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More on the dinner shooting
American Thinker ^ | 8 May, 2026 | J.R. Dunn

Posted on 05/08/2026 5:32:48 AM PDT by MtnClimber

Enhanced video footage of the attempted assassination at the White House Correspondents Dinner released over the past week has revealed quite a lot that we didn’t know before. None of it is good.

First thing, we’ll acknowledge that this was accomplished using AI, which means that it will be flawed and contain errors. That said, the errors will be in small details -- a hand raised at a slightly different angle, a mustache made to look too much like Hitler’s and so forth. The substantial imagery will remain the same. We’re not going to see people suddenly walking across ceilings or growing two heads.

So what do we see?

The perp, Cole Thomas Allen, did not come running around a corner toward the security cordon, as appeared to be the case in the unenhanced imagery. He emerged from a room (or hallway) opening up on the corridor about twenty feet back from the agents were gathered. There, he evidently readied his shotgun, a Mossberg Maverick, which he had smuggled in under his coat. It was equipped with a folding stock, which he needed to unfold and lock.

A K-9 agent (or cop – he was in uniform) stood in the doorway watching this procedure while doing absolutely nothing about it. His dog enters the room, but the agent brings him back out then turns and walks away. Cole Allen burst out and raced down the hall only a second later.

When Cole Allen appeared, several of the uniformed personnel standing against the wall, visible in the upper center, turned and fled a substantial distance down the corridor. This was visible in the original clip, but enhancement has given it a lot more significance.

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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: coleallen; trump; whcd; whcdshooting

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1 posted on 05/08/2026 5:32:48 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

DEI is still on duty.


2 posted on 05/08/2026 5:33:01 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

Hopefully, the 3 female officers who ran away down the hallway have been fired. What weak, inappropriate-behaving losers. I bet each wears a large DEI badge.


3 posted on 05/08/2026 5:38:37 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: MtnClimber

Simple explanation…The K9 officer 👮 was not used to seeing folks pull shotguns out of their trench coats 🧥 so he assumed Cole was a fellow agent. The agents Cole ran past with the shotgun performed a “tactical” retreat to get better shots! Let’s not get conspiratorial! /s


4 posted on 05/08/2026 5:48:46 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: MtnClimber

The dog handler standing staring at the door after the dog came out, is he actually talking to the shooter? Why didn’t he turn the dog loose?


5 posted on 05/08/2026 5:50:53 AM PDT by Ronald77 ( )
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To: MtnClimber

This says the SS were in on it. That dog and his handler saw him armed and walked away.


6 posted on 05/08/2026 6:00:31 AM PDT by CodeToad
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To: MtnClimber

Those three people standing against the wall were unarmed, untrained TSA agents. They were not Secret Service. This was known shortly after the incident. It was probably better that they got out of the way.


7 posted on 05/08/2026 6:02:24 AM PDT by suthener ( I do not like living under our homosexual, ghetto, feminist government.)
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To: Ronald77

That’s my question. The handler screwed up twice. First when the K9 alerted on Cole inside the room. Second when the handler failed to drop the leash and give the attack command to the K9 when Cole sprinted through the doorway. Total incompetence.


8 posted on 05/08/2026 6:05:15 AM PDT by torqemada
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To: MtnClimber
...growing two heads.

Cankles. Been there, done that.

9 posted on 05/08/2026 6:05:54 AM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: torqemada

“..That’s my question. The handler screwed up twice. First when the K9 alerted on Cole inside the room. Second when the handler failed to drop the leash and give the attack command to the K9 when Cole sprinted through the doorway. Total incompetence....”

Yep. The dog knew right off the bat and looked like it was ready to address it.
The handler? Not so much.
The dog deserves a metal. The handler; a big beautiful pink slip.


10 posted on 05/08/2026 6:10:59 AM PDT by lgjhn23 ("On the 8th day, Satan created the progressive liberal to destroy all the good that God created...")
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To: MtnClimber

The thing is, nobody was looking down the hall.

Security was not doing Security, but was lollygagging and watching the crew dismantle the gates.

Running towards the gate, Perp should have been tackled.
that’s why you hire Big Men for Security, not little girls.
If they saw the shotgun, shoot the Perp.

Their Non Action is the trouble.
If they were doing Security, the Perp would have not have even gotten to the gate, much less through it.


11 posted on 05/08/2026 6:21:06 AM PDT by Macoozie (Roll MAGA, roll!)
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To: suthener

Plus they were in the line of fire from the officer who drew his weapon and fired at Cole.

So lucky none of those people were hit.


12 posted on 05/08/2026 6:37:24 AM PDT by 1FreeAmerican
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To: MtnClimber

KISS keep it simple stupid answer is a few of the agents were in on it and the rest were DEI hires.

Half the secret service is statiscally going to be leftists. No matter how hard they try to flush them out, they will always be a dominant part of that organization and the FBI.


13 posted on 05/08/2026 7:04:00 AM PDT by Battlestar (Tired of transgenders, drug addicts, and mentally ill taking over our streets, schools, government)
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To: MtnClimber

At the location where the perp was stopped, was that the last line of defense before he could run up to Trump’s table and shoot him point-blank?

The only video I’ve seen is where he blows right past 5-6 officers on his way.


14 posted on 05/08/2026 9:27:59 AM PDT by libertylover (The HBM (Has Been Media) is almost all AGENDA-DRIVEN and HATE-DRIVEN, not-truth driven.)
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To: libertylover

Trump was not on this floor.


15 posted on 05/08/2026 12:53:01 PM PDT by mfish13 ( )
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