Anti-Trump Protesters Have Doubts About Recent Assassination Attempt At WH Dinner
'It seems like Hollywood fluff.'
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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — President Donald Trump’s scheduled Friday appearance for an event at the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts brought out a small crowd of protesters.
In the aftermath of the attempted assassination on Trump and members of his administration at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, there has been chatter online on whether it was “staged.”
The suspect, Cole Tomas Allen, is accused of running past a security checkpoint with a shotgun and handgun in order to gain access to the room Trump was in. According to the manifesto he published moments before his foiled attack, Allen allegedly wrote, “Turning the other cheek is for when you yourself are oppressed. I’m not the person raped in a detention camp. I’m not the fisherman executed without trial.”
Allen further mocked how light security at the hotel appeared despite Trump’s announced arrival to the venue.
All the protesters I spoke to said they, at a minimum, have doubts about what federal officials have said about the shocking incident. One protester said she believes the assassination attempt at Butler was staged. Another said the WHCD suspect "did not seem crazy to me...he seemed pushed over the edge, in terms of what is happening to our country.”
“It seems like Hollywood fluff,” the last interviewee told me.
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