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There were a lot of reactions to the shooting at the White House Correspondents' Dinner on Saturday.
Some rose to the occasion, as President Donald Trump himself did, trying to reassure everyone and making sure people were okay.
Some, like unhinged Trump haters, did not, calling it "staged" or "false flag." Some had ridiculous takes, like Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin (MD-8), who asked, "What rhetoric?" when asked about the rhetoric Democrats have leveled against Trump for the past ten years. Then there was Barack Obama. What he posted late Sunday afternoon about the shooting was rather incredible. (X) Although we don’t yet have the details about the motives behind
President Trump on Sunday evening blasted ’60 Minutes’ anchor Norah O’Donnell for reading portions of the White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooter’s manifesto.
A heavily armed man stormed the lobby of the Washington Hilton Saturday night, sprinted past a Secret Service checkpoint and shot at a Secret Service agent.
The shooter, identified as Cole Allen, 31, of Torrence, California, was taken into custody and charged with using a firearm during a crime of violence and assaulting a federal officer with a dangerous weapon.
On Sunday it was revealed that Cole Allen wrote a manifesto and expressed his hatred for “pedophile, rapist” Trump.
Trump calls '60 Minutes' host 'disgraceful'
for reading WHCD suspect's alleged manifesto
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for reading WHCD suspect's alleged manifesto
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President Trump berated CBS News correspondent Norah O’Donnell after she quoted parts of the White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooting suspect’s alleged manifesto, branding her a “disgrace” and saying she should be ashamed of herself.
Trump lashed out at the journalist during his “60 Minutes” interview Sunday night – hours after it emerged alleged gunman Cole Allen penned a 1,052-word missive stating he believed it was his righteous duty to target Trump administration officials.
The president became particularly irked when O’Donnell quoted Allen’s alleged words directly, saying, “I am no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist, and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes.”
The growing numbers of Muslims in the United Kingdom, along with their organized and issue-driven politics, has made them an increasingly consequential – if not outsizes – part of the country's electorate – representing new challenges for Prime Minister Keir Starmer's center-left government and efforts to maintain a unified stance on key issues.
Recent elections have shown the country's estimated 4 million people, or roughly 6.5% of the country's overall population, have been enough to determine electoral outcomes in specific districts and nudge national parties to re-calibrate their platforms.
Less than 24 hours after a gunman tried to breach the Washington Hilton during the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, the Department of Justice sent a blunt message to the lawyers blocking construction of the president’s proposed White House ballroom: drop the lawsuit, or the government will move to end it for you.
The letter, dated April 26, was signed by Brett Shumate, Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Division, and addressed to Greg Craig of Foley Hoag LLP, outside counsel for the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Craig served as White House Counsel under Barack Obama and as Clinton’s personal defense lawyer during the 1990s impeachment proceedings.
The law enforcement reaction to the White House Correspondents' Dinner shooting is getting a lot of scrutiny.
One of the questions many seemed to have was: why was Vice President JD Vance rushed out of the room before President Donald Trump was? You can see that here, in a post from Fox's Jacqui Heinrich. [Tweet, video]
Here's what White House correspondent for Diario ABC, David Alandete, said about the events. [Tweet, video]
I was right there. I saw everything.
The reason JD Vance left earlier through a different door from Trump's is that he was alone.
President Trump refused to hold back during his explosive "60 Minutes" interview with Norah O’Donnell on Sunday, torching the veteran CBS anchor after she shamelessly read aloud vile excerpts from the White House Correspondents’ Dinner (WHCD) shooter’s manifesto.
This clip is incredible on so many levels. O'Donnell reads a statement from the would-be assassin, 31-year-old Cole Allen. She does not question what he's espousing. She does not denounce his absurd claims. She repeats an assassin's words. From his manifesto. Verbatim.
"The so-called manifesto is a stunning thing to read, Mr. President," she begins. "He appears to reference a motive in it."
During a press conference held shortly after an armed gunman ran through a security barrier at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner with the obvious intention of shooting President Trump and other members of his administration, Fox News reporter Peter Doocy asked this question: “Respectfully, why do you think this keeps happening to you?” Trump answered, “The people who do the most, the people who have the biggest impact, they’re the ones that they go after.” And by “they,” Trump meant Democrats. He has, for obvious reasons, studied presidential assassinations and knows that all but one of the victims were Republicans.
