Critical link in radicalization uncovered of the failed Trump assassin

The suspect who tried to storm the White House Correspondents’ Dinner with a plan to assassinate President Donald Trump and a bunch of top administration officials was potentially motivated by anger about the war in Iran, according to the Department of Homeland Security.

A DHS intelligence report obtained by Reuters on Wednesday concluded that the ongoing conflict between the United States and Iran “may have contributed” to Cole Allen’s “decision to conduct the attack.” Posts on a social media account linked to Allen raged against the U.S. government’s actions in Iran and recently called for Trump to be impeached over the president’s warning that “a whole civilization will die.”

A DHS spokesman told Reuters that the intelligence report was created to “notify our partners of the latest available information following significant incidents that have impacts to homeland security.”

Allen wrote out some of his motivations in a manifesto that he shared with family members minutes before he attempted to charge into the ballroom at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, according to federal prosecutors. In a 1,000-word document, the suspected would-be assassin referred to Trump as a “pedophile, rapist, and traitor” and wrote that his goal was to murder Trump administration officials at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, targeting them from “highest-ranking to lowest.”

While Allen did not mention any frustrations about the Iran war in his manifesto, in a criticism of the security at the Washington Hilton, the suspect wrote, “If I was an Iranian agent, instead of an American citizen, I could have brought a damn Ma Deuce in here and no one would have noticed sh*t.” [A 'Ma Deuce' is a .50-caliber heavy machine gun used by many militaries. Doesn't Allen sound like totally cool and macho.]

In the manifesto, Allen condemned other U.S. military action, highlighting strikes on suspected drug runners in the Caribbean. Allen said the suspected drug runners were “fisherman executed without trial.”

In the manifesto, the suspect called himself the “Friendly Federal Assassin” and invoked his Christian faith, arguing that “Turning the other cheek when someone else is oppressed is not Christian behavior; it is complicity in the oppressor’s crimes.”

Minutes after President Trump arrived at the Washington Hilton for the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on April 25, Allen ran through a security checkpoint and fired one shot from his Mossberg 12-gauge pump-action shotgun that struck a Secret Service agent, according to the Justice Department. A Secret Service agent returned fire, and Allen was detained shortly after he got past the security checkpoint when he fell to the ground. Allen was not hit by any of the agent’s shots, and the agent who was shot by Allen was protected by a bulletproof vest.Allen was also carrying a fully-loaded Rock Island Armory 1911 .38 caliber pistol and multiple knives when he attacked, the Justice Department said. Allen was initially charged with attempting to assassinate the president of the United States, transportation of a firearm and ammunition in interstate commerce with intent to commit a felony, and discharge of a firearm during a crime of violence. On Tuesday, federal prosecutors added an additional charge of assault on a federal officer. U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro said Sunday that the Secret Service agent was “definitively” shot by Allen.

“He had every intention to kill him and anyone who got in his way on his way to killing the president of the United States,” Pirro said.

Earlier this week, the judge overseeing Allen’s case apologized to the suspect for the conditions he has faced in jail. Judge Zia Faruqui, who has a soft-on-crime record, grilled jail officials for placing Allen on a temporary suicide watch that required 24-hour isolation.

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White House Correspondents' Dinner.shooter had a manifesto

In a conversation with Fox News' Maria Bartiromo, President Trump praised the "unified" response of guests and law enforcement after a gunman opened fire at the Washington Hilton, injuring a Secret Service agent and forcing the evacuation of the entire Cabinet during the White House Correspondents' Dinner.

The suspect in the White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooting told law enforcement after his arrest Saturday night that he intended to target Trump administration officials, senior federal law enforcement sources confirmed to Fox News.

Authorities identified the suspect as 31-year-old scumwafer Cole Allen, of Torrance, Calif. He prepared a manifesto outlining his intent and shared anti-Trump and anti-Christian rhetoric on social media. As the dinner was underway, Allen allegedly rushed a Secret Service checkpoint at the Washington Hilton while armed with multiple weapons and opened fire, striking a Secret Service officer in his ballistic vest. 

Agents returned fire and tackled the shooter to the ground. The suspect and the injured officer were transported to a hospital. The Secret Service agent is expected to recover and the Democrats are expected to find a way to blame Trump.

This incident adds to a growing list of threats against President Donald Trump, including two confirmed assassination attempts and a recent incident involving an armed intruder at Mar-a-Lago.

Overnight, the FBI and local law enforcement secured Allen’s home in Torrance, California. A federal judge in the Central District of California is expected to approve a search warrant, which would allow investigators to search the residence.

The White House said Sunday that Allen’s brother contacted the New London Police Department in Connecticut prior to the shooting. He reported that Allen had sent family members an alleged manifesto outlining his intent to target administration officials.

Officials also said Allen’s social media included anti-Trump and anti-Christian rhetoric. President Trump, speaking on Fox News’ "The Sunday Briefing," described Allen as "a very troubled guy," citing the manifesto. He said that if the White House had the ballroom he wanted, this would have never happened. 

He's probably right.

Allen’s sister, Avriana Allen, told investigators in Rockville, Maryland, that her brother had made increasingly radical statements and often spoke about doing "something" to address issues in the world.

She said he had purchased two handguns and a shotgun, which he stored at their parents’ home without their knowledge, and that he regularly trained at a shooting range.

She also told authorities that Allen was affiliated with a group called "The Wide Awakes" and had attended a "No Kings" protest in California, indicating that in all likelihood, he is a dedicated Democrat.

Investigators believe Allen traveled from Los Angeles to Washington, D.C., by train, with a stop in Chicago, according to acting U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche. He said the investigation is ongoing and that more details are expected as formal charges are filed.

Blanche also noted that while the motive remains under investigation, authorities preliminarily believe Allen was targeting administration officials.

