032 - White House Correspondence Dinner - Debrief

Well, fellas, man, hey, thanks so much for agreeing to do this.

I think, you know, I figured instead of just testing, texting each other, you know, about all the nonsense that we're seeing, like, man, it, it might be of some use to hop on a call and put this podcast out there into the universe and hear from experts.

And again, whether we like it or not, we're the experts in how this happened and how this operates.

You know, uh, address some of the, you know, outstanding questions that are out there, and, you know, without compromising any, uh, operational security, I don't know, give our, give our two cents in a, in, in a world of, uh, one-cent takes.

So with that, I'll say this.

We are recording this on a Thursday, and it's, uh, what is this, April thirtieth.

That sounds right.

The event happened on April twenty-fifth.

We're five days out, and there are still things we don't know.

Director Curran gave an interview that I just watched in the last thirty minutes that, in which he gave some updates and, and provided some additional insight that we can include in that.

I-- what I thought would be helpful is I'll run through a timeline of what we know, and then, you know, we'll kind of take it from there.

So pre-incident, on April sixth, the subject began researching the dinner and booked a stay at the Washington Hilton.

April twenty-first, subject left his home near Los Angeles, traveling by train to Chicago.

Apparently, he spends two nights in Chicago, then on April twenty-third, boards a second train to Washington, DC.

April twenty-fourth, subject arrives in Washington, DC and checks into the Washington Hilton.

This is one full day prior to the White House Correspondents' Dinner.

Day of the incident, April twenty-fifth, eight o'clock, the dinner begins with attendees, including President Trump, Vice President Vance, First Lady, Second Lady in attendance, host of other cabinet officials, government officials, all in attendance.

Eight oh three, according to court documents, subject took a photo of himself in his hotel room wearing weapons.

Eight fifteen, subject left his hotel room, tracking the president's arrival on his cell phone.

Eight thirty, subject leaves his room, takes an elevator to the lobby.

Eight thirty-four, subject emerges from the stairwell that he takes from the lobby down to the terrace level.

Shots are heard as the subject runs toward and through a checkpoint.

Secret Service agents immediately evacuated President Trump and other officials.

Eight thirty-five, Secret Service officer who we know was shot fires five times at the subject, who according to Director Curran, who just shared this, it looks like the subject hit his knee on one of the magnetometer boxes and then stumbles, where he is dog-piled and taken into custody.

The assault incident concludes, and the event would be rescheduled for a later date and time.