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Obsessing over this is going to ruin several people's lives, I can feel it.
It's certainly weirder than I can explain away. I'm really curious about this shooter, especially since he seemed to be a well-adjusted computer scientist and teacher: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-04-25/suspect-california-trump-white-house-dinner
So did he actually have a gun or fire any shots? Because that sounds like security just started lighting someone up.
Probably friendly fire.
He allegedly had a fucking shotgun, a large weapon notoriously bad against bullet proof vests, in the middle of a city, which he managed to walk to a hotel with, enter the hotel, and not raise suspicion until he was going through security? Also "multiple knives"? What the fuck would you need a knife for if you have two guns, let alone multiple knives?
The story is so fucking weird, especially since we know every official source has to be lying about all or most of it. Like someone going with a long arm to shoot up a place full of armed security in body armor, something they know they're gonna die doing, doesn't go ahead and splurge on even a rifle? He opts not to sneak in and instead charges security, without actually shooting until after he's fired upon first (if he returned fire at all), but he brought the worst possible option for going up against armored security?
What do you want to bet it's a cop shotgun one of them grabbed from their trunk, one of the knives is a swiss army knife and the other is a piece of cutlery from the hotel that someone dropped nearby, and he maybe had a handgun at the most if he was armed at all? If this even happened remotely like what they're saying at all, and it's not just a big "whoopsy security opened up on a random guy who just happened to be there, better fabricate a justification for appearances sake".
It could be the guy just ran through security because he was late for something and got annihilated and all the weapons were planted after the fact as a cover up.
But I think its more likely the dumbest assassination attempt on Trump so far. Its not like the past attempts were well thought out.
No there was definitely worse ones. Like getting shot entirely outside of mar a lago when Trump isn’t even there is worse.
That's right I was only thinking of Routh and Crooks. Forgot the numerous attempts at Mar A Lago
Maybe he had one of those weird revolvers that use little shotgun shells that was both a shotgun and a handgun lol
One of these?
The Yamagami doohickey only crits against former world leaders, unfortunately.
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A guy speaks into his cuff "Max code red. Repeat - max red. He appears to have a bread knife."
i do not believe such a thing exists
That's not to put computer scientists on a pedestal or anything. I'm just saying that I'm not stable enough to complete a really technical masters at such a competitive university but I am stable enough to recognise this plot wouldn't work. There's some kind of disconnect there which I haven't yet seen linked to any kind of ideological motivation. Ted Kaczynski was a proper mathematician and he also ended up chasing crude adventurism, but only after being an MK Ultra victim. His really logical (in that technical non-ideological sense) brain was shaped into doing something illogical, like Naruto-charging a full security team is. This is uniquely the dumbest assassination attempt against Trump and look at his competition.
Imagine how many twitter users there are, and how many shootings there are in the USA.
Yeah but how many Twitter users are there that do absolutely nothing but post a single name. If there are lots of those, then ok, this isn't all that weird of a coincidence, not worth putting much more thought into. But if accounts that are created and do nothing but make a single post with a single name are rare, then that does mean this is pretty out there, and would put me firmly on happybadger's side that it's weird and not easily explained by pure chance.
Only things I could think would be it's possible the account had thousands of posts with different names and deleted all the ones that didn't match (not sure if anyone's verified this its only post ever). It's possible this is done across thousands of accounts with one post of a name combination.
Or could spooked up, but I wonder why this attempt and none of the other ones. Unless the guy himself did it for some reason.
There are literally a quadrillion chatgpt bots on twitter at this point