It’s the Joe Biden you didn’t know — and might not want to see.
Secret Service agents dread being assigned to protect the vice president, in part because Biden’s a big fan of skinny dipping, according to a new tell-all book.
In “The First Family Detail,” author Ronald Kessler quotes unnamed Secret Service agents dishing about the supposedly “hidden lives” of Presidents and the other important people they protect.
Biden is portrayed as being more interested in coming off as a “regular Joe” than being potentially responsible for the nation’s nuclear codes.
Not to mention he’s a guy who apparently doesn’t have a problem getting naked.
“Agents say that, whether at the vice president’s residence or at his home in Delaware, Biden has a habit of swimming in his pool nude,” Kessler writes.
“Female Secret Service agents find that offensive.”
More serious is Biden’s insistence, according to Kessler, that his official motorcade not interfere with his neighbors back in his home turf of Delaware.
That means the veep puts an uncomfortable — perhaps even dangerous — distance between himself and the vehicles carrying his physician and the 40-pound “football” that enables him, if necessary, to authorize the launching of a nuclear warhead, the book claims.
“What’s going to happen is either you’re going to have a dead vice president in Delaware or you’re going to have agents killed in Delaware because Secret Service management refused to stand up to (Biden),” Kessler quotes an unnamed agent as saying.
Between Biden’s “lack of consideration as evidenced by” his naked aquatics and his supposedly incessant last-minute schedule changes, “being assigned to his detail is considered the second worst assignment in the Secret Service,” Kessler writes.
Coming in at No. 1, per Kessler: Protecting Hillary Clinton.
A Biden representative did not respond to a request for comment.
Kessler’s book is scheduled to be released next week by Crown Forum, an arm of the Random House empire, but the Daily News obtained a copy.
Kessler, who once worked for the Washington Post, is also the former chief Washington correspondent for the right-wing website NewsMax.
He has written 19 other books, some of them best-sellers, but he has often been accused by Democratic media monitors of using anonymous sources to peddle hard-to-believe stories taking down figures like the Clintons and the Kennedys.
A Hillary Clinton representative told the Daily News that Kessler joins two other authors who have written Clinton takedowns this summer in “a hat trick of despicable actors concocting trashy nonsense.
“Their behavior should neither be allowed nor enabled, and legitimate media outlets who know with every fiber of their beings that it is completely made up should not get down in the gutter with them.”
With Annie Karni
