From where I’m sitting, this entire Secret Service scandal over deleted text messages from January 5-6th is just ridiculous. Just see my previous article on the secret Service’s history of playing fast and loose with government regulations, as well as Carol Leonig’s book.
The facts are actually quite simple. The Secret Service actually received not 1, but 4 separate requests from congressional committees to retain the text messages before the start of the January 27th migration of the cell phones. Ooops.
But it really isn’t that complicated. Recent reporting has shown that a large majority of the Secret Service officers on Trump’s detail were sympathetic and loyal to Trump, and not to their oath. There is unconfirmed reporting that several secret Service agents on Trump’s detail were in the corner of the insurrectionists.
But according to J6 testimony and records, it’s obvious that there was frigging in the rigging. The word was already out in the underground rumor mills of the White House, and maybe something more substantial. Something was up.
All you need to know to realize that is former Vice President Mike Pence’s confrontation with his own security detail in the underground Capitol garage on January 6th, while the riot raged. His head of security asked Pence to get in the limo so they could escort him to safety, and Pence uttered the 6 most consequential words in recent political history, I’m not getting in that car. As the situation deteriorated, his head of detail demanded that Pence get in the car, saying the situation was unsafe. And Pence said, I’m not getting in that car. Look, I know you, and I trust you, but I don’t know the driver. If I get in that car, you guys may try to whisk me off to Alaska.
Ask yourself one simple question. These people saw Pence on a daily basis, they were pledged to take a bullet for him if necessary. What would make Pence put his own, as well as his family’s lives in mortal peril because he feared that the Secret Service would whisk him away, and not return him to do his constitutional duty. Pence is no moron. He had to have a damn good reason to fear that if he got in the car, they wouldn’t return him to the Capitol to do his sworn duty.
Now you at least have a reasonable hypothesis as to why those Secret Service texts disappeared. What was Trump’s chief of security detail texting to Pence’s chief of security detail in regards to safety protocols for Pence. Pence had to know or suspect something, or he would never have placed his family in mortal danger in order to fulfill his oath to the constitution. Unfortunately for the Secret Service, this scandal is not going anywhere any time soon. Don’t touch that dial.
Pence’s 1st black friend!
Trumpler’s tentacles of corruption are all through the government and will be bloody hard to weed out. He knew how to dangle the right rewards (unmerited promotion, usually) in order to gain the loyalty of people who should have known better, people whose greed/ambition allowed them to break their oaths and compromise their integrity.
I am.not sure Pence isn’t an evangelicL.moron, but hid political.career indicates he is savvy enough about his own survival to smell a rat. I think.his fear went a lot deeper than just fearing he wouldn’t be allowed todo.his sole job on 1/6. I think he was terrified he wouldn’t come back.alive. Biden was right to have his old team put back.on his,detail.
Maybe there should be a law against hiring a russian oligarch, i mean a “presidents” own 20 or so fsb agents as “secret service” like fat ass did.