Iran is not backing down to Trump, no matter how much his administration begs for talks in Islamabad. The US is once again flying to Pakistan, and Iran's response was devastating. Danny Haiphong provides updates on the latest news from the Iran war as he travels across China via high-speed
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Hey everyone, welcome back. I am actually on a highspeed rail right now in China from Chong Sha to Beijing. We're going 350 kilometers an hour. I thought I would update some news for you as you get to see what's happening outside in China, as we move across this vast distance, in this massive country. But let's get to some news right now.
Iran has just dropped a bombshell on the Trump administration around the strait of Hormuz. As you all know, the United States is right now attempting to blockade Iran's blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, and the Trump administration's consistency on the war is waffling and wavering the longer this war goes on. But Iran has not been wavering one bit. And actually its parliament has now prepared the new rules entirely legislatively for the strait of Hormuz. These rules are as follows:
1. payment of a fee in reales before obtaining a permit to pass 2. mandatory use of the name Persian Gulf in all contracts. 3. Payment of compensation in addition to the fee, by ships of countries that participate in the war against Iran. 4. Passage of the strait is permanently prohibited for ships associated with Israel, countries imposing sanctions against Iran, or participating in the blocking of Iranian assets, military ships of hostile states including the United States.
Now this is not the only part of this. However, Iran has said categorically that the strait of hormuz will be blocked until there is a release of 11 trillion dollars of Iranian assets released due to sanctions. And there will be absolutely no discussion of even allowing any relief around the strait of hormuz unless the United States stops its blockade. And unlike in prior wars that the US has fought, now it's the country that's being attacked which is setting ultimatums. In fact, Abbas Aragchi, the foreign minister of Iran, has just said that if this does not happen within 48 hours, then the ceasefire altogether will end.
Of course, the initial ceasefire has expired. There were talks about talks. Now, there might be a Sunday deadline, but there's no clarity for the Trump administration about how it wants to talk to Iran, when it wants to talk to Iran, and whether it's going to come to Iran with terms that Iran will accept to even engage in talks, because right now there is no basis for Iran to talk to the United States. And this is subtly and underneath the surface driving the Trump administration mad, even as it tries to play the powerful military victor as Trump has said over and over and over again to the media, that it doesn't even matter if Iran talks, that Iran has been obliterated, destroyed, its leadership is in complete disarray. I mean all of these absolute lies to cover the fact that the United States is actually in disarray. And right now that's what Israeli media is reporting. Israel has said it's ready to strike now. And of course, Israel is now defenseless. They weren't even able to intercept 20% of Iranian missiles by the latter part of hostilities before the ceasefire went into place. But still, this is Israel's number one project to get rid of Iran, so that there's no state impediment to the greater Israel project. So, Israel is pushing to go back to open conflict, but it cannot do so without the United States.
So, Israeli media channel 12 News, is reporting actually that there is no cohesiveness. There is no unified message coming out of the Trump administration about what it wants to do. Does it want to go back to war? Does it want to conduct massive air strikes now, or later, or never again, while Israel is the one that is chomping at the bits to make this happen.
And now there's a big problem because the United States is conducting a blockade right now on Iran. And this blockade is failing massively. There's a big problem with trying to enforce a blockade when you have a military adversary, you have a country, that is able to strike back. One of the big problems that these naval ships that are blockading Iran have, is they have to stay very far from the Iranian coast, and they cannot directly intervene into the strait of hormuz without being targeted with drones, missiles, and even that vaunted Iranian navy that's supposed to be under the sea. Those fast attack ships are ready and willing to interdict and strike and destroy anyone who comes into the pathway of the strait of Hormuz. Iran has already done this to one tanker that tried to exit without following the rules. And of course, they docked two ships in recent days.
But it gets even worse for the United States because the Chabahar port has just been spotted to have nine Iranian oil tankers there. This means that the Iranian Navy was able to escort these oil tankers to pass through this blockade, which demonstrates that yes, the Iranian Navy is absolutely not destroyed. It just so happens that recent reports in CBS say that actually about 60% of the air force, the Navy, etc. remain intact. That's probably a conservative estimate from US intelligence.
So overnight there was actually activity from Iran's air defenses, and it was unclear what exactly was going on. Or was Iran just testing out its air defenses? Or was there a hostile attack by some force likr Israel, the United States, attempting to restart this war? Well, FAR's news agency reported that they detected small and lightweight drones in Iranian airspace, and they have not revealed the source of these drones. They added that some drones identified were orbiter type aircraft detected at multiple locations across the country. We will have to see what is happening there. But overall, we don't know exactly who was the perpetrator. Maybe it was internal. We know that the US and Israel, especially Israel, has attempted to build up forces inside the country, and they tried to conduct a coup right before the February 28th hostilities. There were months from December into February where massive numbers of Israeli backed proxies were wreaking havoc on the country of Iran.
So now Trump is trying to portray Iran right now as the weak one, especially when it comes to a new framing of Iran's leadership in complete disarray. Iran has rejected this. He's said this in numerous tweets by Donald Trump. I'm just going to read one here. He says,
"Iran is having a hard time figuring out who their leader is. They just don't know. The infighting between hardliners who have been losing badly on the battlefield and moderates or not moderate at all, but gaining respect, is crazy. We have control of the strait of Hormuz. No ship can enter or leave without the approval of the US Navy. It is sealed up tight until such time as Iran is able to make a deal. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
So the Trump administration, Donald Trump himself, is trying to turn reality on its head here, and this is how Iran responded to this, and this should just tell you exactly where this war is, that it's not going well for the United States, the empire, or its unipolar hegemony. They rejected this push to portray Iran as having unstable leadership. The parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf and Masoud Pezeshkian stated at the same time on social media in Iran,
"There's no such thing as hardliners or moderates. We are all Iranian and revolutionary with the iron unity of the nation and state. In full adherence to the supreme leader, we will make the criminal aggressor regret this. One God, one nation, one leader, and one path. The path to victory for Iran is dearer than life."
Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi then chimed in saying, "Israel's actions have instead reinforced cohesion." He said, "The failure of Israel's terrorist killings is reflected in how Iran's state institutions continue to act with unity, purpose, and discipline. The battlefield and diplomacy are fully coordinated fronts in the same war. Iranians are all united more now than ever. And the judiciary chief Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Eje'i said, "The president of the United States must know that the term hardliners and moderates are meaningless and baseless words in western political discourse. In the Islamic Republic of Iran, all factions and groups are ultimately united and aligned under the leadership of the Supreme Leader. One God, one nation, one earth, one path. The path of Iran's victory dearer than life. The criminal aggressors will regret it.
They all chimed in saying the same thing. You might think that is just for show. But if it were, then there would be a lot more disagreement about how to handle the Strait of Hormuz, about how to handle these talks with the United States. But at this time, Iran has maintained a level of firm rejection of any kind of capitulation terms. They want the United States to deal with Iran on the basis of what Iran is saying it is, and that is the side that is victorious. What did Abbas Araghchi say? That the United States has been trying to gain in talks what it could not gain in the battlefield, and that is just absolutely not going to happen. Iran is going to keep pushing its demands, and whether the US attacks again or not, whether Israel and the US attack again or not, it hardly matters. The position is not changing.
So this is a huge deal, especially since this strait of hormuz is hitting the United States' unipolar order in a massive way, doing a kind of dollar swift-free fiscal endurance lifeline, extending this out to the rest of the world, and providing a possible experiment as to what it will look like to trade and operate one of the most important waterways in the world without the US dollar's interference and weaponization. It has brought Iran a unique leverage which is not going away unless the United States and Israel are able to destroy Iran and get rid of its leadership, and install a leadership that is compliant to them. The strait of Hormuz will remain under the dictat of Iran. Which means that every time the US has to deal with Iran, it is going to have to deal with the possibility of what happens to the strait of hormuz, and how that will affect the global economy as a whole. It's a game changer.
And now we have oil going back up to $106 a barrel with this inconsistency of the Trump administration not knowing what it's going to do, whether it's going to come back and bomb. And Trump recently just said, "I'm going to bomb all their oil infrastructure. I'm going to bomb everything that Iran has." That just signals a continuation of the war, and the oil markets are very unhappy, because they know, despite all the short-term windfall profits, all this talk about LG dollar, oil, the petro dollar making a comeback because of this war, they know that the longer this goes on, the closer the whole world gets to a global depression, and the suffering that people will go through because of this, will cause such cataclysmic impact on the global economy that these windfall profits will be short-term pleasures amidst a longterm pain.
And just get this, it's just been announced by a defense official within the Pentagon, and this is absolutely shocking. I think the United States has utilized, get this, almost 50% of everything it has, defensive munitions, and offensive munitions. I mean, we're talking about in a matter of weeks, not even 2 months of hostilities, the United States has used 50% of all of its patriot interceptors, 50% of all of its THAAD interceptors In the first days alone. The defense official has said that in the US-Israeli war, $5.6 billion of ammunition was used in the first two days of hostilities, including 1,200 Patriot missiles at $4 million a piece. So, we're talking about a massively costly war.
And we're talking about a situation now where the Trump administration has signaled basically an indefinite ceasefire, and that there is very little interest in imminently going back to strikes. But Iran is very much aware of the surprise element, cuz what has the United States done in the past? The United States can't talk to Iran right now, but that doesn't mean that it doesn't want to behave in the way that it has behaved over the course of its long arc of war on Iran. Because remember, this didn't start February 28, just like the Ukraine conflict didn't start February 22nd, 2022. And February 28th, 2026, was not the beginning of the US war in Iran. It began in earnest in 1979 really, but really 1953, when the CIA collaborated with BP in the UK to overthrow Mohammad Mosaddegh. But 1979 was when the active modern form of this war launched sanctions, and of course numerous attempts at regime change by many different means. So we can't expect that the United States may go for war. Some are saying it's possible in the next weekend. But nonetheless, there's obviously a lot of doubt about what military strikes can accomplish, what the United States can accomplish if it goes along with this.
So, Donald Trump, he is now saying that he doesn't want to be rushed. Okay, can you believe this? So him and his administration, the United States empire, wreak havoc on the Iranian population, they wreak havoc on the Lebanese population, Israel is breaking the ceasefire and continuing to fire on civilians, and we know how devastating and brutal the impact of Israel's genocidal campaign in Lebanon has been. In Gaza, they're still fighting a conflict. Now they're trying to squeeze Iran by preventing it from being able to ship oil and import what it needs as well. So there's a huge campaign of punishment going on. And here's Donald Trump saying that when he's asked when is this actually going to end, and when are you going to respond to Iran's unwillingness to talk right now based on current terms, this is what he said. Don't rush me. He told the media, don't rush me. We were in Vietnam 18 years. We were in Iraq many, many years. And then he goes, I've been doing this for 6 weeks. Well, mind you, the war is much older than 6 weeks. Actually, we are actually in week number eight. And this war only continues to age, and age very poorly.
But that's the the least of it. to even invoke Vietnam, to invoke Iraq, signals that the Trump administration, the United States, are more than willing to make this a forever war. But that's what all US wars always are. The US doesn't stop and start and then start again and stop. No, even when hostilities, when airstrikes end, the aim that the United States has for Iran is the same. They want Iran to be destroyed. They want its key strategic location as the key to Eurasia, for China, for Russia, for the multipolar world. They want that to be destroyed. They want Israel to have unfettered expansion throughout the region in greater Israel. They want to ensure that there is no threat to the US empire in the region. They see Iran as really the last domino to fall. So, they're not going to stop;
But nonetheless, Donald Trump is signaling that this war is something that they are willing to lose, and be defeated in, for a very, very long time. Similar to Vietnam, similar to Iraq, except this time I believe the defeat that lays bare for the United States, will be far more devastating than any of those wars prior mentioned. Vietnam was a horrific war, right? It was horrific. It killed hundreds of thousands of Americans, millions and millions and millions of Vietnamese people. But nonetheless, the United States could high-tail out of there and claim that it had at the very least, been able to fight communism, and move on to the next thing, because it was strong enough to suppress the will of people to understand what the situation is actually at the moment. So Vietnam was a major defeat, with ramifications that really did change the global order as well.
However, this time we are no longer in a period where the United States can look at the world and say, well, we can still chip away at the Soviet Union; we can still chip away at China. And if we can get one of those dominoes to fall, if we can continue on our path of proxy wars and coups, etc., eventually we may end up the only power in the world to determine geopolitics, to determine economic development, etc. But that's no longer the case, right? The United States is a waning power. It's a declining empire.
And what we are seeing with Iran is that with every subsequent day and week that this war goes on, this war has changed from a military game changer with Iran, retaliating in a manner historic in nature, and wide ranging, in terms of its impact, into a war that has changed the global order, where Iran now dictates terms in the strait of Hormuz. And now Iran has become a regional and global power in all spheres.
So with each passing day and week, this gets worse for the United States. And the United States has no answer for it. The only answer the United States is going to have now and into the future is an attempt to utilize talks as a potential weapon against Iran, to rebuild its forces to the extent possible, and maybe continue to engage in these periodic strikes which are meant to degrade Iran, but are unable to destroy Iran.
And maybe there are some forces in the Pentagon that believe this could eventually lead to Iran's downfall. Well, they said the same about Russia with Ukraine, that this would eventually lead to Russia's downfall. Well, political capital in Russia, the ruling party, Vladimir Putin, they've all gained massive prestige in the Ukraine conflict. In Iran, the same has gone for it, except many-fold, many many many more-fold, because Iran was supposed to fold. Iran was not supposed to do this.
So this is a very interesting time right now. The US has been defeated, Israel has been defeated, and they are now trying to desperately figure out what they are going to do from here, in order to keep the pressure on Iran going, and to make some kind of headway in achieving their ultimate objectives that have failed in this war, and will likely fail from here on out.
So I'm here in China, and I have to say that this war has had no impact on China. Look, Iran is an ally of China, and China has helped Iran quite significantly with Radar systems, economic development, etc. And that's all going to continue. However, it's a miscalculation, and really not true, that the Iran war has put China on notice that it has to intervene even more than it has up until this point. No one in China feels like this. China has such a robust renewable energy sector, electrical grid, as well as energy reserves, which basically put China in a very favorable position for many years to come, in a war in which the United States does not have years. The United States can't do this for years because if they even think about doing this for years, the United States will deplete everything it has militarily, and it will be unable to achieve what is its wet-est dream, which is to confront China, and ultimately get rid of Russia.
So there are major problems afoot for the United States' empire. But for China, just look behind me. This is what China is trying to build. It's trying to build development; it's trying to better the lives of its people; and it's trying to better the lives of people all around the world, as well, with its development. And that is going to be its focus. These wars ultimately only serve to strengthen China's position in the world, and we are seeing that in a huge way.
So yeah, I hope you enjoyed the train ride. I can give you a little bit more of what it looks like here. Yeah, it's really nice. I invested in a business class seat for the first time because I wanted to get that experience. It was about 300 USD, which is quite expensive actually here in China. Nut for the distance, no train stops, at the speed of 350 km per hour, and the amenities, it's basically nicer than going on a plane, but better and more comfortable, with all of the first class amenities.
So that's what I want to show you all today. That's why I want to talk to you all today and tell you that the world has changed. It's a game changer. The US has lost. This is game over when it comes to this war.
Now, it's just a matter of what the world will look like from here on out, and how the United States is going to continue on its path of trying to obliterate Iran, in a moment where it seems like doing so only obliterates itself, the US empire.
All right, everybody. That's all I have for today. Hit the like button before you go. If you are not subscribed here, do subscribe. I have the video description as all the places you can go to to support this show. Patreon, substack, and much more. Be with you soon.
Iranian Lego Videos Amplify Anti-US, Anti-Zionist Narrative in Digital Arena
TEHRAN (Tasnim) - Iranian creators are deploying viral Lego-style animations to confront decades of US aggression and the Israeli regime’s criminal actions, using symbolic storytelling to reshape global opinion amid ongoing conflict, analysts say.
The videos, widely shared across platforms such as X and Telegram, combine historical references, political satire, and cultural symbolism to challenge Western narratives and highlight systemic injustice and war crimes by the US.
One prominent video released by the Tehran-based group Explosive Media opens with imagery of Indigenous suffering in North America before shifting to depictions of enslaved Black Americans and victims of US military abuses, including those linked to Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison.
The sequence then shows Iranian forces attaching messages to missiles, each invoking past tragedies attributed to US actions.
“For the stolen Blacks,” reads one banner, followed by “For the people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.”
“In memory of victims of Iran Air flight 655,” states another, referring to the 1988 US downing of a civilian aircraft that killed 290 people.
“In memory of Rachel Corrie’s freedom struggle,” reads another message, referencing the American activist killed by an Israeli regime bulldozer in Gaza in 2003.
The video concludes with the fall of statues representing US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, alongside the phrase “ONE VENGEANCE FOR ALL.”
Addressing censorship concerns, the group says its content has faced removal by Western technology platforms, including YouTube.
“There was frustration, but no surprise – this story is not new,” a spokesperson for Explosive Media said. “We know well how the West wraps truth in silence and tries to mute every voice that speaks it.”
The group rejects accusations of inciting violence, arguing that its animations are symbolic expressions of resistance and historical memory.
Turning to ideological themes, the creators embed religious and cultural symbolism within their work.
“That’s actually one of our team’s favorite animations,” the spokesperson said, highlighting scenes involving missiles and drones as symbolic rather than literal.
Other videos directly target Trump’s rhetoric, reusing terms such as “LOSER” to slam him for hypocrisy and of prioritizing the interests of the Israeli regime over those of ordinary Americans.
Expanding beyond satire, some productions address regional audiences, including a video directed at Lebanon asserting that Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps would not abandon the country following intense bombardment.
The videos are produced by a small team of young creators, typically aged between 19 and 25, reflecting a broader generational shift in Iran’s media strategy.
Although the group says it operates independently, it acknowledges that Iranian media outlets, sometimes purchase its content for broadcast.
“We produce high-quality media content, so it’s natural that different local media outlets – including some state-affiliated ones – sometimes purchase our work for broadcast,” the spokesperson said.
“In practice, we create the content first, and if the quality is strong enough, media organizations choose to buy it from us. This way, our independence is fully preserved.”
Broadening the digital front, similar Lego-style productions by other creators have emerged across the region, including in Pakistan, reflecting the spread of Iran-aligned narratives in the information space.
Analysts say the format’s effectiveness lies in its ability to merge satire, history, and political critique into easily shareable content that resonates with global audiences.
They add that such media reflects a wider shift in modern conflict, where digital storytelling and viral content are increasingly used to challenge dominant Western narratives and expose what critics describe as long-standing patterns of US and Israeli regime criminal conduct.
Huge setback for Trump as he cancels envoys’ Pakistan trip after Iran snubs | Janta Ka Reporter Janta Ka Reporter Apr 25, 2026
In a considerable upset for US President Donald Trump, Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi left Pakistan without waiting for the American delegation to arrive. This forced Trump to announce the cancellation of the trip of his envoys namely Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner to Pakistan. Rifat Jawaid says this is another example of Iran enjoying the upper hand in the ongoing conflict.
