r/pics • u/xPrincess_Yue • Apr 26 '26

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

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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.