Here we go again...
On Saturday, April 25, 2026, during the annual White House Correspondents Dinner, there was yet another security failure by Secret Service which resulted in the evacuation of the President, Vice President, and several Cabinet members attending the event which had to be canceled.
Like watching a repeat performance of a bad reality show script, in this episode we see the gunman, named Cole Allen, captured on video brazenly running straight through a Secret Service check point. He was reportedly armed with a 12-gauge shotgun, a .38 caliber handgun, multiple knives, and enroute to committing the third assassination attempt against President Trump.
Shockingly, the gunman was able to breach the middle perimeter through an unmanned magnetometer adjacent to another magnetometer being disassembled (just 30 minutes into the event), past a group of unaware officers idly lollygagging around the check-point.
The gunman nearly reached the packed ballroom, where President Trump and several of the President's high Command were gathered in attendance like sitting ducks. Fortunately for everyone in the ballroom, and for our nation's democratic continuity of government, the gunman tripped and stumbled to the ground moments after running through the checkpoint unchallenged. By fate or just sheer luck, the gunman's fumble allowed several surprised officers enough time to react and jump on top of the gunman to regain control of the situation. The gunman was subsequently arrested, and he was taken into custody.
It has been rumored that the Secret Service is investigating if this is the same mystery gunman who fired several rounds from a long gun at the White House during the midnight hours over Easter weekend and has thus far eluded capture.
In the aftermath of this security breach at the WHCD event, it was reported that there was an exchange of gunfire at point-blank range between the gunman, who stands accused of firing a shotgun one time at the officer, who returned fire five times with his handgun. It has also been reported that the officer was shot once, while the gunman escaped being shot five times by the officer’s gunshots.
In the absence of true transparency by Secret Service, there are numerous videos of this security breach circulating the Internet, with self-proclaimed experts offering their commentary and competing assessments of the incident.
Numerous questions remain unanswered leading to contradicting speculation regarding how many total gunshots were fired... 5 or 6 times?; Did the gunman really fire his shotgun?; Which officer allegedly got shot?; Was the officer really shot by the gunman?; Or was the officer actually shot by “friendly fire”, from another officer, during the chaos and confusion?
Fueling the controversy, is the fact that for numerous days after the incident, both the Secret Service and FBI strangely let the conspiracy theories fester as both agencies oddly remained silent regarding the optics of the leaked video footage that suggests the officer was actually shot by “friendly fire”.
Further feeding the narrative of "friendly fire", is the carefully worded yet ambiguous Charging document filed by the FBI which fails to specify exactly who shot the officer, nor charges the gunman with shooting, or even firing, at the officer who allegedly got shot.
And while several news outlets blindly picked up and ran with a recent story published by CBS claiming that "unnamed" sources allegedly confirmed the officer was not shot by another officer, it remains unclear who these alleged sources are. What is clear, however, is that these unamed sources further the conspiracy theory that the Secret Service is attempting to control the narrative by pushing out misinformation as part of a bigger cover-up regarding how seriously incapable the beleaguered agency truly is.
No doubt hoping to avoid being called in to publicly testify before Congress, and probably trying to avoid the same humiliating fate met by several of his predecessors following scandals each of them faced during their respective tenure, Director Curran is on the offense in effort to get out in front of the story to maintain damage control.
During a recent interview on the "Will Cain Show", Curran denied that the officer was shot by "friendly fire", as many experts suspect he was. Curran explained that the officer was shot once in the chest at point-blank range by the gunman firing a shotgun at him. Director Curran further stated that after being shot by the gunman, the officer then "heroically returned fire". However, Curran did concede that the officer missed shooting the gunman five times at point blank range.
When asked how the officer could miss the gunman five times, while shooting at him at point-blank range, Curran claimed that this officer "returned fire while in the process of going down".
But Director Curran's explanation of the events is inconsistent with the leaked video, the FBI Criminal Complaint Charging Document (see p. 2, par. 13 - 15), and logical sense. Curran's explanation also does not pass the smell test, and actually raises more questions than it answers, supporting the widely-held belief of another cover up.
First, no officer is seen falling down while being shot by the gunman, as claimed by Curran, which we would expect to see would happen after being hit by a shotgun blast of buckshot (9+ pellets in a round) at point blank range;
Second, US Attorney Jeanine Pirro is now on record claiming that the officer was hit by one buckshot pellet that was found "intertwined" in his ballistic vest. Yet, USA Pirro is unable to explain how, at point-blank range, the officer wouldn't have been hit by the full blast of all 9 buckshot pellets;
Third, if the officer was not hit and knocked down by the full shotgun blast of 9 buckshot pellets, how then did the officer miss the gunman five times at point-blank range?;
Finally, the audio from inside the ballroom captured the sounds of only five gunshots, not six gunshots.
