🚨 Let me explain what actually happened at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner..
This was not just a random panic moment in a ballroom.
It was a security architecture problem.
The dinner was at the Washington Hilton.
That matters.
Because a hotel is not the White House.
It has guests.
It has staff.
It has service corridors.
It has elevators.
It has storage rooms.
It has staging areas.
It has normal public-building chaos around one extremely protected room.
Officials say the suspect rushed a Secret Service checkpoint with a shotgun, handgun and knives.
Trump, Melania, Vance and Cabinet officials were inside.
A Secret Service officer was hit in the vest.
The suspect was taken alive.
So yes, the final checkpoint worked.
But that is not the only question.
The real question is:
How did a man with that kind of weapon loadout get close enough that the final checkpoint had to save the night?
That is the part everyone is going to fight over now.
Not because the protectees were hurt.
They were not.
Because the event almost turned a press dinner into a live-fire test of the last possible security layer.
And nobody wants to admit how thin that last layer can feel inside a normal building.
if you’re not following me you’re finding out about this 48 hours late from someone who read my post..
MS NOW host Symone Sanders Townsend recounts how poor security was at the WHCD. She says she was able to roll up to the front door on a scooter and security did not ask to see her ID nor see her ticket, they assumed she was a guest at the hotel:
“I actually showed up to the Hilton shortly after 8 P.M. And I actually took a scooter right up to the front of the Hilton driveway. And this matters because, as you know, usually there’s a lot of protesters outside that’s outside of those barricades before you can actually enter into the driveway of the Hilton.
But this year, there are no protesters outside. I come to find out the people were actually milling about into the lobby. When I got off of the scooter and into in front of the barricade, usually you have to show ID and a ticket.
The folks, the security at the gate, these were not agents, the Secret Service agents. They were not identified as Secret Service agents that I could see at the gate, but they did not ask me to show ID, and they did not ask me to show a ticket. They said, ‘Oh, you’re good. I’m sure you’re going to your room.’ I am not staying at the Washington Hilton.
As I entered into the driveway, I saw the president’s vehicle. The Beast was driving around in the circle of the Hilton driveway, and people walking around near it, taking photos. Secret Service was not keeping a perimeter. And it went around about two or three times while I was outside.
When I entered into the Hilton, I asked Secret Service agents, which I saw they were identified as Secret Service agents, which way the ballroom was, and they said they didn’t know.
When I finally got my way onto elevator, no one asked me to show ID. No one asked me to show a ticket. I got all the way down to the red carpet area without ever showing a ticket to anyone in the Hilton.
I am saying it like this because this is unusual.”
We are so lucky that track star shooter did not have a suicide vest on… He could have decapitated our entire government like we did Iran’s because our Secret service had our President, VP, and most of the Cabinet in a public hotel outside of the security of the White House Gates… And on live TV! We are currently in a war with the largest terrorist state in the world and we have known for years that Iran has sleeper cells in our country that have orders to assassinate our President! WTF are we doing… Sleeping at the wheel? This is why we need that WH ballroom yesterday. Protect our President at all costs
So let’s unpack a few things right up front…
1) He left California and was in DC at the hotel where the WHCD was veing held.
2) Imagine the intent he had to have in order to travel that distance all the while thinking about what he was going to do.
3) He either moved several weapons or procured them in/around DC and figured out a way to get them in proximity to the WHCD.
4) He took the time to load the weapons on to his body (to reportedly include several knives) and nobody noticed.
5) Now here is the kicker…in his hidden location he was somehow aware that the President was in the room and was seated. How/when was he aware of that part?
6) If he wasn’t a guest at the WHCD and he couldn’t see the President from where he was….how did he know?
7) It’s not like he could go look in the room and then go load up with his gear.
8) He was supposedly a guest at the exact hotel? Like every room in that place wasn’t booked full over a month in advance? In DC, on a Saturday, with the WHCD in the same hotel….have you ever booked a hotel in DC during a Major Presidential event? Good luck!!!
All of it screams that he had help from someone in DC. Someone with some serious knowledge and capabilities.
You just don’t pull off something like that on a whim and without some serious reconnaissance ahead of time.
Sen. Chuck Grassley, 92, came within minutes of being the next president of the United States.
The President, Vice President and Speaker of the House could have been killed Saturday night. Had that happened, Grassley, as President pro tempore of the Senate would have been next in line.
