President Donald Trump was evacuated from the White House Correspondents’ Dinner after multiple gunshots were heard in the ballroom.
One officer was shot, but he was “saved by the fact that he was wearing obviously a very good bulletproof vest,” Trump later told reporters at the White House.
The suspected shooter was identified later Saturday as Cole Allen of Torrance, California, a former senior law enforcement official briefed on the matter told MS NOW.
I’m betting this was all staged. Either that or Iran is trying to get him.
*Edit: Alternative Idea – what if this was one of his cultists who came to kill off the “fake news” media?
The fact that he didn’t have scripted tag line like "Fight! Fight! Fight! indicates that this one was a surprise, but also that Butler was DEFINITELY staged.
ah so THAT’S why he wanted to be at the correspondents dinner. Literally the other day it was reported how it was odd that Trump wanted to attend annnnnnd now we know why. this was staged.
I find it disheartening how instantaneously people will run with a half baked conspiracy theory that at best is typically “somewhat possible”.
Besides the fact that we should actually want evidence to believe something, trump doesn’t really seem to think ahead, so yeah I don’t think he’s repeatedly staged his own assassination attempts.
Lets see.
First dinner he’s ever attended.
white house leaks hes planning some big mic drop event.
several attendees have made statements about security being less than previous dinners. (Weird since its first time trumps attended, huh?)
Reporter tries to report on fox news about trump insiders telling her to be safe (before things even go down) and gets cut off mid sentance.
Someone still manages to get a gun through and gets juuuuust close enough to be a concern without being a threat.
A magically perfect opportunity to go on afterwards and justify the big golden ballroom he wants so bad.
Yeah, totally nothing to see here. Just some harmless coincidences, stop thinking so hard with your “conspiracies” and “theories”, libtards. /s
Yeah I had my comments deleted for my thoughts on it and they labeled it conspiracy theory. Lemmy censorship told me I was right.
Multiple guns apparently. Past the secret service with metal detectors.
Hitler’s 42 plots all involved his own people.
WOW. Yeah my first thought was staging too.
Does he think ahead? Of course not. But is this something some insecure 2-bit tinpot dictator would do in an attempt to self-legitimize? Well then of course he’s gonna copy that.
Hes also a creature of habit and repeats things for comfort, especially if it worked the first time (even if it never worked again afterwards, prime example being Venezuela, which lead to the quagmire of Iran, which isnt even resolved and already planning to attack cuba next)
Don’t forget the fully kitted out Call of Duty cosplayers that filed out in front shortly after training their AR’s over the crowd.
Really? Thought it was photoshopped. If they were there then this was planned by the administration.
Yeah let’s not let pesky things like “what in fuck good would this do for trump?” Get in the way of throwing spaghetti at the wall!
Be skeptical. Jesus Christ people.
Also look at the fact that none of the dipshits in charge of the government right now can keep a secret and see if anyone put a few grand on “attempted assassination” on polymarket 20 minutes before it happened.
I thought some of these idiots were claiming there was something vaguely related on polymarket. You make a good point though. It wouldn’t be quite so vague because none of them fear consequences and none of them are smart enough to keep a secret or be covert in any way
Yeah, what would a guy who had a surge in popularity after a previous assassination attempt, think he could possibly get from another assassination attempt at a time when his poll numbers are not only historic low for him, but for the office of the presidency in general, with midterm elections coming up that have republicans predicted to lose big, probably to more aggressive leftists/liberals who will absolutely impeach him and 25th amendment him afterwards.
Such a mystery what he could gain from it and its convenient timing.
Be skeptical. It’s not hard.
Fine line between skeptical and stupid. Talk to an anti vaxer.
They are being skeptical… 🤨 Skeptical that this was a real assassination attempt.
I agree it’s more likely to have not been staged (people are actually pissed at the piece of shit), but what the fuck are you even trying to say here?
There’s a middle ground: NSA/Palantir identify a nearly harmless threat that a dude is googling what hotel it’s at and buys a 22 handgun with no firearm experience. If you’re Trump, do you arrest him at the airport or let him make a scene?
I’m saying they came up with a theory and then just believed it straight out. That’s not being skeptical, it’s just called being a moron.
I’m skeptical of your understanding of the word skeptical.
Questioning the official story is being skeptical.
Come on… I agree that it’s possible, maybe even plausible, that this was staged, but you can’t honestly claim to be sceptical if you think the most likely situation here was that this was staged when you have no hard evidence at all. I’m not saying it wasn’t staged, I’m saying that the sceptical approach is to recognise that anything coming out of the White House is a half-truth at best, that there is exists a motive for staging this, and that it could be staged. At this point we have nowhere near enough evidence to conclude either way.
Besides, there are plenty of people that want trump dead. I don’t see it as unlikely that one of them decided to give it a shot here.
“The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears”
Yes “being skeptical” = “instantly making shit up with little to no facts”
This is one of those cases where I realize people on Lemmy aren’t smarter than the average person. The downvotes can keep on coming because you all haven’t proven shit and your quickness to believe something random just because it’s not been admitted to reflect poorly on you, not me.
