JD Vance’s team had water level of Ohio river raised for family’s boating trip
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Exclusive: Incident raises questions of exploitation of public services, but Secret Service says it was requested for ‘safe navigation’
  • spongebue@lemmy.worldEnglish
    81·
    2 months ago

    In a statement, the Secret Service said it had closely coordinated with the Ohio department of natural resources and USACE to conduct planning to ensure motorized watercraft and emergency personnel could operate safely during a recent visit

    I mean, purely as a matter of SOP for a protectee kayaking in shallow-ish waters, I get it. Dude will hardly do anything “normal” again, especially while in office. Doesn’t mean he isn’t garbage for other real reasons though.

    Also, why is this in a Hacker News community?

    • only_in_ohio@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      Also, why is this in a Hacker News community?

      And also why does this bot post the “news” 3 days after they actually get published?

      • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        1·
        2 months ago

        Because someone posted the article to HackerNews, where the bot for this community pulls from, three days after it was originally published.