to Newsweek, CNN disclosed that the 2-year-old German shepherd, Commander, had bitten an agent while at the White House a day earlier, marking the eleventh known incident of this nature involving the dog. A spokesperson from the Secret Service confirmed the incident, stating that it occurred around 8 p.m. on Monday, and the injured officer received medical attention.
Among the documented incidents, there was an incident in November 2022 where an officer was hospitalized after Commander bit their arms and thighs. In July, White House officials announced efforts to work with the agency on new training for the family pet and designated areas within the grounds for Commander to be unleashed.
Commander is one of the German shepherds owned by the Bidens, alongside Major. In March 2021, Major, a rescue dog, also bit a Secret Service officer, causing a “minor injury.”
Some individuals have expressed trust in the dogs’ intuition, with one person suggesting that the Secret Service should investigate the officers involved in these incidents more closely.
“People who have owned dogs understand their intuition,” noted Steven Senski, a podcaster and film commentator. “If two different dogs (Major and Commander) bite only Secret Service agents, they are detecting a threat. Trust dogs.”
On the other hand, there are social media users who have taken a more speculative approach, proposing that Commander’s behavior might be a reaction to perceived doubts about the Secret Service’s loyalty.
When asked about these loyalty-related accusations, a Secret Service spokesperson declined to comment.
In 2022, during a House of Representatives committee investigation into the January 6 uprising, the Office of the Inspector General received only a few texts exchanged between Secret Service agents around the time of the incident, as many communications had reportedly been deleted. An internal Secret Service investigation revealed that ten personnel present on that day had sent messages to each other that had been wiped.
The agency claimed that it had initiated a phone reset to factory settings in January 2021 as part of a planned three-month system migration, predating any inspection. However, some individuals found the lack of preserved records suspicious.
In December, a book about the Biden White House alleged that the president had reservations about his Secret Service detail and suspected some of them were “MAGA sympathizers.” It also suggested that Biden doubted the circumstances surrounding his dog Major’s bite on an agent, expressing suspicions of deception.