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White House Correspondence Dinner: what we know about the shooter

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Cole Tomas Allen (aka Cole Thomas Allen, aka Cole Allen) 31, is from Torrence, California and is, of course, the "suspect" in the shooting incident at the White House Correspondence Dinner at the Washington Hilton, historically remembered as the same hotel where in 1981, then-President Ronald Reagan was the target of an attempted assassination.

Allen was a guest staying at the hotel. He was armed with a shotgun, handgun and several knives when he charged a security checkpoint outside the ballroom where the event was to take place and guests had gathered.

He exchanged gunfire with Secret Service and other law enforcement and fired at least once (some say several times). He struck a Secret Service agent in his bulletproof vest and the agent was hospitalized and expected to recover. There were no other injuries reported. Allen was quickly subdued and taken into custody--he was not shot--and was transported to Howard University Hospital for evaluation.

President Trump, Melania Trump, JD Vance and other officials were immediately evacuated. The President later called the shooter a "lone wolf" and praised the Secret Service.

The dinner will be rescheduled.

Allen, we know, worked as a part-time teacher/tutor at C2 Education, a test-prep and tutoring center in Torrence, CA, where he was named "Teacher of the Month" in December 2024. He has a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from Caltech and master's in computer science from California State University-Dominguez Hills (around 2024-2025).

Public records reveal that he donated $25 to a Kamala Harris supporting PAC in October 2024, and although California voting records do not show a party affiliation, it's unlikely that he votes Republican.

Allen appears to have acted alone and the motive is currently being investigated. It's possible that he doesn't like President Trump, but that's only speculation based on his behavior. How he was able to access the area is also being investigated and is probably related to him being a guest of the hotel.

FBI agents have been at his Torrence home.

He is being charged with using a firearm during a crime of violence and assault on a federal officer, but more charges are expected.

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Judicial Watch a conservative watchdog concerned over Trump's safety after total screwup by Secret Service

US Secret Service Director Sean Curran November 26, 2025.
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The folks at Judicial Watch aren't letting up on the Secret Service, and for good reason, another glaring security failure in September put President Donald Trump dangerously close to a group of radical protesters who somehow knew exactly where he'd be.

Even after two assassination attempts on his life and a shake-up in Secret Service leadership, Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton is sounding the alarm on what looks like ongoing incompetence at the agency charged with protecting the president.

"I'm really concerned about the president's safety," Fitton stated.

He pointed out the obvious: President Trump "was almost killed twice, supposedly under the protection of the Secret Service, and then they walked him into a potentially dangerous ambush."

The incident happened during Trump's September 9 visit to Joe’s Seafood, Prime Steak and Stone Crab in Washington, D.C., where Code Pink activists managed to get right next to the president's table.

Dining with him were Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth.

The protesters booked a nearby table, started shouting their chants, and had to be removed.“These people were allowed to get within arm’s length of the sitting president with knives and who knows what else in the restaurant available to them,” he continued, labeling the incident as an “unbelievable security lapse.”

Judicial Watch has now sued for internal Secret Service records as part of their probe.They're digging into how these protesters got advance word of the president's location and how they were allowed so close—a combination that screams massive risk.

"I can't believe they would let random people sit in that close proximity to them," stated former FBI Assistant Director Chris Swecker. "That's crazy. That's like the days when Abraham Lincoln would ride down Pennsylvania Avenue in his coach and buggy with no protection."

At a time when threats against President Trump remain sky-high, this kind of lapse isn't just embarrassing, it's extremely dangerous. The Secret Service needs to get its act together, and fast.

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Jury Nails Would-Be Trump Assassin, Then He Totally Loses It

It's official: Ryan Routh, the cretin who thought he could take a shot at President Donald Trump, got slapped with a guilty verdict faster than you can say "stick 'em up." 

On Tuesday, a jury took just two hours and 20 minutes to decide this Hawaiian hotshot was guilty as sin. The charges was a laundry list of felonious flops: attempting to assassinate a major presidential candidate, assaulting a federal officer, possessing a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence, being a felon with a gun and ammo, and owning a firearm with a scratched-off serial number. Dude is looking at life in the slammer. 

But it gets wilder. 

The second the verdict dropped, Routh tried to go full drama queen, grabbing a pen and attempting to stab himself in the neck like he's auditioning for a prison Shakespeare play. U.S. Marshals were quick to shut that nonsense down, restraining him before he could make a bigger mess.

So, who is this trainwreck? 

Routh, 59, used to be a Trump fanboy but apparently flipped the script. On September 15, 2024, Secret Service caught him playing hide-and-seek in the bushes near the fifth hole of a golf course where Trump was swinging clubs. Imagine this: Routh has a semiautomatic rifle, poking it through a fence, aimed right at the former prez. 

For some reason, Secret Service wasn't having it. They fired at him, and the idiot bolted like a scared rabbit. No shots fired by Routh, thankfully, but 45 minutes later, cops nabbed him on Interstate 95. They found his rifle, some bullet-resistant plates, and his fingerprints all over the scope. 

Rookie move, Ryan.

Turns out, the assassination attempt wasn't a spur-of-the-moment thing. Routh was obsessed. 

He had been stalking Trump's moves for weeks, Googling his campaign schedule, living out of his car like some low-rent Don Lemon. And more interestingly, months before, he left a letter at a buddy's place, basically saying, "Hey, I'm gonna try to take out Trump, but if I screw it up, here's $150,000 for whoever finishes the job." 

Routh pleaded not guilty and decided to play lawyer, ditching his public defenders despite the judge warning him, "This is a bad idea." 

Spoiler: it was because as his own lawyer, he had an idiot for a client. 

The prosecution brought in 38 witnesses, including cops and experts, to bury him. Routh called three, including a firearms guy who admitted the rifle's scope was crap, held together with glue and tape, but still worked. 

In court, Routh tried to weasel out, claiming, "No one ever intended to kill anyone" and swearing he didn't aim at the Secret Service agent. The jury wasn't buying it, and neither are we. Now he's got a lifetime to think about how not to be a walking disaster. 

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Secret Service suspends 6 agents who failed at protecting President Trump last July

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The Secret Service is in hot water, and they’re not skating by easy on this one. Six agents tasked with keeping President Donald Trump safe during that wild July 2024 assassination attempt in Pennsylvania have been suspended with no pay, no benefits, nada. We’re talking 10 to 42 days of eating ramen and staring at the wall, according to Secret Service Deputy Director Matt Quinn, who spilled the beans to CBS News. “We weren’t going to fire [our] way out of this,” Quinn said, but they’re “laser focused on fixing the root cause of the problem.” 

They screwed up, and they know it.

Those agents are back on duty, but they’ve been demoted to glorified desk jockeys with "restricted roles" and less responsibility. Quinn called it a "federally mandated process," which sounds like bureaucratic speak for "we followed the rulebook, now let’s move on."

Let’s rewind to July 13, 2024, in Butler, Pennsylvania. A gunman, Thomas Crooks, somehow got the drop on the Secret Service, climbing onto a nearby roof and unloading toward Trump’s rally stage. 

Absolute chaos. Trump’s ear got grazed, two other guys were hit, and Corey Comperatore, a 50-year-old firefighter, dad, and husband, was killed. Absolutely heartbreaking. A Secret Service sniper took Crooks out, but the damage was done. Quinn didn’t mince words: “Secret Service is totally accountable for Butler,” he told CBS. “Butler was an operational failure and we are focused today on ensuring that it never happens again.” 

Thank you, Sergeant Obvious.

The agency’s been under a microscope since, and deservedly so. They’re scrambling to fix what Quinn called the "root cause" of this disaster, rolling out fancy new toys like military-grade drones and mobile command posts to tighten up comms with local cops. But the hits kept coming. 

Photo: Getty Images

Weeks later, another assassination attempt on Trump went down in West Palm Beach, Florida. It got stopped, thank God, but the heat was too much for then-Director Kimberly Cheatle, who bailed after the backlash. Congressional hearings and investigations piled on, and a bipartisan House task force dropped a 180-page bombshell in December, calling Butler "preventable." They ripped into the Secret Service for leadership screw-ups and training gaps that "created an environment" where this kind of failure could happen. Oh, and they didn’t exactly play nice with local law enforcement either. Shocker.

Meanwhile, Corey Comperatore’s widow, Helen, sat down with Fox News’ Alexis McAdams to talk about her loss. That’s the human cost is something the Secret Service can’t just drone their way out of.

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Biden’s White House Clusterfrack: Secret Service Whistleblower Spills the Tea

A Secret Service whistleblower just dropped a bombshell about Joe Biden’s time in the White House, and it’s going to blow the cover of the Democratic Party.

 The Delaware Democrat’s health cover-up saga just got juicier, with whispers of a prostate cancer diagnosis swept under the rug. Biden recently admitted he’s battling stage four metastatic prostate cancer. But newsflash, that type of cancer doesn’t just sneak up on you in a few months. Chances are, he was dealing with it from day one of his so called presidency. 

But the real kicker? The whistleblower’s dish isn’t just about his physical health, it’s about Joe’s mental meltdown, which was apparently so bad he’d get lost in his own closet. Yes, according to the New York Post, Old Joe would get lost in his own closet.

A Secret Service whistleblower claims that former President Joe Biden was so out of it at the White House that he would “get lost in his closet,” Sen. Josh Hawley revealed Friday.

This isn’t merely a senior moment; it’s a full-blown scandal. Hawley is calling it one of the biggest cover-ups in presidential history, and he’s not wrong. The Democrats played hide-the-truth while Biden wandered around like a patient on the Alzheimer ward.

“This Secret Service whistleblower actually was assigned to Biden,” the Missouri Republican told Fox News host Sean Hannity.

“He told me that Biden used to get lost in his closet in the mornings at the White House,” Hawley claimed, noting that he spoke to numerous Secret Service agents while investigating the assassination attempts against President Trump.

“I mean, the guy literally stumbling around in the White House residence couldn’t find his way out of his own closet,” Hawley continued. “The president of the United States. This is outrageous. We were lied to.”

 
Lost in his closet? Come on, man! This isn’t a sitcom; it’s the White House. And it really isn't funny, or maybe it's both funny and sad.

And yet, the media clowns who propped up this circus are now peddling books with “shocking” tales of Biden’s decline—like they weren’t in on the scam from the start. They gaslit us, swore up and down Joe was sharp as a tack, while the guy was probably asking his socks for foreign policy advice.

We called it. They lied. Game over. 

So, when will Congress fire up the hearings to get to the bottom of this mess? The American people deserve answers, not more smoke and mirrors.

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James Comey's Instagram post '86 47' appears to be an attempt to put a 'hit' on POTUS

I asked X's Grok3 this question: what does it mean to "86" someone. Here is what it replied: 

To "86" someone means to remove, reject, or get rid of them, often in a context like a restaurant or bar. It can refer to refusing service to a customer (e.g., kicking out a disruptive patron) or canceling something, like an order. The term comes from American slang, possibly originating in the 1930s at soda fountains or diners, with one theory linking it to Chumley's bar in New York, which had an exit at 86 Bedford Street used to discreetly remove troublemakers. Another theory suggests it’s rhyming slang for "nix" (to cancel). It’s now used broadly to mean dismissing or eliminating someone or something.

So, the Secret Service is sniffing around after James Comey, the ex-FBI big shot, dropped an Instagram post that’s got the White House twisted. 

Picture this: seashells on a beach, arranged to spell out “86 47.” Harmless arts and crafts, right? Not when White House suits are screaming it’s a coded “hit” on the 47th president. Yeah, that 47th president.

Comey yanked the post after catching heat from lawmakers, Trump’s son, and the X mob. This is a guy who’s seen Trump dodge two assassination attempts, one where a bystander didn’t make it. So, you’d think he’d be smarter than to play sand-art cryptographer. 

The post pictured seashells in the sand, spelling out those numbers. “Cool shell formation on my beach walk…” Comey captioned it, like he’s just vibing, the way he did in the past in his nature walks through the forest. But “86”? That’s diner slang for icing someone. And “47”? Well, do the math—it’s the guy in the Oval Office next. And it isn't like Comey was clueless, him being the former FBI honcho and all.

The backlash was swift. 

One lawmaker—Rep. Tim Burchett, Trump’s friend from Tennessee, called for Comey’s arrest. Comey, probably sweating, deleted the post, claimed ignorance and threw up a mea culpa: “I posted earlier a picture of some shells I saw today on a beach walk, which I assumed were a political message. I didn’t realize some folks associate those numbers with violence. It never occurred to me but I oppose violence of any kind so I took the post down.” 

Sure, Jimbo, you just stumbled into a conspiracy theory like it’s a sandcastle contest. After all, it isn't like the tide would have taken out the artwork minutes after it was laid out by the ocean.

Fox News Digital got the scoop that the Secret Service is on the case, sending agents to grill Comey. The FBI, where Comey used to call the shots before Trump gave him the boot, stayed silent. But word is, the higher-ups know what’s up. 

FBI Director Kash Patel, took to X, cool as ever: “We are in communication with the Secret Service and Director Curran. Primary jurisdiction is with SS on these matters and we, the FBI, will provide all necessary support.” 

Maybe blame the tide

This whole mess feels like a rerun. Remember John Mulaney in 2020, cracking wise on SNL about Julius Caesar getting shanked and how it’d be “interesting” to bring that vibe back? The FBI wasn’t laughing then either. He said, “Another thing that happened under Julius Caesar, he was such a powerful maniac that all the senators grabbed knives, and they stabbed him to death. That would be an interesting thing if we brought that back now.” 

The White House isn’t letting this slide. Taylor Budowich, deputy chief of staff, went off on X: “While President Trump is currently on an international trip to the Middle East, the former FBI Director puts out what can clearly be interpreted as ‘a hit’ on the sitting President of the United States—a message etched in the sand. This is deeply concerning to all of us and is being taken seriously.” Etched in the sand, Taylor? That’s some poetic shade.

Burchett doubled down, demanding Comey’s cuffs. Look, when you’ve got Trump’s crew, the Secret Service, and half of X treating your beach pics like a manifesto, maybe stick to sunsets next time, Jimmy, or go back into the woods where you belong.

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Suspect arrested for alleged theft of Kristi Noem's bag is an illegal alien

The suspect accused of stealing Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s Gucci handbag containing $3,000 in cash and other personal belongings was arrested on Saturday in Washington, D.C., according to reports. Turns out he's an illegal alien.

The Metropolitan Police Department and the U.S. Secret Service caught the suspect, the New York Post reported. Authorities are still searching for a second suspect in connection with the incident.

The two are both in the U.S. illegally and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is now involved in the case, Interim U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Ed Martin told NBC 4. Martin said there is no indication Noem was targeted for her role at DHS.

The suspect in custody is scheduled to appear in court early this week.

The Secret Service is keeping it a secret whether or not the suspect was arrested on Saturday.

"For the safety of our agents and officers, we are not in a position to confirm or comment at this time," Secret Service spokesman Anthony Guglielmi wrote on X. "Should criminal charges be filed, the Department of Homeland Security will provide public information in accordance with established procedures."

Noem was with her family on Easter Sunday at The Capital Burger in Washington, D.C., when the suspect nabbed her luxury bag containing the cash as well as her driver’s license, passport, medication, makeup bag, blank checks, DHS badge, apartment keys and a Louis Vuitton Clemence wallet.

The bag was on the floor by her seat at her table when it was stolen, according to a complaint filed with local police.

Security footage captured a white man in a N95 surgical mask, dark pants and a baseball cap grabbing the bag before leaving the restaurant. It is not known whether the man was wearing the mask based on Dr, Anthony Fauci's recommendation.

The suspect glanced around the restaurant before snatching the bag, covering it with his jacket and running out of the establishment, sources who viewed the footage told the New York Post.



"It was kind of shocking, actually, because it was sitting right by my feet. I actually felt my purse, he hooked it with his foot and drug it a few steps away and dropped a coat over it and took it," Noem told podcaster Vince Coglianese on the "VINCE Show."

"I felt it, but I thought it was my grandkids kicking me in the legs. But it was very professionally done, and it tells that this happens all the time to people and that they live in communities where this is a danger and it reaffirms why I am here," she added. "My job is to make sure that I do everything, every day I can to make our communities safer and President Trump recognizes that families shouldn’t have to live with any kind of violence in their lives."

Just days before Noem's bag was stolen, another woman eating with her own family at a nearby eatery had her purse nabbed in a similar incident.

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Trump wants to end Secret Service services for Biden's adult children

Alright, gentle readers, gather 'round the telly and listen up. 

President Donald Trump, that cheeky POTUS who puts all modern past POTUSs to shame, dropped a bombshell on Monday, saying he's pulling the plug "immediately" on the Secret Service protection for Joe Biden's grown-up offspring, Hunter and Ashley, the former being a crack head, the latter being a social worker.

