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@wdlindsy@toad.social · 2d ago
"A close reading of the Justice Department’s charges Monday afternoon against 31-year-old Cole Allen hint that he didn’t fire any weapon at all. In fact, it’s not clear from what we know that this was a 'shooting' at all. ... Here is what to me is a more likely scenario than what the government is telling us so far:" ~ Garrett M. Graff #WhiteHouseCorrespondentsDinner #WHCD #violence #shooting #DOJ #ColeAllen /1 https://www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/is-the-justice-department-lying-about-saturday-s-shooting
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@wdlindsy@toad.social · 3d ago
"Nobody in the history of American politics has weaponized incidents of violent crime to turn them into political capital like Donald Trump. His campaign’s use of the incident in Butler, PA as well as the Laken Riley murder in sick and perverse ways were instrumental in returning him to the presidency." ~ Ron Filipkowski #WhiteHouseCorrespondentsDinner #WHCD #Trump #Republicans #violence #media #ballroom /1 https://www.meidasplus.com/p/today-in-politics-bulletin-358-42726
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@wdlindsy@toad.social · 3d ago
"Now he’s is using the incident at the WHCA dinner to justify his deeply unpopular ballroom monstrosity. Trump, members of his admin, Republican members of Congress, as well as right-wing TV hosts, podcasters and influencers went on a full-court propaganda blitz today to use the latest incident to justify not only construction of the ballroom, but even a demand to have taxpayers now foot the bill." #WhiteHouseCorrespondentsDinner #WHCD #Trump #Republicans #violence #media #ballroom /2
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@wdlindsy@toad.social · 3d ago
"He lies. And the press corps accepts it. This dynamic is a part of strategy that's gotten clearer since Saturday. Instead of using the shock of violence to bridge divisions between Americans, the president is enlisting the press corps in creating a reality with which to divide us further." ~ John Stoehr #WhiteHouseCorrespondentsDinner #WHCD #Trump #Republicans #violence #media #ballroom /3 https://www.editorialboard.com/cole-allen-is-not-anti-christian-trump-lied-about-his-faith-and-the-press-corps-accepted-it/
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@wdlindsy@toad.social · 3d ago
"The Republicans love to gaslight the public into believing that the Democrats are inciting violence when they tell the truth about Trump. In fact, it's the president who is the greatest source of incitement. That his life has been threatened three times should be proof enough." #WhiteHouseCorrespondentsDinner #WHCD #Trump #Republicans #violence #media #ballroom /4
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@wdlindsy@toad.social · 3d ago
"Yet the press corps plays along, accepting Trump's claims uncritically – he was told to get down when he actually fell; Cole Allen is ant-Christian when he is actually deeply Christian – as if the constant mainlining of deceit into the body politic is not going to bring tensions to an even higher boil." #WhiteHouseCorrespondentsDinner #WHCD #Trump #Republicans #violence #media #ballroom /5
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@wdlindsy@toad.social · 4d ago
"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) ~ David Smith #Trump #WHCD #shooting #violence #media /1 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/26/white-house-correspondents-dinner-shooting-covering-trump
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@wdlindsy@toad.social · 4d ago
(continued from /1) "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." #Trump #WHCD #shooting #violence #media /2
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@wdlindsy@toad.social · 4d ago
"My first thought wasn’t shock. It was recognition. 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." ~ Kristoffer Ealy #Trump #WHCD #shooting #violence #media /3 https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/corporate-media-chaos-trump-the-whcd
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@wdlindsy@toad.social · 4d ago
"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." ~ Gene Weingarten #Trump #WHCD #shooting #violence #media /4 https://geneweingarten.substack.com/p/i-blame-trump
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@wdlindsy@toad.social · 4d ago
"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." ~ Robert Reich #Trump #WHCD #shooting #violence #media /5 https://robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-thought-last-nights-correspondents
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@wdlindsy@toad.social · 4d ago
"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.'” ~ Andrew Perez and Asawin Suebsaeng #Trump #WHCD #shooting #violence #media /6 https://zeteo.com/p/trump-evacuated-white-house-correspondents-dinner-dc
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@wdlindsy@toad.social · 4d ago
"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." ~ Wajahat Ali #Trump #WHCD #shooting #violence #media #staged /7 https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/behold-the-ridiculous-unbearable
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@wdlindsy@toad.social · 4d ago
"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." #Trump #WHCD #shooting #violence #media #staged /8
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@wdlindsy@toad.social · 4d ago
"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.'" ~ Heather Cox Richardson #Trump #WHCD #shooting #violence #media /9 https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/april-25-2026
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@wdlindsy@toad.social · 4d ago
"'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 #WHCD #shooting #violence #media /10
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@wdlindsy@toad.social · 4d ago
"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." #Trump #WHCD #shooting #violence #media /11
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@wdlindsy@toad.social · 4d ago
"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." ~ Julie Roginsky #Trump #WHCD #shooting #violence #media /12 https://saltypolitics.substack.com/p/the-medias-gross-performance-after
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@wdlindsy@toad.social · 4d ago
"The whole grotesque spectacle was supposed to be a celebration of press freedom. Instead, it became a case study in institutional self-abasement. Then came the shooting. ... Both last night and this morning, these journalists congratulated each other all over social media for rushing to the White House to cover their own assassination attempts. They should hang their heads in shame instead, based on what happened inside the briefing room." #Trump #WHCD #shooting #violence #media /13
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@wdlindsy@toad.social · 4d ago
For more commentary on last night's White House Correspondents Dinner, see: Ben Meiselas: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MB8qUmTS5Rk Lucian K. Truscott: https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/white-house-correspondents-dinner Norman Eisen and Carlos Eduardo Espina: https://www.contrariannews.org/p/norm-and-carlos-live-after-the-white Aaron Parnas: https://aaronparnas.substack.com/p/breaking-active-shooter-killed-at Political Humor: https://politicalhumor.substack.com/p/irans-new-lego-viral-video-mocks-10c #Trump #WHCD #shooting #violence #media /14
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