I don't know all the details, but something that struck me as odd was the fact that this was the first WHC dinner that Trump was going to, famously being too cowardly to go to the others for fear of being mocked. Why go to this one, when his approval rating is in the toilet?
Well it was also the first one where Grindr promoted it.
You're thinking about it backwards. It's the first one the assassin tried to rush into because Trump was going to be there.
Because we’ve been trained by the republicans to prepare for a distraction when the current news is bad.
All of the republican news is really bad right now. They’ve flip-flopped on wars with various countries and the Epstein files a few times already. Even thrown out some UFO stuff. Nothing is working though because gas prices are high and there’s no easy and clean way out of the quagmire the GOP is currently in.
It saddens me so much to know that the president can rape children, and get away with it. On top of that, the only reason people aren't distracted from it is the fact that gas prices are still high. If gas were cheap, there is a good chance 48% of Americans would be distracted.
It's the kind of thing he would do. Putin does it all of the time, and you know how Trump feels about him. One time Putin staged a takeover of a theater, and then gassed the theater. With hundreds of innocent members of the public inside. They got dragged across the ground and stacked up in public busses to be taken to the hospital. Over 100 died. They refused to publish the actual total. For a press op.
Trump was seen as having an electoral boost after the Pennsylvania shooting.
Trump is in a deep hole with the electorate over the Epstein files, the economy, the Iran war, and support of the genocidal Israeli regime
Trump has used very blatant & underhanded tactics in the past, from the 2020 electoral certification Coup attempt, and the recent doordash PR stunt.
There will always be some amount of people who will not accept things at face value, but with Trump, experience has shown that waiting for evidence before believing what the administration is saying is a wise move.
TL;DR: a lot of sketchy crap happens in this administration and people think anything that might turn out well for Trump's voter polls is manufactured
Probs coz of the weird footage by some people. Guests sitting there still eating, others grabbing bottles, people smiling and chatting afterwards. People also are assuming that each attempt on his life was so bad that it felt staged (the way his ear looked after the first one, how incompetent the shooters were etc, theres lots of things flying around in comments). And then there's the lack of sympathy for Trump so most people would want any reason to keep hating him.
the way his ear looked after the first one, how incompetent the shooters were etc, theres lots of things flying around in comments
~~AfaIk, the wound on his ear was caused by a member of Secret Service, not by a glancing shot (although he claimed).~~
Edit: According to Wikipedia, the final stance now is that the wound was caused by a stray bullet.
Theres probs a bunch of explanations out there
sauce? there is zoomed-in footage of blood soon after the audible batch of shots.
Tomato
So, the guests were in on it being staged, and that's why they didn't react?
I think it's just because the PA event was so obviously faked, his handlers have proven they are willing to use a fake attempt to gain favor and he seems to be very unfavorable right now.
I think it’s just because the PA event was so obviously faked
What about it was so obviously faked tho?
Umm... Everything? How many attempts are you aware of where the secret service keeps the president elect on the stage during an active shooting? How many are you aware of where the SS ushers in photographers to take the heroic photos? How many are there where a crane lowers the flag down behind him for the aforementioned heroic photos, again while the shooter is still active?
It's the worst botch of a false flag event I'm aware of.
This is the sort of information I was looking for, thanks. Hadn’t heard about any of this stuff before. I don’t know enough to make a judgment yet but I wanted to hear where people were coming from
Edit: wait this video is from a previous assassination attempt, I’m talking about the most recent one at the WH correspondence dinner
Their point is that the dinner attempt is just another poorly executed staged attempt for publicity and sympathy from a wannabe dictator that's losing support extremely quickly.
He started a war with Iran to distract from the Epstein files. That is so clearly obvious that even MAGA informed have been turning against him.
This reeks of a blatant attempt to artificially increase support like many two bit dictators have done on the past. It worked last time.
How many attempts are you aware of where the secret service keeps the president elect on the stage during an active shooting?
He wasn't president elect at that time. He would have been "former president, and likely (but as of the day of shooting unconfirmed) 2024 republican presidental nominee".
The attack happened in the summer of 2024. Election in November 2024.
The bullet that grazed Trump's ear has been analyzed to death as too close to be fatal from the gunman's distance to reliably stage. There are numerous more plausible explanations than the one the video puts forward.
There is a LOT about the PA incident that is comically sketchy and convenient and suspicious.
Can you please be more specific or provide links or something
Have you watched the videos? Nobody at his table reacts (or rather they react very slowly). The SS gets Vance to safety first, and they take 21 seconds to get to Trump. I'm not an expert, but as I've seen a military person describe, this is astonishingly long.
In addition, there's weird things like one of the fox reporters talking on air about how Carolyn Levitt's husband was telling her they had to "keep her safe" or something, and the phone call was mysteriously dropped.
Carolyn's comments about "shots will be fired" before the event
The fact that Trump has always avoided going to this event, like he had no previous interest in it at all
The fact that it was an EXTREMELY secure event and the shooter wasn't shot down immediately, and somehow got through all that security with several weapons?
The way they just continued ahead with the event.... Like no if anyone expected that there even an inkling of real trouble they would have shut it down immediately.
And that IMMEDIATELY after it happened, right wing influencers started posting about why the ballroom needs to be secure (which it is speculated was the whole reason for this debacle)
I'm sure more concrete evidence will come out in the future but they've done this dumb shit enough that it's pretty safe take speculative evidence at face value, and even if not, it's then a story of the boy who called wolf.
