Someone made a comment on social media not long after the shooting that they suspect it was a set up to give Trump a reason to push ahead with his ballroom. Sure enough, some hours later we see Trump saying that if his ballroom were built with all its top secret (his words not mine) stuff, the shooting would’ve never happened.

Armchair_Politician wrote on Apr 27^th, 2026 at 8:15am:


Yes, I saw that: https://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1777166325/32#32

Anything is possible with this corrupt administration.

I don't believe a word they say.

And while we're at it, do you see the look on the rapist's face before the shooting started - when the guy was showing him a card or piece of paper?

It looked like grandad had absolutely no idea where he was or what was going on.

And then when they tried to usher him out he fell to the floor and couldn't get up.

Melania had better start calling some nursing homes.

Don't know but it couldn't be too hard for someone to hit the bloated bouncy illuminated Incandescent Orange beach ball.

Baronvonrort wrote on Apr 27^th, 2026 at 11:54pm:





Oh, and you never worked a day in your miserable life, you government-paid parasite.

Baronvonrort wrote on Apr 27^th, 2026 at 11:54pm:

Yes, how are would-be assassins incentivised by security services to make their attempts?

MeisterEckhart wrote on Apr 28^th, 2026 at 6:45am:


Trump convinced his followers to storm the Capitol to overturn the Biden win. Is this really that much of a stretch?

A famous line of Ian Fleming's seems more germane:

Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it's enemy action.

Which begs the question: if it's enemy action, who precisely is the enemy?


Let's cut to the chase - the US Secret Service: In on it? Or just totally crap?

I don't think it's possible to be this rubbish this often. If the object of a thing is, as they say, its outcome, then the object of the United States Secret Service these last two years is to enable the increasing number of Trump-deranged persons to take a potshot at him. But, even if you incline to cock-up rather than conspiracy, their dysfunction is unreformable.
Steyn

The basic facts of Butler should chill the blood:

In the last seventy-two hours, we have learned there were at least three government snipers in the very building whose rooftop the assassin was trying to access. They sat inside and watched him through the windows, as he arrived and peered up at the roof, and then wandered away.

They watched him when he came back and took out a laser range-finder to calculate the distance between the building and Trump's head, and then left again.

They watched him a third time when he returned with a bulky backpack.

They watched him for the best part of half-an-hour ...and then they let him go ahead and shoot the Republican presidential candidate.

Yet here's the kicker:

Almost two years later, they're all still working for the federal government.


Let's cut to the chase - the US Secret Service: In on it? Or just totally crap?

I don't think it's possible to be this rubbish this often. If the object of a thing is, as they say, its outcome, then the object of the United States Secret Service these last two years is to enable the increasing number of Trump-deranged persons to take a potshot at him. But, even if you incline to cock-up rather than conspiracy, their dysfunction is unreformable.

[UPDATE! "Known wolves" aren't just for Islam anymore: a relative called in the name of the shooter before the dinner but the lethargic bureaucracy could not rouse itself to act even though he was registered at the Hilton under his real name.]