Donald Trump Points To WHCA Dinner Shooting In Urging Judge To Let Him Build White House Ballroom

A rendering of Donald Trump's proposed new ballroom Donald Trump Donald Trump is pointing to the shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner to make the case to a federal judge that he should lift his order to stop construction of a new White House ballroom. The argument is that the incident never would have happened had the event been at the White House, which currently has a much smaller space, the East Room or outside tents, to host large events. In a new filing late Monday, much of which reads like one of the president’s Truth Social posts, Justice Department attorneys argue the judge should never have stopped the project, “but after the Saturday night attempted assassination, which could have never have taken place in the new facility, reasonable minds can no longer differ — the injunction must be dissolved.” The DOJ lawyers also argue that the injunction “greatly endangers the lives of all presidents, current and future.” blogherads.adq.push(function () { blogherads .defineSlot( 'medrec', 'gpt-dsk-tab-mid-article1-uid0' ) .setTargeting( 'pos', ["mid-article1","mid","mid-articleX","mid-article","300x251"] ) .setTargeting( 'viewable', 'yes' ) .setSubAdUnitPath("ros\/mid-article") .addSize([[2,2],[300,250],[620,350],[300,251],[501,282],[3,3],[2,4],[4,2],[620,366]]) .exemptFromSleep() .setClsOptimization("minsize") ; }); Related Stories Late Night TV Jimmy Kimmel Says "Expectant Widow" Joke Was Not A "Call To Assassination" As Late-Night Host Faces "Déjà Vu" News Trump's Latest Attack On Jimmy Kimmel: FCC Commissioner Weighs In, Jane Fonda's Group Urges ABC To Not "Obey In Advance" -- Update The calls to get the ballroom built started shortly after Trump, First Lady Melania Trump and other administration officials were rushed from the Washington Hilton event space after shots were heard from an adjacent lobby area. On Monday, Cole Tomas Allen, 31, was charged with attempting to assassinate the president, along with other crimes, after he rushed through a security checkpoint carrying a rifle. That led to shots being fired, including one that struck a Secret Service agent, who was unharmed because he was wearing a protective vest. Watch on Deadline if ( !window.pmc.harmony?.isEventAdScheduledTime() ) { pmcCnx.cmd.push(function() { pmcCnx({ settings: { plugins: { pmcAtlasMG: { iabPlcmt: 2, } } }, playerId: '32fe25c4-79aa-406a-af44-69b41e969e71', playlistId: '0199e506-e642-7728-8264-463efe71337b', }).render("connatix_contextual_player_div"); }); } else { // This should only be get called when page cache is not cleared and it's event time. window.pmc.harmony?.switchToHarmonyPlayer(); } U.S. District Judge Richard Leon ruled that while construction of an underground bunker, below the proposed ballroom, can continue, Trump needs approval of Congress to build the ballroom above it. The DOJ’s latest filing starts with an attack on the National Trust for Historic Preservation, which brought suit to halt the ballroom. “The are bad for the country,” the DOJ attorneys say in the filing about the National Trust. “They stop many projects that are worthy, and hurt many others.” The Trump administration already has appealed Leon’s order and, for now, the ballroom construction can proceed at least until June, when the D.C. Circuit is scheduled to hear the case. blogherads.adq.push(function () { blogherads .defineSlot( 'medrec', 'gpt-dl-mid-article-inject2-uid1' ) .setTargeting( 'pos',…

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