Wait, what? Another assassination attempt on Trump?
Is the shooter another young man with no online presence, does anybody know?
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Wait, what? Another assassination attempt on Trump?
Is the shooter another young man with no online presence, does anybody know?
Appears to be a teacher of the year from California
https://x.com/KanekoaTheGreat/status/2048230659496497459
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Wow. Where is the photo on the floor from? Is he alive?
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photo on the floor is from the event, perp is alive and in custody, and press conference was already detailing charges against him. Arraignment Monday
use of firearm in violent crime charge suggests he did fire at least one of those shots. We had wondered if they were all coming from security
https://x.com/nicksortor/status/2048239866329076076
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Thank you so much for the updates! I was certain he was dead. This will be interesting.
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https://x.com/i/status/2048238153471779038
Hah.
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I’m super curious to see if he turns out to be a 30yo living with parents, or a person with patchy employment and no discernible explanation for how he affords his life ala Routh.
coin toss at this point.
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https://x.com/BNONews/status/2048228978742251567
Security footage
There’s of course tons of footage out there from the WHCD because hey, roomful of journos. Mostly just clanking dishes and people swearing and wondering what’s going on. Shooter never made it into the room, I think. Nobody hurt, one security shot but ballistic vest caught it (still hurts, but not fatal).
Here’s the actual disruption:
https://x.com/nicksortor/status/2048210877648617963
I count four, maybe five gunshots in the audio, but reckon they’re all outside the room. Everybody was slow to react because ambient noise so loud. Mostly didn’t register anything was going on until the music was turned off.
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https://substack.com/home/post/p-195493655
Sailer points out that for a Caltech engineering grad he seems to have fallen on hard times, working part time for a test prep agency.
Like all such things, we’ll probably know more in three days.
I kinda wonder if Caltech is one of those rumored spook recruiting schools.
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More:
https://x.com/KanekoaTheGreat/status/2048231309118681180
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handsome young man with a poisoned mind. I’m so sick of the anti-Trump agitprop that fuels this lunacy.
Amanda
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Well, supposedly this is the manifesto of assassin Cole Tomas Allen.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2026/04/26/attempted-assassin-cole-tomas-allens-manifesto-revealed/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=attempted-assassin-cole-tomas-allens-manifesto-revealed
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In the meantime, Obama says the motive is unknown:
https://x.com/i/status/2048511290021237017
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I heard a young woman speaking about either she went or her friend went to that event and they left early because something felt “off” specifically the security features were incredibly lax. Now who organized the security for the evening events seems to be a very important and relevant factor. As well as who chose not to attend but had done so in many prior years
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A few points I would like to bring up about this. And for the record my money is fully on this was a false flag from Trump, not the other side of the isle.
I don’t know why this new banquet-hall is so damn important or expensive that Trump requires huge amounts of funds for it. Which is one of the reasons congress has been refusing him. But this looks like a false flag to try to force this through.
Also I seem to recall Trump saying something about he was willing to give up his rights for safety and since he was the only one who had been shot at, everyone else should as well.
Either way. My first impression was false flag, as was my second and third one. Project MK-Ultra was a thing. Congress verified that it had taken place, and while it was supposedly shut down I don’t believe it for a second.
So no, I suspect that he will be given a quick trial and everything will be hushed up without any real questions being answered.
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