It happened again: a deranged leftist, Cole Allen, fueled by hate, came too close to assassinating President Donald Trump at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner on Saturday night.
Allen, who lives in Torrance, California, is a 31-year-old teacher and video game developer. He charged at the security checkpoint, right outside the ballroom. Before being tackled, Allen fired shots, hitting one Secret Service agent, who will make a full recovery because he was wearing a bulletproof vest.
Ironically, the dinner was held at the Washington Hilton, where President Ronald Reagan was seriously wounded by John Hinckley, Jr. on March 30, 1981.
Allen is believed to have traveled to Washington, D.C. by train
As an American citizen, whenever legislators deploy the ever-flimsy progressive banner of “public safety,” I feel decidedly unsafe.
Newly proposed and enacted legislation targeting 3D printers and CNC machines would impose restrictions more severe than those the Supreme Court rejects for actual guns. In conjunction with restrictions on tools, states would create a category of computer source code illegal to possess.
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Washington bill 2321 would require machines to “handshake” a government website to confirm code as innocent before initiating a print. New York lawmakers are going farther, considering background checks to purchase a 3D printer.
How Equality Destroys a State
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The equality of man is found at the forefront of our Declaration of Independence and is considered an uncontested virtue of free society. However, disagreement over its implementation has raised the following questions: What exactly is equality in a state? Which things should be equal? Which should be unequal? What are the consequences? A nation’s concord depends on the answers — and yet today, these questions are rarely examined.
Historically, this was not the case. In Aristotle’s exploration in Politics, equality is governed by justice — the principle that each is given his due. But exactly what is “due” depends
It was a historic feat — on a pair of historic feet.
Sabastian Sawe of Kenya became the first man in history to run an official marathon in under two hours, breaking the coveted mark in the London Marathon Sunday after it had eluded runners for decades.
Sawe, 31, ran the 26.2-mile course in the British capital in one hour, 59 minutes and 30 seconds, astonishingly one of two runners to cross the finish line under the historic mark — Yomif Kejelcha of Ethiopia finished just 11 seconds behind him, according to reports. I’m feeling good,” Sawe told the BBC after the historic run. “I am happy, it’s a day
In the wake of another attempt on the life of President Trump (and any other administration officials that the would-be assassin could have gotten a bead on) the calls to get the secure White House ballroom finished are coming fast and furious. There's a great argument to be made that this kind of attempt would be orders of magnitude harder to pull off in the completed White House ballroom; as President Trump has himself recently observed, the White House is on some of the most secure real estate on the planet.(snip)Now, the one person who may be America's last sane Democrat has weighed in, that being Senator John Fetterman (D-PA),
Democratic voters in Utah’s 1st Congressional District will still have a long ballot come June. Four candidates are headed to the primary after party delegates chose their picks on Saturday. It took five rounds of voting for Liban Mohamed to eke out a majority. He managed to secure 51.5% of the delegate vote at Jordan High School in Sandy. “A majority of Democrats in Utah have made their decision, and their decision is that it's our time to lead,” Mohammed said after results were announced shortly before 8 p.m. “It's progressives’ time to lead. It's the working class's time to
Unearthed video reveals Cole Allen as
quiet inventor years before alleged bid
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quiet inventor years before alleged bid
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In 2017, at an "Aging into the Future" conference in Los Angeles, ABC7 LA interviewed Cole Allen, then a mechanical engineering student at the California Institute of Technology, about a new safety feature he developed for wheelchairs. (KABC))snip)That year, Allen earned a mechanical engineering degree. While in college, he completed a competitive summer research fellowship at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, contributing to astrophysics work, according to his LInkedIn profileHe also developed technical projects, including a physics-based role-playing shooter game called "First Law," as well as robotic systems and later another game, "Bohrdom," released on the Steam platform.
Left-Wing Loons Lose It After Finding
Out PGA Tour Is Going Back To Golf Course
Owned By Trump replies
Out PGA Tour Is Going Back To Golf Course
Owned By Trump replies
More anger from the left, color me shocked.
This upcoming week, the PGA Tour will have their fifth signature event of the season, with the brand new Cadillac Championship being hosted in Miami, Florida at Trump National Doral.
