“We’re incredibly lucky that all these people that keep on trying to murder President Trump are very stupid,” Doescher said on Newsmax’s The Right Squad on Monday.
The shooter, Cole Allen, 31, arrived with a shotgun, a handgun, and multiple knives, intending to target members of the administration, said U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro. He was charged Monday with attempting to assassinate the president.
Allen’s alleged manifesto also cited what it described as relaxed security measures at the Washington Hilton, where the dinner took place.
Doescher said the situation could have been much scarier.
“He booked his hotel stay three weeks ago,” she said. “He did a cross-continental train trip in order to get here, so if he had been smart enough and he had been thinking of bombs?”
She argued that Trump “probably cannot be in venues he cannot control.”
“At this point, Mar-a-Lago is probably the second safest place for him after the White House,” Doscher said. “It’s not just, ‘Oh, Donald Trump is mean, and the media says that he’s bad and orange and hates immigrants.’ No. [The gunman] was radicalized.”
After the assassination attempt, Trump applauded the authorities who kept him safe and argued that it underscores why the construction of his White House ballroom should continue.
“What happened last night is exactly the reason that our great Military, Secret Service, Law Enforcement and, for different reasons, every President for the last 150 years, have been DEMANDING that a large, safe, and secure Ballroom be built ON THE GROUNDS OF THE WHITE HOUSE,” Trump said on Truth Social.
Doescher also criticized late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel’s comedy skit last week when — before the assassination attempt — he called the first lady an “expectant widow.”
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Trump fired back at Kimmel on Truth Social and called for ABC to fire him. The first lady called Kimmel a “coward” on X.
Kimmel addressed the comments and argued that it was a slight roast about Trump’s age.
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