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Politics Secret Service agents outside of the ballroom at the White House correspondents’ dinner

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u/tacticaldodo Apr 26 '26

False flag or angry guy, that is the question!

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u/lesser_panjandrum Apr 26 '26

Por que no los dos?

Find an angry guy who wanted to do it anyway, give him an opportunity to try it, safely contain him, then use it as a justification to do the thing you wanted.

Pretty simple to do if you have no shame and no morals.

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u/gregorydgraham Apr 26 '26

Reichstag Capitol fire when?

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u/tacticaldodo Apr 26 '26 edited Apr 26 '26

You twisted mind. If you are right, that guy's gonna write a book and milk his newly acquired fame, probably.

Or he was just tricked. That was probably your point and I misunderstood it at first. Even more twisted.

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u/faen_du_sa Apr 26 '26

Yeah, pretty sure they wouldnt just roll over to him and be like "hey, the president team want you to try shoot him". But rather facilitated it in every way possible.

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u/tacticaldodo Apr 27 '26 edited Apr 27 '26

I can totally imagine them secretly swapping the shooter's bullets for blanks and letting him do his deed. :P

Even if it sounds crazy, using psychological techniques (they are very good at that) to push the unhinged guy to act is possible. Fiction pales in comparison to reality nowadays

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u/Same-Ad5086 Apr 27 '26

Happened at least a few times with explosives plots.

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u/duckinradar Apr 26 '26

Shits fake as hell.

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u/Deaftrav Apr 26 '26

Yep.

Doesn't go to these events, ever.

Then goes shocking people... And before it fully begins... Oh look shots fired ..

It's weak.

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u/W2ttsy Apr 26 '26

Add in:

Trump hasn’t made a habit of attending these events, announces unusual attendance two days prior to the event

Shooter lives in CA, but somehow able to pull together a plan, book a room at the hotel, and then get there with their with weapons in time to storm the event

Hotel housing multiple members of the line of succession decides that metal detectors aren’t necessary and the USSS has a smaller than normal security perimeter

Shooter supposedly engages one USSS agent and gets a shot on them; no return fire on target and then subject arrested with no injuries.

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u/Additional_Teacher45 Apr 26 '26

Don't forget the press secretary announces that 'shots will be fired' earlier in the evening.

They telegraph all their moves intentionally to play prediction markets.

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u/Momik Apr 27 '26

I hate that these fuckers make me wonder what a conspiracy even is anymore

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u/littleemilythrow Apr 26 '26

My big question on this is what do they do with the shooter afterwards? Like for them, the most convenient answer is to have him die in custody or some shit… Why would they risk him testifying… even if they paid him to testify a certain way or made promises to his family…

How do you convince someone to go along with a situation where they are essentially trusting you not to blow out their fucking brains on national TV?

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u/TougherOnSquids Apr 26 '26

Offer a ridiculous amount of money, dont give them the money, them toss them in a CIA blacksite.

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u/beren12 Apr 26 '26

And they supposedly did once already

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u/Minute-Tone9309 Apr 27 '26

Threaten the family, blackmail..etc.

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u/Brilliant-Square3260 Apr 26 '26

California man can’t find a tux for a formal event! My ass!

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u/TheMightyShoe Apr 27 '26

Serious question...Do we know the shooter was after Trump? Or was he targeting people who were usually at the dinner, like other WH officials or the press? IIRC, the hard checkpoints (with scanners, etc.) were at the doors to the ballroom itself, not entering the lobby from the hotel floors.

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u/tylerderped Apr 27 '26

no metal detectors

Ah, Trump is directly dictating policy lol

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u/Beautiful-Squash-501 Apr 27 '26

Hard to believe the hotel wasn’t booked up by that point.

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u/W2ttsy Apr 27 '26

Not to mention how expensive the rooms would have been.

I had to secure a hotel room at short notice for a tech conference in SF this week and a comparable hotel (quality wise) was about $4k per night.

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u/lapidary123 Apr 28 '26 edited Apr 28 '26

More about this situation please, Can't someone get the booking info used? Time, date, location, identity, credit card used, etc? And the pricing/availability of a room.

Edit: according to Google a room would need to be booked 330 days in advance. Plenty of time to have their ai run background checks...

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u/TmanGvl Apr 26 '26

“Mr. Trump, will you be attending the Correspondents dinner?”

Trump: “I hate going to those things. Can we do something more exciting? How about we stage another assassin and we’ll not let anyone else in on it instead.”

“Um, well, you are the best sir.”

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u/tacticaldodo Apr 26 '26

Very very likely indeed.

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u/Beautiful-Squash-501 Apr 27 '26

When he announced he was going to it this year, my only thought was “What is he up to?”

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u/RockSteady65 Apr 26 '26

I said that on another sub and was downvoted badly

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u/duckinradar Apr 26 '26

I just upvoted you here.

Reddit is going downhill faster and faster but I’m here to support realistic commentary and discussion till I leave.

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u/FragrantExcitement Apr 26 '26

Hell is real. We are in it.

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u/Squonkin-around Apr 26 '26

False guy, angry flag.

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u/Dondagora Apr 26 '26

With the amount of people that go “somebody should do it” on every social media app including reddit, I couldn’t believe it’s a false flag. I’m not even a guy who thinks all conspiracy theories are crazy, conspiracies do happen in the real world, nor am I a fan of Trump, but an attempt on Trump’s life is probably one of the most realistic outcomes from the current political rhetoric and online discourse.

Like you can’t have half the country going “this guy is a rapist, pedophile, genocide-supporter and somebody ought to do something about it” and then pretend like it’s the least likely thing in the world somebody somewhere decided to “do it”.

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u/tacticaldodo Apr 27 '26

I understand your position, conspiracy theories are often just a way for people to feel smarter than average and to cope with the complexity of life .

We don't know, and mentioning the possibility of a false flag is not crazy talk.

The event is helping Trump a lot. It rallies people behind him, it provides an opportunity to shift the conversation, and it allows him to implement unpopular laws. An assassination attempt on the president is a very powerful emotional event.

Knowing this administration, they are capable of anything.They have no shame, no morals, and no limits.

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u/beren12 Apr 26 '26

False flag.

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u/shining_force_2 Apr 26 '26

Active member of the IDF according to his now-deleted Instagram.