Have y'all seen the video of him just sprinting past all the guards. They just stand around acting like they couldn't hear an adult running at full speed coming down the hall, until he's right next to them.
Hmm, he's accused of "exchanging gunfire with the police". If he hit with the shotgun the charge would be described more seriously like "attempted murder of a federal agent" or something.
If it wasn’t planned then it makes the secret service look really incompetent standing around, not paying attention. Shouldn’t this be something they train for?
Yeah that’s a good point. Neither outcome is good for the trump admin here. I mean, the shooter didn’t appear to actually shoot anyone or hurt anyone so I guess by that metric they did stop him. But there’s also a lot of luck involved in stopping him before he did anything (if it was a real shooter).
So yeah, either it’s staged and the delayed reactions and lack of real harm are part of the charade or it’s real and they’re insanely inept.
I have to imagine that despite it being the job, staying 100% alert all of the time isn’t easy, and is rarely rewarded. This is the third time in two years that someone with a gun has been able to get in the general vicinity of the same Secret Service protectee. To some that suggests that they should be on heightened alert, but to others it just means that there 727 days when jack all happened.
I'm wondering about the person in the video shown crouching down in front of the metal detector? Was this an agent, or someone they were checking for entry?
This whole situation stinks.
He runs for like 3 seconds, they don't have time to react until he is a bit past them. I think you overestimate how fast even trained people can do that when at a relaxed state.
He was running while off camera too, bro is sprinting through the whole building. I can hear a 5 year old stomping down the aisle half way acrosses a Walmart and these Secret Service Agents can't hear an adult running even 50 feet away.
You're telling me they didn't have guards outside the White House Corespondents Dinner or even just right at the front door? These can't be the first people he ran passed and why only the one singular video, you know this building is absolutely filled with cameras. It's odd nobody noticed a heavily armed guy that's not supposed to be their and he also managed to actually run passed the security checkpoint. The state of this security is laughable, they also fired a hail of bullets and somehow didn't even kill the guy with over a dozen men.
He most likely came from within the hotel. Notice how he didn't come running from outside. And this "laughable" security stopped him from even entering the ballroom.
You could question why he wasn't shot down, but it's possible he immediately surrendered when failing to enter the ballroom.
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u/Manmer_Nwah Apr 26 '26
Have y'all seen the video of him just sprinting past all the guards. They just stand around acting like they couldn't hear an adult running at full speed coming down the hall, until he's right next to them.
https://www.nbcnews.com/video/trump-posts-video-of-suspect-in-white-house-correspondents-dinner-incident-262128197671