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11-30-2022, 10:32pm | #1 | ||||||
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Why is Secret Service renting cars from Hertz
And why are they self destructing afterwards?
Seriously, I know someone who was involved with the whole vehicle prep for White House trips. Those SUVs were all done at a secure location in Maryland. WTF are they renting vehicles from Hertz??? https://nypost.com/2022/11/29/bidens...-in-nantucket/ President Biden’s rented Secret Service vehicles burst into flames in a parking lot Monday, just one day after he left his Nantucket vacation. Biden spent Thanksgiving on the ritzy Massachusetts island with his family last week. The Secret Service rented five vehicles from Hertz to carry the president and his family, and all five of them caught fire in the parking lot, according to footage first obtained by the Nantucket Current Footage shows firefighters spraying down the smoldering remains of one vehicle’s engine block. The five vehicles included a Chevy Suburban, a Ford Explorer, an Infiniti QX80, a Ford Expedition and a Jeep Gladiator. The vehicles were parked at the Nantucket airport and the blaze reportedly spread to just 40 feet away from the facility’s jet fuel tanks. It is currently unknown what caused the fire. Fox News reached out to the White House for information, but it did not immediately respond. “At approximately 5:22 am Airport shift staff observed an active fire in the rental car overflow area through the Airport’s Closed Circuit Television System,” the airport said in a statement to the Current. “Staff activated the Alert system and responded to the fire in Airport-3, where they were met by responding units from Nantucket Fire Department and Nantucket Police Department.” Biden spent the Nantucket weekend celebrating the holiday with his family, telling reporters they were not having any discussions about a potential presidential run in 2024. The Bidens stayed at a waterfront compound along Nantucket Harbor. The family members on the trip included Ashley and Hunter Biden. The family has a more than 40-year tradition of spending Thanksgiving on the island. |
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11-30-2022, 10:43pm | #2 | ||||||
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The cars committed suicide after being forced to carry Bidens?
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Due to inflation they are no longer free
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STS got wind of it. The F.B.I use to do stakeouts in rental cars from Alamo trying to catch STS.
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Close, one of the black boxes of the cars recorded proof of incriminating evidence on the Clintons.
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Seems like some electrical modifications, that did not work out well.
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11-30-2022, 11:09pm | #6 | ||||||
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Block warmers caught oil on fire. My guess.
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Possible, I grew up in NH and never needed or knew what those were. When up in Alaska, we used a dipstick warmer and a coolant mod to keep that warmer.
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With the need to be "ready to go" if Brandon needs eliminated...I mean evacuated, they probably did it as a proactive measure...but did something wrong. |
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Hunter couldn't find one of his crack pipes. Just covering all of the bases to avoid a repeat of history.
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Gov't employees typically rent cars on TDY (travel), the Presiden'ts "Beast" (hardened vehicle) and a few others are not.... Some agent say, pre-planning a convoy route days before an event can certainly get by with a rented vehicle.
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How does someone who has only worked for the government their whole life afford to take their family to Nantucket for 40 years ?
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Obviously those were BEV SUVs, because only EVs spontaneously catch fire. Hertz does rent Teslas you know.
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They did it before.
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ss rents cars, as they cannot use gov vehicles to pick-up hookers since the colombia incident:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-17747793 |
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Pix I saw, they looked like parked close together, so one catches fire, and in a windy/breezy day.....shit hsppens.....
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Because the SS wants FJB to die
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