Trump had previously given them a six-month extension back in January, but now he's had a change of heart faster than you can say "Bob's your uncle!"

Trump took to social media, kicking up a right fuss about Hunter Biden having 18 agents watching his back while he's gallivanting around South Africa this week. And get this - he reckons Ashley Biden's got 13 agents of her own! "Will be taken off the list," he says, like he's crossing names off his naughty list.

No word yet from Biden's camp - they're keeping mum on this one.

Now, according to the law of the land, ex-presidents and their better halves get Secret Service protection 'til they kick the bucket, but their grown-up sprogs over 16? They're usually out on their ear when the old man leaves office. Trump and Biden both gave their kids a six-month grace period, though.

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While Trump was strutting his stuff at the Kennedy Center on Monday, some nosy reporter piped up, askin' if he'd yank the protection for Biden's boy. "Well, we have done that with many," Trump said, cool as a cucumber. "I would say if there are 18 with Hunter Biden, that will be something I’ll look at this afternoon." First he'd heard of it, he reckoned.

"I’m going to take a look at that," he said, leaving us all wondering what he'll do next. Stay tuned, folks - this one's gonna be a ripper!

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Killery Clinton stirs up leftist lunatic anger against Trump

One of the Left's worst women

It's becoming abundantly clear that politicians on the Left would go to any lengths to stay in power, but who ever thought they would go so far as to set the stage for a former president, who is running for a second term, to be assassinated? It's un-American, it's evil, and it's disgusting.

Just one day after another failed assassination attempt on Donald Trump, the former twice-failed presidential candidate, former Democratic Senator from New York, and former first lady Hillary Clinton, said that President Trump posed "a danger to our country and the world."

How freaking ridiculous. How hyperbolic and dangerous are words like that which fall on the ears of the lunatics who crave fame and believe that Trump is a threat to democracy and the planet. And let's be very clear: Clinton knows it. She knows how provocative saying crazy s**t like that is to people who believe that killing Trump is the only moral thing to do.

And now it's okay to say that crap out loud?

Forget the failures of the Secret Service leadership. Forget that the leadership of the FBI is in the bag for the Democrats along with Homeland Security and the Department of Justice. This is incitement and it needs to stop!

Of course freedom of speech is guaranteed in the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, but incitement of violence isn't included in that freedom. 

In spite of this, all the legacy media, not including Fox News, has scores of people saying that it's Trump's fault that people have tried to assassinate him two times [thus far]. 

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BREAKING: 2nd Possible assassination attempt on Trump while golfing

UPDATE: The shooter has been identified as Ryan Wesley Routh.

Former President Trump was on the golf course today in West Palm Beach when at about 1:30 p.m., shots were fired and the Secret Service immediately jumped in to protect him.

The suspect, a man, was caught down the highway.

The weapon used was an AK-47 rifle with a scope. There were backpacks with plates inside and a GoPro found and the alleged shooter fled and was caught on I 95 and identified by a witness who had seen the shooting. His rifle was sticking between the knapsacks so it appears that it was planned.

Questions should be asked: 

How can this happen again? 

Why wasn't the entire golf course fully covered by agents? 

Is the witness under protection? 

How did the shooter know Trump would be on the golf course?

When the shooter was caught, why didn't they show him on the police cams that showed the stop but not the person in the SUV?

The shooter was about 300 to 500 yards away, it was revealed at a press conference with the local police, the FBI and Secret Service.

The local law enforcement said that since Trump is not the current President, he's just the present candidate and he does not get the same protection. 

We now know, however, the threat level is high and the Secret Service kind of sucks.

They keep telling us how "fantastic" the Secret Service is but some people may have doubts. The excuse the FBI gave was that we live in violent times now.

No s**t Sherlock.

This is still developing.

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Pakistani national tied to Iran tried to have Trump and other US politicians killed: feds

A Pakistani immigrant with Iranian ties plotted to hire hitmen to assassinate former President and current GOP candidate for President, Donald J. Trump along with other US politicians, sources and a federal criminal complaint state.

Asif Merchant, 46, [no relation known of Judge Juan Merchan] is accused of planning political assassinations in New York City in August or early September. He allegedly paid men who he thought were contract killers advance money of $5,000, according to US for the Eastern District of New York Breon Peace.

Donald Trump was one of several current and former US government officials who are thought to be the targets of the plot, a source familiar with the investigation to the New York Post. 

It is not known whether Merchant was working for the Secret Service, but nothing seems far-fetched anymore.

Anyway, Asif Merchant had been charged in connection with a failed assassination plot against former president Trump.

Merchant traveled to New York in June ostensibly to meet with the "hitmen" who were actually undercover law enforcement officers. He told them he was arranging the money with an overseas contact, the US Attorney's office said.

Several days later, he came up with the advanced payment and allegedly told the undercover agents that they were to go forward with the assassination plot, prosecutors said.

On July 12, as he was preparing to leave the United States, he was arrested. He revealed that his lovely wife and beautiful children live in Iran, and his other lovely wife and other beautiful children live in Pakistan, prosecutors reported.

One of Merchant’s homes is in the Iranian capital of Tehran, where he and one of his beautiful wives live. 

Merchant’s alleged Iran-backed plot played a role in the Secret Service agreeing to bolster former president Donald Trump’s security detail before the July assassination attempt, sources told The Post, otherwise they would have allowed other dangerously slanted rooftops to go unprotected.

Authorities claim that the Iranian-tied plot is unrelated to the attempt on Trump’s life by Thomas Crooks, who opened fire from a roof top in Butler, Pennsylvania, hitting Trump in his right ear but killing Corey Competoratore and wounding two other men. 

Where is Alex Jones when you want to hear from him?

