"The old media order dressed up for a banquet and discovered that its own credibility was on the menu. ...
They showed up to preen and party anyway.
They put on gowns and tuxedos, smiled for cameras, and clinked glasses. They feted the president who has made attacking them central to his political identity. They feted the president who has made attacking them central to his political identity."
"In response to a question about why Trump thought attempts on his life happened so frequently—a reminder: there is as yet no information about what the man’s plan or motives were—he responded that assassins come for 'impactful people' and boasted of how much he has done for the country."
"'It’s actually a larger room, and it’s much more secure. It’s got— It’s drone proof. It’s bulletproof glass. We need the ballroom. That’s why Secret Service, that’s why the military are demanding it. They’ve wanted the ballroom for 150 years for lots of different reasons, but today’s, uh, a little bit different, because today, we need levels of security that probably nobody’s ever seen before.'”
"Trump took to the podium a little after 10:30. Referring to the threat of a shooting at the White House Correspondents Dinner—which has never happened before—he said: 'I will say, you know, it’s not a particularly secure building, and, uh, I didn’t want to say this, but this is why we have to have all of the attributes of what we’re planning at the White House.'"
Tonight the White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA) held its annual black-tie dinner, which is designed both to raise money for the institution and to provide a glitzy night out for journalists.
"The problem with having a criminal President who promotes conspiracy theories, incites an insurrection, & lies habitually about everything and is enabled by an entire political and media movement that does the same is that after a while, people don’t believe him and create their own narratives."
"He also used the shooting to promote his ballroom (bunker) and MAGA, of course, blamed 'the left' and said this is why Congress should fund DHS, and by extention secret service.
Unfortunately, STAGED was already trending on Twitter before we received all of these details."
A nation must prepare itself for a nauseous, self-congratulatory display of awfulness & gaslighting that will emanate from the corporate press class & Trump Administration following the WHCD shooting.
"When the president was asked at a press briefing late Saturday why he’s been targeted by several attempted gunmen now, Trump said he’s 'studied assassinations,' and they often target 'the most impactful people' and 'the big names.'
'I hate to say I’m honored by that, but I’ve done a lot,' he said. 'We’ve changed this country, and there are a lot of people that are not happy about that.'”
"There is a close relationship between Trump and violence — not just the attempts on his life but also the violence he’s unleashed on the world, the violence his ICE and Border Patrol agents have caused inside America, the violence he has incited among his followers."
"I fear violence will become a defining characteristic of the next few months, leading up to the midterms. It is the lexicon of what now passes for debate in the Trump era."
Because I had spent the better part of this Saturday documenting exactly how we arrived at a place where something like this could feel — in the most sick and twisted way imaginable — not just possible but almost inevitable."
"the January 6 insurrection at the US Capitol and the killings of the former Minnesota house speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband and the rightwing activist Charlie Kirk. Political violence is rampant and on Saturday, in a fancy Washington ballroom, Trump and the media glimpsed the edge of the abyss."
"For a decade I have been following the twists and turns of Donald Trump’s America with the privilege of journalistic distance. On Saturday night I felt the darkness come viscerally close. ...
The past 10 years have witnessed a shooting at a congressional baseball practice, a deadly white supremacist march in Charlottesville," (continued in /2)
The man accused of trying to storm the ballroom at the #WHCA dinner with #guns & knives had written about targeting #Trump admin officials, & his family raised concerns with law enforcement before the event, Trump said Sunday in an interview on the Faux News Channel.
I thought the optics were bad last time, but this time looks even more bizarre.
<sarcasm> I'm sure it's just a _coincidence_ that folks have been thinking recently about how an assassination attempt is good for votes. For examples, see the attached screenshots. </sarcasm>
IMHO, people are going to believe whatever they want to about today's event, but one important difference this time is nobody will give Trump any sympathy or a measurable boost in the polls. Nor will it stop people asking questions about Trump's involvement in the Epstein Files.
I was asleep at the switch when this came out a few days ago. It is *very* worth reading what @pluralistic has to say. What Trump is doing is horrendous but some things might *inadvertently* change in a positive way - more quickly - because he's doing them.
another random guy setup a̶n̶d̶ m̶u̶d̶e̶r̶e̶d̶¹ t̶o̶ p̶r̶o̶v̶e̶ T̶r̶u̶m̶p̶’s̶ “i̶n̶v̶i̶n̶c̶i̶b̶i̶l̶i̶t̶y̶” so he could justify building that fucking ballroom in the White House².
i never believed the first attempt was real. i don't believe there was a real attempt now; but i will tell you this: prepare for the Trump DoJ to #aislop the evidence.