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There isn't a single day when the deranged occupant of the White House doesn't face global humiliation for his decision to illegally attack Iran. Today was yet another day of this depraved Israeli slave being humiliated by Iran. Faced with this embarrassment, Trump announced that he would not be sending his two Jewish property developers to Pakistan for diplomatic talks with Iranian foreign minister Sayyad Basarakshi. What he didn't tell us was the real reason he cancelled the trip and that is the Iranian foreign minister left Pakistan before Steve Vitkov and Jared Kushner could even depart from Washington. That is how Iran treats the so-called most powerful and hottest country in the world. This will be the broad focus of my video tonight. Also in this video we will look at a warning from Goldman Sachs regarding Iran's permanent control over the state of Hormos. So please stay tuned. Today's developments in Islamabad turned out to be exactly as I predicted. Iraqi held bilateral talks with Pakistani leaders and then left for Oman before his flight to Russia. However, Trump's White House press secretary, Caroline Levit, was telling the world yesterday that Iran had begged for talks and that Trump was only obliging them by sending two prominent Zionists from his administration to Pakistan. This is what she had told us yesterday. Yes, I can confirm special envoy WhitF and Jared Kushner will be off to Pakistan again tomorrow morning to engage in uh talks uh direct talks intermediated by the Pakistanis who have been incredible friends and mediators throughout this entire process uh with representatives from the Iranian delegation. Look, the Iranians uh reached out as the president called on them to do uh and asked for this in-person conversation. So the president is dispatching Steven Jared to go hear what they have to say and we're hopeful that it will be a productive conversation and hopefully move the ball forward towards a deal. The same media outlets that acted as stenographers to amplify Lee's atrocious claims yesterday reported this today. Fox News exclusive President Trump just told our own Aisha Hosnney that he has canled his envoy's trip to Pakistan to hold talks with Iran. Aisha Hosny sending us this direct quote from the president. I've told my people a little while ago they were getting ready to leave and I said, "Nope, you're not going to make an 18-hour flight to go there. We have all the cards. They can call us anytime they want, but you're not going to be making any more 18-hour flights to sit around and talk about nothing." Now, this is significant. It came after the trip earlier in the week where we thought the vice president, JD Vance, would be going to hold talks was scuttled. So that is breaking news from our own Aisha Hosny and Alex Hogan is live from the White House with the exclusive details. Alex, hi Aisha. So major shakeup to the negotiations that we did expect to see take place today and this once again shows how delicate these negotiations are and despite the broad international efforts to get everyone to the table at the last hour just like this morning everything can simply fall through. So what we did expect to see, we were waiting to see Steve Whitoff and Jared Kushner, the US envoys were going to be leading that delegation today in Pakistan. President Donald Trump as you mentioned just telling Fox News's Aisha Hosny today that he has canled that trip. It comes amid the news that Iran's foreign minister has already left Pakistan. President Trump once again saying that there's no point sending them on an 18-hour flight and that Iran can call at any time. Even the UK Sky News deluded itself by suggesting that there was still a possibility of talks between Arachi and the US delegation. We've learned just in the last few minutes that the US delegation not even leaving America for Pakistan um after that news that the Iranian foreign minister has now left Islamabad. Where does this leave uh any talks that were perhaps a possibility yesterday and now clearly aren't going to take place today? Of course, some were hoping for a rejuvenation of this stalled diplomacy, of course, but we certainly Jonathan can say that uh exchanges and conversations are happening behind the scene that to be fair, CNN's Nick Robinson was the only one who had raised some doubts about the possibility of these talks. He said this today, that's Iran's foreign minister there taking off from Norcan air base on the outskirts of Islamabad. He's been in Pakistan for almost . Immediately after he landed just after midnight, he went into four hours of top level meetings with the Pakistani mediators, the field marshal, the foreign minister, the interior minister. They were discussing and exchanging views about the regional situation. It is not clear why they met in such a hurry in the middle of the night, but it's created the impression that they wanted to try to get an answer or a resolution or something to pass over to the United States to President Trump late Friday evening US time. Later today, the foreign minister had a meeting with Pakistan's prime minister again present, those key interlocators from the Pakistani side, the field marshal, the foreign minister, the interior minister. That meeting lasted for a couple of hours. Now, the foreign minister has left. When he came in, he said he wasn't going to have face-to-face talks with the US representatives, that he was going to go on to meetings in Muscat and Moscow. Not clear precisely where he's going. That's all in flux at the moment. As for Arachi, this is what he wrote before leaving Pakistan. and I quote, "Very fruitful visit to Pakistan whose good offices and brotherly efforts to bring back peace to our region we very much value." Shared Iran's position concerning a workable framework to permanently end the war on Iran. Have yet to see if the US is truly serious about diplomacy." End quote. And how did the Israeli clown in the White House react to this epic insult from Iran? Watch it for yourself. Okay, you probably heard that we canled the trip. We have all the cards. We're not going to spend in airplanes all the time going back and forth to be giving a document. That was not good enough. And uh so we'll deal by telephone and they can call us anytime they want. Again, we have all the cards. They have no military left practically. They have no leaders left. We don't know who the leaders are. Nobody knows who the leader I don't think they know who the leaders are very importantly. So uh you saw that and uh any other questions. What have you heard from Pakistan? The Iran foreign minister was in Pakistan yesterday night. I think Pakistan is terrific. I think the field marshall is fantastic. I think the prime minister of Pakistan's great and you know they'd like to see something happen but we're not going to be traveling 15 to to have a meeting with people that nobody ever heard of. What changed? What changed to make you make that decision? Too much travel when they say the meeting scheduled for Tuesday. I said Tuesday. That's a long time from now. But when you get right down to it, it's a lot of traveling. No, we don't want to do that. At what point do you send Wick Coff and Kushner and send Vice President Banson? At what point are you going to be ready? They're all very competent. All three. Those are three good. But they weren't uh meeting with the leader of the country. They were meeting with other people. And I said, "We're just not going to do it. Too much traveling takes too long. Too expensive. I'm a very costconscious person." If this wasn't enough, Professor Muhammad Mandi is here to further expose Trump and also the Western media. Let me uh put maybe put this into three parts. One is that if you recall uh you I'm sure you recall uh better than I that in um in Islamabad after the talks western media was saying that um the Iranian side uh agreed to Iran halting uranium enrichment for three years or five years. I don't remember exactly what it was. The Iranians never spoke about the nuclear program in Islamabad. They only told the Americans that you can give your views to us but we are not going to discuss our views. So this was all fabricated. uh western media, American media fabricated uh a this news stating that the Iranians agreed to a number of years and the Americans were wanted a permanent halt or 20-year halt. So, we should not trust the Western media because the Western media works within a framework that is in the interest of the White House. Even the western media that hates Trump when again when it comes to the Israeli regime, when it comes to the access of resistance, when it comes to Iran, when it comes to Hezbollah, they will they will work to undermine the access of resistance. Why did do they lie? Because they want the international community because we all know that across the world today, the access of resistance has become very popular everywhere across different continents among Muslims and non-Muslims. uh uh together it has become popular. So by putting out such propaganda they want the world to say to the to to believe that Iran has committed itself to things that it hasn't to show Western strength and also they're targeting an Iranian audience. They want Iranians to believe their propaganda. Then let's move fast forward. They they were saying that again as I said um to they're going to go to Islamabad and Vance is going to have a second round of negotiations. Iran said it's not going but they kept saying it. Why? because they wanted to show that Iran needed talks uh before the ceasefire came to an end and uh but also they wanted to say that Iran agreed to this and then later on they would be able to say since uh the Iranian agreed to this dishonestly Iran never agreed to it but they but they want to claim that Iran agreed to it and therefore if later on they impose uh another war on the world uh they will be able to say that Iran uh agreed to something but then uh refrained from uh carrying out its obligations and this is in my opinion what's happening now again they are trying to say that the Iranians want to negotiate we are going there to negotiate and uh if there are no negotiations and there will be no negotiations they will be they will claim that the Iranians promised to negotiate but they didn't You don't have to have spent years reporting on Iran to correctly predict that Iraqi had absolutely no intention of meeting the US delegation despite the Western media going crazy with American spin. A little honesty and a lack of bias are all that was needed to arrive at the correct conclusion. Something we try to do every single day on this platform. Trump finds himself cornered on all sides. Now at home, he faces growing condemnation for pushing his country into an illegal war just to please his Israeli masters. Internationally, he simply cannot afford another round of war with Iran. That's the reality. That's because America's arsenal of interceptor missiles has depleted to an alarming level. And we are not even talking about the damage caused to its aircraft carrier by Iran. It is not as easy to manufacture interceptor missiles as it is to produce let's say ballistic missiles or shahed drones. Even the anti-Iranian Ukrainian president Vladimir Zalinski understands this including Middle East and we will try to build our Ukrainian and system of antibbolistic system. We need it and of course we will share with all the partners without any questions and because we need all of us we need it and not only to create the system to create such capabilities which can produce more now you know that United States produces about 60 maybe 65 missiles per month factory antibballistic missiles it's nothing during the first day of attack on Middle East you know that they used the the volume of two years production of such during . So we need our European independent strong system and we will build it. When Trump waged an illegal war on Iran, Iran did not have control of the state of foremost. This passage was free for shipping for everybody. Today that reality has changed forever. Listen to Wendy Sherman, former US Secretary of State on Bloomberg, who thinks Iran now enjoys almost permanent control of this waterway. Now, I think Iran will always believe that they have control over the straight of Hormuz. Even if they open it up again, which I certainly hope happens, we all know they can close it again. uh they may exert other kinds of control tolls uh approval by the IRGC. I have no idea where this will all end, but that is of great concern because freedom of navigation is critical to the world economy. 14 minutesAnd are you saying that they will always be able to close it again even if the US continues a blockade? Even if the US sends more military assets to the area, even if the US wipes out even more Iranian military assets? Well, certainly we can do that, but it would come at enormous cost to us. And the strait, as I think everybody has now seen on a map, is a very narrow channel. And along the coastline are Iranian military assets. And we have all seen both in the war in Ukraine and now in the Middle East, drone technology has changed how wars are waged. And so Iran will always have capability. And yes, there is no question that uh President Trump has diminished Iran's capability, has destroyed their navy, but not their fast boats, not their drone technology. They haven't bombed away their nuclear knowledge. Yes, they have pushed the highlyenriched uranium underground, but they have not bombed away all of Iran's knowledge. And it may take them time to reconstitute their missiles, their navy, their um nuclear program. All of that may be true, but I think they will try to do so. If that wasn't enough, Jared Cohen, president of global affairs and co-head of the Goldman Sachs Global Institute, says the state of Hormos will never fully return to its original state as Iran is expected to maintain significant control over maritime traffic even if shipping resumes in the near future. So, as we're contemplating whether the strait will reopen, um, unless the regime miraculously collapses, which I don't think it will, the straight of Hormuz will never reopen in the way that it did at the beginning. Yes, you may have traffic flowing through, but the Iranians will likely maintain um partial or unilateral control over let the Israeli slave Trump explain how his country has won against Iran while handing over control of this crucial waterway to the Islamic Republic. And I haven't even mentioned the misery faced by people across the world, including you and I in the West due to soaring oil and gas prices caused by the Iranian chokeold on this passage. That's it from me. Thank you very much for your support of this platform and our journalism. If you haven't subscribed to my channel, please do so because that's one of the many ways you can support independent journalism. God bless you all.
BREAKING: Shots Fired at WH Correspondents Dinner, Trump Rushed Out Status Coup News Apr 25, 2026
29:36 – 30:18 [Fox Reporter] Is he not?
[Karoline Leavitt] He is ready to rumble. I will tell you, this speech tonight will be classic Donald J. Trump. It'll be funny. It'll be entertaining. There will be some shots fired tonight in the room.
[Fox Reporter] Ha ha ha ha.
[Karoline Leavitt] So, everyone should tune in. It's going to be really great. I'm looking forward to hearing it.
[Fox Reporter] I love it all. And you wrote most of it, you said.
[Karoline Leavitt] I can't take credit. In true Donald Trump fashion, the man puts his pen to the paper himself. So, it's a lot of his own work.
Status Coup reporter Jordan Chariton is LIVE with BREAKING news that Trump's White House correspondents dinner was interrupted by gun shots in the lobby, and then Trump and Melania were rushed out.
Transcript
Hey, it's Jordan with Status Coup. Breaking news tonight from the White House correspondents dinner as a gunman opened fire. Uh, as of now, we believe one gunman uh right outside the ballroom where uh the main event is happening. You have hundreds of uh journalists, media people, and the president and the first lady were in there as uh a gunman opened fire right outside the ballroom. We'll get into how a gunman uh got a gun into uh the hotel where this event is being held. Smash the like button, share this as obviously this is breaking news. Uh the president was rushed out uh uh with the first lady. Um and uh as of now there's conflicting reports the gunman was definitely um stopped. Um there's some reports he's dead, others that he's been shot but alive. So I don't I can't confirm it uh at the moment, but we do have videos to show you, photos to show you, uh etc. Uh but the key details here, this is the White House correspondents dinner uh in DC. Uh this is the first time Trump himself is going to be speaking uh in his first or second term. A lot of journalists, particularly independent media uh independent journalists uh refused to attend because of Trump's attacks on journalism, the free press, etc. Uh but a gunman opened fire uh by witnesses including CNN's Wolf Blitzer uh got off at least six shots uh right outside the ballroom. Uh let me first show you uh this is uh when Secret Service whisked Trump away. Again, Trump was in the ballroom. Um so the gunshots did not open fire inside the ballroom, but this is the first video showing Secret Service rushing to get Trump out. Stay down. Um, let's give another angle on that. uh where you could see the president whisked out. Now, let me show you a photo. Uh this is from the New York Times. Credit to them. Uh so you see uh you know, it's hard to know. I don't know if those are Secret Service or police, but that's outside the ballroom because again, the shooter 3 minutesopened fire outside the ballroom. CNN's Wolf Blitzer uh reported he was walking from the bathroom back into the ballroom uh when he says at least six gunshots uh fired and he was tackled by police trying to pro protect him. So you see uh could be undercut, could be, you know, police, could be Secret Service. Here is um police or whomever whisking speaker Mike Johnson out. Uh the president and the first lady were immediately whisked out of there. Let me play you uh more video. Here is um Wolf Blitzer of CNN um reporting what he saw cuz he saw the gunman open fire. They served the appetizers. I walked out to simply go to the men's room, but you have to walk up these stairs and walk out and which I was doing. And as I was walking back uh towards the door to get back into the uh the big area where the event was taking place, all of a sudden I start hearing gunshots in the hall right near me. Uh and uh the next thing I knew, a police officer threw me to the ground and was on top of me. And I was listening and watching what was uh going on. Uh, and apparently they got the gunman uh who had a a major weapon there, but it was so worrisome. The noise was so loud in a small area. Uh, and all of a sudden I'm seeing gunshots. And then they grab me, the police officers. Uh, and they uh take me back into the men's room where I was safe and there were about 15 other men who are are stuck in there. They won't let him out. And that's what happened. and and then after a while they let me out and I'm out now. I'm not back in the ballroom, but uh uh everything is apparently closing down. Uh very scary incident. All of a sudden, the guy uh with a weapon and it was a very very serious weapon. It starts shooting uh and I happened to been been a few feet away from him as he was shooting. And of course, the first thing that went through my mind is he trying to shoot me. And I don't think he was trying to shoot me, but I was very close to him as the gunshots were fired. And it was very, very scary. But I'm okay now. So, before I play other videos, and obviously this is very early. I mean, this just happened maybe a half hour ago. Uh, so we don't have all the information, but I do know enough to know. Uh, this the gunshots happened outside the ballroom. And please smash the like button, share this live stream, comment, all that. This is breaking news that I wanted to get live immediately. But there's multiple metal detectors and and entry points at this hotel. Uh this is the president was speaking, so significant security. So how a gunman got right outside the ballroom with whatever weapon he had, you don't have to be a conspiracy theorist to start asking questions. Did he have help? Uh, I'm not trying to push conspiracies, but it's almost impossible to get a gun through security. Anyone getting out right outside the ballroom would have had to get through security somehow, get through a metal detector. if a gun wasn't already planted inside that hotel or the gunman didn't have assistance. Obviously, this is speculation at this point, but just basic common sense and knowing how tightly guarded these events are, the insane security just to get in. There were reports from journalists attending how long it took for them to get security. He I mean you would have to you would have to uh think that something was going on there. Um so we'll have to wait for more of that. Uh let me show you more um video here. Uh this is from inside the ballroom when the shots fired out. And by the way, you know, to the people commenting in the chat, the this the event is in the hotel and the president is speaking in the hotel. So, trust me, there's plenty of security outside the ballroom and throughout the hotel. It's not like, oh, there's just security in the ballroom where the event's happening and less security outside. At these things, there's going to be security, secret service, local police, FBI, all over the place. All over the place. So, um, that's why I say you have to really wonder how a gunman got in. I understand there's going to be speculation, conspiracy theories. There's obviously been speculation and questions being asked about the original assassination attempt against Trump at in Butler, Pennsylvania um in 2024. Uh but I find it incomprehensible that a gunman could have got a gun anywhere near this ballroom. Uh let's play you another clip here. Stay down. Katie, do you have all your stuff? I'm fine. Stand by. Yes, sir. Go to your right. Your right. Let's push out back there. USA. So at the end there you see uh here screaming do what I say. uh should note you saw uh Steven Miller uh the deputy secret the deputy chief of staff uh in my view and I've made no secret of it uh modern-day Joseph Gobles uh I think is a deplorable man and I look forward to uh hopefully prosecution against him among others in the Trump administration uh once Trump is gone if that happens. Uh but you saw his wife and him uh being basically hugged for protection. I don't know by who. Could have been Secret Service or others. Uh I want to show this uh this from the New York Times so you get a little bit more information on where this happened. Uh Anthony Googley Elme, a Secret Service spokesperson, said in a statement of social media that the agency was working with the DC Police Department to investigate a shooting incident near the main mag magneto magnetometer screening area. So again, I don't know if this shooter opened fire before going through uh the metal detector. Um after going through the metal detector, which again, how do you get a gun through a metal detector? Um but this apparently happened fairly close to the main security screening area uh outside the ballroom. I'll give you some other details. Apparently they're trying to uh restart the event. Uh Trump has posted that he wants to speak and he's post the show must go on sentiment. Uh I'm against this event in the first place. Uh not just by the way a lot of journalists have talked about being against it specifically because Trump is speaking. I'm against it period. If you're new to status coup I think most of these people are hacks inside that room. I think most of them are not actual journalists. uh all the way down CNN, uh Fox News, MS Now, you know, there's good ones sprinkled in. But in my view, based on my experience having worked in corporate media, I worked at Fox News for a dark period in my life. I worked at MSNBC. Uh I've worked at independent media. Most of these people are just stenographers for corporations and donors. Most of them are pretend journalists and literally just regurgitate [ __ ] spin that they are fed to the American people. Uh that's another story for another day. Uh I don't believe in a circle jerk that uh essentially celebrates um you know [ __ ] journalism. With that said, obviously we're not calling for violence against anyone. So um but you know they're saying let the show go on. We can't let you know a potential terrorist here. um uh you know deter us. But let me uh show you also if and let me know Colin if we have any more photos or anything else has been added. Oh I see here. So here you have RFK uh Jr. uh him being whisked away uh after this shooting. you see just obviously I don't know who those who they are but uh folks in panic outside um I showed you that those are uh potentially secret service or police outside um there's conflicting reports right now I don't want to tell you without knowing for sure uh some people saying the shooter has been killed others saying he's in custody uh so Colin or Jenny if if you find out anything please let me Uh but the the shooter was definitely pinned down immediately after firing off as Wolf Blitzer said um as many as half a dozen shots. I'll give you some more updates here. Uh this from the New York Times. There was a heavy police presence outside the Washington Hilton, but no security screening required to enter the hotel. So that uh there were numerous pre-parties hosted on various floors of the hotel as well as a red carpet. However, to enter the ballroom where the dinner was being held, all attendees were required to go through magnetometers and have Eddie bags checked. TSA agents were among those involved in the security checks. So, according to this, if I'm understanding it correctly, uh the magnetometer was outside the ballroom. So, inside the hotel, you didn't have to go through a metal detector to get inside the hotel. I find that pretty damn shocking. uh in terms of security uh given the president was going to be speaking, whoever the president is, Trump, any other president. Um you know, this is one report, so we might find out other reports. Um Homeland Security Secretary