The White House shooting might be an inside job to get the ballhouse cleared
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How would having a ballroom in the East Wing stop this at all?? LOL give me a break
What it would stop, specifically, would be the checkpoints being so close to the event itself. The distance from the White House entrance to anything is rather large, compared to the 200 feet or so from anywhere inside a hotel to anywhere else inside a hotel.
Beyond that, no major differences. Person would rush one security gate, blast a bulletproof vest, get taken down. But it might not interrupt their dinner, since it would be much farther away. And interrupting the dinner of the elites is really the greatest tragedy of them all.
there's a world of difference in security between the white house grounds and some random convention center or wherever they had this
You have critical thinking skills. Exactly. If this attack wasn't a one man loon doing it, but instead a coordinated Cartel attack involving dozens of people, they'd FAR rather choose where the correspondents dinner is currently held rather than the white house. Not even the cartel is "loco" enough to charge the white house.
Then wouldn't the cartel just do a coordinated attack at one of the thousands of less defended locations to which the president travels in a year?
Of course they could, but typically most events aren't known about so far in advance to the public. The White House correspondence dinner is always the last saturday of April at the same location.
This gives people like the cartel tons of time to get blueprints, logistics, all the things needed.
Meanwhile if there's an event he's speaking at and they don't know that long in advance, nor know it well enough that they can make quick adjustments when they find the way things have shifted around, as far as security, they have a much harder job ahead for themselves.
Most "will be here in the same spot every year" sort of deals happen at the white house grounds itself.
The other places where he speaks not in a predictable place every time and place, they have more logistics they have to figure out, thus giving an advantage to the secret service who can figure out a location far sooner than the cartel can. By the time the cartel learns about a place Trump will be at, the Secret Service has already analyzed maps, strategy points, etc.
With the Correspondence dinner, the cartel has the same time advantage as the secret service does, meaning the risk is far greater.
When Trump gives the state of the union, again it's at the white house meaning you have to be downright suicidal to attempt anything there. It's like trying to steal from Fort Knox compared to the local bank.
it would move social events related to the president to the building that the secret service is trained on and knows every single nook and cranny of. there's a reason presidential assassinations from Lincoln to JFK all happen away from the White House.