Before the shooting took place on Saturday at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, Fox News host Jimmy Failla was caught on a hot mic brutally mocking the event’s laughably weak security setup.
Failla made the comments right in front of the red-carpet entrance while President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance, and the entire Cabinet were inside.
“Looks like they have like two random chicks holding the front door open,” Failla says. “Like, guys, they’re not even trying anymore…I just mean, like, they’re not even Secret Service people.”
Failla continued, “It’s like the girls who work here are holding the door. Even if it were the guy, that wouldn’t even make it better…Like, they might as well put a door stop in. They put up a doorstop and a scarecrow, you know, f-ck with this guy.”
The reporter turns toward the camera at the end, his expression shifting as he apparently realizes he’s been recorded.
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Failla recounted his experience during the shooting in an appearance on Fox News on Sunday, noting that he had already thought the security was bad.
“I had just left the red carpet where we had finished taping some red carpet interviews before the dinner, and as I was walking into the room, I heard what sounded like chaos, and I saw men charging the stage,” Failla told Trace Gallagher. “My initial take was, that was an attack on President Trump, and I hit the deck only to see him whisked away.”
He continued, “And then, of course, all of the chaos that ensued in the room of people getting locked in and, you know, there’s so much intensity in that room to begin with because we were there for a party. That’s the thing that makes this so much more insane, is that Trump had put his animosity aside with the people many people blame for the tension in our politics, the ones calling him Hitler and calling him the Gestapo.”
“Trump was there to be the adult in the room, and make good, and have a nice time at a dinner he had never attended,” he said. “So, the fact that this somehow wound up superseding that anyway because of this sickness that permeates our society, like, I’m glad the president wants to go forward. Do we need a more secure location? Obviously. But I don’t think as a people we should just accept that this is standard operating procedure now, because it’s not and it shouldn’t be.”
“We’re very shaken up, and I knew security was bad the minute they let my team in. I just didn’t know it was that bad.”
Failla’s hot-mic moment is now the latest piece of evidence confirming what multiple high-profile attendees had already publicly exposed: security at the event was shockingly inadequate for an occasion hosting the president, vice president, top administration officials, and hundreds of media figures.
As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, Arizona Senate candidate Kari Lake was among the first to raise the alarm right after the incident.
Lake posted that upon entering, “nobody asked to visibly INSPECT my ticket nor asked for my photo identification. All one had to do was flash what appeared to be a ticket, and they were fine with that.”
Former FCC Chairman Ajit Pai noted he walked through a “bare-bones metal detector” where items were simply placed on a side table without being scanned. Other attendees, including Bethany Miller of The Conservateur, confirmed pre-dinner receptions had zero screening at all, just flashing an emailed ticket that “I could’ve easily forwarded to others.”
The shooter, 31-year-old Cole Tomas Allen of Torrance, California, has been charged with attempting to assassinate the president.
Allen checked into the Hilton as a guest, assembled a long weapon in an unsecured area, and opened fire. One Secret Service agent was struck but survived thanks to his bulletproof vest.
No other injuries were reported.
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