Mark Wayne Mullen just walked by a group of reporters and said yes when asked if the president is okay. Um so it seems that Trump's cabinet is now being escorted back into the hotel. Um Trump as of ago was leaving the Hilton. So although he posted he wanted to continue with his speech, uh it's not clear that he will. And Colin, let me know if we have any other video or anything else um that I missed. I want to show um Oh, Trump posted quite an evening in DC. Secret Service and law enforcement did a fantastic job. They acted quickly and bravely. The shooter has been apprehended and I have been recommended that we quote let the show go on, but we'll entirely be guided by law enforcement. They will make a decision shortly. Regardless of that decision, the evening will be much different than planned and we'll we'll we'll just plain have to do it again. President Donald J. Trump. I want to also post uh play this clip. I don't think I've played it yet. You tell us. I just spoke with uh someone I know who had been heading out of the ballroom to walk upstairs to go to that sort of lobby concourse area where the restrooms are. And on uh the the wall by those stairs, it's glass. And as he just started to ascend the stairs, all of the glass started to shatter and rain down uh sort of from above as he was walking up from the uh bullet. So he heard multiple gunshots as he was about to ascend into the area where this was all happening. And he couldn't see because he was actually below, but obviously he could see all of the glass coming down. and that person came back inside to the ballroom. Uh, but when we were inside of the ballroom, we couldn't necessarily hear that. The reaction of the Secret Service was really what startled everyone and they just ducked for cover. Uh but he has seen this uh a lot of glass shattering. And that's actually an exit of the ballroom that we are not being permitted um to go out right now and get some air from. There's other uh exits where they're permitting people to get a little bit of air from. And uh that's a door that is no longer open. So, uh, that was CNN's Briana, that was CNN's Briana, uh, Kaylor, uh, reporting there. So, this happened pretty much very close to the entrance to the ballroom. Um, as Wolf Blitzer said, uh, you had multiple gunshots. He said about half a dozen. Shooter was tackled right away. Basically, uh, the shooter was in custody. You know, there's been conflicting reports that he was killed, but I'm not able to confirm that. Uh Blitzer said maybe six gunshots were fired. Cops then jumped on Blitzer uh to protect him. Um Blitzer said the gunman was shot. Uh so you would think he was shot at by Secret Service or police there. Um and Blitzer in the clip I heard asked what I'm asking. How does an individual get that close to the ballroom with a weapon? So, obviously, you know, I'm just telling you preliminary information, what I know. Uh, obviously, I don't have the resources of New York Times, CNN, but what I can say is it's very hard to understand how at an event like this where the event is in the hotel, how there wouldn't be security checkpoints to get into the hotel. And you know, there might have been, and it's just being reported incorrectly thus far, but you would think that there's security checkpoints to get into the hotel, not just the ballroom within the hotel. Um, that but you know, obviously there's going to be a runaway train of speculation, false, you know, people saying false flag. Did Trump try to orchestrate this to turn things around? He's sinking like the Titanic. Uh, welld deserved. I will also point out that at the end of the day, you know, we have a big audience right now. Subscribe if you're new here. We are the leading independent keyword independent outlet on the ground reporting across the country. We have reported on Trump's ICE terror and that's what it is. All across this country for nearly a year, we started in LA. We covered the ICE invasion in LA for several weeks on the ground. We've been been down at Alligator Alcatraz. We covered that on the ground. We covered the terror in Chicago for two months. Then we went to Charlotte and then we were in Minneapolis. We were there before Renee Good was assassinated and we were on the ground in Minneapolis for two months. We're actually working on a documentary right now about our ICE coverage. Uh which, you know, no time like the present. So, we'll load that. Colin, if you could load, uh the trailer that Michelle did. We'll premiere the trailer tonight since we have this audience. We were going to do it this week, but we'll be able to premiere the trailer for our ICE documentary. We're calling it the worst of the worst, and we're hoping to release that documentary in in about two or three months. Uh our producer Michelle is working on it right now. We've also been reporting extensively on the Epstein files. uh we do a lot of on the ground investigative reporting and it's difficult because unlike most of the stooges in that room and yes I don't consider most of those people actual journalists most of them they're all funded and their paychecks come from a massive corporation we are independently funded from you the people that's the major difference and that's why we are liberated to actually report the facts um let me see if I'm missing any updates here all All right. And Colin, if you added anything, just let me know and I'll play it. All right. We see running here. Let me show this video. Gotcha. Um, and from what I'm seeing, uh, it does seem like Trump is not going to return to give his speech. Um, so, you know, that would make sense. Uh regardless of who the president is, you'd have to think the Secret Service would not allow the president to return to give a speech after there were gunshots right outside the ballroom because you do not know. Is this one person? Are there others potentially somehow got inside that ballroom and they're waiting for Trump to return? Are there others within the hotel? Are there others throughout DC? Is this a mass plot? You don't know. So, it would be kind of crazy to think they would let Trump go back there, but you have to remember something. And again, I don't want to make this too political because obviously this is violent. I mean, people know where I stand. Ah, joining me now, our our comrade and, uh, status coup reporter, uh, JT Saskcowski. Are you there? There he is. Hey, Jordan. Hey there. How are you this Saturday night? Wonderful. I was watching the Knicks finally uh show some spine uh when my wife told me, "Turn on the news and told me what she saw on social media." But I was just saying um I've tried to keep this straight and for those that don't know, JT uh is one of our reporters. He was on the ground in Chicago for two months, then Minneapolis. He's got the less lethal bullet wounds uh to show for it, the gas that you inhald. Uh, but I've tried not to make this too political. You know, if you watch this channel, you know where we stand. We are proudly on the progressive left. Uh, we call both parties corrupt. So, we're not just like Dem boosters here. Uh, if you want to say which party is worse, I think it's clear which party is worse right now, but the Democrats are also corrupt. And in large in large ways, they gave us Trump. With all that said, I tried to keep it non-political, but it did dawn it. It was not lost on me. And you probably didn't see the video cuz you were just driving home with your daughter, but within that melee after the gunshots were fired outside the ballroom, you saw Steven Miller and his wife covered. I I don't know if it was by police or secret service, scared out of their minds. Uh you saw others in the Trump cabinet being wished away. These are all people, let's be clear, that have openly celebrated violence in this country against their political enemies, against immigrants. That doesn't mean, you know, I want to be clear, we're not condoning uh the violence that took place tonight. Uh but it shouldn't be lost on people. The images you're seeing, the very people that are terrified right now have celebrated terror against others. So, let's not lose that. Uh but it's it's a fluid situation, JT. There's been conflicting reports. Uh Wolf Litz are reported as as much as six shots he saw fired right outside the ballroom. But something that I find stunning and you know it's a runaway train already. People are saying false flag. How you know Trump orchestrated this etc. We can't stop that runaway train. Obviously we don't know what happened here. But what is stunning to me from reports it seems and again a lot of times reports are inaccurate uh when these things first come out. The initial reports that I saw from the New York Times is the the metal detector, there was a metal detector to get into the main ballroom, but not to get into the hotel where the event was being held, which is stunning to me that you'd have the president of the United States speaking at this event in this political climate, but you wouldn't have security entry points to get into the hotel as well. Does that surprise you? I mean, yes and no. I mean, yes, in the sense that there should be a lot more security around any event the president is at that this sort of thing should never be allowed to happen, but also no in the sense that this has now become a pattern. And I don't know how there's not some kind of accountability for the Secret Service at a certain point because you saw a gunman in Butler, Pennsylvania, be able to get up on a rooftop and open fire on Donald Trump during the 2024 election. And then you also saw, you know, you've seen multiple security breaches at Mara Lago. So that combined with this, I mean, creates a pretty demonstraable pattern. I think at this point that there is clearly either not enough security around around Donald Trump or I mean something right at this point. I mean, how many attempts on a single on a single person's life have there, you know, do there have to be made before you recognize that there is a pattern and maybe you need to do something more around this president? We don't know the exact circumstances around this shooting about, you know, did he make it past the did the shooter make it past the metal detectors or not before opening fire? But I mean that should almost be according according to New York Times uh Anthony Googli secret service spokesperson said in a statement on social media that the agency was working with the DC police department to investigate quote a shooting incident near the main magnet screening area. Uh and uh another another thing here, there was a heavy police presence outside the Washington Hilton, but no security screening required to enter the hotel. There were numerous pre-parties hosted on various floors of the hotel, as well as a red carpet. However, to enter the ballroom where the dinner was being held, all attendees were required to go through the magnetometers. Listen, again, a lot of times whether it's a terror attack, a school shooting, I mean, things are inaccurately reported in the cloud of chaos at the beginning. So there might have been more than one metal detector and it's just been reporting and at it's being reported incorrectly to start, but as of now it seems the only metal detector was right outside the ballroom to get in, which leaves a whole lot of open um you know weak spots to uh potentially anyone could get into that hotel. Um and it seems that this whoever this was and there's by the way there's protests outside. We don't know who the gunman was yet. So, I don't know if it was a protester or some random person. Um, but you just it's it's absolutely stunning that somebody could just get in right outside the ballroom. Um, cuz then it's not just about the president. You would have to think this person is anti-Trump. You would have to think, you know, maybe we're maybe we'll end up it's it's a different um motive or maybe mental illness. Who knows? Uh, but could be somebody, you know, maybe you're not going to get Trump because he's not allowed to leave the ballroom, but maybe I mean they could open fire at a variety of people. So, how they wouldn't have had uh metal detectors just outside the hotel outside the hotel to get into the hotel, that's that's pretty crazy. Uh, Colin, whatever we have, let's let's start playing it. So that was uh another shot when Trump was whisked away. Uh this is going around. You know, this is really something and people are going to say this is this is going to be one for the false flag crowd. This was White House press secretary Carolyn Levit. uh who's I mean Trump sickopant 101 before this happened uh listen to her listen to her phrasing. Is he not? He is ready to rumble. I will tell you this speech tonight will be classic Donald J. Trump. It'll be funny. It'll be entertaining. There will be some shots fired tonight in the room. So, everyone should tune in. It's going to be really great. I'm looking forward to hearing it. I love it all. And you wrote most of it. He said, "I can't take credit." Uh, in true Donald Trump fashion, the man puts his pen to the paper himself. So, it's a lot of his own work. There will be there will be shots fired is just I mean that you don't you don't have to be a conspiracy theorist. I mean, to to see all the potential that that clip has. And you know, one thing that I was thinking about uh the re let clue the audience in the reason I was not live with Jordan immediately is because I was on the road and needed to get back home first. But the whole time on the road, what I was thinking Jordan um as I was listening to our coverage and others um there in the car was just about how this assassination attempt is going to get so much more play in the media here because it was at an event where all the media were. I mean, you got Wolf Blitzer doing live interviews with CNN on the phone as this is happening. I mean, you're you're going to hear talk about this this this story will not die, at least not not in not in the immediate term. And what I what I hear from that, if we're going to give so much attention, if we're going to give so much attention to this story, I mean, that clip that you just heard, I mean, that's something that's going to be fodder for for conspiracy theorists the world over to be seeing like, see, this this was something that uh that was planned and they were dropping hints about it in the leadup to the event. Um, we also have, uh, you know, I haven't seen the video yet, so I can't confirm it, but this is video of somebody on the with US Secret Service. Uh, so this could be the shooter. I I I silver foil floor. Got it. No. Scooch over. It's like white silver foil at the top of the top of the stairs. Got it. Jesus Christ. Sorry. Yeah. Unclear exactly uh so exactly what we're looking at there, but I mean he can have my g my guess is that's not the Yeah, my guess is that's not the shooter because they already have tape up. But I can confirm because there were conflicting reports. I I do not believe the shooter has been killed. Uh because you're seeing reports that he's detained. Uh he could have been injured, that's for sure. Uh but I don't believe the shooter was killed. Uh according to Wolf Blitzer of CNN who uh witnessed this uh when he exiting the inside the ballroom, uh the shooter was shot at. Um I don't know if he was struck, but it seemed that the shooter was detained, not killed. Um, by the way, speaking just a quick detour, JT for a little levity here. Speak speaking of shots fired. Where the hell did you that jacket? People are commenting, you know. Geez. You look you look like you're you look like you robbed Fonzerelli. Uh there is a I I just came from Arthur Fonzerelli's uh hometown. I was just over in Milwaukee today. Um, so yeah, I was trying to I was trying to channel my inner fs. Uh, but uh, no, this is a gift from my wife a couple of years ago and some folks in uh, in my uh, when in my corporate news days were very fond of when I would wear this jacket and I hadn't worn it in a while because it's not a great jacket to get teargassed in. Uh, which is what I need to dress for in this job all too frequently. So, just wanted to break it out since this was going to be a nice relaxing day off. Uh, so I thought before Yeah. our our status coup group chat started lighting up with uh all of the notifications from uh the events at the correspondence dinner tonight. So yes, if you uh hopefully all of the comments about the about the jacket are are positive. I'm I'm a big fan of it. And if you're not a fan of it, keep your mouth shut because I have a very delicate ego. Love it. Um let me read you the latest from the New York Times. Uh Trump has left the event. He's not coming back. Um which kind of makes sense. I I don't know. The Secret Service would would be very derelch if they let him come back considering you don't know if it's a lone gunman, if there's others. Um Colin, how do I share the screen? It's not before presenting screen. Remove other media streams. Um yeah, if we could remove a couple things. Um I'll read here. to uh president's back at the White House. Um Trump said he would be holding a news conference shortly. Uh Secretary of State Marco Rubio at the front door of the West Wing in his tuxedo right now. Um the FBI uh formally confirmed uh FBI formally confirmed the suspect in the shooting was in custody. The statement said that the National Capital Response Squad of the Bureau's Washington Field Office had responded to the Hilton. Uh, a Secret Service agent in a tuxedo had escorted me to the men's room uh, moments ago, moments before the shooting began in the hall just outside. Uh, this is a New York Times reporter uh, talking about what he witnessed. We heard screaming and what sounded like plate shattering. We darted out of the bathroom. As we turned the corner, other agents had their guns drawn and pointed directly at us. They started screaming at us to run across the hall and get low. Behind them, crouched and huddled against the wall, was a small group of people, mostly photographers and caterers. And then the cabinet officials were evacuated one by one. Um, agents at Black Tai were darting around the Cavernous Hilton with machine guns, looking every which way. Um, not that this is the most significant thing, but uh, inside the ballroom, a lot of the journalists cleared out. Um, obviously it's a scary thing. Uh, but from what we know, the event was going to continue uh, even even without Trump. Um, and this was the first White House correspondence dinner that Trump was actually going to speak at. typ typically traditionally the president has kind of been the comedic act with their jokes, you know, written for them. Uh Obama, despite my issues with him, was pretty good. Uh Bush was not. Um, Trump infamously, a lot of people that look back at kind of the arc of the Trump presidency, people think that he actually it sealed the deal uh inspiring him to run that time that he was in the crowd when Obama was president and Obama just lit him a new one uh with jokes at Trump's expense and that kind of galvanized him to run for president out of spite basically. Uh this year was unique uh because there was not a large boycott but mostly I would say independent journalists which were proud to be independent. We were not invited to the White House correspondent center and I wouldn't [ __ ] go if I was. Um I got a lot of problems with this dinner even before Trump because to me a lot of the people inside are not practicing good good journalism. uh mostly they are essentially doing PR for the powerful but that's a story for another day but uh there was a significant number of uh journalists mostly independent media that boycotted going because why are we going to go celebrate um and basically act normal and normalize a president who from day one has attacked the free press not even as president even when he's a candidate I could tell you in 2016 I covered about 50 of Trump's rallies all across all around all around the country. I mean, he was putting a target on journalisms on journalists back back then. He was galvanizing his crowd back then. I mean, Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, all over the country. Uh fake you know, point to the fake news in the back, get his crowd jinned up to um you know, boo at the fake news. Uh you know, call them deplorable names. uh and we've seen throughout his decade uh there was a pipe bomb said to sent to CNN uh there's been uh other you know death routine death threats against uh journalists from cable news to columnists um and I mean he's continued to egg it on not to mention the frivolous lawsuits that most of these big multi-billion dollar corporate conglomerates ABC CBS buckled under pressure So bottom line, this was, you know, anticipated to see what Trump was going to say. Uh there was criticism that a lot of these journalists would attend. Uh there was calls for there was kind of like a rallying cry uh from people who did not attend for the people in the crowd to walk out at the beginning of Trump's speech. Obviously, we didn't get to that. Uh but this is not a normal president and this is not a normal time as we've been covering. And Colin, if you saw my text, if we could get the trailer, since we have a big audience, I'd love to show the trailer to our documentary because I'll just say maybe you didn't see it, Jordan, but Colin did let us know in a text that that uh that the trailer's apparently uh is apparently ready. That's what he said. Trailer is ready, too. Great. All right. So, let's show before we show the trailer. I want to show more of this. Uh this is somebody, I guess, talking about the security or or lack of security there. He got a gun into the White House correspondent center. Honestly, as somebody who went, there was no security. You just showed your ticket. You're able to completely get in. There was just no pat downs, no metal detectors, nothing going on. So really horrible setup. And I just don't even understand how that was a thing. When the United States president was going to speak, who has already had assassination attempts on his life. So really crazy. I want to play that one more time just to hear what she said at the beginning. Somebody get a gun into the White House correspondent center. Honestly, as somebody who went, there was no security. You just showed your ticket and you're able to completely get in. There was just no pat downs, no metal detectors, nothing going on. So really horrible setup and I just don't even understand how that was a thing when the United States president was going to speak who has already had assassination attempts on his life. So really crazy. How did somebody get a gun into the White House correspondent center? Honestly, as somebody went there. So again, not being there, my assumption is is that woman is referring to you just show a ticket to get into the hotel. Um there was security, a metal detector at the entrance of the actual ballroom where the dinner was being held. The president was My assumption is she's talking about, you know, at the entry to the hotel. It doesn't really It seems like security was very light, which is really just mindboggling because as we showed you earlier, there's parties on different floors of the hotels, multiple media organizations. If you have no security to get into the hotel, anybody could [ __ ] walk through. Uh so, you know, I want to be cautious about just stating that as fact. We might find out later that there was different security checkpoints, but it does seem, not just from the videos we played and from the New York Times reporting, but just things I'm seeing on social media, uh, that there it was not very tight security. Um, this is from the AP officer shot in bullet resistant vest at correspondence dinner, but is expected to be okay. So, an officer was shot. Um, yeah. Uh, and Jordan Colin has also a a a statement here from the FBI confirming that the uh the shooter is in custody. Colin, if you want to throw that up on on the screen so we can read it. The FBI, Washington Field Offic's National Capital Response Squad has responded to a shooting at the Washington Hilton in Washington DC. The subject is in custody. So, that would go against uh CNN's reporting that the uh that the person was was shot and killed. That seems to indicate that everybody is now just uh or that the shooter is just in custody. Uh shooting incident at White House Correspondent Center. This is from the United States Secret Service. The US Secret Service in coordination with the Metropolitan Police Department is investigating a shooting incident near the main magnetometer screening area at the White House Correspondents Dinner. The president and the individual or excuse me, the president and the first lady are safe along with all protectes. One individual is in custody. The condition of those involved is not yet known and law enforcement is actively assessing the situation. So yes, very much the same there from the Secret Service confirming that the shooter is in custody. The condition of those involved is not yet known. So, it seems like they're still trying to get a count on exactly what the collap what the damage was from from this shooting. Though, we're hearing now, yeah, that one one officer was was hit, but thankfully wearing a a vest and and not uh harmed in any uh you know, life-threatening sense, at least from what we've uh gleaned so far from from the information that's out there. still like clearly a very rapidly evolving situation where we're, you know, learning about these things live on air here right alongside all of you who are who are watching right now. And by the way, not that this is the most important thing, but I think it's relevant to point out before this happened, the Trump administration, it seems to be the pattern that right before somebody is officially fired, they leak it like an hour or two before. Yep. Wall Street Journal, it was leaked that Christy Gnome was about to go and then Trump post uh firing her like an hour or two later. This is this also happened with Pam Bondi right before this happened. I saw it about an hour or two earlier. Uh and there again are some of the photos. Uh this from US today. Today you saw reports from Politico that Cash Patel is a goner. Well, Cash Patel, the FBI clear, the FBI would have been involved with security and protection for the president, monitoring threats. I mean, you would have likely snipers security on the