These people are so incredibly fucking stupid. It’s been wild watching the people I agree with slowly start to sound like the Rush-Limbaugh-guzzling halfwits I grew up with. Even if they’re right in the end, their reasons for arriving at this conclusion are just impossibly childish.
Yeah they seem to think the coward would risk his life for a flimsy attempt at some brownie points with his base, and they don’t even seem to entertain the idea he didn’t
Yeah, at this point it’s devolved into some weird liberal purity test for the less serious people. I hate it.
Yeah you’re right to compare them to qanon. I’m being treated like I “believe the official story” and that I’m a “sheep” simply for stating the obvious fact that nothing conclusive about this theory exists.
I find starting wars and raping kids disheartening. I find it equally disheartening that it’s plausible someone would try to take attention away from those things by stirring up some shit.
… So I’m now an accomplice to Epstein because I… Don’t believe something without a shred of evidence?
Yeah, dunno what you are talking about, but I just can’t help but feel skeptical at this point, but I suppose it’s totally acceptable to not feel skeptical as well.
Skeptical means you haven’t reached a conclusion. Apparently I’m an idiot and a sheep for not reaching a conclusion. It’s the people who have done so who are the real skeptics!
yes, that’s exactly what they said.
Not sure if sarcasm…
trump doesn’t really seem to think ahead, so yeah I don’t think he’s repeatedly staged his own assassination attempts.
Trump doesn’t, but Miller does.
Blue Anon has taken over. Zero critical thought, all confirmation bias.
You’re talking about the moron I responded to, right?
Correct. Apparently our side is as full of morons as the populist right. We’re cooked.
I can still hear her melodic voice.
Karoline Leavitt said the truth for once
Is that a real quote, and was it actually broadcast before the shooting?
Surprisingly, yes
LOL, what a goddamn farce.
Even if the “shooting incident” (which the article you linked itself puts in scare quotes, BTW!) is real, the circumstances are so stupidly convenient half the country isn’t gonna believe it anyway.
-waiting for the report on how much people won/lost on Kalshi and Polymarket about this-
They’re not sending their best (assassins).
Why is everyone so bad at this?
Because it’s not real. This was Trump’s mic drop.
Right! He is re-solidifying his grip on the cult.
Except I dont think it’ll work, cause even the cultists are starting to think the big ear “shot” attempt was fake now… and I dont see how this blatantly stupid failure here is going to do anything to skew that opinion.
what if this was one of his cultists who came to kill off the “fake news” media?
There is a stupid amount of security for the President. More than people realize.
When he was Prez, Clinton came to speak at my high school. They had scuba divers check a small pond for explosives, evacuated homes in a nearby subdivision, and had a fucking ground to air missile battery in the countyard. And that was before 9/11.
And that same SS didn’t insist on metal detectors at the hotel? Or fully vet all the people staying at the hotel?
It sounds like the shooter was stopped at the metal detectors from what I read. As for vetting, this administration only seems to vet brown people.
So the next one knows the gun has to be non metallic (plastic and ceramic).
There’s video. He gets to the checkpoint and bolts. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cr717nglye0o
George W Bush came to speak at my high school, BEFORE he was President; this was just on the campaign trail.
Aside from getting a chance to speak to him (“to the rank”), what image has remained with me 20+ years later was leaving school later and looking back at the sight of these men running back and forth on the roof of my school carrying HUGE guns as part of the security. It really resonated with me that I while I was shaking that man’s hand, I very likely had one of those giant rifles aimed at me…just in case.
And, this was just on the campaign trail.
People who know enough to know how to do it right now that it’s not the best idea, your efforts are better spent doing other things
Evacuated? Not hidden under a table for 3 minutes then allowed to stand up, head fully exposed, for a quick photo op?
What about the Epstein files ? Are their safe
So how much money are we betting that this is another magat trying to kill trump?
I hope not. I liked the last guys being MAGAs, but now I want it to start being the people he’s hurting. I want to see the Free Market respond the way it did with execution of the Health Care CEO.
When you push people hard enough, they will eventually push back. I want these treasonous pedophiles to get so terrorized that they are afraid to go out in public. All that money, and it can’t even buy you peace of mind.
Trump’s going to be so annoying about this.
Won’t that be a tell. If the guy that won’t shut up about anyone who has ever wrong him DOESN’T go off on this guy (kinda like the crickets in the guy that supposedly got his ear)?
Probably staged
Probably. Or a cultist was acting to eliminate the “fake news” that the jackass whines about all the time.
“Man, people keep trying to shoot at me. So weird! Anyways, I’m gonna use this to show how both safe and unsafe the country is.”
Clearly, this is because transgender people are using the women’s restroom. Let’s round them up and “deport” them.
-Republicans, eventually
The deep state sucks at choosing assassins. They always pick these guys who have no real plan or ability to succeed.
Made me think of That Mitchell and Webb Look - Diana Assassination
The world needs professionals. Not amateurs.
