The Hotel Venue Horror

The Hilton Horror A Stark Warning for Presidential Security and the Urgent Need for a White House Ballroom

Saturday night delivered a warning written in sirens and gunfire

"The near miss as another of President Trump’s wannabe assassins charged past the agents and magnetometers at the Washington Hilton on Saturday night was no random spasm of violence.

It was a calculated incursion that exposed the dangerous vulnerabilities of holding high profile presidential events at commercial venues. What should have been an evening of ceremony and spectacle instead became a chilling reminder that the enemies of order need only one opening.

The alleged gunman, Cole Tomas Allen, a 31 year old from Torrance, California, came perilously close to turning a glittering media gala into a national catastrophe. According to public reports, Allen was armed with a shotgun, a handgun, and multiple knives.

He was also a registered guest at the hotel, a status that reportedly allowed him to bypass several outer security layers applied to non-guests and move throughout the premises with relative ease.

This horror summons the ghost of history, because this same hotel is forever linked to presidential bloodshed.

In 1981, John Hinckley Jr. ambushed Ronald Reagan outside the Washington Hilton following a public appearance. Reagan was gravely wounded, along with Press Secretary James Brady, Tim McCarthy who is the Secret Service agent that literally jumped in front of the bullet that day, and a Metropolitan Police Officer named Thomas Delahanty in the neck.

That attack succeeded in part because the President had to exit a commercial property into an exposed public zone with predictable movement patterns.

Forty five years later, the same venue again appears as an inviting target."

Excerpt from Roger Stone's article on Substack.