roof. So, the fact that this happened again, uh, you'd have to think that this is going to expedite, uh, Cash Patel back to his conspiracy podcasting days. Is that what you think, Jordan? I actually think that this may have bought Cash Patel a little bit of time. My my read on it would be that yes, Cash Patel probably on his way out regardless, but at least from those leaks, generally when those leaks come about that, you know, somebody's going to be gone, the person is then gone within a matter of just, you know, couple days at max. So to me, I was expecting to hear that Cash was going to be gone on, you know, Monday, Tuesday at the latest. But now this is going to be an active investigation that the FBI is going to be involved with. And I've been seeing some reporters talking online that Cash Patel is there at the scene. So, and he may have been there for for the dinner. I'm not sure exactly who was all in attendance already, but to fire the FBI director while the FBI is undertaking this kind of major investigation, I like that fast. I mean, I feel like this actually might buy Cash Mattel like not I'm not saying a lot of a lot of grace period, but I think maybe buys him a few days more worth of uh worth of life 46 minutesthere at the at the agency just so that there's that appearance of continuity of management. Yeah, could be a few days, but uh I think Cash uh is Yeah, he's out. He's cashed out. Let's put it that way. Uh this is uh beyond you know the reports of him being blackout drunk and why uh see you know FBI having to wake him up and cancel meetings cuz he's drunk and you know his uh private use of planes for his girlfriend and all this other stuff. It seems like there was by by the reports we're hearing very little security um for this event which is pretty shocking. Um let's show you another angle here. Where? Where at? Where is it at? Where? There's the president being escorted. The president being escorted out one side. The vice president being And you know, listen, I I often have a problem with corporate I have a lot of problems in corporate media, but I often have a problem in corporate media uh when crazy um tragedies happen or chaos happen that you get more of a playbyplay. You know, school shootings, you get the playbyplay, but there's very little talk about, hey, we have [ __ ] bazooka guns everywhere in this um country or um hurricanes happening. you know, they're out there with their [ __ ] CNN uh hurricane jacket, but they're not talking about, hey, the planet's on fire and it's changing uh you know, uh weather patterns. So, I want to take a break from the playbyplay here and get to the underbelly of all this. And we're proud leftists. We're proud progressives. We cover Trump critically. We also cover the Democratic party critically, which some people don't like because on the internet, it's if you want to be really profitable, you have to pick a side. you have to wear one color or the other, you know, get on team blue, get on team red. Uh we say no, the only color that matters in this country is green. And we criticize them both. Obviously, under Trump 2.0, we've been covering Trump a lot more than Democrats because when the House is on fire, you got to put out the fire. But we don't spare the Democrats, and some people don't like that. If that's not your cup of tea, and you just want to go somewhere that, you know, fluffs the Democratic party's pillows, that's fine. You don't have to watch us. But we should point out JT that you have to assume again we don't know the shooter. We don't know the motive. I doubt I I I assume it was related to the president if not to try and assassinate him or or at least somebody anti-Trump. But we're in a really unprecedented situation of this country in modern American history. I mean, number one, there has been a fascist invasion from the federal government of sovereign states and cities going on for nearly a year. People forget that because Trump launched an illegal war with Iran. But not so rec, very recently, we're talking two or three months ago, two American citizens were shot and killed in Minnesota, Renee Good and Alex Prey. We were there for both of them. These names don't get mentioned with those two by the corporate media, but they're not the only American citizens that have been killed by ICE. You have um Keith Porter, a black man who was killed uh in California on New Year's Eve by ICE, an offduty ICE agent. Um you have Ruben Ray. Um I I don't want to say his last name wrong. Uh I know his first name is Reuben. He was 23 years old. He was killed in Texas in March of 2025. And then it was covered up for almost a year that ICE shot him. And this was like very similar to Renee Nicole. Good. The only difference we didn't have the video for a while where him and uh his friend they were driving down to go on spring break. Pretty common. Uh there was ICE was helping local police with some traffic incident. They were told to stop. Uh they didn't stop quick enough for the police for the police. Next next thing you know, ICE starts shooting at them and they killed a 23 year old. Video later showed that ICE lied that that this guy was driving into them. So that so that's four. And then you have which I consider border patrol killing this man. You had a blind man left to freeze to death by border patrol agents in Buffalo, New York, which did not get enough attention. Uh they tried to uh deport him. They were unsuccessful. So instead of sending him to a a ice prison, they um left him at a closed 51 minutescoffee shop in freezing Buffalo, a partially blind man who then died. So that's five right there. And that's not even getting into all the people that have died in ice prisons. And by the way, on our Substack, which please subscribe to our Substack, that's statuscoosubstack.com. You could subscribe there for free. Uh I've been reporting this week there's multiple hunger strikes going on in ICE prison. So that's one bucket, the ICE terrorism that's been going on. And we're working on a documentary now because again we have been all over this country. We have covered on the ground this ICE terrorism more than any outlet mainstream or independent without the funding of a CNN this and that because I can't think of a bigger story than a fascist federal invasion of sovereign states. I thought Republicans are all about states rights. So that's one bucket. Then you have literally people are struggling to to stay above water. People I'm talking to people and you just talked to people on the road. Our producer Michelle just talked to people on the road because we did an economic reporting trip recently. People are having to choose between medicine and groceries right now. People are struggling to afford gas, health care, child care, rising electrical bills. You got these AI data centers uh flooding America, rising electrical rates, water is being contaminated because of these AI data centers. That's before we even get to the layoffs due to AI. Um not that I, you know, this this is not exactly blue collar we're talking about. Microsoft just laid off thousands of workers. Facebook just laid off thousands of workers. Uh you're seeing day after day after day companies are laying off thousands of workers because they're doubling down on AI. Uh Amazon is talking about laying off tons of workers and the workers they they do have are treated like robots. So people are really at a breaking point. We haven't even got that's before mentioning the president launched an illegal war. Uh, America killed almost 200 school girls on what the first day of that war. Um, and we've unnec and gas prices are up and less reported than the gas prices, food prices are starting to go up because the straight of Hormuz that bottleneck um fertilizer goes through the straight of Hormuz. Obviously, farmers need fertilizer. this is going to increase the f um food prices. I'm sorry JT, I'm I'm kind of long-winded, but I just wanted to get out. There is a lot of people struggling. Uh we also saw recently, we've covered it. You had a disgruntled worker light a warehouse on fire in California. He during while lighting that warehouse on fire, he said, "You should have paid us enough to [ __ ] leave." Uh excuse me, enough to [ __ ] live. Then you had then you had over 20 warehouse fires in the two weeks after that. You know, we were we were very honest. We don't know if any of those were arson. Some of them seemed to be. One of them was um a Molotov cocktail was thrown at a Tesla office um in New Orleans. But bottom line, the American people feel frankly kind of the government in bed with the corporations knee on their neck. And at a certain point, people have a breaking point. I'm certainly not condoning what this shooter did, but that's what's going on. The media, CNN is not going to report it like that. MS Now is not going to really get into all that. Um, but there's a reason that there is this violence. Uh, and this is not obviously not the only uh, you know, political assassination attempt. I I I can't confirm that's what it was because I don't know this person's motive. We might find out. We might be finding out now. I I don't know because we're live. He might have had social media posts that, you know, alluded to what he was going to do. Um, but obviously you had what happened with Charlie Kirk. By the way, reports are that Erica Kirk, his widow, was actually there. Uh, so that's whatever you think of her, that's horrible that she had to relive trauma this way. Uh, but I mean, this president has certainly made life a lot worse uh for the American people and he's enraged a whole lot of people. Uh, your thoughts, JT? Yeah. I mean, what you're getting at is just this idea that people are being stretched to their absolute limit, that they are being pushed to the brink of what is acceptable for, you know, modern standards of living. And when people are on their last legs or already pushed to that breaking point, then how does this administration not then take one of the, if not the most hated man in the world, like his security seriously that you have people who are this pissed off that frankly even the president's own supporters or former supporters have been among those who have tried to kill him. and in in documented instances like in Butler, Pennsylvania, where um where I mean where it doesn't necessarily have to be an overtly partisan motivated act, though I'm sure we're going to see um people on uh on the political right try to immediately subscribe this to, you know, some sort of political motivation before we learn anything more about the motives here. But you're talking about a simmering cauldron here in the United States where the heat has been turned up and up and up and now you're not going to take the security seriously as we're hearing and we've played the clips from people inside of that event saying that they did not feel that the security was serious in any way and this is a president who has already had multiple attempts on his life. That's what I keep coming back to is just this idea of how how how do you not recognize the pattern at the very least? Like Butler should have been the one and only time it ever gets this close where shots are actually fired or someone with a gun gets so close to Donald Trump that at a certain point and I'm seeing the comments. I I can't, you know, I can't just ignore them. Like there are so many people in our comments right now saying, you know, this feels this feels staged. I I understand that initial reaction from from people because it's like how else could this have been possible given knowing what we know about who this president was. And I actually want to feature a uh um a super chat that we got from uh Emily Sigman who said my knee-jerk reaction was I don't care yet when the rest of me caught up I thought this feels sus and incompetence is a key feature of this administration. I tend to go towards the the latter there that incompetence is a key feature of this administration. So I guess so long as whoever is in, you know, positions of authority over the president's uh security, so long as they are sufficiently sick of to Donald Trump, then they're not held to any sort of account or, you know, these sorts of things can be just shrugged off. And we have seen Trump shrug off violence time and time again where, you know, I mean, you don't need to look further than the war in Iran where he just kept shrugging his shoulders that people were going to die. And he seemed to be pretty pretty okay with that. And then his own reaction to this shooting was we're going to have to have this event again, you know, because he didn't get his chance to say to say what he wanted to say, like already shrugging off the idea of violence. And I have no idea if action is due to, but I'm sorry to cut you off. I just want to alert people and Colin, I don't know if there's a way we could play this at the same time, but Trump is set to make remarks uh in two minutes. Uh so if we can't play it live, we'll we'll play it after. But, you know, I'm sure he's going to put lipstick on a pig here. Um who knows? Maybe he's already gonna maybe he's going to blame it on the radical left without uh any facts because that's kind of his emmo. Yeah, I will say that there I've already seen some of that on on the right online. I don't think that surprises anyone, but I've seen some right I've seen at least one right-wing journalist already like circulating a poll. All right. All right. Who's to blame? And it's a four four member option that includes uh you know communists, liberals, that sort of thing. So, or transgender was an option on there. Like you already see that that fingerpointing that that that narrative starting to to coales.
Okay. which which out group or which convenient villain for us are we going to are we going to try and blame here and l literally turning it into a poll for their audience so that way they can test the temperature of their audience so that way they can continue their grift of feeding their audience exactly what they want to hear about you know who about who's to blame well I also want to point out because you know to choosing between intentional or incompetence in this case I find it really difficult to blame name incompetence on this. This is a this is a well-known Washington DC hotel. Yeah. Right. This is not the Royal Palace. Okay. So, you know, you know where the ballroom is. The hotel only has so many entrances and exits. You would have for an event like this uh local DC police. Um probably outside of DC, you got Maryland, Virginia. So you might have, you know, lo local lo state police from various uh areas in the beltway. It's obviously not just DC, but people live in Maryland, Virginia, etc. Uh you would have FBI, possibly US marshals. This is not like such a intricate complicated building for security. you have the ballroom and then you, you know, have the entrances and exits and then you're figuring out 1 minuteuh nearest train stations, train stations, buses, etc. So you would have to be like, you know, my you would have to be like teenager level incompetent or just learning security to be this incompetent not to put, you know, um, metal detectors on the outside of hotel, security screening, not just as you enter the ballroom. That seems like a choice not to do that. Who made that choice? I don't know. But that doesn't seem like incompetence. That seems like they they chose not to have heightened security for this. Why they would do that, I don't know. Uh but that that's beyond incompetence. That is choosing not to have that level of security. And we should point out, JT, and this is not us being conspiraal. This is just reporting what's been going on before this happened. There has been louder uh shall we say questions being asked about the original assassination attempt uh at Butler. There have been uh obviously she's you know Trump enemy number one now. Marjorie Taylor Green has been starting to ask questions about that um uh assassination attempt that we think was an assassination attempt. Uh there's even been some Democrats uh elected Democrats now questioning uh the official story and narrative about that. That for example, what happened in Butler, you that's more believable that you could ascribe it to incompetence because this is on a campaign trail. It's there's there's less agencies involved with securing securing campaign events. Uh it's a local area in Pennsylvania, Butler. So the different agencies might not know this the scope of each building, you know, the entrances and exits of each building. You know, the shooter there was basically in sniper position on a build on a nearby building. From my memory, we're talking very like the the next building over. But again, that's not the White House correspondents dinner. That's not mo, you know, five or six agencies plus local police involved. So, you could you could uh more realistic more realistically ascribe that to incompetence. This seems like an intentional choice was made uh yeah, not to have tight security here. So, I don't know. Uh let's show you some more video here. I was walking. I can tell you I was walking into the bathroom and I see Wolf Blitzer and I'm just walking and I look around and I and then I hear shots and I turn and as I'm opening the door and I hear shots then I turn and I see I thought he was jumping on Wolf Blitzer. I thought it was somebody here to attack Wolf Blitzer. Maybe somebody, you know, from I figured maybe they think he's too pro- Israel or something. I don't know. Hello. And um and then I just come back and then I look again and I'm like, "Oh, they just shot somebody." How close would you say the shots were to you? I don't know. It was just sound. I mean, it sounded so close to I was I was 50 feet away and they, you know, or less and I saw them, I saw it looked like the guy was running down the stairs and there were three or four, you know, secret. Which stairs were they? Right here up here at the left. Right by the metal detector. Just past the metal detector. Looked like he ran past the metal detector and then there were guys coming at him and that's when I hit the and secret service. Several of it was several shots from from several Secret Service officers. Did he Did he have a firearm? Couldn't see. I have no idea. I have no idea. Nobody saw a firearm, but he was running. He was running. He was in a full sprint. He was running. So to me it looked like he went to attack Blitzer, but I have no idea. I thought Blitzer was the guy that gone after because he was right there. Yeah, that that was I mean that was loud. 5 minutesAnd then you quickly ran into the restroom. I I hit the deck and I waited. No, I was you security guards were on your back. You dove into the restroom. Like my back. Uh so that was an eyewitness. I I I'm not going to say the person's name because I'm live and there's no way for me to confirm it, but there is uh a suspect name uh surfacing now on social media. Um without saying his name, just the identifying information is a 31-year-old from California. Uh so once I see it, you know, confirmed by some bigger outlets, uh we'll report to you. Uh, but I'm seeing it in various places that the suspect is a 31-year-old from um California. So, um, we will give you more uh on that if we're able to confirm it. Um, yeah, let me show you. This is Steven Miller, an angle of him inside the ballroom. Clear. Katie, do you have all your stuff? I'm fine. So that is uh Katie Miller, Steven Miller's wife and Stephen Miller. I think this is a great segue, JT. I got to say, uh, for those for those that are new to Status Coup, I am proud to say, and I will say it with proud, with a little oomph, we are the leading independent. A lot of people out there saying independent. Go check where their money comes from. Uh, we are the leading independent outlet that is on the ground across America. And we've been on the ground covering Steven Miller's sponsored terror of ICE, kidnapping immigrants and US citizens, killing immigrants and US citizens. and we're working. This was an event dedicated to freedom of speech that was supposed to bring together members of both parties with members of the press and in a certain way it did because the fact that they just unified. I saw a room that was just totally unified. It was in one way very beautiful a very beautiful thing to see a man charged a security checkpoint armed with multiple weapons and he was taken down by some very brave members of secret service and they acted very quickly and have just released for purposes of transparency clarity I've ordered it to be put out you probably have it by now put out on truth and put out on many other platforms a tape showing the violence of this thug that attacked our constitution and also showing how quickly Secret Service and law enforcement acted on our country's behalf. Really did a great job. One officer was shot but saved by the fact that he was wearing a obviously a very good bulletproof vest. He was shot from very close distance with a very powerful gun and the vest did the job. I just spoke to the officer and he's doing great. He's great shape. He is uh has very high spirits and we told him we love him and respect him and he's a very proud guy. Eric, the beauty of not being a corporate uh outlet that has to blow the president for access. We could cut him off when we want to and I don't really feel I need to uh air the president who uh is talking about unity when he is routinely attacking the press. Uh so we're not going to get any new information from him. So there's really no point in showing that. But what I was going to show is we have been covering his terrorism across the country um against immigrants and US citizens. JT, I mean you could say it. You were on the ground in Chicago in Minneapolis combined for 4 months. Uh I remember you and I were talking uh that last Saturday in Minneapolis. You were actually going to go home to Wisconsin. Uh, but you called me like, "Oh, I don't know what it is, but hearing somebody might have been shot later that you were live after Alex Prey was shot." Uh, and it literally looked like a [ __ ] war zone. Um, so we have so much footage from covering Trump's ICE terrorism in LA, in New York City, in DC, in Florida. Alligator Alcatraz, we were there. um Chicago, Charlotte, and Minneapolis. Though, we're working on a documentary. Uh so, we now have the trailer ready. Uh and since we have a nice audience, we wanted to show you that. So Colin, if we could show you the trailer for the documentary we're working working on based on our nearly one year of on the ground reporting that was not funded by the Ellison's, not funded by um you know whoever owns CNN, Comcast, which owns MSNBC. It was not funded by United Healthcare, Goldman Sachs, Fizer, or any of the usual suspects funding and advertising with corporate media. It was funded by you, the people. Uh, let's play the trailer. Trying to get status. Got Honduran here trying to get status. Two. You're a kidnapper. Shame on you. There's an exit over there that they go through. Where are they taking them to? One lady who said she followed one of the buses and it takes them to O'Hare. They don't put people in the ice system to be found. People disappear. I'm worried about my friends. You know, some of them are getting tracked by ice here. Oh, we got fireworks going on. Get out of the area and I got hit in the head really bad. The federal government is sending one more [ __ ] you to the residents of Chicago. Do you know anybody that crossed the border without applying for green card? Oh yes. Cousins, nephews, nieces. Those people might be deported if Donald Trump wins. That's okay. As a Mexican American, I truly believe that we need to take our country back. America stands with us. Other countries are emptying out their prisons and sending the worst of the worst into the United States. The country that I'm living in is not the country I was born into. They said they're drug dealers. They're mentally ill. President Trump was 100% right. We're going to have the largest deportation in the history of our country. No one's off the table. Massive rape, massive detention camp. The website is called the worst of the worst. The worst of the worst. The murderers, the pedophiles, the rapists in this country. Worst of the worst. Worst of the worst. Worst of the worst. Worst of the worst. Worst of the worst. To say we want to get rid of the worst of the worst. But there aren't enough worst of the worst to fulfill the quotas they've been given by the White House. Uh that is uh our upcoming documentary, Worst of the Worst. Uh shout out to our producer, Michelle Dao, who's been working night and day uh to turn this around. She did that trailer and uh I'd love to kind of get your thoughts since a lot of this reporting was done by you. Uh, I think we could connect the dots to tonight because whatever the motive of this person who did it, um, obviously there's a lot of people who feel that they are under attack and the country is under attack by Donald Trump and and you were out there literally covering an attack by the government on the people. Yeah. And that's how people described it, right? They described it in militaristic terms. They described it as an occupation of their cities. They described it as mil, you know, in terms of like a a a military operation that was going on. I mean, there the the agents when they were operating in these cities were to a lay person's eyes. I had several people in Chicago think that the um agents who were actually out there were members of the National Guard or something because they are so militarized in in their appearance. And people also described it in terms of it being a pressure cooker that every day they were worried about one either agents shooting more people in their streets or people shooting back at the agents because they were just pushed to their limit and that something was going to spiral or break. And of course, we watched that play out in Chicago and Minneapolis first and foremost, but we were also, of course, on the ground in so many other cities, LA, New York, Washington DC, uh, Charlotte, uh, and as we're in all of these places watching all of this violence by the federal government play out. I mean, you could just it it didn't take a genius. I think anybody any of you watching at home could have seen this coming me this being everything that happened from the uh from the outset of this immigration crackdown. Whether that be, you know, people ending up dead, these communities rebelling, fighting back in the way that they did, or that this would lead to just a furthering of violence and an encouraging of more violence like what we have seen here tonight. And of course, we're getting even more information about that, Jordan. Not to pivot away from the from the documentary too fast because Michelle did incredible work on it, but I do think we should get to some of the things that um Donald Trump has been posting on his truth social. He has released a photo of the uh of the shooter as well as a video of the supposedly of the shooter actually running through um a security uh checkpoint. Colin, if you could uh pick up those two things. Uh, I assume it is Donald Trump. So, you have to take everything he says with a grain of salt, but if he's posting uh the identity of the shooter, posting the 16 minutesvideo, you would have to assume this was provided to him by law enforcement, his FBI, you'd I don't want to say assume, but you would hope they have vetted it and it's accurate. If not, this person would have the lawsuit of all lawsuits on their hand. So, you'd have to assume that this is um credible. Uh, so once you get that, Colin, uh, off of the President's Truth Social, uh, let us know. Oh, here's like twice. Was there? Shall I post it as soon as he passed 18? Go for Yeah, you just see that figure go uh sprinting through what looks like it must be the metal detector that that's how he got through. I guess if you just move fast enough, you're able to overcome the president's security. Let's play it again. Yeah. He looked like he checked it twice. Hudson was there. Shall I post it as soon as you go for and you can't obviously Yeah, go for it, Jordan. No, I was just going to say it's obviously poor quality of the video, so it's hard to tell much, but um yeah, that's exactly what I was going to acknowledge. I was going to point it out from the perspective of we don't know which law enforcement agencies or security details are are there at that checkpoint. if this it but ultimately everything you would assume would go through the Secret Service when it's an event that the the president is at. And I think that ultimately they will have to be the ones to to answer for for what's happening here. But this is uh this is one of the photos of the uh of the shooter that uh President Trump posted on his truth social as well of the alleged shooter. I should say that that this is alleged innocent until proven guilty in this country. But this is the man would appear to line up with the video that we were playing earlier of a of a shirtless uh uh man laying on the uh laying on the laying on the ground. Um yeah, that we were that we were playing earlier covered by like some sort of like foil blanket, right? And uh I mean regardless it still stands. Whatever his motivation was, I mean who the hell knows? We might find out that it wasn't even political and it's just a mentally unstable person. My guess is it was political. But yeah, clearly to be able to get that gun through, there was not lockdown security. No. outside the hotel to get into the hotel like you to get the gun through through the door of the hotel. There clearly wasn't uh metal detectors or there were and you know there's a I don't want to get into the weeds, but there's electrical stuff with um uh metal detectors that sometimes you know can be fickle. Uh but it sure seems to me he was able to get through pretty quickly uh or pretty easily uh a gun uh close to where the actual event was being held inside that ballroom. Um so yeah, but you know, I'm sure Trump is going to be up all night 3:00 a.m. and by the time we all wake up tomorrow, this guy will be an agent of Iran, according to Trump. uh and he will say you know it's a mix of uh uh terrorist from Iran mixed with somebody from the radical Zora Mandani left. So just be prepared for anything. Uh Trump will try to use this as a gift since his polls he's sinking like the Titanic and to realvanize his base some of whom have been turning on him that he's you know America's number one 20 minutesvictim yada yada yada. Um, but I also want to point out I'm kind of glad we steered away from him uh and didn't play that whole speech because I'm seeing that he started turning that speech into uh a further advertisement for his White House ballroom. Uh, I was actually going to point out that uh and uh uh some of the the credit here goes to Hassan [ __ ] who um uh uh brought some of these together, but some screenshots of people on on on the right uh on the right wing like the governor of Louisiana and Megan McCain, people posting online in the immediate aftermath of the shooting saying like this is complete justification for President Trump's ballroom as if that this isn't a complete excuse. for the blatant corruption that is playing out in in the in everyone's faces about the construction of that ballroom at a time when many Americans cannot make ends meet on even the most basic of needs that they face. Being able to pay for housing, being able to pay for food, and yet massive corporations and the wealthy are able to give millions upon millions of dollars directly to the presidents to build his vanity project. And now we're going to turn a an attempt to destabilize the United States in this in this event here tonight and what transpired here tonight into just a a justification for that corruption. like under in what country are we living in where where that's got to be the number one concern above all else that on this that on this night what those what what folks on the right need to do right now is need to try and spin this into a way to justify corruption in this in this country. And by the way, a serious political project. And by the way, I'm glad you brought up corruption because when I was going down that list of all the all the different knees on the neck of the American people, ICE, economic pressures, I didn't mention the corruption. I mean, to be clear, um I think a lot of channels kind of pretend that corruption started under Donald Trump, but pretend that the Democratic party is somehow like ethically, you know, upstanding citizens. We got bipartisan corruption in this country. We have politicians, both parties literally committing somehow legal insider trading and that's been going on before poly market, before these prediction markets. So like both parties are wildly corrupt. Sorry to tell you, Nancy Pelosi has been wildly corrupt and she's leads the pack in terms of the insider trading. I mean is the one years ago that did the piece saying literally 75% of the time our politicians in both parties are not even at the capital. They're in office buildings off capital premises dialing for dollars. So this country is rampant with corruption. With that said, one of the unique things about Trump 2.0 is just the corruption is almost um celebrated. It's thrown in your face. It's like waving around the corruption flag. It's not subtle and it's not hidden. It is the point. I mean, you just did a video essentially the commerce secretary, Howard Lutnik, who used to run Caner Fitzgerald, his sons who run it now, and it it's still him just like Trump is still leading his real estate empire. They're not, you know, they're not they're not technic, oh well, you know, I my name's off the paperwork and I'm not involved anymore. They're all involved. While Howard Lutnik, his commerce secretary, was literally pushing Trump and and egging them on to do these insane tariffs, Caner Fitzgerald, his financial firm, was literally purchasing from companies their tariff refund rights for like pennies on the dollars because all of these companies just needed money now because they were being hammered by tariffs. So they sold to the commerce secretar's company their basically the rights to tariff refunds so that if companies would then get refunds for the tariffs now Howard Lutnik's companies get those tariff refunds for the full amount. So basically they're making probably hundreds of millions of dollars. Howard Lutnik, he would have had to have thought, hey, I think that this might get struck down, that the Supreme Court might have struck this down. Think of that. The commerce secretary who was pushing the tariffs was basically his company was placing bets against them to enrich himself. That's just one example. You got his ambassador Steve Witkoff. They're involved with Trump's crypto scam and his cryptocoin. Then you have this revolving door. We basically have a pay-for-play pardon system now that Trump has engineered where he is handing out pardons like [ __ ] candy to all the criminals of the like you can't they're talking about fraud in uh of Somalians in Minnesota. It's a joke. Mhm. They're literally pardoning convicted fraudsters. MAGA, if you're watching, smell the [ __ ] smell whatever the phrase is. Uh I it's staggering the corruption. So in addition to the um immorality of this White House, the ICE terrorism, the illegal wars, the guilded age ballroom, prices soaring, all the corruption, the the cruelty as the point, there's a lot of people who could want to commit violence just based on the corruption. Um so did I miss anything there? No, I don't think so. I think you nailed it right. I mean that Yeah. Sorry. Were you about to toss to something there, Jordan? Go ahead. No, I mean I I you know I don't know that I can really do build on anything more than what you just said that um uh that it was you know that the corruption is the point that it was so that this is so blatant. This is a, you know, yes, they will want to draw they being, you know, the right in this country want to draw attention to the uh the uh supposed fraud that actually isn't um proven from videos like Nick Shirley's that he did back in December, alleging this fraud in at Somali Daycare, while completely ignoring the blatant fraud that is happening by the millions upon millions of dollars, likely hundreds of millions in the case of these uh these tariff buybacks that we were just talking about that is happening at the national level. And the reason they don't want to draw attention to it is because they want to keep the American people distracted away from the way that they are blatantly profiting off of the American people by raising their prices through those tariffs in the first place. So taxing the American people indirectly through through the tariffs, siphoning away what little uh extra income they have and redirecting that from the working people in this country up to the very richest in society and the richest who are in positions of power who are supporting the Trump administration like Howard Lutnik through these things like tariff buybacks. and they don't want you paying attention to that because they want you to remain uh a a useful tool to their further enrichment into the future. And I did want to pivot back here to the shooting just to note that apparently Trump during his remarks said quote he referencing the the shooter hadn't breached the area at all. quote, which uh doesn't make a lot of sense to me considering that the president himself released video of the of the shooter clearly breaching the area, getting inside of the building, one and then two, getting through the magnetometer and getting close enough to be able to open fire and shatter glass inside the building. Like I don't know how like it's just this thing where he's already launched into this like wanting to defend wanting to defend the security of the place and just I guess perpetuate so that these same events happen into the future or at least try to excuse it away. It should go without saying if this was a Democratic president and this happened, Fox News would be calling for investigations and probably impeachment as to how could he keep the country's they would say how could the president keep the country safe if he can't keep a hotel ballroom safe. So, I mean, it's just selective outrage 101. Um, before we start wrapping up, I I als I after um after we showed you that trailer, I did want to make a direct ask. I didn't want to be pushing too hard because obviously this is a breaking news situation. But if you're new to Status Cool, first of all, subscribe to the channel. Uh we're at 724,000 subscribers. Uh we are independently funded. We do a lot of substantive reporting that is not exactly YouTube's bread and butter. YouTube doesn't like recommending a lot of our stuff because we actually do investigative reporting. 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Uh we've, you know, having um protective gear underneath ourselves for the less lethal ammunition ammunition that's been shot at us routinely. That's what the money has gone to. And we do not have corporate sponsors. Uh we do not have corporations funding us. Our funding comes from you, the people. And I am proud to say, and I would bet the very little money I have down, we are the leading outlet that has done this. We have been on the ground covering this far more than any mainstream media outlet and definitely any other independent outlet. And JT, you could tell people even when mainstream media is there, they're not on the front lines. No, they're in the back. No. Yeah, they're they're well away from where we were on the day that Alex Prey got shot. We were getting teargassed repeatedly. News n a news nation crew was standing almost right next to us and after they got it just a little bit, they went and stood well down the street and were not able to cover half of what we were able to cover out there because we wanted to be where the story is. And uh this is uh something that is I don't think lost on our audience. I had the pleasure over the last few days to present to uh a few uh high school classes about what I do and I made a big point to be like, "Hey, if you guys want to go into journalism, don't be like all these other reporters that I that I see who are afraid to go in and cover the real story of what's happened or to be able to call out [ __ ] when it's bullshit." we're able to address, you know, things like open corruption here on this stream where you're covering, you know, what's happening out in what's happening at the White House correspondents dinner and relate it back to how people are being screwed over in the rest of the country. 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Or they all just fed you the [ __ ] line from the politicians of the EPA. The water's fine. I've stayed on it. We've stayed on it for over a decade because we don't just parachute in and out of places. Cover it when it's breaking and then leave because the actual cover up and the scandal happen when the cameras leave. Uh shameless plug, the book behind me, we are the poisoned that was written by yours truly. It's based on a decade of reporting on the Flint water crisis and cover up. Why did I stay on the Flint water crisis and cover up for a decade? Is it because I care so much about Flint? I do. But it's because an American city was poisoned by its own government. It was then covered up and then the people were left to die and 12 years later the water still [ __ ] up in Flint. Jeremy could tell you because he's from Flint. Today is 12 years since Flint switched to the Flint River. This is a national story. It's an international story. And I have stayed on it. And it is not viral. And when I do videos on Flint, I'm lucky if I get a few thousand views. But I do it because it's goddamn important. And it's not just about Flint. You know how many other flints there are in this country with contaminated water, contaminated soil, contaminated air. You know, East Palestine, Ohio, that one happened under Biden. That's cancer is spreading like [ __ ] wildfire in East Palestine, Ohio after a multibillion dollar railroad company, Norfork Southern, unnecessarily nuked the town with cancerous chemicals. The media covered it for five minutes and then they fed the EPA [ __ ] that it was safe to go back. Meanwhile, we've been there eight times. I've been sick every time I went there. Colin, our producer, got sick. Uh, our reporter at the time, Lewis, got sick. And people there are sick. Now, 3 years later, when the media and the vice president of the United States, who was a senator of Ohio at the time, tells you nothing to see here. Everything's fine. Our testing shows no chemicals of concern. Meanwhile, there's 8-year-old girls who are getting their periods at 8 years old. There is men getting double breast cancer. There are children three years later still having nose bleeds. I mean, I could keep going, folks, but I don't have till midnight. We cover story after story after stere story that the media covered for five [ __ ] minutes and they moved off of it. Why did they move off of it? Because they didn't think it was profitable to stay on it. But we don't do this for pro. If I if we did this for profit, trust me, we'd have a lot more [ __ ] subscribers and money because we would just do a hundred videos on Trump a day like a lot of other channels. That's where the profit is. We do this not for profit, but we do this because we think there's a real [ __ ] problem with the status quo in this country. That's why we named it status coup because we need a journalistic coup deta peaceful journalistic coup deta of the status quo. So that's my long- winded rant. Hopefully it inspired someone. But I wanted to tell you that because such a big problem in this country and I use my parents as kind of my measuring stick because they're both MAGA. God bless them. They're [ __ ] ignorant. But I love them anyway. And my mom is less maga than my dad. My dad is just Zionist. I if he doesn't care if Trump shoots someone on Fifth Avenue as long as he's wearing an Israel flag pin. That that's a different story. Um but I use them as a measuring stick because when I show them our coverage of of these types of stories, their first MAGA, I mind you, their first reaction, why is why is no one else talking about this? Why are you the only one covering this, Jordan? What are the politicians doing? That's why we do this. Because I believe I truly believe I've been around this country for over a decade, less so in the last two years because I have two young kids, but I've been to 30 something states, way more cities. I've interviewed thousands of people, Republicans, Democrats, no labels, and I can tell you most people in this country, believe it or not, are actually passionate. Most people have no [ __ ] idea what the hell is going on because they're being fed a bunch of [ __ ] by corporate media. Uh or they're just being given infotainment from podcasts because everyone's got a podcast now and they're not actually being told that their water is contaminated, their air is contaminated, their soil is contaminated, uh there's corruption throughout their cities. Uh a AI is building data centers in their I mean we could keep going down the list. So that's why we're asking you to support us. statuscude.comjoin JT. Sorry for my soap box, but I had to get that out. All right, we got a lot of super chats here. I'm I'm going try to go down it quick. Uh Angie, member for 14 months. You're literally the first to report this. You know what? I thought you want to be careful with these things because you want to there's the there's there's the um tendency to want to go live just to be first because you'll get you'll get the most viewers. But I don't want to go live if I don't know what the hell's going on. I don't have anything to tell you. So, I wanted to go live with the caveat. I I know very little, but let me just tell you what I know. Uh, and fortunately, we were able to give you more information. Um, thank you for the super chat. Uh, Crystal, member for 18 months. His polling is low, just like before Butler. This is true. This is true. Uh, Berb, member for three months. Thanks for the coverage. Thank you. Jeremy Elwood stage for publicity due to loophole. I mean, if it were any other president, I'd say, "Jeremy, I love you. Uh, a Flint native there. Thanks for tuning in." But that's conspiracy thought with this president. I You cannot rule it out. You really can't. Um, Elsie, $5 super chat. Thank you. Thank you, Jeremy. Another two bucks. Let's ask how Trump's right ear is doing. Same thing. 42 minutesThat's in reference to Butler. Um se499 in in the line of fire was a movie about attempts on pus life at a correspondence dinner with Clint Eastwood. This is staged to improve his poll numbers. I mean I do not think it helps Trump that Caroline Levit went out before this saying no it does not. Um what did she say? Bullets are going to be fired or something like that. She said shot she she talked about shots fired. That there will be shots fired in President Trump's speech was the apparent reference, but yeah, that quote is going to live forever. Yeah, that's a rough one. Uh Austin, $10. Thank you. Thank you, Austin. Um dystopian five bucks. Trump has pissed off a whole lot of vets lots of skill sets and we've covered that JT. Uh you've interviewed a whole lot of veterans have been on the front lines at these ICE protests. Uh welcome new status coup member MK Connecticut. Thank you. 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Three security checks had to pass to enter. If passed one, had to pass two more. If I wanted to go outside, had to go through again. Security was tight. Honestly, you get more security these days at the subway uh at the train station in New York than it seems was there. Uh but accurate point. Uh Queen member for three months. White House ballroom completion will be stat. He might and Trump now in addition to asking for more money from the ballroom, he might request he already requested 1.5 trillion for the uh military budget. Maybe he'll bump it up to two trillion now under this uh avocado 99.99. Not surprising that Donald Trump fakes another one. That's the overwhelming uh sentiment false flag. Jeremy, another five bucks. Just wait. Trump is going to blame the left for this false flag attempt. Count on it. Uh I mean I'm expecting fully when I wake up tomorrow, we'll see more truths and probably uh just what you said. Frank became a YouTube member. Thank you, Frank. 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It does not exist, though it should. Uh this is a reference to my alma mater, W Milwaukee. Over the years, there have been a number of attempts because it is a big division one school that does a lot of research and does fairly well athletically to try and get it renamed to Wisconsin State. And I uh fully supported those efforts when I was in school there. And I own a bunch of I made uh and my grandmother helped me make a bunch of like Wisconsin State clothing that I still wear to this day as a little nod to that. So that is just a nod to to my school and to uh my and a little Easter egg for people from Wisconsin to see and be like that that school doesn't exist, right? You learn something every day. I had no idea. Uh any 999 Trump and his regime will try anything to deflect. Emily five Canadian dollars. It seems with the warehouse fire, massive protest, Trump really wants us to get back to fighting each other instead of the powers that be. I think Trump uh is the perennial victim in all things. Uh find someone to blame, not him. Uh, and by the way, he apparently cancelled a meeting with Iran that was never actually scheduled. So, that's another And he's I think today was another extension of more extensions. Boy, talk about a mess. Uh, Mad Daddy Melissa, $10. This was either stage or it was allowed. That That's what we're That's the sentiment. Uh, Rachel, member for five months. This feels too fake even for Hallmark Channel. Um, uh, Shifty Lincoln, $2. Staged by the orange drama queen. Um, Kevin, $2. They'll blame a guy dating trans. Who's his mom? Oh my god. Uh, Bad Daddy. Melissa, five bucks. What happens when a dictator doesn't trust his own cabinet? He gets rid of them before they get rid of him. Yeah. Emily, 10 Canadian dollars. quote, "We can't tell whether it's their extreme malice at fault here or their extreme stupidity. Hate this timeline. 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Don't forget the $70 bill was passed by the Senate. 70 billion was passed by the Senate. Uh which 70 billion was that for? Did I miss something? I know they're wonder if that's a reference to uh to to ICE if they're just talking Ice got 70 billion. Yeah. Yeah. Mad Daddy Melissa five bucks. Cameras are not the crappy nowadays. This is plant video. Uh 99 cents from Elaine. Super sticker. Thank you. Thank you. Wow. It's raining supers. Emily five bucks. The fact that Trump started blithering about his ballroom instead of capitalizing on the shooting makes me think this may be unplanned by him. It's possible. It's also possible. I mean, he's clearly 50 minutescognitively uh Hey, let's call a spade a spade. I'm not a doctor, but I said it about biting. I'll I'll say it about Trump. He's certainly on the cognitive decline. So, uh you've known old people that when they're cognitive declining, they start repeating themselves over and over and yada yada. He He loves his ballroom. 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So, thank you. You're damn right I did. It's a damn crime that this is not covered anymore in the media. In America, Americans are poisoned by their government or corporate America or corporate America and their government together because people don't realize. You could find out about it in my book, We the Poisoned, Exposing the Flint Water Crisis. Hint hint. You could order that. It's from 2024. Um JP Morgan and Wells Fargo were in on the Flint water poisoning. They were involved in the fraudulent deal that caused it. Uh but thank you, Jeremy. I'm sorry you guys are still going through that. Jeremy, 20 bucks. Next day off, I'll give a video tour of our water and our house. Our house is across the street from Leanne Walter's old house. I spent more money on replacing faucets than I'd like to admit and need to do it again this year. Imagine this. 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Full Trump press conference on shooting at White House press dinner USA TODAY Apr 25, 2026
Trump said at a White House press conference that the shooting at the White House press dinner was a "rather traumatic experience" for first lady Melania Trump, who was on the dais at the White House Correspondents' dinner at the time of the shooting.