For around a year, the tournament has been on the schedule, however, non-golf fans — to be more specific, lefty non-golf fans — have taken advantage of the opportunity to blast the Tour for having any kind of connection to President Donald Trump.
The looming Cadillac Championship is the first time since 2016 that the PGA has had an event held at Trump Doral. From 2007-16, Doral was the home of the WGC-Cadillac Championship, however,
Saturday evening's White House Correspondents' Dinner was bound to make headlines, if for no other reason than that President Donald Trump was attending the event for the first time in his presidency (either one). News would be made.
What wasn't anticipated was the dark turn that news took as a would-be assassin attempted to shoot his way into the event. The blessing in all of that is that all in attendance, including the President and First Lady, the Cabinet, members of Congress, and members of the media, escaped unharmed, with the exception
King Charles III and Queen Camilla are moving ahead with their U.S. visit in the wake of the shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner in Washington D.C. President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance, first lady Melania Trump and other top officials were evacuated from the Washington Hilton Hotel ballroom on Saturday night after a gunman exchanged fire with Secret Service agents in the lobby before being subdued and taken into custody.
On Monday, Charles and Camilla are set to arrive in Washington D.C. for a four-day trip, marking their first visit to the U.S. as British monarchs. In a statement to Fox News Digital on Sunday,
After hearing the news about the shooting at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, most people responded with concern for President Donald Trump and the other people who were in danger at the event.
Trump himself held a briefing a half hour later, spoke about unity, and called on people to be committed to acting. Hell froze over as even the media seemed to acknowledge his humanity and strength, including reaching out to a reporter to see how he was. But in a moment where so many came together in concern for the president and others, there was immediately craziness from some on the left and the anti-Trump crew.
The suspected White House Correspondents' Association Dinner shooter, Cole Tomas Allen, signal boosted posts on the left-wing social media platform Bluesky arguing that President Donald Trump should be "immediately removed from office and tried for high crimes" and criticizing a "Freedom of the Press" pocket square that many journalists donned at last night’s dinner as "a white flag that no one can read unless you pull it out and wave it in defeat," a Washington Free Beacon review found, suggesting he thought a stronger message of opposition to the president was called for.
"the president of the united states is personally looting the treasury
Defunding the Secret Service
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Naive me. I genuinely thought that the day after the night before would see more attention paid to the basic fact that the U.S. Secret Service (part of the Dept. of Homeland Security, DHS) has gone without funding for the past 71 days on account of Senate Democrats.
The only outlet that I’ve seen discuss the matter is Fox News.
A shooting near President Donald Trump and several Cabinet members Saturday night is putting a spotlight on the Secret Service’s funding shortfall amid an ongoing standoff in Congress.
To which a Democratic Fox News contributor replies
There's a brewery in Wisconsin openly celebrating Saturday night’s assassination attempt at the White House Correspondents' Dinner.
That's not hyperbole. That's exactly what happened.
Minocqua Brewing Company, a self-described "progressive" brewery and SuperPAC operation out of Wisconsin, has been running what it calls "Free Beer Day" — a standing promise of free drinks at its taprooms the day Donald Trump dies.
The New York Post profiled the brewery earlier this year:
The company’s owner, Kirk Bangstad, is the founder of the Minocqua Brewing Company SuperPAC, which “aims to remove Republican federal and state elected officials who perpetuated the election lies that caused the Insurrection of January 6, 2021,
The Gunman’s Manifesto
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Cole Allen sent a “manifesto” to members of his family minutes before he launched his attack at the Washington Hilton. You can read it here, it isn’t long. Allen’s brother received a copy and turned it over to his local police department. I have two observations about the document.
First, it is entirely predictable. Allen recited the Democratic Party’s indictment of President Trump and his administration. This is how he described Trump:
I am no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist, and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes.
dispatch from Berlin
Germany is not, in the first place, suffering from an economic crisis, an energy crisis, a migration crisis, or a crisis of state. Germany is suffering, chiefly, from a crisis of its elites. More precisely, Germany is suffering from a crisis brought on by that milieu which regards itself as the country’s morally, intellectually, and administratively legitimate leadership class but which has, for years, sustained a regime of reality-avoidance, self-congratulation, and rhetorical substitutes for genuine action.
The misery of our situation is not that mistakes have been made. Mistakes are part of politics.