Washington press dinner shooting suspect pleads not guilty

Have you seen their win rate recently? This is the best news for the defense

In the Trump justice system, the ratings matter more than the outcome. Also a mistrial allows Trump to complain more about how rigged the justice system is so he can appoint more loyalists.

Letting this guy go on a technicality would be so f****** funny.

It’s not even conflict of interest 101–it’s more like the opening paragraph of the syllabus.

I think Stephen Miller wants several high profile mistrials. Gives the regime something to point at and say "look, this whole due process thing is dangerous, look at all the criminals walking free! It's much better for you to be guilty if we say you are, trials are too risky."

I’m an attorney. I disagree that Pirro, Blanche, and their office need to be DQ’d. I’m all for calling out Trump appointees for incompetence or corruption, but this isn’t it. Neither of them are legally “victims” of any criminal act (as neither was harmed) and neither of them saw the shooter or the events leading up to his illegal actions. They likely aren’t the best prosecutors to be handling such a high profile case, but there simply aren’t any constitutional or ethical issues with them or their office being involved in this case. It’s not like either of them will be called as witnesses (and the judge would view any attempt to do so by defense counsel incredibly skeptically). I suspect that the judge will bar Pirro and Blanche from arguing in court (or they will likely volunteer to do so to moot the issue). **But there *is not a snowball’s chance in hell* that this case gets taken from their office.**

I really want an OJ result all over again. What I mean, and what I slightly recall of the facts is (1) He did it. (2) [The cops were corrupt](https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-09-07-mn-43219-story.html), planted evidence, lied under oath, and had earned a bad reputation. It appears that some of the excess blood drawn from OJ was sprinkled it all over various gloves and clothes, then got positive DNA matches, and then Mark Fuhrman cowered behind the 5th Amendment. Jurors are rational to say things aren't proven beyond a reasonable doubt even though he also (likely) did it. Due process in this case presents an opportunity for a not-guilty verdict to send a constructive message to the rest of The System, imho, but it won't happen. He's never setting foot outside a prison for the rest of his life. The delays and mistrial(s) will be milked for victimhood fantasies and fundraising for several years. I hope the other convicts treat him ok.

It's almost like they're trying to f*** the trial up on purpose... but that would be crazy! It's not like the shooter was someone hired to fail an assassination attempt as a way to boost Trump's numbers or something. Like I said, that would he crazy!

Trump hates special prosecuters

Lol, they're gonna end up getting the case thrown out because of stupid fascist loyalty bullshit.

That or part of the performance

> This is Conflict of Interest 101 An accurate description of every action anyone in the Trump administration has ever taken

If he shot anyone they would be repeating it nonstop, they don't want to admit that he didn't shoot anyone so they just keep making it sound like it was him.

> "Prosecutors allege that Allen attempted to storm past a security checkpoint and fired a shot at a US Secret Service agent at the event at a Washington Hilton hotel. The federal agent was hit in an exchange of gunfire but was saved by his bullet-proof vest." It's insane how they word-smithed this to make it sound like Allen was the shooter, without so much as mentioning that it was a 9mm bullet that officers use, and not something coming out of a 12-gauge shotgun.

They've pulled this before A federal agent a while back shot at a person they were trying to arrest as part of Trump immigration crackdown and the agents round ricochet and his his colleague, they charged the unarmed man they shot with injuring the agent by virtue the agent wouldn't have been injured if he didn't "have to" shoot at the man I can't recall the verdict of the case but that's the mentality they used cementing the idea they believe if they shoot their own people it's someone else's fault

Cause they found out he was shot by another SS agent.

Must have been the wind.

Normal copaganda from media. They will not publish anything that makes the officers look bad unless there's no way other way to frame the story because they are afraid of losing access to police press conferences.

Probably, but the director of the secret service (who got his position simply because he “looked good” in the fist photo from the other staged assassination) said the shooter shot an agent point blank with his shotgun. If that’s the case, how the person survived (even with a bulletproof vest) is beyond me.

Yeah the whole thing just looked like a guided tour to me. It was a peaceful protest, just like Jan 6th.

Most likely. As a blast from a shotgun would have very different effect on body armor than the 9 mm sidearm of federal agents. the Armor is designed to protect from 9mm, shotgun will be very dependent on load and distance. But buckshot at close range can easily shred most body armor 

All the evidence suggesting this means we should claim there is no evidence suggesting this.

Yes. 100%

We don't know yet, they haven't released a report. But *probably*, especially since they're not droning on and on about this guy doing it.

Pretty much the only time a suspect pleads guilty is if they took a plea deal

It’s called the “Shaggy defense”.

Like a game of deduction.. "Your honor, members of the jury, there were many traitors, rapists and pedophiles in the room that evening. Some of the traitors are rapists, some are pedophiles. But the suspect targetted specifically a pedophile, rapist traitor, so therefore you must conclude beyond a reasonable doubt that the intended target was the president. We rest our case"

That's what I would assume. There's a theory that Lee Harvey Oswald never actually meant to assassinate JFK, but rather John Connally, who was sitting in front of Kennedy. Maybe it's a similar situation here?

*"I was just taking my gun for a run and the Secret service started shooting, no me!"*

I hope he says Trump used a militia to threaten his family to make him do this as a false flag lol

The fact is it's not a tinfoil hat when there's a plethora of evidence that not only this attack, but the attempted assassination of Trump were both possibly staged and false flag attacks. In this case the fact administration officials said ahead of time there would be a shooting is suspect. Even more so when the very next day Trump is using this as an excuse to have taxpayers fund the ballroom.

The judge and Prosecutor never saw him. They had no idea who he was until later. Now they are also tainted as prosecutor and judge. This one is going to be interesting. If the prosecutor decided to charge more than they can prove well because Trump made them... well hmmm.

From the article: > Prosecutors allege that Allen attempted to storm past a security checkpoint and fired a shot at a US Secret Service agent at the event at a Washington Hilton hotel. The federal agent was hit in an exchange of gunfire but was saved by his bullet-proof vest.

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Attempted assassination of the president can get you life in prison. Whether or not he actually fired isn't particularly relevant.

I’ve been hit by buckshot, hurts like the dickens.

Hold on a minute, there’s still a few more countries to invade first

It's unclear (or if anything's implied then it's going over my head). They mention the not guilty plea and then just go on to mention his lawyers saying that certain people who were present at the event should be disqualified from the case, and they talk about other details of the situation but I don't see any explanation of the reasoning for the not guilty plea.

Because you approve of people barging through security barriers and shooting at secret service agents?