The president again said the dinner would be rescheduled. "We're not going to cancel things out, because we can't do that. We wanted to stay tonight," Trump told reporters. "I fought like hell to stay, but it was protocol."
He indicated that Secret Service was unsure if the shooter acted alone.
Brief Comment on the White House Correspondents Dinner Shooting… Trump Continues to Send Mix Signals on Negotiations with Iran 26 April 2026 by Larry C. Johnson 60 Comments https://sonar21.com/brief-comment-on-th ... with-iran/
The oxygen was sucked out of the discussion about the possible renewal of attacks on Iran by a lone gunman — reportedly a 31 year old teacher from California — who ran through the corridors of the Washington Hilton Hotel, which was hosting the White House Correspondents Association dinner. The dinner has been described in the past as Nerd Prom. The gunman did not enter the ballroom… He was shot outside the ballroom after shooting one law enforcement officer, who got to test the quality of his bullet proof vest.
The media is hyping this event as another attempted assassination of Donald Trump, even though the gunman was subdued and arrested in the foyer outside the venue. Given the paucity of information about the two prior attempts on Trump — i.e., Butler, Pennsylvania and Trump’s golf club in Florida — it is understandable that some — me included — are wondering if this shooting was bona fide or a false flag. Let’s see if the White House manipulates this event in the coming days to justify a new policy or action by the Trump administration. An attack on Iran perhaps?
Speaking of Iran, Donald Trump continues to behave erratically. Just look at his comments in the last two days.
On April 24, 2026 (Friday), President Trump made several comments on ongoing U.S.-Iran ceasefire/peace talks amid a fragile post-conflict situation involving strikes, a naval blockade, and Strait of Hormuz issues:
In a phone interview with Reuters, he stated that Iran was preparing to make an offer aimed at satisfying U.S. demands. He said, “They’re making an offer and we’ll have to see,” while noting he did not yet know the details.
When asked about negotiating partners in Iran, he replied: “I don’t want to say that, but we’re dealing with the people that are in charge now.” He had previously expressed uncertainty about Iranian leadership and who held real authority.
The White House announced that envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner would travel to Pakistan the next day (April 25) for talks mediated by Pakistan, with Vice President JD Vance on standby. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt noted “some progress” from the Iranian side.
On April 25, 2026 (Saturday), Trump canceled the planned envoy trip after Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi left Pakistan without direct U.S. engagement:
He posted on Truth Social announcing the cancellation, criticizing the long travel (e.g., ~18-hour flights) and stating it was not worth it for unproductive talks. He emphasized that the US held strong leverage (“We have all the cards”) and that Iran could simply call if serious.
In comments to reporters (e.g., Fox News), he reiterated that he would not send officials to “sit around talking about nothing” and suggested Iran later came back with a “much better” offer after the cancellation. He downplayed immediate resumption of conflict.
Within the last 48 hours Trump has contradicted himself. On Friday, Trump claimed the pre-cancellation offer was insufficient (“a paper that should have been better,” “offered a lot but not enough”). Yet he also said that within ~10 minutes of announcing the cancellation, that Iran sent a “much better” proposal. But here is the kicker… Iran presented the same list of demands that they gave to Trump two weeks ago. Trump portrayed the cancellation of the alleged meeting in Islamabad as a successful pressure tactic that immediately improved terms—while simultaneously justifying the cancellation because the original offer was bad. This is not a clever negotiating strategy, this is buffoonery.
Mario Nawfal interviewed me late Saturday afternoon:
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who is uh on the FBI hostage rescue team. So I I've got I there. Well, I I did my own analysis and then I I ran it by them and they concurred with what I was saying was saying and seeing. So interesting. Interesting. There's something not there's something not right with this. All right. So, what we know so far, uh, let me get my notes here on the the information that's you kind of considered facts and then there's a lot of question marks and things that, you know, unanswered questions. So, the facts are shots were fired at 8:35 p.m. inside the the event, the White House Correspondents Dinner in the Washington Hilton Hotel, which funny enough, there was another event happening at the same time. People were staying in the hotel as well. They didn't I thought they would have you know no one you know the people people couldn't stay at the hotel considering the um the entire chain of command of the US government was at that one event from a security perspective. It just sounds a bit wild. Number two, Trump and attendees were rushed out at Secret Service agents secured the room. My team will play some clips now as we're speaking. Police say the suspect charged a security checkpoint armed with a shotgun, a handgun, and multiple knives. There's a video of him. You can play the video for the audience just kind of sprinting through before the Secret Service or the officers shoot him. Five to eight shots were fired were reportedly fired. Law enforcement exchanged fire with the suspect. One officer was hit by survive due to a bulletproof vest. The suspect was apprehended on site and taken to a hospital for evaluation. He's 31year-old called Thomas Allen from Torrance, California. Authorities say it appears to be a lone wolf attack. Now, that's the basic information we have so far. has a bit more information about the suspect that has come out, which I'll I'll read um uh later on, but I'll go through later on. But what's your what's your initial reaction, Larry? When you first saw the videos that my team will start playing now as we're speaking, that's the suspect running through the checkpoint. But when you first saw all the videos and you seen those reports and the information we have so far, what were the first things that that came to your mind? Well, first that he got he went running through the checkpoint, nobody grabbed him or shot him. and and and and that one of the facts you quote I'll put quotation marks facts is that he was shot there's no evidence that he was shot that that is the thing that first drew my attention actually as a second thing but you see him handcuffed laying on the ground there no bullet holes in him at least in his torso with in a situation like that where you've got a a guy with a visible firearm shooting then you use deadly force you stop it You put him down, you shoot him in the torso, you shoot him in the head, he wasn't shot that he was just tackled that, you know, that's there's something wrong with that. Uh that right off the bat, he wasn't Sorry to ask a silly question, but from I know there were shots fired. You're saying the suspect was not shot whatsoever or I haven't seen any evidence of it whatsoever. You know, that would be bizarre. Yeah, you don't see. So, he's laying there handcuffed on the ground. Do you see an EMT over him administering first aid? No. That's a good point. Where's the, you know, because normally you you can go on to uh there's a channel uh it's called uh active self-p protection. They show lots of videos of police shootings and inevitably when the police shoot a guy, put him down, they immediately start doing CPR, life-saving maneuvers. They just handcuff this guy and he's laying face down. No signs of bleeding whatsoever. So that's the first thing. The second thing though is who was the first person escorted off the stage?
JD Vance.
Yeah. [ __ ] What is that? The number one guy on the stage is Donald Trump, not JD Vance. The Secret Service should have been all over. Look at this. 1001, 1002, 1003, 1004 1005, 1006, 1007,1008. So we got at least 15 seconds before the Secret Service respond. Actually, it's more like 30 seconds before the Secret Service responds to get Donald Trump off the stage. What the hell is that? That's not protocol. And I I called up one of my buddies, old friend. Good lord known him oh 35 years. Um uh Larry Cunningham. Uh Larry was uh he was put he was put in charge of Ronald Reagan's Secret Service detail after Reagan was shot. So about six months uh after Reagan was shot and recovered, Larry was put in charge of his detail. Larry went on to develop the training protocols and standards for Secret Service and he's just like he's saying, "Man, this this is broken. The Secret Service is not doing what it's supposed to be doing." So, this isn't just Larry Johnson, you know, I I've been around enough to to know what should be done, but you know, I saw that and said, "That's wrong." And he confirmed it. And I confirmed it with another buddy of mine who was a uh member of the FBI hostage rescue team and then later did a lot of contract work with CIA. So, you know, I'm talking to guys who are security professionals who've been around enough who've been in shooting incidents and and that's that's the thing that that these two my two friends, they go, "How does this guy not get shot? He he should have been lit up like a Christmas tree." I mean, you know, they were they should have been they could have used him as a Swiss cheese model after after getting filled in with that much lead. Didn't they didn't shoot him or if they shot him got shot in the legs, but again, you're not even if your leg shot, you get the bullet in the right place, you you're ble you several femoral artery, you're potentially bleeding out. You saw no urgency on the part of EMTs trying roll him over. Let's get, you know, examined. You don't see that. I think this thing was staged. I'll say it upfront. This was staged. This had some political purpose, whether designed to make Donald Trump look sympathetic, whatever. I'm not saying that this guy knew he was part of a staged incident, but he got played into doing it. But for God's sake, you know, the protocols that should have been in place, the protocols that should have been followed, they were not there!
Can we can I go back and ask you again before we go through his motive? is uh uh he's just released his manifesto. The manifesto was just released. So, we're going to read that and go through what he said, what the motive could be. I just want to ask you a quick question though. Can you can you explain a bit more why was JD Vance escorted before 7 minutesthe president? So, if we play that video again, Kio, um you see the the the the vice president immediately pulled out, but the president waited for a while to have more secret service around them and then slowly moved out. So maybe is that could that be part of protocol where they have to ensure the --
No, no, I'm telling you that's complete bullshit. I checked with the guy who set the training standards for the Secret Service that have since been eliminated and he said the protocol is the president is the one to be protected. JD Vance could be president someday but he's not the primary source. Immediately, if you think there's a threat, you get the president, grab him, and get him out of there. They didn't do that. What the hell is going on? And the fact that the media is just nodding along like, "Oh, this is great work by the Secret Service." Nonsense. It was, excuse the language, but it was completely fucked up.
All right, let's go through um um have you seen anything else in the in the videos in the footage we've seen? We've seen Cash Patel, we've seen uh Miller, we've seen all of them sitting there. Some of them had Secret Service around them. Others, like Cash Patel, did not. Anything else that caught your attention? No. No. Well, again, you see everybody else in the dining room, they're kneeling down. Trump seemed unfaced. Trump didn't seem alarmed at all. Did Did he know this was going to happen? had he been pre-briefed, you know, that wouldn't wouldn't surprise me. I said this thing this thing was staged. This was not this was not just some lone wolf who managed to show up and particularly the the suspicions that descend upon the Trump administration with respect to these kinds of incidents go back to their failure to really release and investigate information on the Butler, 9 minutesPennsylvania shooting and then the control over dealing with this guy Ryan Ruth uh who tried to was caught after at the golf course. He didn't take a shot, but he had all these connections to Ukraine. And so, we don't know what that was all about. So, this is this is now another third mysterious incident. So, this is where you're saying the president is unfased. So, if you play this with the audio, can you go back and play with the audio? Uh KK, uh just that one with the president you were just playing. Can you play it with the audio? You can't hear me. Um all right, let's go through the manifesto. Hold on. There's another clip there. Oh, there it is. Okay. So, the shots were already heard. Yeah. JD Vance has already been escorted out. Yeah. See, Trump doesn't even react. Yeah. And see the those guys got their firearms out and shooting and apparently they didn't hit him. But h so the other thing we don't know how did he get stopped? Yeah, we we haven't gotten any information on that. Haven't yet. Did Did was he tackled? Did uh So he's got he's got firearms in his hands. he's running at somebody, you know, within in in in police training, law enforcement training, they do something that's called the Tuler drill. T U L L E R. And what that drill is, it was developed by a a police officer out in California. And basically, if if a if somebody with a with a weapon like a knife charges, is it 21 feet away and you have your weapon holstered or your firearm holstered? If you know they hit a button, say go, the guy with the knife starts running at you. Most people can't get their gun out of their holster and shoot to stop the threat in time. So, they're saying that that's seven yards is sort of a, you know, that's a that's a line where you could be potentially killed or or severely wounded. So, again, here's this guy running and he's got a firearm. You don't sit there and say, "Hey, potential Mr. bad guy, would you please stop running? Stop. We tell we're ordering you to halt." No, the guns are out and you're nailing them. You're putting them down. Well, what in the video we saw when he was sprinting, the guns were out pretty quickly and I thought shots were fired then. Yeah, shots are fired and it looks like they missed. Otherwise, we don't. Where's Do we have any information on who tackled him yet? No. And look at the look at the photo. They've got the you know Trump posted the photos of the guy handcuffed on the ground and there actually there's another video of an angle from the side. You don't see any bleeding out the back because I mean if any of the guys that he's running away from if they were shooting the bullet holes should have been in the back. You don't see the bullet holes there. So they missed. Uh and so ideally he was stopped by somebody from the front but you don't see no they don't have him rolled over doing first aid on bullet holes in the torso. Yeah. Maybe he caught one in the leg. That's possible. But again, if he caught one in the leg, where's the tourniquet? Where's the first aid? Because you can bleed out with a bullet wound to the leg, particular if it hits the femoral artery. I said, "This is this this stinks. There's something not right about this." This is another video the team wants to show. I just want to go find saying I just want to go home. I think it's right after Yeah, that's Eric. I think that's Erica Kirk, wasn't it? Yeah, it is. It is. Yeah. Yeah. If you can play the video of Cash Patel and others in the administration, uh KK, and then we'll go through the manifesto uh to get his thoughts.
But if it was staged, why do you think it was? What's the intention behind it?
To build support for Donald Trump. His poll numbers. You know, make him a sympathetic figure. Build the narrative. "Oh, Trump is being so effective. They keep trying to kill him."
So, one question I had uh earlier is Cash Patel didn't have any secret service around him. Is that expected? No, he shouldn't have secret service. He's got got FBI got hostage rescue team if he needs people around him. But in fact, what I what my my FBI buddy told me that the the bureau personnel are fed up with Pat Cash Patel, he's using hostage rescue team personnel to provide security for his girlfriend. That shouldn't be happening. uh and that the the drinking problems that the uh Atlantic reported that that's what the FBI personnel are telling telling their friends on the outside. It's absolutely from their standpoint, it's absolutely true. Now, Cash Patel, he needs to be removed. He's another one that needs to be gone. There's rumors about him that they're planning to take him out to to fire him by April. I'm not sure if you've seen those rumors. Nothing confirmed. Well, we're in April, so let's get going. In fact, we only got uh uh 5 days left, well, four days left in April. I'm trying to get more information on the uh whether he was injured or not. Yeah, this like I said, this is uh this kind of sketchy details and this goes back to, you know, I think we we talked about this with respect to the whole Charlie Kirk incident. again, why is the FBI on scene there that there's no federal jurisdiction over that kind of of shooting in in Utah? Excuse me. Yeah, Charlie Kirk was a high-profile well-known individual, but he doesn't uh there's no no federal statute to justify FBI presence there unless the local police asked for it. Go ahead. I was going to say, is it a bit bizarre as well that there was um that there was another event at the same time and people could stay at the hotel as well? I thought for such an event it would be all secured. Not sure if that's normal or not. No, no, that's not that's not abnormal. But what you do is you set up the you got to got security perimeters. So it's security for the president. It's like it's like concentric rings that go out. So you you know you establish what your ultimate your your your furthest outside perimeter is and then you layer it up from there. So doing protection indoors is a lot easier than doing outdoors because you've got a you got a limited number of entrances exits. So you you control those points uh and you make sure that you've got uh certain checkpoints. But as you know reports have come out that people all they had to do was show their ticket. Hey, I got my ticket. Well, you know, they didn't have to provide ID to show that that ticket actually belonged to them. So the, you know, the security was lacks and you got to ask why. Again, this gets back to the Secret Service, I think, is a broken institution. And even after its failures when Butler uh and subsequent failures uh they haven't they haven't corrected it, you know, and that means people need to be fired, new leadership needs to be brought in. All right, let me read out the manifesto for you. Uh, all right, there it is. So, this came out here. Um, hello everybody. And KK, if you can show it on the screen as well. Hello everybody. So, I may have So, let me see where they found this. The manifesto of the White House correspondents in a shooter, 31-year-old Call Thomas Allen, has been released in which he refers to President Trump as a pedophile rapist and traitor. He then he says, "I am no longer willing to permit a pedophile rapist and traitor to cult my hands with his crimes." So that was in the manifesto of the person that tried to allegedly assassinate President Trump.
Hello everybody. So I may have given a lot of people a surprise today. Let me start off by apologizing to everyone who's whose trust I abused. I apologize to my parents for saying I had an inter I had an interview without specifying it was for quote most wanted. I apologize to my colleagues and students for saying I had a personal emergency. By the time anyone read this, I was probably certainly do do need to go to the ER, but can hardly call that not a self-inflicted status. But can hardly call that not a self-inflicted status. Okay. I apologize to all of the people I traveled next to, all the workers who handled my luggage, and all the other non-targeted people at the hotel who's who are put in danger simply by being near. I apologize to everyone who was abused and or murdered before this. To all those who suffered before I was able to attempt this. To all to all who may still suffer after regardless of my sex success or failure. I don't expect forgiveness. But I could have but I could have seen any other way to get this close. I would have taken it. So if I could see another way to get this close, I would have taken it. Again, my sincere apologies. On to why I did this. I am a citizen of the United States of America. What my representatives do reflects on me and I'm no longer willing to permit a pedophile rapist and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes. Brackets. Well, well, not to be completely honest, I was I I was no longer willing a long time ago, but this is the first real opportunity I've had to do something about it. While I'm discussing this, I'll also go over my expected rules of engagement. probably in a terrible format, but I'm not military, so too bad. Administration officials, not included, Mr. Patel. They are targets prioritized from highest ranking to lowest. Not included, Mr. Patel. So, Cash Patel was not included. Secret Service, they are targets only if necessary and to be implicated non-lethally if possible. Aka, I hope they're wearing body armor, which one of them was, because center mass with shotgun messes up people who aren't. Hotel security, not targets if at all possible. Aka, unless they shoot at me. Capital Police, same as hotel security. National Guard, same as hotel security. So, not targets. Hotel employees, not targets at all. Guests, not targets at all. In order to minimize casualties, I'll also be using buckshot rather than slugs. Less penetration through walls. I'll let you explain that. I would still go through most It's almost done. I would still go through most everyone here to get to the targets if it were absolutely necessary on the basis that most people chose to attend a speech by a pedophile rapist and traitor and are thus complicit. But I really hope it doesn't come to that.
So that's the manifesto he wrote. Uh I think the most important one is the bullets one. He used he did not use slugs to avoid too many casualties because they have less penetration through walls. Again, I'm not an expert there. And his uh motive is Trump being a pedophile, rapist, and traitor, which I'm assuming he's referring to the Epstein files and traitor. Maybe he's referring to the war in Iran. Um, general thoughts on the manifesto, Larry.
