What if the next attack on America’s leadership doesn’t come from some basement-dwelling Call of Duty “veteran” with a cheap Mossberg pump-action shotgun and a single-stack .38 Super?
What if it comes from a three- or four-man team of highly-motivated, foreign-trained combat veterans. Fighters who are experienced and built for the job? That isn’t just a hypothetical. President Trump talked about rescheduling the White House Correspondents’ dinner after it was cancelled due to an assassination attempt.
Let’s revisit that same glittering ballroom. We’re back again with the same black-tie crowd of self-important media elites and administration heavyweights at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner 2.0 in D.C. with the same velvet-rope security theater outside.
This time it could be a very different ending.
The mental lightweight amateur was stopped cold the first time around. But four trained professionals? You know America’s enemies are thinking about it after watching the near success of Mr. Call of Duty. Pros wouldn’t be livestreaming or hesitating. They’d roll up on that checkpoint locked and loaded with suppressed rifles, plate carriers, comms, and a plan honed from hard experience in real war zones.
Fire erupts. A half-dozen agents — plainclothes and uniformed — drop in moments. More follow. Hopefully one of them gets on the radio before they lose consciousness. Either way, the checkpoint collapses. There’s sudden chaos at the doors as the Team Bad Guys breaches before most people even realize that shots had been fired.
The President. The Vice President. Cabinet members. Top administration officials. All in a room full of champagne flutes, potential wine thieves and puffed-up egos with near-zero warning. It would quickly become a bloodbath. The Secret Service Counter Assault Team would have a tough time arriving quickly enough.
The idea of losing a portion of the elected leadership of the United States to a competent foreign hit squad in the heart of Washington should terrify every American who still believes in a constitutional republic.
The Correspondents’ Association dinner isn’t some random event. It’s a high-profile symbol packed with some of the most protected people in the country. Yet one disorganized, grabastic piece of amphibian fecal matter with not-so-fancy guns has proved that the perimeter can not only be probed, but damn near breached. Given the same set-up, a real four-man professional team would punch straight through and do their best to complete the mission.
Security measures have undoubtedly been reviewed and upgraded since the embarrassing incident. Let’s hope so. But more fences, more badges, and more “see something, say something” signs won’t cut it against operators who train to defeat exactly those measures.
You’d think that lessons would have been learned after the Butler shooting. It’s hard not to think that the Secret Service was incredibly lucky this latest attempt went the way it did. But betting the security of our top government officials on luck isn’t much of a plan. If the dinner is, in fact, rescheduled, it will be interesting to see what adjustments are made.
We are now in a hot civil war. It’s no longer a cold war. We have been lying to ourselves. It really started back when representative Steve scalise was shot at the republican soft ball game. In 2017?
It’s just now that the assassins are going after the President and Vice President. And the democrats don’t care.
They will do whatever is necessary to retain power. Expand the number of judges on the supreme court. Put your personal lawyers in prison, just like they tried to put trump’s lawyers in prison. The democrats have never believed in the Bill of Rights. They will take away your rights.They will take away your property. They will tax you to death. But they need your money. And if you move to another state and take it with you? And they are learning this lesson right now.
It will be very interesting to see what Illinois and California look like in the next five years. Or Colorado or Washington State???
Because the s0ci@lis:ts will eventually run out of other people’s money. It happens every single time s0ci@lis;m is tried.
I’m surprised a team consisting of Nancy Pelosi, Hakeem Jeffries, Chuck Schumer, and demented barmaid Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez haven’t tried it considering all the hate and violence they want the country to endure with their left winger threats and rhetoric and lies.
“If the dinner is, in fact, rescheduled, it will be interesting to see what adjustments are made.”
The adjustments I’d make is to first exclude anyone who wants it to happen. One of the ‘journalist’ in attendance hid under a table and was over heard saying something to the effect of ‘I hope Trump gets killed this time.’
