WHCA "Shooting" Was Definitely Staged
Breakdown of the latest security footage. There is absolutely 0% chance this was legit and there was ever a threat.
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The K-9 officer watches Cole walk into the room and they speak for about 3 seconds, after which the officer turns and walks away. Within a second Cole is out the door holding a shotgun and having multiple knives on his person. He's through the metal detector within 2 seconds.
It is impossible that that officer did not see Cole holding a long gun. It is not possible that officer didn't notice the multiple knives on Cole's person.
After Cole made it past the security, he was apprehended without a single injury/gun shot wound. You're telling me a man running towards a room containing the majority of the Presidential line of succession with a long gun somehow wasn't dropped on the spot? People have been shot on the WH grounds for far less than that.
Throw in Trump's complete indifference to the sound of the shooting, the slow response to remove Trump and others from the room and the jovial, all smiles demeanor of folks at the press conference after the "assassination attempt" and there's no way one could believe it was a legitimate threat to anyone's life.
#1 | Posted by jpw at 2026-05-06 12:13 PM | Reply
We need to get that gunman over to the Strait of Hormuz, stat. No doubt, with his unique abilities to avoid detection he will be able to overwhelm the IRGC with both speed and stealth, run the Hormuz gauntlet, break the deadlock and get those boats through!
#2 | Posted by NerfHerder at 2026-05-06 12:28 PM | Reply
No ----.
#3 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-05-06 12:29 PM | Reply
It is impossible that that officer did not see Cole holding a long gun.
Posted by jpw
Noticed that, did you?
#4 | Posted by Zed at 2026-05-07 07:38 AM | Reply
the slow response to remove Trump and others from the room
4 | Posted by Zed
Which mirrored Butler, except that Trump didn't get to make a grand gesture.
#5 | Posted by Zed at 2026-05-07 07:39 AM | Reply
"It is impossible that that officer did not see Cole holding a long gun. It is not possible that officer didn't notice the multiple knives on Cole's person"
Cole charged immediately after the cop and dog were gone, fully armed, as if he knew that the coast was clear to make a successful charge, which he did.
#6 | Posted by Zed at 2026-05-07 07:42 AM | Reply
"In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way."
-FDR
#7 | Posted by lee_the_agent at 2026-05-07 08:37 AM | Reply
#4 | Posted by Zed
Something less obvious but is a damning issue is he's not carrying the gun when he walks into the room. I didn't see a bag, so was the gun already in the room?
#8 | Posted by jpw at 2026-05-07 11:58 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1
#8 | Posted by jpw
A couple of news reports I read stated he was wearing a long coat to hide the long gun and shed the coat when he started running.
#9 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2026-05-07 12:19 PM | Reply
It's was all a staged performance. A charade for the morons like Turds and SHRIMPedo to get worked up over.
The footage was so absurdly comical, only the stupidest idiots believed it.
I never really understood the story about people listening to War of the Worlds panicking and running into the streets until MAGA showed how gullible and stupid people can be.
#10 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-05-07 12:23 PM | Reply
There's security footage showing him colluding with the secret service.
They lead him into a room and he comes running out with the gun.
#11 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-05-07 12:25 PM | Reply
Just more denial from the politically violent Lumpers.
#12 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-05-07 12:28 PM | Reply | Funny: 1
violent Lumpers. #12 | POSTED BY ONETRUMPER
Violent Femmes is a better band.
#13 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-05-07 12:31 PM | Reply | Funny: 1
Just more denial
#12 | POSTED BY ONEIRONAUT
It's a terrible thing when a president is so contemptuously distrusted that no one accepts his preferred narrative of events.
All I can say is that Trump worked hard to get to this place.
And I'll point out that within one-half hour the man was using this "assassination attempt" to get his stupid ballroom.
#14 | Posted by Zed at 2026-05-07 12:37 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 3
That comment will go down on your permanent record, Clownshack.
#15 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-05-07 12:52 PM | Reply | Funny: 2
Gone daddy, gone!
The love is gone!
#16 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-05-07 01:01 PM | Reply
#12 | Posted by oneironaut
Duhhhh LuMpErZ!!!
STFU idiot. That you're stupid enough to fall for it is your problem, not ours.
#17 | Posted by jpw at 2026-05-07 01:18 PM | Reply
Chumper be chumping!
#18 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-05-07 07:32 PM | Reply
So, this guy threw his life away to participate in a hoax?
#19 | Posted by BellRinger at 2026-05-07 08:38 PM | Reply
You don't know how he was threatened or what he was promised,
#20 | Posted by Zed at 2026-05-07 09:54 PM | Reply
No one thinks that Trump is one hundred percent guilty of everything he is accused of. But many of us think that he is guilty of ninety eight percent of it. And history will eventually prove that.
#21 | Posted by Zed at 2026-05-07 09:57 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1
#19 | Posted by BellRinger
There's an entire Congress full of Republicans throwing away their reputations, ideals, morals, values ect ect to continue to support Trump. Probably because he has dirt on all of them.
You're so quaintly naive. You think people willing to plan and execute multiple fake assassinations wouldn't be evil enough to know how to tighten the screws on someone to make them comply?
#22 | Posted by jpw at 2026-05-08 09:59 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1
#19 | POSTED BY BELLRINGER
Apparently. As so many of your fellow maga maroons have.
Hoaxes can be very deadly apparently.
Maga maroons literally died on ventilators because of "a hoax".
You member? Yeah. You member.
#23 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-05-08 11:32 AM | Reply
So, this guy threw his life away to participate in a hoax? #19 | POSTED BY BELLRINGER
People get pulled into hoaxes all the time. All the time.
You've never seen the Flat Earth YouTube channels?
You've never met a Jehovah's Witness?
#24 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-05-08 12:05 PM | Reply
In a very deep pool of data, this is one of the most clueless statements ever.
So, this guy threw his life away to participate in a political cult?
Sound better?
#25 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2026-05-08 12:41 PM | Reply
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