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Now we know who had rooftop responsibility at Trump rally

We now have more information about the assassination attempt of former President and current GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump that took place on July 13, in Butler, PA. 

[H/T Townhall.com]

Corey Comperatore was killed by the shooter and two other men, David Dutch and James Copenhaven were wounded. The shooter, Thomas Matthew Crooks was killed from a nearby rooftop perch,  where he fired off eight rounds toward President Trump. 

Both Butler police and the Secret Service have been leaking details to clarify and to head off any blame game at the pass should a departmental war erupt.

 The American Glass Research building from where Crooks targeted Trump was less than 200 yards from the stage. The roof was left unprotected, allowing Crooks to climb up the structure and do what he came for. Everyone knows how close the bullet came from killing the former president, missing his head by millimeters and hitting him in the right ear when he turned his head at exactly the moment the bullet was fired.

New evidence suggests, the local cops were supposedly told by the Secret Service that they would handle covering this structure (via WSJ):

Local Pennsylvania police complained in the moments after last month’s attempted assassination of Donald Trump that they warned the U.S. Secret Service days in advance that the warehouse where the shooter was positioned needed protection, according to new videos obtained by The Wall Street Journal.

“I f—ing told them that they needed to post guys f—ing over here…I told them that f—ing Tuesday,” said a Butler Township officer in audio captured on his body-worn camera. “I talked to the Secret Service guys. They’re like, ‘Yeah, no problem. We’re going to post guys over here.’ ”

The video footage paints a more complete picture of the angry, frustrating situation, literally moments after Thomas Matthew Crooks was able to fire those eight shots at Trump from an AR-style rifle.

A cop in one of the videos at one point refers to a suspicious individual who had been lost by authorities. The unidentified officer referred to “a gentleman with a flat face that we were looking for earlier. He was creeping people out.”

The officer’s account was broadcast over radio and was captured on one of the body cameras. “He was watching people out in the woods by the water tower. I’m not sure he is the gentleman down or not.”

About 10 minutes after the shooting, another officer, arriving at the warehouse, said to a fellow officer, “I thought you guys were on the roof. I thought it was you. I thought it was you.”

“No,” came the reply, with an explanation that no officers were on the roof.

“What the f—k,” the officer replied in frustration. “Why were we not on the roof? Why weren’t we?”

Federal law enforcement officials said that the Secret Service thought local law enforcement officers, including snipers from the Butler County Emergency Services Unit, were supposed to secure the building from which Crooks fired.

Local SWAT teams had photos and a description of Crooks before his attack, which they shared on their radio system. However, the Secret Service couldn't access this with their equipment.

Leaked text messages revealed that law enforcement knew about Crooks nearly 100 minutes before the assassination attempt but didn’t act to stop him. This shows that the $3.6 billion agency, which is supposed to protect current and former presidents, was behind the 20-year-old attacker. Secret Service snipers reportedly didn’t know Crooks was armed until he started shooting, even though they had their sights on him for almost two minutes before the attack.

Butler SWAT teams allege they had zero contact with the Secret Service until after the shots were fired and Crooks was killed. They also took responsibility for failing to protect Trump, along with the death of Corey Comperatore, and the two others who were wounded.

So it was the Secret Service who had the responsibility of the rooftop, and they blew it. Was it on purpose or due to incompetence?

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Secret Service Director Resigns: Brain Flushings has complete interview

Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle (she, it) has resigned after being taken to the woodshed by Congress over her total mishandling in the protection of former President Donald Trump. Brain Flushings 'Man-in-the-Field' correspondent, Jim Schortz, spoke with Ms, Cheatle.

Jim: It must have been rough having to testify in front of the congressional special committee yesterday.

Cheatle: Is that a question?

Jim: Yes.

Cheatle: There have been testimonies of others who stood before the same committee.

Jim: Is it true that President Trump's staff had asked for additional protection from your department?

Cheatle: He should be referred to as 'former President Trump' as opposed to simply just President Trump. 

Jim: But what about the protection thing?

Cheatle: I have not spoken nor reviewed any requests at this time.

Jim: But you've now had ten full days to get to the bottom of this issue.

Cheatle: Yes, that's true.

Jim: What about the slope of the roof? Do you believe it was too slanted for the safety of your Secret Service officers?

Cheatle: It was a sunny day that Saturday. Some roofs are less sloped than others.

Jim: Now that you've resigned, what is on the agenda for Kimberly Cheatle next?

Cheatle: Kimberly Cheatle is gonna get the well-deserved rest she needs and nobody better bother me if they know what's good for them.

Jim: Thank you for answering that question.

Cheatle: Now leave.

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Sen. Josh Hawley: Most of Trump's security detail were not Secret Service personnel

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Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO), wrote on X on Friday that “whistleblowers tell me that MOST of Trump’s security detail at the event last Saturday were not even Secret Service agents.

“DHS assigned unprepared and inexperienced personnel,” Hawley added, posting a letter he sent to United States Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas.

“Whistleblowers with direct knowledge of the event have come to my office. They say the July 13 rally had 'loose' security. For instance, detection dogs weren't used to check for threats like they usually are,” Hawley wrote. “People without proper credentials were able to access backstage areas. Security personnel didn’t properly guard the area around the podium and weren't positioned at regular intervals around the event’s security perimeter.”

In addition to the information from the whistleblower allegations, it's been suggested that most of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials at the event were not actually U.S. Secret Service (USSS) agents. Instead, they were from the department’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI). What’s more concerning is that these HSI agents did not know the usual procedures used for such events, based on the allegations.