And it remains unclear if the 8 remaining buckshot pellets from the gunman's allegedly discharged shotgun, and/or if all five rounds from the officer's discharged handgun have been recovered and accounted by ballistics investigators.
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FBI Criminal Complaint Charging Document, filed 4-27-26
Source: X.com / MacFarlane News
Unfortunately, we won't know for sure what really happened until the ballistics report is finally released. However, many skeptics suspect that the investigation's findings will be sealed for alleged "National Security" reasons (as it has been rumored will be the case) as part of the cover-up.
And when Director Curran was asked if he would change anything about the site, Curran arrogantly proclaimed "the site was set up perfectly. . . I wouldn't change anything."
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Director Curran Interview - The Will Cain Show: 4/30/2026
Source: Fox News
Now, if Curran really believes that the WHCD event was a "perfectly set up site", then he truly is an idiot and out of touch with reality. Curran needs to be held accountable and terminated, just like his predecessor (former Director Kim Cheatle) who was excoriated by members of the Congressional Oversight Committee, and fired following her ridiculous Congressional testimony regarding the Secret Service failures at the Butler, PA rally.
Many have questioned how a gunman was able to breach the middle perimeter established at the WHCD event if a security plan was properly executed at a "perfectly set up site", as Director Curran incorrectly claims it was. Where were the undercover Counter Surveillance teams (whose responsibility is to be on the look-out for suspicious activities/pre-attack behaviors), on the day before the incident while the gunman was doing his advance of the site and reportedly remarked in his manifesto "how weak the security measures at the event were", or on the day of the incident?
Coincidentally, the absence of Counter Surveillance teams was also one of several noted critical failures during the Butler, PA rally. It also appears to have been a repeated failure at the WHCD event.
Critics accuse the Secret Service of ignoring lessons that should have been learned from prior failures in securing perimeters. These critics have also questioned how a properly trained Secret Service officer could shoot and miss a gunman five times at point-blank range.
And it should also be noted that this is not the first time a gunman breached a Secret Service perimeter, and responding Secret Service personnel failed to hit the wannabe assassin while firing their weapon at point-blank range. This similarly happened during the second assassination attempt on President Trump, at Mar-a-Lago on September 15, 2024, which led to then Acting Director Ron Rowe eventually being ousted and replaced by Sean Curran as the current Director.
These repeated security breaches have many critics speculating that inadequate training is to blame for these security failures. What is undeniable, however, is that this incident at the WHCD event is one more failure being added to a growing number of security concerns regarding the mission capability of the Secret Service.
To date, the Secret Service has failed to take appropriate accountability, nor made serious reforms of any substantive value since the world watched the tragic events televised during a MAGA rally in Butler, PA. Several security failures at that site resulted in the senseless murder of rally attendee Corey Comperatore, grave woundings of two other rally attendees, and the narrow escape of assassination by President Trump.
Following Curran's appointment by President Trump to be the next Director, there was some talk about the agency's anticipated “purging of the old guard”, involving a number of senior leadership reassignments and/or forced retirements of those perceived to be cronies and/or loyalists to former Biden-appointed Director Cheatle. Unfortunately, the reality is, it's still business as usual at the Secret Service. . .
The non-merit-based practices of DEI and Nepotism continue, albeit no longer officially acknowledged by the Secret Service. And the institutional knowledge of more experienced and better qualified rank and file personnel is being replaced in favor of junior experienced and less competent personnel now being promoted and assigned to key leadership positions much faster than in years past, largely due to the continued institutional culture of cronyism rather than experience and merit.
In the meantime, further contributing to the Secret Service mission failures are the poor applicant screening standards which have continued to be lowered in a desperate attempt to increase manpower numbers. These lowered standards have resulted in less qualified applicants being pushed through the hiring process, under the pretext of addressing the serious manpower shortage continuing to challenge the Secret Service.
In response to this manpower crisis, the Secret Service has drastically increased its recruitment and hiring initiatives of Special Agents and Uniformed Officers to justify requests for additional funding appropriations from an unwitting Congress, while at the same time falling behind on properly vetting and training new-hires being pushed through a streamlined application process.
