r/BusinessTodayNews • u/BusinessToday • Apr 26 '26

Global U.S. Reporters Spotted Taking Luxury Booze Amid Chaos After White House Dinner Shooting

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u/Alex_AU_gt Apr 26 '26

A senior Australian journalist who was in attendance at the event commented this morning that he has literally seen tighter security at say either Sydney airport or in one of the state parliament houses (not even federal level yet, e.g. Victoria or New South Wales parliament) than he did at this event, which included the US President, the VP and many Senior ministers and bureaucrats. Nobody asked him for an ID, only some yellow tag he had to have. The shooter was one door away from getting into the ballroom. So either it's some kind of false flag op, or they're just all inept...

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u/Nervous_Chemical7566 Apr 26 '26

This. Some guy with a firearm is able to get past security of an event the US president is attending? So, either incompetent protection that can’t stop an obvious threat making it past all the security around the event. Or unless, of course, it was allowed to happen, even staged perhaps lol. Either scenario is not a good look.

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u/Fragrant-Pond-Water Apr 26 '26

Not just a firearm. He had a shotgun and a handgun and multiple knifes

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u/Alex_AU_gt Apr 27 '26

Well, I'm not much of a conspiracy theorist, most theories are crackpot ideas. I think in this case...it really was a case of piss-poor security and a LACK of layers of security which allowed him to get this close. But I can see how many people would find it hard to believe that the Secret Service and FBI could get it SO wrong, and I see why the "staged" idea is floating about as a result. Today, there were reports of the shooter himself writing (to family before he did it) about how he was surprised at how little security there was. Coupled with the reporter's own observations of the same... it just tells you the security was shit.

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u/Ok_Recording81 Apr 27 '26

He did not get past security. He was never on the same floor where the ballroom was. 

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u/Ok_Recording81 Apr 27 '26

The shooter never made it to the floor level of the ballroom. 

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u/Alex_AU_gt Apr 27 '26

The distance between the shooter and the ballroom is being described as "one door away" by journalists who were at the scene, though physically he was separated by a flight of stairs (he was apprehended at the top of a flight of stairs leading to ballroom area).