They didn't get him down on the ground and instead they moved the flag and photographers into position so they could take pictures. If they were afraid of the shooter taking another shot they would have gotten him out of there immediately, but they weren't afraid because they knew it was staged and they had the photo op all ready to go.
On top of that, lets say it were real......why have we not heard of any trial? We sure hear about every little detail from Luigis court proceedings. I remember last month reading they moved which cell he's in.
Not moving jails. Just "you're in this cell.....well now you're going to that cell over there". That made the news. But the guy who tried to shoot trump just vanishes? The media doesn't mention his name after a day or two.
Then you got trump sticking his thumbs up over the secret service. You're telling me the guy who IN HIS HEALTHIEST DAYS OF HIS YOUTH dodged a vietnam draft, but in his elderly years is fighting 10 secret servicemen to stick his bloody hand up to give a thumbs up while an active sniper is trying to shoot him???
I see
And he immediately started in on the ballroom stuff.
Isn’t it weird that it leaked that this correspondents dinner was going to be all about revenge and then this happens?
Honestly, I could see someone showing up and trying to assassinate Trump for being a pedophile, but I could also see this admin faking something like this. Though, I suspect this was faked we’ll see the leaked signal chats sometime soon.
And I also assume that even though the shooter was "in on it", he'll still go to prison for the rest of his life. No way trump bails him out.....literally or figuratively.
I don’t think it was fake.
I think they knew it (or something dramatic) was going to happen with plenty of warning and deliberately allowed it to play out for dramatic effect. That was unenthusiastic and unhurried securing of the leadership.
I think this is more likely than it being full on staged
Personally... fake is not exactly the answer, but it's oh so convenient, and given that people were sending in tips about him before this, I suspect that if they hadn't wanted this to happen, they'd have done security normally and he'd have been removed from the premises before he shot. But maybe I'm just underestimating how bad the US government's security has become since they fired so many people.
When you repeatedly lie and act like an AH about some pretty major stuff, why would you expect people to believe ANYTHING you claim? 🤷♀️ Be more of a surprise if the guy ever spoke for 3 minutes without a single lie at this point lol
I don't like the conspiracy theories going on here. If it were staged, why would the gunman be off-camera to fire the shots? Wouldn't we get more dramatic imagery? Everything in the footage seems awkward, not like tense danger. Trump doesn't even realize (not to mention react) when the shots are fired (which, btw, were in the hallway outside just in case this is how somebody learns that this happened) until 20 seconds after.
A society with an endless deluge of information increasingly known as "may contain distortions of reality" tends to make anyone lose their minds, one way or another.
Because this was Trump's reaction to the gunshots.
He knew. Melenomia didn't.
"I’m seeing a bunch of posts insinuating" - I think we're well past insinuating. Straight out declaring would be more accurate now. The man has no credibility left. No one trusts him with the truth, their money or their daughters. If I was a betting man I'd say his foreign handlers are already lining up the next candidate for the world stage. You can also tell, by the way, that none of the big media channels are buying it either. All you need to do is compare their coverage now with at the coverage of the assassination attempts of previous presidents. When Reagan got shot the whole world stopped to look. It was literally everywhere. This, so called, "attempt" was a small front page story that will be gone in a couple of days. The mid terms are coming. I expect more and more panicked moves between now and November.
Because it is so convenient. He's way down in the polls with no chance of recovery. He needs an excuse for martial law to keep the elections from happening. He is so unfit to speak and be seen publicly that they need an excuse why he can't be out in public. And, it worked last time to get him elected. Although this time I don't think they killed an spectator.
There are a few signs of it I'll cover here.
Firstly, the "shooter". Dude was found to be a Zionist, and had an IDF shirt on. He wasn't the one who "shot" necessarily, because it happened to fit the numerology required to do this. (Proof of shooting being fake: https://gematrinator.com/blog/2026/04/26/shots-fired-at-white-house-correspondents-dinner-trump-ushered-out). Side note, dude is married to an Indian woman.
Secondly, this is the third fake assassination attempt. We know this pattern, because the first two were, indeed, fake, both of them being scripted. The first one saw Trump (or his stand-in) using either fake blood or a ketchup packet on his ear.
Thirdly, this was a Jesuit distraction from the US government making more moves towards mass surveillance of all Americans, no matter their religious, political, or philosophical standing. Another reason for it is because of the ballroom, which is actually a front for an AI data center in the White House (fun fact: the White House is named after a man with the surname of White, not by Roosevelt as many people proclaim wholesomely).
The manifesto specifically excluded Kash from the people he considered targets within the admin. At the very least, the supposed manifesto seems pretty sus based on that alone. But that wouldn't imply the assassination attempt was fake (and even if it did, it could be interpreted as the FBI trying to take out trump and his administration rather than being done by Trump).
I was watching the Minnesota Denver game when they interrupted the game to show the WHCD. It didn't seem like there were shots fired. Everyone in the crowd seemed a little concerned but not like they had heard gunshots. So it seems unlikely that gunshots were fired.
Trumps team is so full of shit that it doesn't feel crazy to think they would stage assassination attempts in order to garner some kind of support.
The "jet fuel can't melt steel beams" people had babies, and some of them grew up to be progressives.
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