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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
What about the Epstein files ? Are their safe
-waiting for the report on how much people won/lost on Kalshi and Polymarket about this-
You have a pedophile in office that doesn't see any consequences for his crimes. What else did you expect would happen? And this one guy could be any american with a gun. There will probably be more.
Better luck next time.
Having seen the level of marksmanship on display, I hold little hope.
Someone only has to get lucky once. 🤞
Hopefully be more.*
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I can still hear her melodic voice.
Same.
People downvoting healthy skepticism need to get off the internet and go back to school.
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.
Evacuated? Not hidden under a table for 3 minutes then allowed to stand up, head fully exposed, for a quick photo op?
So how much money are we betting that this is another magat trying to kill trump?
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When will they admit that it was just another crazy MAGA idiot?
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