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In reply to the discussion: White House Correspondents' Dinner shooting suspect worked as California teacher [View all]Aussie105
(8,089 posts)41. Not unusual for a shooter to have a normal background.
Not unusual to demonize such a person.
Not unusual for conspiracy theories to grow like mushrooms on a forest floor after rain.
Not unusual for Trump to use this as a 'photo op' to big note himself and as distraction from all the other 'stuff'.
Carry on.
Just another normal day in Trumpmanistan.
(Glad I don't live there.)
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White House Correspondents' Dinner shooting suspect worked as California teacher [View all]
BumRushDaShow
Sunday
OP
Well, that is the question: Was there a hidden reason, or just the usual Trumpian incompetence?
JHB
Sunday
#32
Not Caucasan? check. California? check. Teacher? check. Wears Israeli Defense Force sweater? Quick! Delete and deny!
GreenWave
Sunday
#37
Exactly my point,crack security and a guy gets on a roof even when others see him?
Bengus81
Sunday
#6
hardly "waltzes" by security. he zoomed past them at break neck speed. look for the video that
orleans
Sunday
#17
How could anyone have foreseen that a would-be assassin might run? Don't they usually walk?
lostnfound
Sunday
#34
Do we know if he was there to go after Trump critics in the press (assuming not fake)
JT45242
Sunday
#8
Did Trump ask again how it was playing to the public? Like after the Butler shooting?
travelingthrulife
Sunday
#16
George Carlin - That's not why the owners of this country want. Them and their
AZLD4Candidate
Sunday
#18