There need to be serious conversations about security surrounding our president and top administration officials.
Everyone is overlooking the most chilling detail regarding last night’s third assassination attempt on POTUS.
The shooter at the DC correspondents diner was identified as Cole Tomas Allen, 31, from California. part-time teacher/tutor. Teacher of the Month in December 2024 at C2 Education. BS Mechanical Engineer, Master in Computer Science, video game developer. Donated to Kamala in 2024.
This dude has a background (so far) as normal as it gets, regardless of the contempt smile that seems to be part of his body language baseline, as you can see in the photo below.
But nobody, and I mean nobody, expects to rush a room full of secret service officers expecting to survive whatever goal he had set himself to achieve.
What I mean is that this guy had an actual death wish and the willingness to self-immolate for a chance to hurt people, and if was POTUS, all the better.
Which means that the mass psychosis that some Americans are developing, is pushing them to disregard their own life’s value in exchange for bringing some kind of ‘justice’ or at least pain, from anyone who supports Trump to Trump himself.
That’s the most concerning part. Even if this guy happened to have a ‘history of mental illness’ (which is not confirmed but I wouldn’t be surprised), it actually reinforces the fact that there are deranged sleeper cells out there ready to give their lives some sort of meaning by doing stuff like this.
And I don’t say ‘sleeper cells’ in terms of foreign influence or brainwashing. These are not Manchurian candidates. This is the obvious product of the hate rethoric that has been pushed, over and over again, by the hard left.
You only need to take a look at Bluesky or Reddit to confirm that half of those people think this was fake and the other half are frustrated that he missed.
That’s the real problem America is facing now, and we 100% know who are the ones to blame.
🚨Oh, look at that—America’s “watchdogs of democracy” didn’t just fail the vibe check at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner last night. They straight-up looted the joint like it was the apocalypse, and the only thing worth saving was the open bar.
While shots rang out, the President was being yanked offstage by Secret Service, and the entire ballroom was one trigger-pull away from turning into a national nightmare, what were these tuxedoed truth-tellers doing? Filing urgent dispatches? Checking on colleagues? Showing one ounce of basic human concern? Nah.
They were playing human Roomba on the tabletops—grabbing bottles of wine and champagne two at a time, stuffing them into camera bags, under jackets, down blouses, whatever fit. One blonde in a black jacket looked like she was training for the Olympic wine-heist relay. Another kept casually nibbling her dinner like it was just another Tuesday, and the gunfire was ambient noise. Bro, the President almost got assassinated. and your priority was playing “how many free Cabernets can I smuggle out before security notices?”
These are the same smug, pearl-clutching hacks who spend every waking hour lecturing the rest of us about “civility,” “empathy,” “moral leadership,” and how we’re the ones destroying the country. The ones who cry “threat to democracy” if you question their narrative. The ones who virtue-signal about compassion while calling half the country garbage.
Turns out their moral compass doesn’t point north—it points straight to the nearest unopened bottle of Dom.
Congratulations, media. You didn’t just expose your hypocrisy; you speed-ran it on camera. While the nation held its breath wondering if the President was okay, you proved you’re not elite journalists. You’re not even good looters. You’re the people who show up to a black-tie event, watch bullets fly, and think, “Perfect—now’s my chance for a free case of bubbly.”
At least actual looters wait for the power to go out. You did it with the lights on, in formalwear, live on X.
Classy. Real classy.
Now go write your 3,000-word think piece about how this was actually Trump’s fault for making the wine too tempting. We’ll wait. With our own bottles. That we paid for.
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Justice Department Launches Investigations Concerning Gender Ideology in Pre-K-12 Schools in 36 Illinois School Districts including Leyden SD 212, Ridgewood and Elmwood Park High Schools
The US Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division launched investigations into 36 Illinois public school districts to determine whether they have included sexual orientation and gender ideology (SOGI) content in any class for grades pre-K-12.
Local this investigation includes Leyden High School District 212, as well as Ridgewood and Elmwood Park High Schools.
If they are teaching SOGI-related content, the investigations will examine whether the schools have notified parents of their right to opt their children out of such instruction. The investigation will also assess whether the Illinois School Districts limit access to single-sex intimate spaces (such as bathrooms and locker rooms) and girls’ sports teams based on biological sex.
