WASHINGTON—Talking slowly in an effort to attract out his remarks throughout a televised handle, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg reportedly distracted the U.S. populace with a speech Thursday whereas his division stole the nation’s catalytic converters to promote on the black market. In accordance with insiders, Buttigieg’s bumbling, erratic speech about experimenting with new traffic-light colours was merely a ploy to maintain the eye on him as DOT officers proceeded stealthily via the nation in black ski masks, concentrating on autos and eradicating the valued automotive half, which comprises platinum and different treasured metals. Witnesses informed reporters they noticed suspicious people armed with reciprocating saws and ready within the nation’s shadows till part of Buttigieg’s speech through which he started talking very loudly in an try to cowl up the sound of catalytic converters being sliced out of all 290 million registered vehicles in the US. Talking on situation of anonymity, sources inside the Biden administration stated they turned suspicious of the transportation secretary after he started gloating about “lastly getting that bullet practice” and insisting that funding for the challenge wouldn’t be an issue as a result of he was about to return into “a complete lot of cash.” In accordance with studies, the speech ended abruptly when a visibly panicked Buttigieg acquired a name on a burner telephone through which he was informed his crew of thieves had been “pinched by the cops” and have been beginning to speak.