The alleged shooting at the correspondence dinner on Saturday seems bizarre to me. Although Trump had announced he would attend the correspondence dinner back in March, after his “Sleepy Don” performance during a press conference on Thursday it was far from certain when afterward Trump flew off to Mar-a-Lago where it was reported he was going to spend the weekend there for the RNC “spring retreat” and address a cryptocurrency convention.
Yet somehow he decided to “cancel” all of that and returned right back to the White House on Saturday and attend the correspondence dinner afterall, with his entourage including Kash Patel and Todd Blanche in tow. Oh, they were there to listen to the truth about themselves that is hardly “amusing”?
We are told that the shooter, Cole Tomas Allen, was living in Torrance, California, and recently received a master’s degree. He was described as a "Christian," "quiet," was not registered with any political party but had once made a small donation to ActBlue, and no one who knew him understood why this happened.
Torrance is described as "purplish" politically; a little investigation reminds us that unlike most of Los Angeles County, at least half the voters in the city are independent or Republican, that it is “fiscally conservative” and “pro-business.” The mayor, according to someone on Reddit, is a raging “homophobe.”
We are told that Allen allegedly fired a weapon outside the event room, and a Secret Service agent was "struck" but not wounded. But why would there be an "assassination" attempt at a function like this? Who was the intended target? Why does the media assume it was Trump? As mentioned there was a belief that Trump would not show up at all, but the alleged shooter did know that a lot of anti-Trump journalists would be there to poke “fun” at him. But Trump certainly wanted to take all the “credit” for it:
“I studied assassinations, the people that make the biggest impact, such as Lincoln, are the ones who get targeted. I hate to say I’m honored by that, but we’ve done a lot.”
Really? It sure seems that the reporters who asked Trump why he was targeted didn’t take into consideration that journalists in the crowded space would more likely have been shot or killed; after all, Trump and his sycophants have been calling out “fake news” and employing juvenile insults to describe those very journalists. Remember that at that campaign rally shooting incident which occurred just while Trump was dehumanizing and demonizing immigrants, it was another man in the crowd who was killed by Thomas Matthew Crooks, a registered Republican—and whose motives are still “unknown.”
One thing we do know for certain until we find out more about the alleged shooter is that this is exactly the kind of thing that the Republicans are hoping will happen to turn the midterm elections around, and the expectation is that media will report this "favorably" for Trump instead of “at best” suggesting it demonstrates either the level of his unpopularity, or at worst the result of his own actions in demonizing his critics.
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