Mayorkas needs to be fired and further investigated. If he allowed this knowing that it put former President Trump in danger, he should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

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Here's Why Secret Service Director Didn't Post Anyone on the Roof Where Sniper Sniped

Anthony Bernal is a senior advisor to First Lady Jill Biden since 2020 and people fear him. As the New York Post  reported, four members of Biden's inner circle said Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle was well-liked by Doctor Jill Biden as well as Bernal. So guess what, she was appointed to the position based on that. 

“Cheatle served on Doctor Biden’s second lady detail and Anthony pushed for her,” a Democratic insider told The Post. “Anthony has no national security or law enforcement experience. He should have no influence over the selection of the USSS director.” Basically, Bernal knows as much about security as Doctor Jill knows about medicine, in spite of what Joy Behar believes. 

“I heard at the time she was being considered for director that Anthony had pushed her forward as an option,” another close source to the administration said.

But Cheatle also does not appear to have a good grasp on what it takes to protect a "protectee." At least she is "the first" woman to head the agency, because that crap is more important to Biden than assigning "the best" for positions within the administration. So we get the first Black, lesbian White House Press Secretary, the first Black/Asian female Vice President, the first gay Transportation Secretary, the first Black Secretary of Defense; the first Native American Cabinet Secretary, serving as Secretary of the Interior, the first woman to serve as Secretary of the Treasury, the first immigrant and first Latino to serve as Secretary of Homeland Security, the first transgender federal official to be confirmed by the Senate, serving as Assistant Secretary for Health, and I could go on and on.

Biden is obsessed with "firsts," as if that is by necessity a good thing, when all the evidence to this proves otherwise. 

Cheatle is going to, and needs to be fired. This much is certain.

She has made the most ridiculous observation as to why nobody was place on the roof the sniper used to shoot at the former President.

Here is what this DEI pick told ABC News:

“That building in particular has a sloped roof at its highest point. And so, you know, there’s a safety factor that would be considered there that we wouldn’t want to put somebody up on a sloped roof. And so, you know, the decision was made to secure the building from inside.” 

Good thing it wasn't raining slightly or she might have had the entire Secret Service detail stay inside so as not to catch their death of cold.

She's an idiot when it comes to running this agency. The sniper didn't care a fiddler's fart about the slope of the roof. In fact, it offered him some cover while he waited to shoot. Instead, Cheatle thought she would look good, and perhaps grab a few virtue signaling points from the press.

No, seriously, she's a total idiot and has no business jeopardizing the lives of the protectees under the watch of the Secret Service. She even admitted they knew about the building rooftop and its vulnerability, but she still opted not to position agents there.

The sniper, Thomas Matthew Crooks, had a clear line of sight to Trump because he was a mere 130 yards away--a distance bootcamp recruits use at the rifle range to qualify. It's a piece of cake to hit the bullseye if you know how to sight in, judge your wind, and have a steady position, which Crooks had in the prone position.

And what is with having short women guard Trump? They come up to the lower part of his neck and some of them don't even know how to reholster their weapon. Should women even have the job of putting their lives on the line for a man when it's the duty of men to protect their women?

This is the worst Secret Service security failure since 1981. She claims the "buck stops with me," but she refuses to resign. Maybe she needs the money, but that seems a bit less important than the lives of our leaders. 

Anyway, Cheatle needs to go. Now. Period.

Oh, by the way, and this is a big 'by the way,' Fox News is reporting that Cheatle's agency listed the shooter, Thomas Matthew Crooks, as "a potential person of suspicion."

So he bought 50 rounds the day before the rally, they had him listed as a potential shooter, and did nothing to stop the attempted assassination.

I am not a conspiracy theorist, but hey.

Cheatle is in way over her head, but as the "first woman to head the Secret Service," she'll probably not go anywhere until Donald Trump becomes our 47th President.

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Trump campaign security failure in Butler, PA

On Saturday, July 13, 2024, a 20-year-old man Thomas Matthew Crooks, with no military training and a school shooting team reject, came within a hummingbird's breath of assassinating former President Donald Trump at a rally in Butler, PA. 

Crooks was spotted at least twice by police, just 26 minutes before firing on the Trump crowd and hitting President Trump in the right ear when he miraculously turned his head. Sadly, one person in the crowd, a retired volunteer fire chief, was killed as he put his body in front of his daughters. His name was Corey Comperatore. In addition, two other individuals, David Dutch, 57, of New Kensington, and James Copenhaver, 74, of Moon Township, were critically injured but at last report their condition has been upgraded from critical to stable condition.

The Beaver County Emergency Services Unit traveled to the Trump rally from a nearby Pittsburgh suburb and saw Crooks on the roof, took a photo of him, and reported it around 5:45 p.m. WPXI reported.

And while Crooks stood out like a huge zit on Biden's nose, he was able to maintain his cover on the rooftop, right under the noses of a local police sniper team WHO WERE STATIONED INSIDE THE BUILDING UPON WHOSE ROOF HE LAY! I guess hiding in plain sight has its merits.

The AGR International Inc. factory building is next to the Butler County Farm Fair grounds. It was being used by local cops as a “watch post”[no pun intended] for snipers to scan for threats as the former president spoke onstage a mere 130 yards away, according to sources.

Cops were inside, but not on the roof during the shooting, sources said. So they saw nothing and heard nothing, a la Sergeant Schultz of Hogan's Heroes.

Crooks had scaled the building unnoticed, before getting off eight rounds with an AR-style rifle, bought by his father in 2020. One bullet grazed former Trump's right ear, killing Compatore and wounding the other two men. 

Law enforcement sources said it was not clear as of Monday night whether any of the local officers — who were tasked with securing the perimeter outside location of the rally — were able to warn Secret Service agents about the gunman, but if that was the case, the question is, why didn't they get Trump off the stage immediately?

In fact, there was about two-minutes of video that paints the Secret Service as the Keystone Kops, [older followers of Brain Flushings will know this reference] and their lowest point of their century protecting U.S. presidents. 

