Posted on 04/26/2026 1:54:18 PM PDT by Jacquerie
Well— it happened again. Thank heavens, they failed again.
Some curious patterns are emerging from the three shooters. All three episodes share a common shape: a lone, heavily armed man, apparently motivated at least in part by politics, probing the edges of Trump’s protective bubble and exploiting a specific vulnerability in the environment. When does a ‘lone wolf’ become a pack?
In Butler, Pennsylvania, shooter Thomas Matthew Crooks climbed onto an unsecured rooftop just outside the rally perimeter; in Florida, Ryan Wesley Routh built a sniper’s hide along the fence line of Trump’s golf course; and at the Correspondents’ Dinner, Cole Thomas Allen tried to blast through the Secret Service checkpoint just outside the ballroom.
Each time, the attack emerged from just beyond what security planners assumed was “good enough” standoff distance— high ground outside the venue fence, a concealment point just beyond the fairway boundary, or a magnetometer line that turned out to be just spread-out enough for a rapid charge from around the corner.
t’s almost like each successive shooter knows how the Secret Service’s protocols have changed.
Politically, that narrative pattern feeds two competing stories: one, of a president repeatedly targeted and miraculously spared, which can be framed in almost providential terms; the other, of a security system that keeps being surprised by shooters who seem to know exactly where the gaps are, keeping Trump’s public appearances in a permanent state of high‑alert brinkmanship.
You needn’t believe in a grand conspiracy to notice that the “random loner” keeps showing up exactly where the professionals left the door cracked open.
I don’t want to beat a dead horse here. But this is important. If this were just three different shooters exploiting three different weak spots, that would be bad enough. But when you look more closely at the details, the pattern gets even harder to wave away as “bad luck.”
The failure isn’t just that there was a blind spot; it’s that the part of the system designed specifically to catch that particular blind spot was never switched on.
In the case of Trump assassination attempts, we’ve now reached three— three gunmen, three “lone wolves,” three times the system somehow accidentally left the exact wrong piece of ground uncovered.
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Agree.
He connects dots, looks behind the curtains of events like no other.
Oh, and as an added bonus, he busts the chops of the NYT every day.
My guess is the SS used the plans for securing previous WHCD. Trump never attended during his first term and the dinner was cancelled for Covid until 2023 when Biden attended. Biden also attended in 2024. This was Trump's first WHCD.
Well, it’s about time the SS stop with the DEI BS, and actually do its job. So many want Trump dead. Same for the rest of his cabinet. They’re all marked.
Accidentally on purpose.
This is just a guess on my part. The SS isn’t setup to provide security for everyone at large scale events. They are there to protect the president.
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