Trmps SS must truly be inept. How does this shit keep happening?

[spanone]

[ananda]

1. My sister and I were just talking about this.

Either it was staged, or his security is really incompetent.

Sad to say, I don't have an answer since just about everyone
in the Trump admin is incompetent.

[spanone]

2. So true. They've had this dinner since 1921 and all of a sudden!!!!

[ananda]

11. I know, right?

It's mighty indicative of the fubar state
this whole admin lives in.

[babylonsister]

6. And complicit. nt

[Irish_Dem]

51. Third option: deliberate.

[ananda]

55. Staged is deliberate.

I think we're trending towards both deliberate
and incompetent.

[Irish_Dem]

57. I see staged as quite different from deliberate.

Staged is harmless theater to distract and entertain.
Deliberate has a deadly intent. Neutralize a problem.

[ananda]

58. Well, that's a pretty fine parsing, but OK...

It's not really anything to quibble over.

What I think I know for sure is that Trump
and the GOP will attempt to use it for their
own benefit and the detriment of others.

[Irish_Dem]

59. I think it is a huge difference!

One is harmless entertainment and distraction.

The other is deliberate and deadly!

I think it is important to think about what exactly is going on.
Because something is going on, we just don't yet know what it is.

Yes it will be used to manipulate and get what they want as per usual.

[BootinUp]

3. I'm sure protecting the biggest dick in the world has its challenges. nt

[Totally Tunsie]

5. Schrodinger's cat:

Both the biggest dick in the world and the smallest (mushroom) dick in the world at the same time.

[BootinUp]

8. unrelated info

some people may be holding hot beverages when they read DU posts.

[Kingofalldems]

4. How does a gunman get into the White House?

Unless of course he was let in.

[Totally Tunsie]

9. The WHCA is at the Hilton, not the WH.

[Lifeafter70]

7. In my opinion that gun was already there

Probably hidden weeks ago.

[SergeStorms]

19. Supposedly they sweep every POTUS event site.....

with dogs. And those dogs are good at what they do. Just sayin'. You can't disguise the scent of a firearm good enough to fool them. If that firearm had ever been fired before, they'll find it.

[Lifeafter70]

42. Turns out he charged in from the security point area.

So I'm wrong

[SergeStorms]

47. Wrong?

I don't understand that word. I've never been "wrong" before.

[Lifeafter70]

48. Don't tell my hubby

I'll never hear the end of it.

Curious how he got a room there. I would have thought it would be booked for months.

[PCB66]

10. There is no doubt that what has happen in the last couple of years

proves that the Secret Service was inept.

However, the report I saw on CSpan tonight said that a person with a gun tried to breach the outer security level and was shot.

That means security did its job . Kept a nut case from harming anybody at the event.

[spanone]

12. They didn't do their job, HE GOT INSIDE.

The perimiter was blocks away.

[Texas_Blue_Dem]

16. There's a difference in perimeters

Crowd control perimeter can be blocks away.

Security perimeters (there can be several) are typically very different.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

56. Welcome to DU

[H2O Man]

13. My sister questions it.

I said if it wasn't Eric, I'd think it's a stunt for his downward polling.

Recommended.

[COL Mustard]

14. I'm honestly glad he wasn't hurt

And neither was anyone else, apparently. It'll be interesting to see how this happened and like you I'm curious about it.

[SergeStorms]

20. How can these gun nuts....

be such terrible shots?

I thought all these right-wing nutjobs were such great marksmen?

[Doodles]

27. Mentalist?

How come that guy didn’t warn them?

[BattleRow]

45. Maybe he did...

Never let a potential tragedy go to waste,right?

[MerryBlooms]

15. Because trumps hire ass kissers and personal buds

Not most qualified. Just look at the trump cabinet and all people he's put into high level positions. Same crew he had out of office is probably still with him in office. My wild speculation to add for today.

[Ineedamoment]

17. How can so many people have such bad aim??? /nt

[angrychair]

18. It's an psyop

Person is Intel officer that will be in the news for a week or so and then completely drop completely out of existence like it never happened.

I mean they ended that first one. Anyone ever heard anything about the 2nd one? Like it never happened.

[orion9941]

21. This doesnt pass the smell test.

[LogDog75]

22. He'll be fundraising (grifting) off this within 24 hours or less

[spanone]

23. I'd go with 'less'.

[IzzaNuDay]

44. Get ready for the midnight tweetstorm!

You know he’s capable of tweeting through the night on Truth Social!

[kerry-is-my-prez]

32. Yep. Wonder if he was someone hired to make the MAGAS worship Trump. Seems like good timing.

He’s way down in the polls - it’s an easy way for him to have the evangelicals crying and praying for him.

[Endlessmike56]

24. Probably someone on his staff. Couldn't take it anymore

[malaise]

25. Men with guns pointed at the press

Hmmmmmmm

[spanone]

26. Everything trmp touches....

JFC

[BannonsLiver]

28. Any other normal human would also ask: Why do so many people wish for my death.

He has to be aware of people talking about how they will celebrate his demise whenever that comes. A normal person might reflect inward on why that is.

[spanone]

30. He's such a narcissist he craves the attention...positive or negative.

Doesn't matter....he's not a normal human. IMHO

[kerry-is-my-prez]

29. He must have the same types of people working as in the other agencies (flunkee morons)

[ecstatic]

31. trump is surrounded by the most corrupt and incompetent people.

As far as the SS, if this was even a real event and not staged, they're clearly incompetent as well.

trump is hand selecting who he wants around him--and he likes yes men as opposed to qualified men/women.

It's interesting that people in the room did not hear shots and don't know if the "shooter" was killed or not.

[kerry-is-my-prez]

36. They are under DHS - Markwayne Mullin

You get what you pay for. I’ll bet Trump makes sure that the secret service agents are Trump supporters in order to be able to get away with all his scumbaggery without it being reported.

[spanone]

33. TRMP is talking from the White House now....

he's talking about how much they need the Ballroom...security

[Cha]

39. Oh that's one Reason they did it.

[PCB66]

34. Looks like the attempted assassin

was a school teacher from California.

[spanone]

35. How do you sneak a Long Gun into a hotel lobby full of SS goons?

[kerry-is-my-prez]

37. Have a Trumper in charge of the agency with no experience.

[littlemissmartypants]

40. Very carefully?

[LudwigPastorius]

50. It was a shotgun.

...which are notoriously easy to modify by sawing off part of the barrel.

[spanone]

52. They were calling it a long gun last night.

[Cha]

38. LIHOP! Distraction Distraction

Distraction .. Garnering some sympathy for the PEDO Rapist Ugly Psycho.

[W_HAMILTON]

41. They probably hate him as much as the rest of us.

[spanone]

43. He had a shotgun a handgun and knives ....

and he was right outside of the ballroom???

They're on tv praising each other....how the fuck did he get this close?

[Johonny]

46. Trump hired idiots to run every agency

[City Lights]

49. That is a great question!

And one to which I do not have the answer.

Considering this wasn't the first, nor second time something like this has happened, one would think his security would have been increased out of precaution. ¯_(ツ _/¯

[malaise]

53. Did I just hear that they are about to review his security

Ah well!

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

54. SS seeme ok. The shooter didn't get near the dinner ballroom or the prez.