So far, just a dog bites man non-story. But see what I’m bolding:
What? How could they miss the protectee being robbed? I could see the perp outrunning the Secret Service, or that it was better to stick with the protectee, but, if this newspaper report is correct, they didn’t even notice the crime taking place.
Maybe the people whose Secret Service protection Trump had pulled off, (includes John Bolton and Hunter Biden) are fortunate. Privately paid-for security could hardly be worse than this gang.
It was not immediately clear when Noem noticed her bag missing or how the thief evaded Noem’s security detail. A Secret Service spokesman referred questions about the theft to DHS. A D.C. police spokesman, Tom Lynch, said local police were not involved in the investigation. A representative from Darden Restaurants, which owns Capital Burger, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
It’s immediately clear to me that a member of her family took the bag.
Someone who has just received a small bribe, or someone who has received a large bribe that she couldn’t put in the bank so it needs to be spent in smaller amounts but all in cash.
DHS said in an earlier emailed statement that Noem had withdrawn a large amount of cash because her children and grandchildren were in town for the holiday. “She was using the withdrawal to treat her family to dinner, activities, and Easter gifts,” the statement read.
Aside from that, I can’t picture how this went down. Women (I and the ones I know, anyway) are pretty vigilant when it comes to their purse, so I don’t imagine she would just set it down somewhere. Maybe she forgot it in the bathroom and is too embarrassed to admit it. Regardless, $3,000 cash still sounds fishy to me.
As I said in another thread, she probably hung it on the back of her chair. That makes it easy for someone to walk past the chair and slip it off without anyone noticing. That’s a known opportunity for thieves which is why smart women don’t do that.
Good theory. And I agree, most of us know not to hang our bags on our chairs. Damn, I hate that I’m blaming the victim, but the victim is so irredeemable that I can probably forgive myself.
This thread is far too general and wide ranging for P&E if we take the title literally. To wit:
Keep threads specific and debatable. No wide omnibus threads. We want to see clear, specific topics and thread titles. Large omnibus threads are actively detrimental to the long-term success of the boards. A thread entitled, “Tax Policy” is too broad. One entitled, “Should a National Sales Tax be enacted” is better. Keep it clear and specific. This also requires participants in the thread to remain on specific topics as well.
Again, considering the title, it seems a lighter version of the pit thread about the compendium of horrors. Considering the above, as well as the nature of the majority of the posts to date, I’m closing the thread. @PhillyGuy, please let me know if you want it re-opened in the Pit, or of course, I think a more narrow focused thread on failures of the Secret Service could be interesting P&E material as well.
I could have let the prior note stand, but realized I made an error and wanted to address it rather than hope that it passed unnoticed. I stated in the above note that the other “Trump administration compendium thread” was in the Pit, when it is in fact in P&E as well. I was wrong.
Still, the rest of the points stand. We’ve already got an off-the-books omnibus P&E thread, we don’t need a proliferation of them, the language is largely Pit-based, and there’s actually a really interesting potential P&E thread to be had on the status, training, and politicization of the Secret Service. Which I happily invite the OP to consider.
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