More Details Emerge About The Driver Who Hit Biden's Motorcade

It wasn’t only President Joe Biden who was on the scene of his campaign headquarters when the accident occurred. He was there visiting staff during happy hour (per CNN), and reporters were on-hand to ask questions before the accident occurred (per the New York Daily News). When the crash happened, concerns were immediately raised on social media about the response time of the Secret Service.  Some users of X, formerly known as Twitter, who watched the footage of Biden being evacuated felt the Secret Service moved him too slowly and expressed fears about a hypothetical more serious incident.

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All of these comments were posted the night of the crash when no details of the investigation had been released. When James Cooper’s name was disclosed and the nature of the accident reported, one X account, commenting on a news story describing Cooper’s actions and state of mind, expressed relief that he “wasn’t drunk enough to not follow orders.”