Numerous attendees of the White House Correspondents Dinner this Saturday in D.C. all agreed that security at the event was deeply underwhelming.
So much so, in fact, that some attendees have even argued, as conservative radio show host Clay Travisdid online, that the American people “are lucky this wasn’t far worse.”
As previously reported, nobody died despite aleftist shooteropening fire in the lobby of the connecting Hilton Hotel building, though a Secret Service agent was hit in his vest.
After being tackled, the shooter, identified as Cole Tomas Allen, was taken into custody without any further complications.
BREAKING: Shooting suspect Cole Tomas Allen was a guest of the Washington Hilton and assembled his weapons on site and was not — NOT — struck by Secret Service gunfire, even though he shot a SS agentpic.twitter.com/xx1hcjEMRB
— Paul Sperry (@paulsperry_)April 26, 2026
Prior to the dinner and shooting, Allen stayed in a Hilton hotel room right next to the room of Hugh Dougherty, a writer forThe Daily Beast. Dougherty was shocked once he realized this.
“And it was then that I began to piece together the security fiasco that had taken place in the room next door,” he wrote. “Quite simply, a man who wanted to kill people — many people, maybe me, maybe my colleagues — had checked into the Washington Hilton, just like I had.”
“He had used his access to move from floor 10 to the ballroom lobby, just like I had. And he had left a room which police had closed off, but which for all they feared could now be filled with explosives,” Dougherty added.
He wasn’t the only one to take note of thelack of securityat an event featuring the president and his Cabinet.
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