DOJ filing invokes weekend White House shooting in ballroom case

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: ABC News

May 25, 2026, 9:52 AM


A Department of Justice filing described Saturday's shooting on Pennsylvania Avenue as another attempted assassination of President Donald Trump, as the administration again urged a federal judge to drop his injunction against the White House ballroom.

The Secret Service said officers shot and killed an armed man who opened fire at a White House checkpoint Saturday evening. A bystander was also struck by gunfire in the incident, but it was not immediately clear how, the Secret Service said.

The suspect was identified as Nasire Best, 21, of Dundalk, Maryland, according to Washington, D.C.'s Metropolitan Police Department.

The DOJ's Sunday night filing says an attacker "once again sought to murder the President, his family, and his staff," when he approached a Secret Service checkpoint Saturday, "professionally pulled a high caliber gun from a bag, and opened fire in the exact direction of the White House."

Read more: https://abcnews.com/US/doj-filing-invokes-weekend-white-house-shooting-ballroom/story?id=133279065

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Link to FILING (PDF) - https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.287645/gov.uscourts.dcd.287645.82.0.pdf

[Bayard]

1. Maybe instead of another bunker,

They should try to figure out why all these people want to kill trump.

[louis-t]

2. Can he carry the ballroom to the golf course to protect him while he's playing?

The need for a huge, drone-proof ballroom is such a ridiculous assumption.

[johnnyfins]

8. There is an 18 hole course in the bunker.

[liberalgunwilltravel]

3. Why does he need a ballroom

He seems to spend most of his time at Walter Reed getting multiple, "routine" checkups in between rounds of golf.

[CBHagman]

4. ABC News is putting more emphasis on how the administration is framing things...

...and the reporter here does not provide crucial information about the man who came to the White House checkpoint with a gun. News reports suggest that Nasire Best had mental health problems and was showing signs of delusions.

https://www.thebanner.com/community/criminal-justice/who-is-nasire-best-alleged-white-house-shooter-killed-secret-service-DJ2CR6XFCREWHBEAUA2WBHAK4Y/

Jerome Patterson also ran track with Best and told The Banner the two worked together at Amazon after their graduation. For a while Best seemed normal, with Patterson describing himself as Best’s “closest friend.”

“We both worked alongside each other, sitting and chatting every day. He came to me about everything. And everything was fine until randomly he started talking about being in control of people and reality, and how he could tap into a different frequency and hear and peep things that we couldn’t,” Patterson said.

Eventually, Patterson said, Best became convinced he was God, which led him to quit his job at Amazon.


The linked article also mentions that Nasire Best had had previous encounters with the Secret Service, so reports show that he did try on multiple occasions to get inside the White House grounds, but at the same time he was showing signs of mental illness.

ABC News leans heavily into the White House and DOJ's framing and leaves out crucial facts in the case.

[AZJonnie]

6. That's what the media always does of late, putting the regime's explanation of all events above the fold

Also, from the regime's side of things, this is just utterly laughable: "professionally pulled a high caliber gun from a bag, and opened fire in the exact direction of the White House". How exactly does one "professionally" pull a revolver from a bag? And just how "high caliber" was this revolver, and why does that matter, particularly? It's still a hand gun, with the inherent limitations thereof in terms of putting someone in danger from 1000 feet away, who's inside a fortified structure.

Yeah, I mean obvs it's pure luck that the the 21 yo dude apparently armed with one revolver and delusions of being God himself didn't succeed in getting less than about 1000 feet away and through multiple security perimeters, plus the WH structure itself, given there's no hulking ballroom present on the WH grounds! Normally you think there's no way any POTUS is truly safe without a ballroom lurking nearby, to protect him with its talisman-like powers, right?

No doubt it was Gawd himself that saved POTUS' life in this case, but you can't just rely on that every time, Gawd is a very busy man. You also need a ballroom on duty!

[LetMyPeopleVote]

5. Trump's fingerprints are all over a new Justice Dept court filing defending the Trump Ballroom

I cannot believe that any real or ethical attorney would sign these pleadings. The lawyers who signed this pleading will be disbarred

Link to tweet

Trump's fingerprints are all over a new Justice Dept court filing defending the Trump Ballroom

Random capitalization

Claims that Trump is providing America an "invaulable gift"

Claims the project is "underbudget" despite Senate request for $1 billion in taxpayer money

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

[AverageOldGuy]

7. In case of a shooting . . .

. . . why can't Trump do what my grandchildren have been practicing since the first grade: Hit the floor, hide behind something.

And one of them graduated from high school last year -- that's at least 13 years of school shootings -- compared to how many attempted assassinations?

[Vinca]

9. I've been giving some thought to the latest shooter and decided the only real case it makes is for Trump

to be removed via the 25th for being nuts. The shooter reportedly turned up at the White House entrance last July and said he was Jesus. He was removed and judged mentally ill. Trump, on the other hand, appears to think he is Jesus. The posting of "Dr. Jesus healing Jeffrey Epstein" was a good example. Throw in the all-night screeds and craziness, and Trump is probably more seriously mentally ill than the shooter.

[Dogberry57]

10. Logically

the fact that he was never threatened, let alone injured, proves there is no need for a bunker/ballroom.

[twodogsbarking]

11. Build a mausoleum. Make is gawdy looking jjust for him.

[cstanleytech]

12. It's not a ballroom it's a throne room and it's also bullshit excuse because there's already adequate security in place.

[Randomthought]

13. False flag

Was my thought as soon as I heard , an attempt to claim need for his bunker