Like I said, I think this thing was staged. I think he was encouraged to do this. You know, the indictment that was brought against the Southern Poverty Law Center this last week actually provides a template for how this kind of thing is done. And while I fully believe that the SPLC did what they're accused of doing, which mean they would go out, they would develop a relationship with members of the KKK or members of a neo-Nazi organization and they provide him with money, support so that they could go protest and act. And it would appear to be organic that that they were doing this on their own initiative when in fact they were doing it with the help and encouragement of the SPLC. Well, the FBI has done the same thing in the past. You remember the assassination plot for the governor of Michigan? Those the four guys that were arrested and convicted, again, they testified. It wasn't even their idea. The idea came from this FBI informant. So, a cutout paid by the FBI was sent to dangle an opportunity in front of these guys and they took it. So I can't rule out that that same phenomena is happening here. You know, this third attempt on Trump, and the previous two, especially the Butler one, has not been thoroughly investigated, and Trump has not been pressing for that investigation. I think they really look at the way the media's portrayed this story as this guy was trying to kill Trump. He got nowhere close to Trump. He got out.
Isn't because he failed? He tried but he was really bad at it.
Well, or or you stage it in such a way that he can't succeed, you know.
So, if it was staged, who do you think would have staged it? Because for something like this to be staged, wouldn't all the Secret Service need to be in on it to make sure they don't kill him?
Not necessarily. FBI could have done it. The FBI's got a track record of doing this. And we've seen how corrupt they've been and staging --
Staging assassination attempts within the US?
Sure. Sure. Again, they did it with Governor Whitmer up in Michigan. You know, it was quite clear what they they got infiltrated, that the number of so-called terrorist attacks that were planned by Islamic terrorists turned out again with FBI incitement, FBI informants.
And in fact, you know, the claim that Iran was trying to assassinate Trump, hell, that one's got the DEA, CIA, and FBI fingerprints all over it.You know, the guy who was supposedly the mastermind of it, he was first arrested in Singapore for drug trafficking, had another partner with him. I mean, they had a big load of heroin. Now, you know how strict Singapore is. You know, they'll beat your ass for chewing gum. He gets arrested. Does he do any prison time? Nope. That immediately tells you right off the bat he became a DEA informant. And the reason I know that, my former partner Bob Nieves, chief of international operations for DEA. My other partner, John Moynihan ran DEA's undercover moneyaundering operations in New York City. So, I'm not I'm not speaking without having some knowledge, at least secondhand knowledge, from people who are right in the middle of this kind of stuff. And then they staged what was supposedly an Iranian plot to assassinate Trump. It wasn't at all. This was an intelligence staging to create the impression that Iran was doing this in order to justify attacking Iran.
So again, I don't know what the actual motive is here, but all I know is I'm seeing things that don't make sense. This guy is running with a live firearm, shooting people with a shotgun. You know, buckshot just means that it's got instead of one big slug, you know, it's like the size of your thumb. It's got smaller pellets, they look like ball bearings. They're bigger than a BB. They can be the equivalent of like a 9 millimeter round, but instead of shaped like a bullet, they're shaped like balls. And it can do some serious damage.
But here's the question. Here's another odd thing. He came from California, right? Have you ever traveled with a firearm on board an airplane? So, to do that, you have to fill out paperwork. You have to alert the airline, and it has to be specifically packed and regulated. Okay. The same with the handgun, the same with the knives. You know, the knives he could have packed into his check-on luggage, but not the handgun. You know, the handgun and the shotgun. Those had to be registered at the airport. So, the airline knew about it. And then when he's checking into a hotel, you know, you've got a visible gun case. You can't hide that. So you can't say that he disassembled it and put it in a suitcase. No, sorry. You don't get to travel airline with a shot and if he --
So they're saying he traveled by train from LA to Chicago to Washington DC, and checked into Hilton. So that makes it easier to --
Oh, he traveled by train?
Yeah. Okay. So there was some forethought. I thought he traveled by plane. If he traveled by train, yeah, you can get on the train with a submachine gun, a bazooka. They have zero security on this account. There's a real gap. So again, this shows this this guy didn't think that up on his own. Trust me, he had help.
There is early indication suggesting the suspect intended to target Trump. The attacker likely did not have direct access to the ballroom. He was stopped at the final checkpoint. Right. So, he did get through a few checkpoints before the final one with the firearms. Right.
Yeah, he got through. He just got through one. It looked to me like he was caught between the first checkpoint and second checkpoint.
But again, when you look at the fact that he -- You know, I hadn't heard that he transported by train.
Yeah. Right. Somebody helped him plan this, because they had thought it through, because I guarantee you I doubt if he was some sort of firearms enthusiast. You know, let's see if the evidence comes up. Was he a regular shooter at a gun range? I doubt it. So then the issue of how do you move firearms across country, even if you tried to do it in a car, there are certain states that if you get pulled over with a firearm in your car, you can get arrested, like New Jersey.
He was running very quickly. Is it also possible that he was tackled because, you know, firing at someone who is running so quickly, they might have tried to fire at him cuz we've seen shots fired from what I understand. But they might have also tried to tackle him cuz he's sprinting so quickly. So maybe tackling someone cuz he's sprinting and he's coming towards you. It might be quicker to just tackle him rather than pull out a gun, let him run.
But he's got a live firearm. He's shooting people. You try to get close enough to tackle him, you get shot. I mean, that's not law enforcement protocol. Law enforcement protocol is if you got a guy with a gun who's moving, you shoot his ass. You don't tackle him or shoot him in the knee. And you put him down center mass, head shot if you can but even if he's moving fast that you know --
So investigators have traced both weapons used in the shooting to legal purchases made by Code Allen in California. October 6th, 2023 purchased a 38 caliber semi-automatic pistol from a store in Southern California. August 17, 2025, purchased a 12 gauge shotgun from a store in his hometown of Torrance, California. Both purchases passed FBI background checks and complied with California's 10-day waiting period. Allan had no criminal record, no restraining orders, and was not a wanted person at the time of purchase. He bought the weapons legally, passed every check, and walked in the event with them undetected. That's a weird one. How he walked in with them undetected.
Yeah. Because either they they weren't checking, and they weren't passing people through metal detectors, but he had a 38 caliber, known as a 380 semi-automatic pistol. I'm assuming it's a pistol, not a revolver. But that gun is, Yeah, you can kill somebody with it. But it just shows he's not someone experienced with firearms. I mean, if you're going to buy a pistol, particularly for self-defense, minimum 9 millimeter. You can get away with a a 380, but your minimum preferred is 9 mil. So again, this guy, he had help.
So this is a clip. This is Trump's speech on the matter.
... tonight. And I will say, you know, this is not a particularly secure building. And 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. It's actually a larger room, and it's much more secure. 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 a little bit different, because today we need levels of security that probably nobody's ever seen before.
Yeah, that's ridiculous. Still, even with the new building, with a new ballroom, you still have to control security at the access points. Now, I have had personal experience with going on to Mar-a -Lago. I got invited to, it was a Lincoln day dinner back in I want to say fall of 2021. So Trump's out of office, and my wife and I were guests of the Gateway Pundit. So when we drove on to Mar-a-Lago property, I had my concealed carry with me. I had the firearm on me. And we pull up, and the Secret Service guy says, "Ah, got any weapons in the car?" I said, "Yeah, we've got them locked in the glove box, our pistols that we use for self-defense." He goes, "Oh, we can't have those on the property." So, I unloaded my wife. I took the guns back to the hotel, locked them in the safe, came back, and drive up. He says, "You got any weapons?" I said, "Nope, I locked them up." "Okay, you're good." He didn't check. Didn't check. No, did not check. I walked into Mar-a-Lago. And let's see, Roger Stone was there that night. Judge Jeanine Pirro was there Don Jr. was there. You know, the whole shooting match. Richard Grenell. And at no point did we go through a metal detector. I mean, this is Trump, with zero security. I mean, sure, the secret service was there. And I actually went up to one of the guys later and said, you know, basically, WTF guys, you don't even have a perimeter worth a damn here that you're checking. So I've seen this before.
And it's not a matter of oh, we have to have the right kind of building built to be secure. No, you put the damn procedures in place, and you make sure you have redundancy. It's real simple. Within that building you've got a limited number of access points. You describe how can people get from we're going to create a security perimeter. What are the points of vulnerability where somebody can breach those? Then you put personnel there for starters. And then if people are going to be passing there, you put magnetometers there for starters. And you got hand wands as well. And you've got armed personnel standing by in the event that somebody wants to rush through it. So you can shoot their ass right off the bat. They didn't do that.
Look, everybody wants to accuse, saying "You're just a Monday morning quarterback." No, I'm not. This is basic common sense. Things that should have been done that were not done. And that goes back to a question of who's leading this pack of clowns.
Some more information. And there's various theories I'm going to go through, and get your thoughts on them. First, there are photos coming out. One of them had an IDF logo there, and it was deleted from his Instagram. It couldn't be verified. So that was just a claim that was floating online. Another one, someone made a similar t-shirt with Pakistan written on it. It looked pretty real. But nothing's been verified. The things we know I mentioned earlier, but the other pieces of information, he was an engineer. If you can play that clip of him, he's a Caltech trained engineer. And there's a video of him trying to build wheelchairs in an event called Into the Future. KK, if you can play that clip as well, to kind of give you an idea of the person. He's not the type of person you'd expect to be participating in an assassination attempt. Joe Kent, who I'm going to have on the show tomorrow says, "There have now been three assassination attempts against Trump, and multiple breaches of a security perimeter. How and why does this keep happening? Dismissing it as sheer incompetence can only explain so much. The purpose of any system is what it does. We need to be asking what is the purpose of this system?"
For a wheelchair emergency brake.
The wheelchair brakes tend to lock the wheels, but don't actually lock the chair to the ground. The idea with this is to prevent it from moving at all.
There's also a report that the gunman left a manifesto in the hotel room, that his brother had notified New London police about prior to this incident --
New London, Connecticut?
Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. It says New London police. And then Trump has a comment on this. He says, "I heard about the New London situation. I wish they would have told us about it a little bit, but it is what it is. We had a great group of people there last night."
So he left a manifesto in his hotel room that his brother had notified New London police about prior to this incident. So I don't know why his brother, maybe his brother knew about the manifesto. He told New London police. So he sent the manifesto as well to his family 10 minutes before opening fire calling himself quote "friendly federal assassin." And then Don Bonjino commented as well. Don Bonjino said he's raising a red flag about Trump's security perimeter. His concern that the protective bubble may have been compressed too tightly, creating gaps rather than closing them. He added that a full review is coming to figure out how to prevent this from happening again. What does he mean, "is compressed too tightly, leaving gaps rather than closing them?" Do you know what he means by that concern?
Yeah. I don't pay attention to a single thing that Bongino says. I used to think the guy had some credibility. He's got zero. He's a clown, and he proved it with his tenure as deputy director of the FBI. Look, you can't compress a circle. You've got entry and exit points to the hotel. So, the Washington Hilton, as I recall, has at least two entrances. One on Connecticut Avenue, one down on the I forget the name of the street on the side. And then it's got an area where you know delivery trucks can come. So you got basically three main entrances into the hotel to cover. All right. So that's where you start your security. In fact, you start your security out at the street before people even get into the hotel. You want to make sure that nobody's going into the hotel that doesn't have a reason to be there. So okay, that's where you start out at the street. Then at the entrance, that's where the second level of screening comes. Then inside, if you're going to the ballroom, that's probably one access corridor. That's where your third level goes up. I mean, this isn't rocket science, you know? This isn't like trying to study calculus and have to do it all in Chinese and you're raised as an English speaker. I mean, this is just basic common sense. And that's what we're seeing a complete lack of here. And so his compressed circles. Bongino's a clown.
If this wasn't staged, would you consider it a security lapse?
Yes. And a significant one.
But what do you make of everything that's happened in the last couple of years? There's a lot, from Butler, to the one in Mar-a-Lago, to this one now.
Yeah. Well, I don't really believe in coincidences, and as you look back at these, I'll put quotation marks, "assassination attempts", you know, the first one in Butler --
The butler one, what do you think of that one?
It appeared to be real, and certainly people died, but there were again the lapses that took place there, things that should should have been done were not done. So how can you be that incompetent? So now we're supposed to believe that we got continued incompetence heren more than two years after that? You're supposed to do a critical evaluation of where did we screw up? Where did we fail to follow protocol? There are clear failures of protocol here that again, I'm very curious how they brought the guy down, because --
Yeah, I've asked my team to get me more information.
Because just tackling a guy with a live firearm, that's not protocol. Live firearm, you shoot them, and you shoot them till they're down, till they stop moving.
I'm trying to get more information on how many security checkpoints he went through. We've never talked about the Charlie Kirk assassination.
Oh, okay. I thought we had.
We had briefly. We've done one episode, but we haven't done a deep dive. I'm used to doing multi-hour dives with you now on different issues.
The Charlie Kirk one, it's been brought up again. I haven't paid attention to it. Rogan and others have started to talk about it again. Have you, because I've been obviously busy with Iran. Have you been keeping track of the latest developments?
Yeah. No, the story doesn't make sense. So number one, now the ATF report on the ballistics claimed that they had a bullet fragment from a 30 caliber. Now understand, 30 caliber does not necessarily mean 30-6. The bullet in a 30-6 is about the size of the tip of my little finger. It's a big bullet, and fired out of a rifle that handles a 308 has enormous force. It's the kind of bullet that doesn't enter and then stop. And it doesn't fragment, even if it hits something hard that bullet isn't going to fragment. So, the fact that they claim that they got a fragment, what I wanted to know is where is the rest of the bullet? Because we didn't see an exit wound on his body. So, if you got one frag, there's got to be the rest of the bullet there. So, there's an inadequate report right there. Number one. And they claimed that they could not match that fragment to the rifle. Duh. Because that rifle is not the one that killed Charlie Kirk. It was staged, whether it was up on the roof with Tyler Robinson, or not, is one thing.
You know, the other problem with this is how the hell did Tyler Robinson know where to go in order to take a shot? And let's just assume that he is using that particular mauser with a scope. The people who do what's called bench rest shooting, where you sit down steady with a rifle, you have it resting on something so that you can steady the barrel, because if you just stand up and try to hold it, everybody, every living, breathing human being has what's called a natural arc of movement. And I'm going to exaggerate it here. You see that? That's an exaggerated one. Normally when you see it, it's just slight. It can be almost undetectable. Except when you're shooting a rifle, and you've got that natural arc of movement going, over distance you get wider and wider variance off the bullet.
So the ways you manage that is by breath control. So, most rifle shooters are taught to exhale halfway, hold your breath, press the trigger. You don't want to be jerking it, squeezing it, pulling it. You want to press. So that kind of shot, even at 140 yards, is a difficult shot to do. And how did he know the distance? How did he know where that roof was, and where Charlie Kirk would be seated? Because he had never been there before. And how did he know how he would get access to the roof? He had never been there before.
And you've got to know how to zero your weapon. Zero the rifles. So zeroing means when you look through the scope, you see a lot of reticles, you know, crosshairs like that, and what you do then is you get a certain distance where you shoot at a target, and you aim for center, and if you're aiming for the center, but your bullet is going up here, you have to make adjustments to the scope. So you make adjustments that bring it down. That's called the vertical rise elevation. And then windage, right to left. So then you have to move it here to my left, your right. So you make adjustments actually on the scope. There are dials that can be turned that can adjust for what they call "minutes of arc, MOA." So he had to pre-plan all of that ahead of time. He couldn't just go out there and say, "Hey, I'm grabbing grandpa's rifle, and I'm going to shoot it at 140 yards, and know exactly where I'm going to hit." That doesn't make sense.
And then the third element, why the hell was the FBI there on that day? Candace Owens reported that the doctor who treated Charlie in the emergency room, when he came out of the treatment room, he when he tried to go back in, he was confronted by two FBI agents. And why the hell is the FBI there? Under federal law, FBI has no jurisdiction over a shooting in a state. That's state law. That's not federal law. And you could get the FBI in if the locals said, "Oh, we need some help in investigating this." So you would then call the FBI in. But that would be two or three days later. They were there on the very day. What the hell were they doing there?
And then Kash Patel, I think you interviewed Joe Kent, Kash Patel wouldn't let the National Counterterrorism Center do any kind of investigation to see if there were any foreign actors involved, which there is ample evidence for the possibility of foreign actors being involved. Yeah. So again, with the whole Charlie Kirk thing, it stinks to high heaven too.
There's a lot of talks about the crime scene being tampered with or being destroyed. TPUSA staff allegedly removed cameras items within minutes, the staged was dismantled in three hours, the grass paved over with concrete within days, tore off and repaved. So that's another one. There's also some people talking about the text messages being staged, or looking suspicious. For me that one was a bit less of a question mark than others. Security bodyguard behavior. There's the hand signals of the security guard beforehand. I think that one again is a bit less questionable for me. So people that don't know --
Yeah, yeah. There are people claiming that they had some sort of palm pistol that you can hide. Look, I'm a firearms instructor. I've taught handguns to over 300 people. Just trying to get new shooters, even an experienced shooter, to aim, and hit a target in a precise location at three yards, at 9 ft, is challenging. But this was more than 9 ft. This was closer to 25 feet away where the alleged palm pistol came from. And you need to aim. If you're just holding it up and pointing in the general direction, you have no idea where that bullet's going to go.
So, I've had some analysts on stage. All of them agree that the fact that he might have had a pen pistol, or mic pistol, there are a lot of indicators. So that's highly unlikely.
Very much so. Because look, all I can go on is what I see on the video. And on the video you see Charlie immediately have this reaction going backwards. The hole appears in his neck where the carotid artery is, and instead of the immediate pumping of blood out, you see just a pause, and then a flood of blood pouring out. What that tells me is that the initial round went in, whatever round it was, severed not only the carotid artery, but severed the aortic artery. In other words, it creates a blast wave. When you sever the aortic artery, the heart, even if it's still beating, it's not pumping blood up into the head. So what you saw was the blood that rushed out, because there was no longer blood flowing up into the head, everything that was up in the head came out through that hole. That's why you didn't see the spray that anybody that's been around someone cut with an arterial bleed, it pumps out. It's like a squirt gun.
So, look, this thing was not properly investigated, and the quick rush to judgment to set up Tyler Robinson for whatever reason. That kid did not make that shot from 140 yards with grandpa's rifle having done absolutely no prior surveillance of that location. And when I talk surveillance, I mean you physically go there. You don't just look it up on the internet. You physically go there and say, "Okay, how do I get into this building? If I go into this building carrying a rifle, even stuffed down my pants, or broken apart in my backpack, how do I do that?"
And that's the other thing. The images they showed him going up the stairs. There was no way -- where was the rifle? And they say, "Oh, it was broken down in his backpack." Nonsense. That rifle didn't break down like that. Today's modern rifles, yeah, you can get some that can break down.
Didn't they say he might have had it already assembled but under his clothes?
Yeah, they said that. But when you're looking at it, you still got to be able to bend your legs, and he's bending his legs when he's going up the stairs.
Is it true we haven't had footage of Tyler Robinson taking the shot?
They supposedly say that they've got that. I'll believe it when I see it.
They haven't published it yet. But with this guy, the footage that Trump posted within minutes, within hours, the footage of him running through the security checkpoint. That was published pretty instantly. So a lot of people are saying, why can't we have the Tyler Robinson shooting footage released earlier? Now, the counter argument to that is there's an ongoing investigation; there's an ongoing court case. So, the evidence cannot be released to the public until the case is closed first.
Right.
We also haven't heard from Tyler Robinson whatsoever, have we since the assassination?
No. And I think he's going to plead not guilty. Actually, I have a dummy 308 round over here I can show you if you want me to.
Oh yeah. Please stand by. Let me grab it.
Yeah, I'll wait for you, and we'll play a quick clip for the audience. By the way, Sky News played this clip here, and they're wondering why that after the gun attack at the White House correspondents dinner, there was a press conference so quickly. So put the audio on.
