"Trump was whisked away from the Washington Hilton's ballroom and taken back to the presidential manor, where he delivered a press conference on the event that, bizarrely enough, made another case for his controversial White House ballroom, whose construction was halted by a federal judge. 'It's drone-proof. It's bulletproof glass. We need the ballroom. That's why Secret Service, that's why the military are demanding it. ... We need levels of security that nobody has ever seen before.'"
"Even if you didn't buy the false-flag conspiracy theories around what happened at the WHCD, you might have found this unified messaging pretty suspicious. And in this case, there was some support for that intuition from a prominent former MAGA insider: Ashley St. Clair, a young influencer who drifted away from the movement after having a child."
Following an assassination attempt during the White House Correspondents' Association dinner, Trump leveraged the incident to advocate for a controversial ballroom. He claimed it was necessary for security, stating it was drone-proof and bulletproof. Despite uncertainty about the Secret Service's actual demands, right-wing supporters quickly echoed his sentiments on social media. This coordinated messaging raised suspicions, even among some former MAGA insiders, about the authenticity of the narrative being pushed in the aftermath of the event.
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