WHCA Dinner shooting suspect worked as a teacher in California

He was, but wasn't vetted by security teams bc of that. The other hotel guests weren't as well. Which is very clearly a huge risk and error when the president is downstairs.

I once heard someone on Australian TV make that comment. I haven't come across it again. How far in advance do they plan these things? Shouldn't there be additional security checks around the date of the WHCD? I'm honestly curious. This was a big stuff-up.

Yeah entertaining conspiracy theories is rough to do. And it's hard for me to go there as well, but considering who is in charge currently I wouldn't put it past him just to try and stroke his ego. To err on the side of caution, going with incompetence is the smart choice currently. As there is no drought of that in this admin.

Not just the president but the vice president as well. That makes it even crazier.

Yeah, I feel like the standard procedure would have to be to secure the entire building and everyone going in or out would have to pass through a checkpoint regardless of whether or not they were staying at the hotel.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/tutor > Tutor: a *teacher* who teaches a student outside school, especially in order to give them extra help with a subject they find difficult Seems he fits the definition. Unless you're arguing California accreditation is the be all and end all criteria for what constitutes a teacher

Why is your profile pic so apt to how dumb you are?

It's giving "sandwich artist"

Yup, standard embellishment on linkedin.

If he’s a teacher he’s a teacher. I didn’t say he was or wasn’t, I said a tutor is not the same thing as a teacher.

The hotel lobby was closed to the public. Thats why protesters had to stay outside in the rain. The lobby was still accessible to hotel guests. But why was that contingency not thought about? [Washington Post reported about the security checkpoint](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/04/26/white-house-correspondents-dinner-security/f17d5afc-412d-11f1-bb46-ed564688d953_story.html) and also multiple sources cite that he made it past multiple checkpoints. I didn’t say he got close, I said he got closer than he should’ve. With unvetted guests staying at the hotel, it’s wild that the teams weren’t constantly aware of the possibility someone could go charging through. Yeah in this case it wasn’t a huge deal. What if the guy had a bomb though? It was an incomprehensible security breach that ended up fine. They would’ve certainly checked the hotel guest list and found people on there that weren’t guests of the dinner. In any normal situation you vet those unknowns. Usually security teams sweep any rooms for explosives etc. in an instance where VVIPs like that are present. If there was some legal reason why they couldn’t access this guys room (which I doubt overrides “national security”) then they go into the night knowing there’s a guest who has access to the lobby (and other dinner guests as they come in) who they haven’t vetted. You go into that situation with a contingency plan for just that scenario. And it still happened.