A multi-feed video montage put together by MilkBarTV, has been viewed over 3.5 million times on X, shows the attempted assassination play out in real time using clips from several different vantage points. People from the crowd were pointing the gunman out, yelling that he has a rifle, and nothing happened for several minutes until he began firing the rifle. 

A local cop had made his way up to the roof but Crooks pointed his weapon at him and the officer ducked and fell to the ground, at which point he began shooting at Trump. 

Fortunately, Crooks displayed the marksmanship of Stevie Wonder but sadly, he killed a Trump supporter anyway, and seriously injured the two others.

The Director of the Secret Service, Kimberly Cheatle, must resign.

Comment if you will.

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Biden claims to Salvation Army brass he spent time with Secret Service in Ukraine, Poland

It seems that everything that comes out of the mushmouth of our so called President Biden is either a sign of confusion or a bald faced lie. 

Biden did not drive an 18-wheeler; did not visit the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, not Afghanistan and Iraq twice as president; his son, Beau did not die in Iraq; did not pass student loan legislation; was not raised by Puerto Ricans; is not Jewish; did not travel 17,000 miles with Chinese President Xi; did not kick Hezbollah out of Lebanon; did not make a deal with the Taliban that he would get all US forces out of Afghanistan by May 1st; and finally, he did not come out anywhere near the top of his law school class--he came out at close to last. 

We all know there's more but you get the point.

So the latest in the Biden list of lies came in El Paso, Texas over the weekend when he told a Salvation Army Official that he spent time with the Secret Service in Poland and Ukraine. Perhaps it wasn't a lie but a mere hallucination; apparently he's been experiencing them for a while as observed in his attempt at shaking hands with the air.

To Joe's credit, he never peed himself in front of a crowd like the president of South Sudan did a few days ago. But alas, he did take a dump while seated in front of the Pope, so there's that.

When asked by the press about Biden's Poland-Ukraine hot mic claim, the White House pointed to the sky and said, "Look, a dead bird."

Only Adam Kinzinger looked and began to cry over what he believed he saw.

It is not immediately clear what Biden was referring to or why he would speak to a Salvation Army official about his overseas trips with the Secret Service. 

"And here we have folks from the Salvation Army…"

BIDEN: "I spent some time with the Secret Service in Poland and in Ukraine." pic.twitter.com/HoM5wIOs4g

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) January 9, 2023

The hot mic moment was uncovered by the RNC's research team and it illustrated for us once again that our alleged President cannot keep himself from telling lies and is having serious cognitive problems to think that non-Democrats would believe his balderdash.

The next thing he might try to convince us of is that during the Vietnam War, he visited the troops and met with Richard Blumenthal under enemy fire.

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REPORT: Secret Service involved in Hunter Biden gun incident as Joe wants tougher gun laws

"Quit moving the damn Teleprompter"

Hunter Biden is knee-deep in swamp slime as a new report emerged Thursday enumerating allegations that the Secret Service helped him out in a firearm-related incident in 2018. This report comes after Hunter revealed in December that he was under federal criminal investigation regarding taxes and his overseas business dealings.

These new allegations from October 2018 stem from an incident between Hunter Biden and Hallie Biden, the wife of his deceased brother, Beau, with whom he was having an affair and fathered a child with a stripper with whom he was having another affair while living with Hallie.

According to the report, Hallie took Hunter's gun and threw it in the trash behind a grocery store, prompting an investigation by law enforcement officials worried about the fact that the store was in close proximity to a high school. Hallie had returned to the store to retrieve the gun but lo and behold, it was gone.

“Secret Service agents approached the owner of the store where Hunter bought the gun and asked to take the paperwork involving the sale, according to two people, one of whom has firsthand knowledge of the episode and the other was briefed by a Secret Service agent after the fact,” Politico reported. 

“The gun store owner refused to supply the paperwork, suspecting that the Secret Service officers wanted to hide Hunter’s ownership of the missing gun in case it were to be involved in a crime, the two people said. The owner, Ron Palmieri, later turned over the papers to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, which oversees federal gun laws.”

The report notes that the Secret Service agents at the agency’s offices in Wilmington, Delaware, would unofficially help manage Joe Biden’s security and that the agency does not have any official record of incident.

The report also stated that POLITICO obtained copies of the Firearms Transaction Record and a receipt for the gun dated Oct. 12, 2018.

In the question asking, "Are you an unlawful user of, or addicted to, marijuana or any depressant, stimulant, narcotic drug, or any other controlled substance?” Hunter responded "no," meaning that he lied because he had been discharged from the Navy Reserve after testing positive for cocaine, and even he and his family admitted to his drug use.

The lie on ATF Form 4473 is a felony that carries up to a 10-year prison sentence and a $250,000 fine, which for Hunter is a piece of crack as he has plenty of Chinese money at his disposal.

The irony is that this report comes at a time when Joe Biden is demanding Congress enact tougher gun laws. 

So Hallie told Hunter what she did and this is when he told her to get the gun from the trash. When she found it gone, the Delaware State Police and FBI responded to the scene to investigate Hunter. 

The police report said that Hunter Biden “became very agitated” when he was asked if the firearm had been used to commit a crime.

When the President's son was asked if he was doing drugs or drinking, Hunter answered by saying that Hallie Biden was concerned about him being mentally unstable, saying that she was concerned that he was going to commit suicide, which would be politically incorrect.

The report says that “an older man who regularly rummages through the grocery’s store’s trash to collect recyclable items” found the gun and returned it days later, although it does not say to whom the firearm was returned.

The White House claims that Biden “did not have any knowledge of, or involvement in, the Secret Service’s alleged role in this incident,” but if you believe that, you might be a liberal.

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