The Secret Service opened an investigation into a Maine veteran after he made jokes about the Biden family on social media, citing an “unusual interest” towards the Biden family.

However, reports indicate he did not make a serious threat of violence towards Biden, his family, or any other government official. 

“In July 2022, about 18 months after Biden became president, a regional Secret Service office requested that agents conduct a ‘preliminary protective intelligence investigation’ targeting the Maine man, an Army veteran, for one or more posts on Twitter,” The Daily Signal reports.

“The inquiry was led by Agent John Mazza, who aimed to identify a user on X, formerly known as Twitter, responsible for the jokes about President Biden. Interestingly, Mazza’s contact information was discovered on Hunter Biden’s laptop, which raises questions about a potential personal connection to the Biden family,” Chuck Callesto wrote.

The Daily Signal reports:

What appears to have gotten the Secret Service’s attention? One of the man’s posts suggested, apparently jokingly, that he planned to “invade the White House and get pics of Biden in his ‘Depends,’” referring to a brand of adult diaper.

By contrast, some social media users who despise former President Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee to take on Biden in a rematch in November, routinely post messages about assaulting or assassinating him. Biden, a Democrat, has talked in public about wanting to rough up Trump.

The Daily Signal acquired the man’s name through the Oversight Project but isn’t publishing it because the man, who lives in a small town on the coast of Maine, was not charged with a crime by the Secret Service. In addition, attempts to reach him were unsuccessful and he hasn’t agreed to speak publicly about being investigated.

According to The Daily Signal, the Secret Service didn’t identify actual threats to Biden or his family.

The man’s so-called “unusual interest” in the family reportedly sparked the probe.

It appears the man’s “unusual interest” was an obvious joke. 

“Zero comments by the Twitter user suggested a serious intent to engage in violence, according to the Secret Service documents released to the Oversight Project,” the outlet stated.

Per The Maine Wire:

According to Secret Service Documents, Mazza began his investigation in the summer of 2022, after reading his insulting tweets about the president.

In one tweet, which the Secret Service considered cause for investigation, the man claimed that he had left a “long, disrespectful, and insulting” voice mail at a phone number he believed to belong to the president, and suggested that he had texted a phone number linked to Hunter Biden.

In another tweet, the man called for the arrest of members of the government, and punishments ranging from jail time to capital punishment.

“We need you people in congress to impeach the entire Biden administration, some need prison. Court martial Austin and Milley. Destroying our country should men [sic] the death penalty for the leaders of the executive branch, pentagon, state department, and doj [sic],” said the man.

None of the posts cited by the Secret Service contained any direct threats from the man directed towards the president or other officials.

The only tweet in which the man claimed to have plans to commit a crime came was a joking response to another tweet asking what criminal activities extremists were planning.

The man responded, saying that he was planning to “invade the white house [sic] and get pics of Biden in his ‘Depends,’” a brand of adult diapers.

Even in his joking response, the man did not suggest that he had any plan to commit any physical violence against the president.

 

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