² as if he’d live, even less be in office, long enough to see it completed
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another random guy setup a̶n̶d̶ m̶u̶d̶e̶r̶e̶d̶¹ t̶o̶ p̶r̶o̶v̶e̶ T̶r̶u̶m̶p̶’s̶ “i̶n̶v̶i̶n̶c̶i̶b̶i̶l̶i̶t̶y̶” so he could justify building that fucking ballroom in the White House².
i never believed the first attempt was real. i don't believe there was a real attempt now; but i will tell you this: prepare for the Trump DoJ to #aislop the evidence.
#Trump, during a White House press briefing, said the suspect was armed with multiple weapons before being stopped by the #SecretService. One officer was shot, but he was protected by a bulletproof vest.
“He was shot from very close distance with a very powerful gun, & the vest did the job,” Trump said.
Security footage posted by Trump shows a man sprinting through the metal detectors & past law enforcement who turn toward him with guns raised. Officers then swarm toward the man off-screen.
Officer shot in bullet-resistant vest at correspondents’ dinner but is expected to be OK, law enforcement official says
The #FBI said the shooter is in & and that its Washington field office is responding to the #shooting.
The suspect is alive & has been transported to a hospital, according to one US official & one law enforcement official. A #SecretService agent was injured & is in the hospital, a US official said.
#Trump said that a “shooter has been apprehended” in a post to Truth Social about 30 minutes following a security incident at the White House correspondents’ dinner.
Both Trump & JD #Vance were uninjured in the incident.
Trump to give statement at White House after #shooting incident at correspondents’ dinner
#Trump & other top leaders of the #US were evacuated from the annual #WhiteHouseCorrespondentsDinner on Saturday night after an unspecified threat. There did not immediately appear to be any injuries.
The #SecretService & other authorities swarmed the banquet hall as guests ducked under tables by the hundreds. “Out of the way, sir!” someone yelled. Others yelled to duck.
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#Trump ousts National #Science Board members Members of the independent board that guides the National Science Foundation [#NSF] said they received a notice from the White House that their positions were being terminated.
Multiple #scientists who serve on an independent board established to guide the nation’s nearly $9 billion basic science funding agency were terminated from their positions Friday by Trump.
#DOJ makes it easier to deport those with #DACA status
The #Trump admin is making it easier to deport immigrants protected by the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA.
A new precedent decision published Friday by the Board of Immigration Appeals (#BIA) says being a DACA recipient is not enough reason to provide relief from #deportation.
#Iran foreign minister left Islamabad without meeting #US envoys, Pakistan officials say. Can you blame him? The US “envoys” were Steve #Witkoff & Jared #Kushner ffs.
"Mr. Trump didn't just happen to America. He was elected, twice – the second time after attempting a coup. That alone should tell us that something fundamental has changed in American society, that it is so broken that one half of it could knowingly put a degenerate lunatic in the White House just to spite the other half."
Britain and Spain Reject Reported Plans by #Trump to Punish Them for not supporting him during #Iran war.
“An internal #Pentagon email, reported by the Reuters news agency, suggested that options under review include withdrawing American support for Britain’s sovereignty over the #Falkland (Malvinas) Islands — which are also claimed by #Argentina — and seeking to suspend #Spain from #NATO.”
#Gaza Set to Hold First Local #Election in Two Decades
#Hamas said it was not participating in the municipal elections in Deir al-Balah, set for this weekend. Residents said it was a long-awaited opportunity to address the city’s problems
The #Trump admin is placing economic #sanctions on a major #China based #oil refinery & roughly 40 shipping companies & tankers involved in transporting #Iran oil.
The move, announced Friday makes good on Trump’s threat to impose secondary sanctions on companies & countries that do business with Iran. It’s also part of his #Republican admin’s overall ramped-up campaign to cut off Iran’s key source of revenue — its oil exports.
#Trump wanted one thing, more than anything else, from his secretary of the #Navy, #JohnPhelan: a new class of #battleships.
“They’ll be the fastest, the biggest & by far—100 times more powerful than any battleship ever built,” Trump boasted at a news conference at his Mar-a-Lago estate & resort in Florida a few days before Christmas. Phelan, a billionaire investor who has a home near the club, stood next to the president as he made the announcement.
Acting AG #ToddBlanche has authorized seeking death sentences against nine people after the Justice Department rescinded a #Biden-era moratorium on federal #executions, the department said.
#USAttorney for DC #JeanninePirro said Friday that her office was ending its probe into the Fed’s building renovations because the Fed’s IG would scrutinize them instead.
The decision ends an investigation, one of several into #Trump’s perceived adversaries, that for months had failed to gain traction as prosecutors struggled to articulate a basis to suspect #criminal conduct.
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