It didn’t take long for the White House and its MAGA allies to try to use the attempted shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner to put all kinds of items on their agenda.
The one that attracted the most attention was the call to tWhite House ballroom to be built, even though project is illegal and has nothing to do with the incident that occurred at a private event on private property.
House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. James Comer (R-KY) demanded that DHS be defunded in an article on X, even though the Secret Service was defunded last year as part of the Trump tax cuts for the wealthy that Comer voted for.
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However, the prize for the most brazen and petty attempt to manipulate the situation through personal grudge goes to First Lady Melania Trump, who used the standard MAGA tactic of taking attempted or actual political violence and using it as a weapon against the First Amendment.
Trump posted on the First Lady’s official X account an unfathomable plea for ABC to “do something” about late-night comedian and Trump critic Jimmy Kimmel.
Just as a reminder, Melania Trump has been a fountain of division and political division. Even before he was first lady, Trump was spreading lies about Barack Obama.