Assassination attempts come with being a head of state. Just ask Julius Caesar; Shakespeare wrote a whole play about that one. So too went Caligula, William II, Charles VII of Sweden, Manco Inca Yupanqui, Tsar Peter III, Tsar Nicholas II, Michael Collins, Abdullah I of Jordan, Indira Gandhi, Olof Palme....just to name a few. There are a whole lot more if you're interested in the list.
Only 4 U.S. Presidents, Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley, and Kennedy have been assassinated. The number is relatively low in comparison to the number of attempts made over 250 years of our democracy.
So it should come as no surprise that I spent most of yesterday and today researching assassinations and assassination attempts. Let's narrow the scope a bit for the sake of this blog. President Obama logged 13 assassination plots, 3 of which happened after he left office. Only one, in 2011, had shots fired, and that was at the White House, not directly at the president. President Biden had some internet threats and memes, but no credible assassination attempts were listed for him. President Felon, however, has logged 21 "security incidents" including this week's.
Why do you think that is?
When I first heard about the "loud noises" at the hotel, my first response was what? someone dropped a tray? All things considered, that was a plausible explanation until events in the lobby were disclosed. Being that I tend not to believe anything that comes out of this Gold House until it's been vetted nine ways against the middle, I was reserving judgment. Then I saw video tape. And then I saw the alleged gunman naked and bound on the floor. In reading multiple reports in the NYTimes and Washington Post, one thing kept cropping up: security at the site sucked; it was lax, The gunman was a guest of the hotel, therefore with a roomkey he had some ease of passage. People were getting through to the upper ballroom area with minimal checks. And then this:
Watch it for yourself. Why aren't the security guys paying attention? One would think President Felon is an ongoing target. If I were running the Secret Service and was aware of the number of attempts made on this president, I'm pretty sure I woulda thrown the fear of imminent destruction at anyone charged with guarding the entrance.
Yeah, sure, this guy was trying to kill President Felon, but this looks more and more like a cross between Amateur Hour and The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight. Watch the guys with the guns. Keystone Cops maybe? They certainly don't look serious enough to be guarding the upper level bureaucrats of our government, president included. Let's not forget our current crack FBI director, Kash-is-king Patel who was photographed scrolling through his phone while a guy is shooting up the lobby. Maybe that was because Cole Thomas Allen, the alleged shooter, specifically excluded him from his list of targets?
Administration officials (not including [Kash] Patel): they are targets, prioritised from highest-ranking to lowest.
Then, of course, in the aftermath, come the statements claiming had the Gold House had a proper ballroom, this would not have happened. This is a capture from Truth Social:
Okay. The guy is unhinged. We know this.
Bemelmans' illustration
My Big Brother called me a conspiracy theorist because I said my bog-o-meter was off this scale on this thing. Granted, Mr. Allen be a real assassin wanna be, but everything around the event is just off kilter enough to make anyone with a pair of eye wonder why. There are too many lapses, too many people saying security was serious in checking the attendees. Too make Ja, sure, you betcha wave-throughs. People noticed. People commented. And Kash scrolled through his phone.
As the beloved Miss Clavell would say, "Something is not right."
And I stand willingly in that doorway.
Meanwhile, back at the Gold House....
Did anyone manage not to choke Feckless Felon's interview with Norah O'Donnell? It is possibly the lease bombastic I've ever heard him, and his calmness is far from reassuring, it's chilling. Add to that his lips are moving, so the odds of him telling the truth are slim to none. My favorite part his when she asks him about the manifesto written by the shooter. (Go to minute 18)
I recently read an article about how narcissist debate, and one of the core techniques is to shift the blame to the other person. In this clip, Feckless Leader tells O'Donnell she is a terrible person and a disgrace. Here's an excerpt from the whole transcript:
NORAH O'DONNELL: The
so-called manifesto is a stunning thing to read, Mr. President. He appears to
reference a motive in it. He writes this quote, "Administration officials,
they are targets." And he also wrote this, "I am no longer willing to
permit a pedophile, rapist, and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes."
What's your reaction to that?
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Well, I was waiting for you to read
that because I knew you would because you're-- you're he-- you're horrible
people. Horrible people. Yeah, he did write that. I'm-- I'm not a rapist. I
didn't rape anybody.
NORAH O'DONNELL: Oh
you think-- do you think he was referring to you?
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: I'm not a pedophile. Excuse me.
Excuse me. I'm not a pedophile. You read that crap from some sick person? I got
associated with all-- stuff that has nothing to do with me. I was totally
exonerated. Your friends on the other side of the plate are the ones that were
involved with, little's say, Epstein or other things. But I said to myself,
"You know, I'll do this interview and they'll probably"-- I read the
manifesto. You know, he's a sick person. But you should be ashamed of yourself
reading that because I'm not any of those things.
NORAH O'DONNELL: Mr.
President these are the gunman's words –
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP:
And I was never-- excuse me. Excuse me. You shouldn't be reading that on
60 Minutes. You're a disgrace. But go ahead. Let's finish the interview.
NORAH O'DONNELL: The other thing that he wrote, in the—
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: You-- you're disgraceful.
It's been said before, but this bears repeating: If his lips are moving, he's probably lying.
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