The guy wants to go out in a bang. He has a message, but he knows he's probably gonna get killed in the process. (martyr) Well, this time he didn't....

a group that takes their name from a 160 year old Republican youth movement.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide_Awakes

160 years ago the Republicans were the good guys and the Democrats were the bad guys.

Political murder is not the way in a democracy…even for someone like Trump.

..... He is correcting an anachronistic judgement by providing a historical fact.

nt

"kill all the leftists!" order.

musta missed that one

https://russblib.blogspot.com

Another “manifesto”.

More bullshit.

And Kash Patel might be the stupidest mf-er in the administration after Trump.

Anyone considering violence against Republican officeholders as a response to America's downfall - currently in progress - only hurts the cause of countering that downfall.

This guy looks like he has mental illness of some sort. It's hard to suggest he should have known better. But us libs have to come out and forcefully disourage anything that could be inspired by this.

Just sayin'. I doubt Patel has the brain power to stage an assassination attempt.

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The headline should read "Washington Hilton suspect ..."

He was never anywhere near the Correspondent's dinner. There was zero probability anybody carrying a shotgun was going to enter the area secured by the SS. It is not clear he was a "shooter" at all. The only reports are that one SS agent went to the hospital with minor injuries, but that could have been a twisted ankle or a concrete fragment from an errant bullet shot by other SS agents.

Given the very real probability that this was a staged event, let's insist on the most accurate reporting and no bullshit headlines. The Independent is usually better than that.

He was apparently staying at the hotel and posted observations from outside and inside just before the event -

There is zero chance that this article is correct. I have a low opinion of the SS, but they aren't THAT stupid. They establish a perimeter for every event, and that includes every way in and out -- service elevators, rarely used staircases, etc. If they did not secure those paths, that is pretty clear evidence that this was a planned stunt.

Every article I have seen has been explicit that the supposed perp never got anywhere close to the SS perimeter and he was never on the floor where the event was to occur.

In Butler, the official telling of the story is that the shots were fired from outside the perimeter with an uncanny level of precision.

It's whoever put the "plan" together that would involve WAY MORE than the SS - like the D.C. Metro Police and even the damn 2000+ National Guard "patrolling the streets" of D.C., picking up trash and doing landscaping.

I just saw an article that reminded about something that happened 45 years ago AT the same hotel -

Sound of Gunfire Carries Eerie Echoes of Reagan's Shooting Outside the Same Washington Hotel (AP article via U.S. News & World Report)

That incident changed how the SS handles Presidents. The issue is that venue and securing it when you have such political upheaval in this day and time.

There is more fucking "security" (riot police, NG, ICE agents) at peaceful protests than for our elected officials.

I've been to dozens of them over the years. From the reporting, he got pretty close to the stairs that lead downstairs to the ballroom.

My point exactly. It is far from clear that he had any intention of entering the ballroom, and that only could have happened with a complete failure of the most basic security measures, or as part of a staged production.

Maybe a minute, less if one is running. I've done it myself.

But agree totally that the security failures were inexcusable.

and instead intended to shoot some cabinet people outside.

It is irresponsible of the media and anybody else to claim to know that he was headed for the ballroom.

At a Hilton in DC- preposterous.

embarrassing, no wonder he went around the bend.

I doubt that his family and friends can afford the legal bills for his defense.