BTW, I've wondered what the Secret Service is supposed to do when they observe a President engaging in actual criminal activity. Does anyone know?
Pretty sure they ignore it. They did when the Bush daughters got caught drinking underage. The book "In the President's Secret Service" made it sound like the SS agents were just a few seats away from the Bush girls when they were confronted and asked for ID.
The SS’s job is to protect the President - whomever that might be. So it would seem to me thAt in order for them to do that effectively, that they would have to have the trust of the person they are protecting.
Is there a line that can be crossed that would prompt them to report crimes?
I would like to think so. But what that line might be, they aren’t saying.
“BTW, I’ve wondered what the Secret Service is supposed to do when they observe a President engaging in actual criminal activity. Does anyone know?”
Why don’t we ask the ones that were around Bill Clinton?