Many critics have described the current Secret Service as operating much like that of a criminal syndicate, under the “mob boss-like” mentality and leadership style that these critics attribute to both Director Sean Curran and his underboss Deputy Director Matthew Quinn (he himself a beneficiary of Nepotism).
And Critics point out that the abuses of power and corruption within the agency’s current senior leadership have far exceeded the abuses of any of their predecessors. These abuses have also extended to several of Curran's and Quinn's fiends in high positions as well. One example is a former Trump-appointed Chief USSS Counsel, and friend of Director Curran, who was reportedly caught on video impersonating a law enforcement official and misusing a government vehicle's lights and siren during a road range incident in New Jersey with another motorist in July 2025. Another example is a concurrent incident involving the USSS Chief of Staff, who reportedly got caught sneaking in a non properly cleared lobbyist friend into the White House West Wing to attend a meeting with the President.
Deputy Director Quinn is on record explaining to several colleagues the agency’s double-standard regarding rules as they apply to friends versus foes. He is quoted as saying that “Rules are open to interpretation for friends, but exist for the enforcement against enemies.”
And despite repeated calls by critics of Curran and Quinn, demanding their replacement, President Trump continues to loyaly back Curran who the President believes he is forever indebted for “safely” getting him out of the kill zone during the first assassination attempt in Butler, PA.
Consequently, as long as Director Curran continues to enjoy the blind trust of President Trump, which Curran has been accused by many of exploiting, many believe that Director Curran and several members of his regime (including Quinn) remain unchecked in their unbridled ability to abuse their positions of authority for personal gain...
Between 2025 - present, the Secret Service has engaged in various corrupt quid-pro-quo practices of favoritism and obstructions of competition. These practices reportedly include bid-rigging, bribes, and kickbacks by management officials within the Department of Homeland Security and the Secret Service to pick winners and losers regarding awards of multi-million-dollar procurements of media ads, counter drone technology, and contracted pre-employment applicant screening services.
Regarding the media ads, we see our pseudo-celeb Director Curran co-starring with fellow media whore DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, in several DHS recruitment ads prior to the "Ice Barbie" being fired by President Trump following media reports of her reckless expenditures of an estimated $220 million dollars wasted on a cheesey DHS public relations campaign.
Regarding the procurement of counter-drone technology, the Secret Service wasted an estimated 18 million dollars, despite the objections of several critics within the agency. The Secret Service moved forward with the technology despite well-known mission capability concerns identified during testing of the platform. It should also be noted that this technology was procured from a company that Deputy Director Quinn is reputed to have personal vested interests with. This multi-million dollar platform was subsequently shelved due to reported mission ineffectiveness.
Regarding the procurement of contracted pre-employment screening services, the Secret Service is reported to have fraudulently inflated agency applicant recruitment and polygraph authorization numbers to justify requests for increased appropriations from a hoodwinked Congress. Earlier this year, the Secret Service awarded a Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) valued at 20 million dollars to multiple third-party Vendors for contracted services. Again, despite the objections of several critics within the agency who argued that this BPA could be filled with direct-hire contractors (as is typically done by most federal agencies, i.e. CIA, FBI, State Dept., etc.) at half the cost, the agency moved forward with the BPA ignoring the fact that the government would be wasting an estimated 10 million dollars.
As a result of lowered screening standards at the Secret Service, the current generation of agents and officers being hired by the agency are much younger, less experienced, and lack maturity. This leaves the agency ever more vulnerable to potential insider threats.
Despite an agency regime change, following the re-election of President Trump which initially inspired hopes among the rank-and-file for much needed government reform and accountability, the growing numbers of security incidents involving the Secret Service have actually increased. Questions continue to be raised about the sub-standard quality of applicants being recruited and hired, under the agency's latest lure of sign-on bonuses that have now reached $75,000 dollars per new-hire.
The Secret Service rank-and-file need your support to rid the agency of corruption within its senior leadership in order to ensure appropriate funding is allocated for proper training instead of recruitment of lower quality candidates. The purpose of this petition is to demand the much needed transparency and accountability regarding how our taxpayer dollars are being spent.
Please sign this petition, and help spread the word by sharing with others to raise public awareness of the need for this former elite law enforcement agency to be equipped with the necessary training to maintain its critical mission and reclaim its prior renowned honor and respect that reflect the agency 's motto, “Worthy of Trust and Confidence”, which all Secret Service Agents and Uniformed Officers are expected to demonstrate.
Thank you,
D.