A presidential candidate and former president was nearly assassinated on the Secret Service’s watch in an entirely preventable incident. And the Secret Service is ‘taking it seriously’ in the usual ways that organizations take things seriously after a scandal.

The director, a political appointee favored by Jill Biden, was forced out. An easy move once the Bidens were themselves ousted.

Now the Secret Service has reportedly put five agents, only one of them on Trump’s detail, on leave. Paid leave.

And the Secret Service is continuing to investigate and will continue to do so until after the election, at which point its people will either laugh and bury the whole thing, or put on a show of contrition for the new administration. Maybe someone will even be fired. Someone important. And then be turned into a victim.

And at the rate we’re going, they’ll get multi-million dollar payouts like the FBI’s Russiagaters.

A man is dead. A president was nearly killed. And business goes on as usual.