“Some shots are gonna be fired in this room tonight…”
So said White House spokesperson Caroline Leavitt, just as the White House Correspondents Dinner was getting underway on Saturday.
Sure, maybe it was just figure of speech, referring to the customary roasting that takes place in these glitzy events.
Or maybe she was trolling: fully in on the actual real joke.
The fact that ‘Shots fired!‘ is literally what Secret Service personnel reportedly yelled out a short time later when alleged gunman Cole Allen attempted to penetrate into the main event is… I suppose we should just say unfortunate coincidence.
You know the funniest part? The security incident literally happened while President Trump was being engaged on-stage by an actual Israeli magician!
Should we even be bothered to attempt a detailed breakdown of this incident at this point?
Back in the day, I used to be fairly meticulous in trying to convince people that a false flag or staged event had occurred. These days, no one believes the official stories anyway: the false flag claims were already everywhere within minutes of this incident being reported.
The assassination hoax in Butler, Pennsylvania, was more interesting. I was more determined to explain how that one was a piece of staged theatre (which I covered here, here, here and here) – because so many people believed the official story at the time.
But this WHCD incident has been pooh-poohed by pretty much everyone immediately.
Which demonstrates how quickly the whole MAGA scam has collapsed between then and now: in barely eighteen months we’ve gone from ‘God saved President Trump, the Chosen One’ to ‘this is obviously staged’.
Now the only people who seem to think this was real are the strange ballroom enthusiasts who suddenly cropped up in unison on social media as soon as the WHCD incident happened.
But, strangely enough, I’m not entirely as convinced of this one being a flat-out hoax as I was with Butler. The fact that the would-be shooter’s alleged manifesto comes across as so reasonable, even somewhat sensible, is also a parallel sign of how bizarre a time we live in.
Cole Allen’s statement reads like the reasoned explanation of a well-meaning, conscientious individual. In other words, he almost comes across as the sane person in the equation.
Which, if we think about it, is a bizarre state of affairs. But considering the level of tuxedo-donning corruption and iniquity mingling in that event room, it’s hard not have that thought.
The alleged would-be killer even makes clear how he wants to avoid harming any hotel staff, security or general guests: and carefully lays out a classification of people he may encounter in terms of who is considered a target and who isn’t.
The fact that Cole Allen also seems to be an intelligent person with a strong education, is a well liked teacher, and a regular church goer very involved in his community, is one of the reasons I’m not wholly sure this was a hoax organised by the Trump cabal.
If it was entirely staged, they wouldn’t present the suspect as such a nice seeming, normal guy, and even a liberal Christian (and with no prior criminal record).
They would have him be more like a radical leftist caricature. Or even someone linked to Iran maybe. In fact, Allen even alludes to that in his alleged statement, saying ‘if I was an Iranian agent, instead of an American citizen, I could have brought a damn Ma Deuce in here and no one would have noticed shit.’
They also wouldn’t make public a manifesto that was so seemingly polite and conscientious – and that also referred to either the President or people in his administration as ‘pedophile’ or ‘rapist’.
That doesn’t serve the Trump administration at all: as evidenced by how angry Trump got when the 60 Minutes journalist later brought up the manifesto to him. Allen’s statement doesn’t actually reference Epstein directly, but Trump nevertheless does and seems to know exactly what’s being implied.
The manifesto and the general profile of Cole Allen therefore makes me think he might’ve been a legitimate threat who simply saw an opportunity and tried to take it.
The fact that he also calls out the lack of effective security at the event is another weird thing to be made public if this was all staged.
As he reportedly said in his own words: ‘What the hell is the Secret Service doing? Like, I expected security cameras at every bend, bugged hotel rooms, armed agents every 10 feet, metal detectors out the wazoo. What I got (who knows, maybe they’re pranking me!) is nothing. No damn security. Not in transport. Not in the hotel. Not in the event… I walk in with multiple weapons and not a single person there considers the possibility that I could be a threat…‘
So, was he a real attacker? To me, it seems possible.
But I don’t fault anyone for branding it a faked event. That’s how it all came across.
In this day and age, assuming it’s all more staged theater seems like a justified default. And really, none of the coverage or pictures makes it look like anyone thought there was a real danger or that a serious incident had occurred.
Here’s some ‘journalists’ enjoying the aftermath of the incident.
After all, Butler, Pennsylvania was faked: and was so crucial in establishing the scripted narrative that helped Trump back into power.
So why not fall back on old tricks – especially when your presidency has become the least popular in living memory, you’re in a ridiculous war, the economy is tanking, and a certain Mr Epstein’s ghost is constantly looking over your shoulder?
I suppose one other possibility is that the incident was staged, but by someone other than the Trump administration itself.
It is strange that the Secret Service appeared to move J.D Vance to safety before the actual president. Or that the would-be assassin seemed to exclude FBI clown Kash Patel from his target list.
But then it’s also suspicious that this is the first White House Correspondents Dinner that Trump has ever been willing to attend: and it just happened to be disrupted by a major security incident. Trump himself barely seemed bothered by it.
You know what? I give up. I don’t have a clear theory.
And it doesn’t really matter anymore anyway. It’s just more bizarre theater in the bizarro world that’s now the normal state of things.
The most sane position these days is to just to assume everything that goes on over there is just a show.