The White House machine didn't pause, hardly drew a breath before organizing the press conference.
Yeah. Fascinating, isn't it? Donald Trump. But you know, we've seen that before.
That was it. Not that fascinating of a clip. Yeah, my producers are telling me behind the scenes it's a useless clip. It is. But I thought it was more than that.
So here it is. Let me just show you here.
That's the round used to allegedly shoot Charlie Kirk?
Exactly. So it's a little over 3 in long. The bullet itself, the caliber, is a 30-6. So, or 308 round, excuse me. So, yeah, it a substantial bullet. And this entire part of the case is filled with gunpowder, which gives it an immense amount of power. So, as opposed to, you know, like a 22 round, which is a very skinny one. And so this one is a dummy round. So you have the primer. So, normally the way the rifle works is when you press the trigger, it's like a pin comes and hits that orange part. That orange part. This is dummied up; that's rubber. But it hits that. That sets off a miniature explosion. That miniature explosion then ignites the gunpowder in the shell. and that creates a force that propels the the bullet downrange.
But again, the story doesn't add up. The story they want you to believe is that Tyler Robinson, for whatever reason, was disturbed at Charlie Kirk because he felt he was personally threatened because of Kirk's opposition to transgenderism. He grabbed his rifle, went down to the university that he had never been to before, and found the proper perch where he could lie down unobserved, and then got off a shot, and then immediately, instead of retreating back like the way he came, he knew that he could run over to the edge of the roof and jump off? Again, you might do that if you had done reconnaissance in advance, but he hadn't. At least that's what we've been told. So I say the story doesn't add up. So you get events like that where there is strong circumstantial evidence pointing to Israel and France who both had motives to want to shut him up. But the investigation was tampered with.
And now we have this crazy thing with Trump yesterday, which again doesn't make sense.
Yeah. I'm just looking at Kash Patel getting escorted out. Let me just play that quickly for you, and then we wrap it up. It doesn't show much. And I have one question for you after we see that clip quickly. There's Kash Patel getting escorted out, but he's very casually walking out. So the way he was taken out is very different, they're just walking out there behind him.
My last question for you, Larry, and it's always a pleasure to have you, is when Charlie Kirk was shot, what was your first reaction when you saw this?
Yeah. Well, I thought it was a professional hit. And when I saw that immediate gush of blood, and it wasn't a carotid artery pumping, you knew that it was a fatal wound, and he would not be recovering from that. And again, he's supposed to have a security team. A security team failed to do its job. And that's the common theme here. Donald Trump's supposed to have a security team keeping him safe, and they're not doing their job.
What's the most worrying thing is how I was talking to Matt Taj earlier about this, and his biggest concern is the indoctrination that's happening online. He was talking about, what was it called KK, the group that grooms kids? I didn't know about it till he mentioned it. A group and organization that grooms kids on Roblox. There's a name for it. KK, what was it called? Can you let me know in the DMs? But essentially it's just a group of people in the US who believe in Satanism. They're called 764 group, 764 organization. Not sure if you've heard about it, Larry.
No, I have not.
It's so bizarre. It's apparently, you know, my producers knew about it as soon as Matt mentioned it. It's just an organization. They believe in Satanism, and they just start indoctrinating kids from different games like Roblox. But if you take a step even beyond that, I think online it's linked to satanic or nihilistic ideologies aimed to groom, blackmail, and force victims into extreme self-harm, and illegal activities, targeting kids and games like Roblox.
And then if you mix this with what even adults are confronting with with today's social media world, where people are just being fed hate and divisiveness, this is done on a regular basis, day after day after day, and you being witness to it, if that letter is real, and I know you've got your own doubts, but if that manifesto is real, he talks about Trump being a pedophile, a traitor, etc., which is the rhetoric being fed, and we're seeing the same thing happen on the left and the right. And Matt's concern, Larry, I'll ask you about this. I know we're meant to wrap up. Matt's concern is that foreign governments are playing a role in this trying to cause divisiveness within the US. You worked at the CIA. Is that possible that that could be the case? I'm not saying they planned a certain assassination, but feeding that divisiveness in the society?
Well, let me put it this way. I know that we have done the same things to other countries. So yes, other countries can do that to us. I mean the old saying, "what goes around comes around." But the bottom line for me, what is the essential conclusion, is that those methods, if you've got a solid society, if you're on a solid foundation, those methods are not going to be effective. There already has to weakness. And you know the transformation of the Soviet Union to Russia, and then Russia what it is today, I think one of the reasons that Russia has been so stable is because of its solid Christian foundation. But that said, it still finds a way to live in harmony with other religions, particularly with Islam. It is not predisposed to be antagonistic with Islam. Just the opposite. And even in Israel, they have one entire federal republic, that's Jewish, you know, like a middle little Israel. But they still got this solid moral foundation about what's right, what's wrong, and that helps societies hold together against those kinds of attacks. But those attacks are real, and I know that CIA has used them against other countries.
Larry, always a pleasure to have you on the show. You know, the fans, the audience loves to have you on all the time. People should really do two things. I think check out Sonar21, Larry's website, where he shares his thoughts all the time. And number two, send him a DM. You know, he loves to check those DMs, get your feedback, good and bad. Hit him up. Send him a DM. He doesn't have a Twitter account, unfortunately. I know a lot of people on Twitter watch this.
Well, actually, I do.
Oh, you do? My team, I asked them one day, why aren't they tagging you in the clips? So, my team does the clips of all the interviews. So why don't you tag Larry? They're like, "Oh, he's not on X." Send it to me on WhatsApp.
I'll make sure it's tagged this time around so people can follow you there. Yeah, I'll do that. But it's always a pleasure to have you, Larry. Thank you for coming on again.
All right, my friend. Thank you. And keep up the good work. Thank you, sir. All right. Bye-bye.
'Shots Will Be Fired': Karoline Leavitt Makes Eerie Prediction Moments Before Bullets Break Out at White House Correspondents' Dinner by Rebecca Friedman okmagazine.com April 25 2026, Updated 11:25 p.m. ET https://okmagazine.com/p/karoline-leavi ... ts-dinner/
29:36 – 30:18 [Fox Reporter] Is he not?
[Karoline Leavitt] He is ready to rumble. I will tell you, this speech tonight will be classic Donald J. Trump. It'll be funny. It'll be entertaining. There will be some shots fired tonight in the room.
[Fox Reporter] Ha ha ha ha.
[Karoline Leavitt] So, everyone should tune in. It's going to be really great. I'm looking forward to hearing it.
[Fox Reporter] I love it all. And you wrote most of it, you said.
[Karoline Leavitt] I can't take credit. In true Donald Trump fashion, the man puts his pen to the paper himself. So, it's a lot of his own work.
Karoline Leavitt shockingly declared shots would be "fired" at the 2026 White House Correspondents' Dinner just moments before a gunman let loose at the highly-anticipated event.
"He is ready to rumble. His speech tonight will be classic Donald J. Trump. It’ll be funny, it’ll be entertaining.There will be some shots fired tonight in the room. So everyone should tune in. It’s gonna be really great,"
Leavitt eerily predicted while speaking to Fox News on the red carpet.
Iran FM frustrates Trump; returns to Pakistan after US delegation cancels trip by Rifat Jawaid Janta Ka Reporter Apr 26, 2026
US President Donald Trump has decided to not hold in-person talks with Iran after Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi's decision to not meet the US delegation led to the cancellation of the scheduled trip of Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner. However, as soon as Trump cancelled the trip of his delegation, Araghchi returned to Pakistan. This, Rifat Jawaid explains, appears to be an attempt to test Trump's patience by Iran.
Transcript
Two major developments, and both are absolutely mind-blowing and crazy stuff.
First, we have more evidence on how Iran orchestrated a so-called diplomatic talk with the US to embarrass the clown from the White House. And then last night, Donald Trump's White House correspondents dinner was marred by another episode of shooting. The facts surrounding this event are absolutely crazy. I will explain to you how in a bit. But social media users are already calling it another false flag incident at a time when Trump faces unprecedented scrutiny at home for his reckless decision to illegally attack Iran. An action which is wreaking havoc on people around the world including the US due to soaring oil and gas prices. White House press secretary Caroline Leit's pre-dinner prediction stating that shots would be fired is making the shooting incident even more suspicious. Then a video of Fox News abruptly cutting off its reporter who was in the midst of reporting that Caroline Leit's husband was telling her to be very safe even before the incident of shooting added another twist to this episode. This would be the broad focus of my video tonight. So please stay tuned. So, Iranian foreign minister sayas Sarakshi today returned to Pakistan from Muscat after learning about Trump's decision to not send his Jewish property developers for diplomatic talks. I mean, the Iranians are really aware. They really know how to play around with Trump. Arai left for Muscat, Oman, when Trump announced his plans to send his delegation to Pakistan. And as soon as Trump cancelled or was forced to cancel his plans following the snubbing by Iran, Arashi returned back to Islamabad. This is like a classic case of a decent person avoiding a jilted stalker. As I speak, the Iranian foreign minister is in Pakistan. He will depart from Moscow tomorrow morning. Not in as many words, but these experts on Al Jazzer kind of summed up the cumulative humiliation of Trump by Iran. He's a senior non-resident fellow at the Center for International Policy. She's also the host of the Iran podcast. Good to have you both with us. If I could start with General Kimit. So, what happened? Um Caroline Levit was saying they're going because the Iranians want to talk. The Iranians were saying no. And now Jared Kushner and and Steve Witkoff no longer going. Did the White House put out the wrong message or did something happen behind the scenes? What's your feeling? Well, I think what's going on is what we've seen for the last couple of weeks, which is there are different power centers inside of Iran. There's nobody to make the ultimate decision. I suspect that it was communicated to the White House that there would be somebody there to talk to and hence, let's get some people over there to talk to the Iranians. uh it's clear that uh Arachi the foreign minister had different views on this and uh as he announced that he was going to be making a trip to Islamabad and Moscow and Moscat uh I think there was a sensing that he would stay in Islam Abad to at least have indirect talks with the Americans. Who is the other power center then, General Kimmit? Who is who is telling the White House, yes, they will stay there to talk to you. The Iranians want to talk face to face is what Caroline Levit was saying. Well, again, this has been the great controversy over the last couple of weeks. Is it the foreign ministry? Is it the IRGC? Is the message coming from the Supreme Leader? Is the message coming from Halibah over in the parliament? So, we don't know. Basically, we don't know. And and I think whether this was done intentionally to embarrass the Americans or whether it was done because we're listening to the wrong people, I don't think the Iranians even know. Is that how you see it, Are we is it a case of mixed messaging from the Iranians or is there is a little bit of a history of mixed messaging from the US? Even from, you know, the US president himself, let alone different centers of power than the US. The US president has gone from total unconditional surrender to the 10 points put forward by Iran were workable on April the 7th to no it has to be the US points. Yes. I mean I've seen coision more from the Iranian side. The 10point plan and as far as the room to maneuver for them which isn't very much and the red lines have been pretty solid. Now it's the blockade. before it was a ceasefire in Lebanon and decision- making. Yes, it's no longer just the politicians and the diplomats in Tehran. It's really the commanders who are in the driver's seat. But we see the kind of people they sent in the first Islamabad meeting that was very historic. I mean the speaker of parliament essentially the facto number two in Iran Alib who is seen at almost the same level as the president was a former IRGC commander has good relations with that wing. So that was a consolidation of that power and then also the foreign minister Arachi who knows this file US and Iran inside and out. He's been involved in it forever. So that showed seriousness and then more senior people coming in the Iranian in a very large delegation with authority to make decisions. And what we saw or heard as far as reporting from the meeting was that the vice president on the US I mean sending the vice president also showed a lot of seriousness from Washington but he had to call President Trump many many times and it seemed like it was on the US side the decision-m that wasn't very clear and the as for Trump last night's white house correspondents dinner by him hit the media headlines for all the wrong reasons. That's because a shooting incident was reported at the site of the event in Washington. The police have already arrested a man identified as called Thomas Allen as the prime suspect. This 31-year-old man is being described as a resident of California. According to the Reuters news agency, the police have already begun searching the suspect's house in California. This is the second incident of shooting at a gathering where Trump was present. You may remember the first shooting incident involving Trump during his campaign trail in 2024. Anyway, let's now look at the facts surrounding this incredibly dramatic incident. This event was important given Trump's previous history of boycotting the dinner. No wonder Caroline Levit appeared overly excited when she spoke to the media before the start of the dinner. But in her excitement, she also said that shots would be fired in tonight's event. It's not clear what she meant by by that. But whatever the case, shorts were indeed fired when the dinner started. To rumble, is he not? He is ready to rumble. I will tell you this speech tonight will be classic Donald J. Trump. It'll be funny. It'll be entertaining. There will be some shots fired tonight in the room. So, everyone should tune in. It's going to be really great. I'm looking forward to hearing it. In fact, the Washington Times reported that Secret Service agents actually shouted shots fired during the time of the shooting. Then this happened. A Fox News reporter, Aisha Husni, her name is, appeared on her channel to take her audience through the chronology of events. However, just when she was in the midst of revealing some damning truths, Fox News lost her abruptly. The channel of course blamed a poor network in the US for this sudden loss. I want to just quickly tell you I was sitting next to Caroline Levit um the press secretary's husband. Um he was um one of our guests. He was seated right next to me and um you know right as the dinner was starting um you know the national anthem happened and then he kind of leaned over and said you know I watched you on TV. You do a great job. You need to be very safe. and and he was just very serious when he said that to me and he kind of looked around the room and he said, you know, there are some sounds like we lost Aisha's phone there. I'm not here to create any doubts in anyone's mind. I'm only stating the relevant developments important to the story and trying to present them to you. It's up to you to conclude whatever you may wish. A Fox News reporter did ask Trump later why there are always shooting incidents involving him. Trump's response would make his detractors even more doubtful. According to him, this shooting incident reminded him why he needed to be allowed to construct the ballroom, which was stopped by a US judge before an appeals court judge stayed the order. 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. It's actually a larger room and it's a 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's critics are calling the shooting incident at the White House correspondents dinner another false flag episode. The argument is that this has been a pretty successful ploy by the Israeli spy network Mossad to convert hatred or criticism for Israel into widespread sympathy. Trump is now being accused of taking a leaf out of the Mossad book as he faces mounting criticism for his actions against Iran. Mind you, this deranged occupant of the White House told us that the Iran operation would be over within four to 6 weeks. We are now in the eighth week and there is no sign of this conflict coming to an end. If anything, Trump's actions indicate that the conflict could last for a considerably long time as he deploys another aircraft carrier in the region. Trump's decision to attack Iran is hurting even Americans who are now being hit by skyrocketing oil and gas prices. This has the potential to end Trump's political career after this year's midterm poll. Such is the dire prospect that Trump has already made peace with a humiliating defeat in this year's midterm polls. Also, acting attorney general Todd Blanch said that the suspect of last night's shooting said that his target was Trump, but the same suspect has still not explained his motive. The investigating agencies have managed to and very quickly managed to force him to say who his target was, but not why. Some people are also raising questions about how the evacuation took place. Trump appeared unmoved even after shots of firing could be heard. Then this video showed Secret Service agents evacuating JD vans first before taking Trump to safety. All right. Where? Where? Where? Where's it at? Where? I'm not a fan of this kind news presenter Trevor Phillips, but he rightly asked a pertinent question to his channel's US correspondent. You too should watch. Sorry, James. I was just saying that that that's quite a remarkable thing. There's mayhem, but uh the Trump White House machine didn't pause, hardly drew breath before uh organizing the press conference. Yeah. Fascinating, isn't it, Donald Trump? But, you know, we've seen that before. And the fact that this clown decided to link the last night shooting to Iran would give plenty of legitimacy to those who say this was another false flag operation. But you take a look at what's happened to some of our greatest presidents and it doesn't happen to people that don't do anything and it's not going to deter me from winning the war in Iran. And then the final question, how on earth was a so-called armed assassin allowed to enter the premises where the US president, his deputy, and other top members of his administration were present. This is despite the fact that the venue would have been sanitized by the Secret Service agents. I will leave you with the latest edition of Lego video on last night's shooting and Trump running scared. Enjoy the clip.
Yeah. White House correspondents dinner. Lights, cameras, then chaos. Trump on stage. Let's go. Let's go. Fancy ballroom lights glowing. Trump in a suit. Orange hair showing. Millennial beside him. Vans looking bored. Crowd full of haters clapping real low. Speech going smooth he go on inflate till a shadow moves near the metal gate. Backpack boy with a grin so shady. Pulls out the heat now getting crazy. Secret service screaming shots fire. Tables flip. People die for cover. Bullets flying like a confetti in the air. Trump's face turn white. Eyes wide with fear. He ran like hell. Ran like hell off that stage. Secret service. Grab him. Turn the page. Legs in the air. Flying wild. Big bad Trump looking like a scared child. Like hell like hell. What a show. The big tough guy. Go, bro. No one hurt but his giant ego. Shots at the dinner. Now the whole world knows. Lego style panic. Bodies on the floor. Wine glasses breaking screams and mo. One agent hit but vested. Nah. Gunman tackle. Goodbye. Oh Trump in the SUV hero messed up looking back like is this real but the next day at the White House suit back on tight I love the secret service to the best all right lone wolf lone wolf that's what he said while his legs were kicking like he's scared of the dead crowd outside laughing phones up high Trump ran faster than his own lies he ran like hell ran like hell off that stage the secret service hero saving the day from the podium king to a scared little man orange man running as fast as he can. Ran like hell. Ran like hell. Legendary fail. Winner of the year. This one made the trail. Esh shot worse than any bullet could. Trump got served and it wasn't food. Yeah. White House correspondence dinner. Lights, cameras, then chaos. Trump on stage. Let's go. Fancy ballroom. Hilton lights glowing. Trump in his suit. Orange hair showing. Millennial besid looking bored. Crowd full of haters clapping real low. Speech going smooth. He go inflate till the shadow moves near the metal gate. That black boy with the grin so shady pulls out the heat. Now it's getting crazy. Secret service screaming. Shots fired. Tables flip. People die for cover. Bullets flying like confetti in the air. Trump space turn white. Eyes white with fear. He ran like hell. Ran like hell off that stage. Secret service. Grab him. Turn the page. Legs in the air. Tight. Flying wild. Big bad trunk looking like a sketch out. Rain like hell. Rain like hell. What a show. Got to let go, bro. No one hurt but his giant ego. Shots at the dinner. Now the whole world knows. Lego style panic buddies on the floor. Wine glasses breaking screens and more. One agent hit but vest said nah. Bun man tackle goodbye. Cohen the SUV hair all messed up. looking back like, "Is this real?" Well, the next day at the White House, I'm back on tight. I love the Secret Service. They're the best star. I don't wolf, no wolf. That's what he said. While his legs were kicking like he's scared of the dead crowd outside laughing, phones up high. Trump ran faster than his own lies. He ran like hell. Ran like hell off that stage. Secret is hero saving the day. From the podium came to a scared little man. Orange man running as fast as he can. Ran like hell. Ran like hell. Legendary bail winner of the year. This one made the trail. Eagle shot worse than any bullet could. Trump got served and it wasn't food. Like April 25, they'll never forget the night the tough guy broke the internet. Like hell like hell.
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[Karoline Leavitt] He is ready to rumble. I will tell you, this speech tonight will be classic Donald J. Trump. It'll be funny. It'll be entertaining. There will be some shots fired tonight in the room.
[Fox Reporter] Ha ha ha ha.
[Karoline Leavitt] So, everyone should tune in. It's going to be really great. I'm looking forward to hearing it.
[Fox Reporter] I love it all. And you wrote most of it, you said.
[Karoline Leavitt] I can't take credit. In true Donald Trump fashion, the man puts his pen to the paper himself. So, it's a lot of his own work.
