Newly discovered correspondence exchanged among Secret Service agents and supervisors discloses that the German Shepard belonging to the first family, Commander, has exhibited significantly more aggressive behavior than initially disclosed. According to the Washington Examiner, these emails contain multiple accounts of the dog snapping and lunging at agents, resulting in severe injuries.
The government oversight organization, Judicial Watch, came across an email that exposed an alarming incident wherein Commander aggressively lunged at the throat of an agent who was in the process of opening a door to the White House residence for First Lady Jill Biden.
“The family pet jumped on (the agent) and bit on the left chest area, resulting in a torn shirt, and two small lacerations,” said the email.
The group has acquired documents that detail a minimum of twenty-four occasions where the dog has assaulted agents at every residence and vacation home that the Bidens have taken the dog to, including Camp David.
“The Bidens are lucky no one has been killed as a result of their reckless disregard for the safety of Secret Service and White House employees,” Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said.
“These Biden dog attack documents again raise fundamental questions about President Biden and the Secret Service. This is a special sort of craziness and corruption where a president and first lady would allow their dog to repeatedly attack Secret Service and White House personnel,” he added.
The Bidens’ dog has been relocated from their care and is now being taken care of by individuals associated with the first couple, as per the report. This recent series of attacks is not the initial incidents involving dogs brought to the White House by Joe and Jill Biden. In July 2023, The Western Journal reported that “Secret Service emails indicate that … Commander bit seven individuals within a span of four months last year, resulting in one Secret Service officer being hospitalized.” These events occurred “following the removal of former first dog Major from the White House due to similar aggressive behavior,” as highlighted in an exclusive report by the New York Post.
The outlet noted further: “The shocking spate of incidents involving Commander — none of them previously reported — mirrors attacks involving Major, who the White House says was given to family friends after biting many Secret Service members in 2021. In the most serious documented incident involving Commander, the White House physician’s office on Nov. 3, 2022, referred a bitten Secret Service uniformed officer to a local hospital for treatment after the dog clamped down on their arm and thigh, according to emails released under the Freedom of Information Act to conservative legal group Judicial Watch.”
It is recorded that several weeks later, Commander injured the hand and arm of another Secret Service member after being released by the president from the White House following a family movie night. In the subsequent month, Commander bit a security technician at Biden’s residence in Wilmington, Delaware. The incidents documented between September 2022 and January may not provide a comprehensive overview of Commander’s behavior, as it excludes his first nine months at the White House and the most recent six-month period, as suggested by the source.
“These shocking records raise fundamental questions about President Biden and the Secret Service,” said Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton in remarks to The Post.
“This is a special sort of craziness and corruption where a president would allow his dog to repeatedly attack and bite Secret Service and White House personnel. And rather than protect its agents, the Secret Service tried to illegally hide documents about the abuse of its agents and officers by the Biden family,” Fitton noted further.
