Ron Simmons
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And so he wasn't just some drifter or some unemployed homeless person or anything like that.
Now, he had been radicalized.
There's no question about that.
But he planned this out very well.
If you've read any of his manifesto and some of the other things he's written on social media, this was not something that just he thought about doing overnight.
In fact, he took a train from.
From L.A.
to Chicago and on to New York in order to be able to not go through this levels of security that he would have had to go through had he taken a plane.
He checked into the hotel the night on Friday night before.
And that hotel has about three.
You can put about 3000 people in that hotel.
So that's.
I'm not sure having an event like that at a hotel that's so public is the right thing to do.
I'm sure they'll reassess this.
Of course, one of the things to do is get the ballroom finished so that they can have that totally secure and be able to protect all of the people that are in attendance at these types of events.
He had a manifesto.
Here's a few things that were on the manifesto.
His intent was,
was to take down administrative officials, for some reason, not the FBI director, Mr. Patel.
I'm not exactly sure why that is.