There's been a lot of criticism about security at the event, but I'm just now learning something that I didn't see mentioned on the day of and the day after the shooting. I'm not saying it wasn't out there, but it definitely wasn't reported by most of the journalists in the Ballroom.
Cole was apprehended on the floor above where the dinner was taking place. He didn't even make it close to his target. I'm sure that I probably read somewhere that he was apprehended in the Terrace, but no where until today am I seeing that the Terrance level is 1 floor above the Ballroom.
From everything I had read or heard, it sounded like he was right outside the door of the POTUS and all the journalists.
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