“This Department of Justice is determined to put an end to local school authorities keeping parents in the dark about how sexuality and gender ideology are being pushed in classrooms,” said Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division. “Supreme Court precedent leaves no doubt: parents have the fundamental right and primary authority to direct the care, upbringing, and education of their children. This includes exempting their children from ideological instruction that contradicts their values or decisions about their children’s health and best interests.”
The investigations will examine whether these Illinois School Districts, which are recipients of hundreds of thousands of dollars of taxpayer funding, are adhering to Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 and the Supreme Court’s extensive precedents on parental rights as recently reiterated in Mirabelli v. Bontaand Mahmoud v. Taylor.
The Civil Rights Division has not reached any conclusions about the subject matter of the investigations.
The Illinois School Districts under investigation include:
The U.S. Department of Justice on Thursday said it is investigating 35 Illinois school districts, including several in the suburbs, and a Chicago charter operator to see if they are teaching about sexual orientation and “gender ideology” in classrooms and if so, whether parents are allowed to opt out.
The investigations also will examine whether the districts limit access to single-sex locker rooms and bathrooms and girls sports teams. That essentially means they’ll be looking at whether or not districts allow transgender students to use facilities and play on athletic teams that correspond with their gender identity.
The Trump administration has used the term“gender ideology” to call into question the existence of transgender people and gender identities. Top federal officials have spent the last year working to eliminate instruction about and recognition of trans people in K-12 schools, including by seeking to strip federal funds from schools that teach about trans youth in federally funded sex ed classes or allow trans students to play on sports teams that match their gender identity.
In a news release, Justice Department officials cited Title IX, the federal law that prohibits sex discrimination in education, as the basis for the investigations, as well as a recent Supreme Court decision that ruled parents have the religious right to opt their children out of lessons at school if they do not align with their faith. It appears the Trump administration is trying to take that further by proactively looking into whether school districts have opt-out procedures in place.
The Noble Network of Charter Schools, which runs 17 high schools and one middle school in Chicago, is among those under investigation. A spokesperson for the operator said they didn’t have a comment at this time.
Chicago-area districts under investigation include Oak Lawn-Hometown School District 123, Elmwood Park Community Unit School District 401 and Thornton Fractional Township High School District 215.
A spokesperson for District 215 said its attorney was reviewing the department’s correspondence but didn’t have further comment. The other two districts did not respond to a request for comment on Thursday.
The Justice Department didn’t outline what sparked the investigations or how it chose those districts out of the hundreds in Illinois. A department spokesperson did not immediately respond to questions about the investigations.
Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon said in a statement that the department is determined “to put an end to local authorities keeping parents in the dark” about how sexuality and gender identity are “being pushed” in classrooms.
“Parents have the fundamental right and primary authority to direct the care, upbringing, and education of their children,” Dillon wrote. “This includes exempting their children from ideological instruction that contradicts their values or decisions about their children’s health and best interests.”
The Trump administration has wielded the threat of pulling federal funding to change school policies it disagrees with, but the Justice Department’s involvement in matters related to school curriculum appears to be a relatively new strategy. In February the department announced similar investigations into school districts in Michigan.
The investigations follow a pattern of attempts by the Trump administration to strip protections for LGBTQ+ students enacted by school districts across the country. It’s also taken aim at diversity, equity and inclusion programs, such as Chicago Public Schools’ Black Student Success plan.
The Department of Education announced last year that it was investigating CPS over whether the district’s policies allowing student locker room access that aligns with their gender identity violated Title IX.
Less than a month into his second term, Trump issued an executive order threateningto withhold federal funding from schools that allow trans girls to play on women’s sports teams. His administration has sued states for not complying.
Illinois has followed its state laws prohibiting discrimination based on gender identity, requiring schools to protect transgender students’ right to use facilities and participate in events and programs that match their gender identity.
The administration has also shown support for parental rights advocates who were handed a victory last year by the Supreme Court in Mahmoud v. Taylor. Parents in Montgomery County, Maryland sued the school district after it prevented them from opting their children out of lessons featuring LGBTQ characters and themes.
Parents argued the teachings went against their religious beliefs and they should be allowed to opt out. The Supreme Court ruled in favor of the parents.
It led to concerns that some schools would choose to forsake certain lessons and materials to reduce the likelihood of opt-outs, decreasing the diversity of curriculums.
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