Roger Stone made these statements in his Substack on Sunday…
This horror summons the ghost of history, because this same hotel is forever linked to presidential bloodshed. In 1981, John Hinckley Jr. ambushed Ronald Reagan outside the Washington Hilton following a public appearance. Reagan was gravely wounded, along with Press Secretary James Brady, Tim McCarthy who is the Secret Service agent that literally jumped in front of the bullet that day, and a Metropolitan Police Officer named Thomas Delahanty in the neck. That attack succeeded in part because the President had to exit a commercial property into an exposed public zone with predictable movement patterns. Forty five years later, the same venue again appears as an inviting target.
Hotels are designed for hospitality, not hardened executive security. Their mission is guest convenience, privacy, luggage access, room turnover, catering logistics, and constant civilian movement. Those realities are fundamentally incompatible with airtight protective operations. The courageous men and women of the Secret Service and supporting law enforcement who threw themselves between the gunman and the protectees deserve the gratitude of every American. In the critical seconds when chaos erupted, they acted with speed, discipline, and valor. Their professionalism likely prevented a historic tragedy.
An attack on the President of the United States, regardless of party, is an attack on the constitutional order itself. It strikes at peaceful succession, national continuity, and the stability of the republic. There is also a broader cultural sickness that cannot be ignored. For years, certain corners of American political life have trafficked in fantasies of destruction, normalization of rage, and theatrical hatred of political opponents. They strike matches near dry timber, then feign innocence when flames appear. Reckless rhetoric can help create the atmosphere in which unstable men imagine themselves historical actors.
This incident should end the debate over the need for a secure, purpose built White House ballroom. Major presidential events should be held on fortified federal grounds, not in commercial hotels with porous access points and divided chains of authority. A dedicated White House ballroom could incorporate permanent perimeter defenses, hardened walls, blast resistance, secure ingress and egress routes, drone countermeasures, integrated communications systems, and immediate medical response capabilities.
In addition, a letter from the DOJ to an attorney representing a liberal nutjob who has no standing and who is blocking the building of the ballroom with the help of a crooked DC lawyer.
President Trump shared this last night, moments after the shooting, the ballroom should be built because it is a safety issue, let alone being beautiful. On Sunday, he followed up.
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. This event would never have happened with the Militarily Top Secret Ballroom currently under construction at the White House. It cannot be built fast enough! While beautiful, it has every highest level security feature there is plus, there are no rooms sitting on top for unsecured people to pour in, and is inside the gates of the most secure building in the World, The White House. The ridiculous Ballroom lawsuit, brought by a woman walking her dog, who has absolutely No Standing to bring such a suit, must be dropped, immediately. Nothing should be allowed to interfere with with its construction, which is on budget and substantially ahead of schedule!!! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP
