Correction: According to updated reports, the Secret Service discharged the weapon outside Naomi Biden’s home in the Georgetown neighborhood, suggesting she does not currently reside at the White House and was not out clubbing at the time. The headline of this piece has been changed accordingly. The text below remains in its original version as several members of Biden’s extended family, including Naomi’s father, were reportedly living at the White House in recent months.
(Headline USA) Democrats’ soft-on-crime policies have made it unsafe for many young people to enjoy a night of barhopping in the nation’s capital.
However, 29-year-old Naomi Biden, the eldest daughter of Hunter Biden, may not only be living rent-free in the West Wing courtesy of U.S. taxpayers, but also enjoying elite protection to ensure she is not the victim of crimes committed by her scofflaw father’s D.C. drug-dealer friends.
Secret Service agents protecting President Joe Biden’s granddaughter opened fire after three people tried to break into an unmarked Secret Service vehicle in the Georgetown neighborhood late Sunday night, a law enforcement official told the Associated Press.
The agents, assigned to protect Naomi Biden, were out with her when they saw the three people breaking a window of the parked and unoccupied SUV, the official said. The official could not discuss details of the investigation publicly and spoke to the AP on Monday on the condition of anonymity.
One of the agents opened fire, but no one was struck by the gunfire, the Secret Service said in a statement. The three people were seen fleeing in a red car, and the Secret Service said it put out a regional bulletin to Metropolitan Police to be on the lookout for it.
According to the Secret Service’s information page, the agency is required to protect only the immediate families of presidents, making no mention of their adult grandchildren—or children, for that matter.
Despite the fact that Biden has extended protection to members of his own family who are ineligible to receive it, his administration has repeatedly denied the requests of independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., whose own father was assassinated by a Palestinian radical while on the campaign trail in 1968, and who has noted several incidents including a recent attempted break-in at his home.
Washington has seen a significant rise in the number of carjackings and car thefts this year. Police have reported more than 750 carjackings this year and more than 6,000 reports of stolen vehicles in the district.
Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, was carjacked near the U.S. Capitol last month by three armed assailants, who stole his car but didn’t physically harm him.
Violent crime in Washington has also been on the rise this year, up more than 40% compared with last year. In February, Rep. Angie Craig, D-Minn., was assaulted in her apartment building, suffering bruises while escaping serious injury.
Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press
