(REHOBOTH BEACH, Del.) Secret Service agents scrambled into action after they were startled by a woman who thought President Biden had passed and decided to take his pulse.
“I didn’t mean to cause such a stir, honestly, but I just didn’t see him breathing,” Veronica Newton, 43, told agents. “I was worried that he had passed and no one noticed because he seems so lifeless most of the time anyway.
“I guess I should have known there were Secret Service agents watching him,” she added sheepishly. “But he was so still. Like, not moving at all. And I just figured you guys thought, you know, it was just too late to do anything.”
After agents admonished her for touching the president, she told local media they asked her if she ever planned to do that again.
“Oh, not a chance,” Newton said with a very worried look on her face. “I just hope that the agents do keep a closer eye on him because after seeing him so still like that for so long, you know, something bad could actually happen, and no one would know for hours.”