The next thing I’d do is actually secure the whole area area with more than a few Secret Service and local cops, and make sure its clear of crowds and others then place the hotel on ‘lockdown’ by securing entrance doors to area of the entrance to the dinner room. Cole Allen came right through a door leading right to the area where he rushed the checkpoint, had that door been secured he would have not gotten to that point. A K-9 dog actually detected him before he entered but the handler pulled the dog away. There were so called ‘protestors’ outside, a few of them had dressed up like they were attendees and tried to get in and make it to the ball room area shortly before Allen made his run – I suspect this was an attempt at a diversion but it didn’t work, its odd though that it coincided with Allen’s entry a minute later almost like it was timed that way. A ‘protestor’ rushes the Presidential Limo shortly after the WHCD shooting, and was arrested. Some attendees reported that no one checked their ID’s and they just walked right in unchallenged. Seriously, there were just too many ‘unknown’s’ allowed to exist in the whole area outside and inside. Violent hostile protestors outside wanting Trump and the others to die, people inside wanting Trump and the others to die, probably some compromised agent in the mix, and no one can trust the D.C. police any more its so infiltrated by left wingers. The Secret Service and cops at the ballroom are just wandering around, relaxed, not paying attention to anything.
And that K-9 handler: K-9 appears to sniff Cole Allen before shooting. Dog returns to its handler’s side in the hallway, the handler continues to look into the open doorway for about six seconds. It’s unclear if the officer is speaking to or looking directly at Allen at that time, as the video did not capture audio. As the officer stands facing the room (to which the door opens), the dog appears to again walk toward Allen, but is stopped short by the officer’s hold on the leash. The officer turns his back to the room and the hallway and leads the dog away from the checkpoint. Just one second after the officer’s back is fully turned, Allen charges through the door from the the room and through one of the standing detectors with a weapon in his hands. The second detector had been moved and laid on the ground by an officer moments before.
its just all too convenient, the timing almost seems choreographed and intentional.
There’s a lot here I would change.
After the perpetrator charged through the checkpoint and off-screen to the right, everybody drew their guns and followed him.
A few new agents emerged from the doors at the right, and they followed him too.
It looked like an under-6 soccer game where a mob of kids just chases the ball around the field.
Only one agent stayed outside the checkpoint, looking outward, watching for any other accomplices coming behind to follow in the first guy’s wake.
Good point.
Safer course of action would be to wait for any/all protectees to exit the building before uniforms focus their attention on dismantling a scanner.
This is particularly so if the assault team welcomes death, because after killing the President, the VP et al, they will then go to their 72 virgins in paradise. They don’t care about the counter assault, as long as their assault is successful. There are probably hundreds of thousands of highly experienced combat veterans who fall into that category.
Given the evident desire of the SS to have POTUS assassinated, I can’t see how he will survive his term if he continues to rely on them. It’s not incompetence. They want him dead.
Probably for some (polls show a large portion of Dems feel that way), but it’s also incompetence. At the end of the day, it’s still just another federal bureaucracy.
First thing, the President and the Vice President should not have been in that room together. I don’t think even the Speaker of the House should have been there with either of them. The days of easy schmoozing are over.
That said, I wouldn’t blink an eye at the loss of most of those “correspondents”.
Every time this has happened, the democrats got more information from their practice runs. Eventually they’ll be confident enough to hire professionals. President Trump won’t be their only target.
And considering the democrats desire to rule forever coupled with their deliberate flooding of the country with illegals ; it’s likely, indeed, plausible that the professionals are already here. Here awaiting their opportunity.
It’s almost enough to make you think the Secret Service was in on the whole thing. Not enough to allow it to happen unimpeded but enough to give them plausible deniability if it did.
After the 1984 bombing of Brighton’s The Grand Hotel, the IRA released this notice.
“ Today we were unlucky, but remember we only have to be lucky once – you will have to be lucky always.”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/witness/october/12/newsid_3665000/3665388.stm
It really wouldn’t need to be a team with tons of training. Send in the sacrificial guy, wait 20 seconds and send in the real team who knows what they are doing. The SS / LEO’s did not man their positions. I saw one video where 3 uniformed LEO’s RAN, ducking and hiding. In that same video, two of the OTHER gender drew guns and took a very active observation with intend attitude. My point is the DEI hiring and attitude can not be / has not been eliminated yet. Trump and Vance need to never be within half a mile of each other when outside the White house etc. Never on the same plane or in the same car. And I agree with the guy who said they would not miss many of the “correspondents” if they met their maker… at the hands of a comrade.
Gosh, let’s see: how about not holding the event in a big hotel generally open for business with hundreds of rooms? Either choose a truly secure location, or at least vacate the facility and exclude anyone not vetted by security personnel in advance from the event.