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What Happened To Obama?

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As a followup to my last post, where I asked why nobody seems to think Nancy Pelosi was running the country under Biden when she clearly was, I've got another puzzle: the conventional wisdom after Obama left office and bought a house in Washington was that he was just going to keep on running the country from there, rather than the White House. But the biggest news out of that new house, ever, had nothing to do with Obama : The leafy Kalorama neighborhood normally wakes to the soft whir of motorcades, not the crack of knuckles. Yet in the predawn darkness of Wednesday, May 21, two members of the Secret Service’s Uniformed Division allegedly dispensed with protocol and settled a staffing dispute with fists outside the home of America’s forty‑fourth president. Sources inside the agency tell USA Herald the quarrel began when Officer A—whose name has not been officially released—waited nearly thirty minutes past her scheduled relief. When Officer B finally arrived, a verbal barra...