One progressive journalist demonstrated Friday that she had either never heard or that she failed to comprehend the expression, “play stupid games, win stupid prizes.”
Lauren Windsor may fancy herself a leftwing iteration of Project Veritas’ James O’Keefe, whom she endeavored to “expose” for investigative reporting against Democracy Partners, but the self-styled patriot may be learning a hard lesson this week in lines that aren’t meant to be crossed.
In her effort to dunk on conservatives attending the National Rifle Association convention in Houston, Texas, the only thing she ended up exposing was herself as a plausible threat to former President Donald Trump.
Windsor explained Saturday that she had a previously unscheduled meeting with the United States Secret Service because of a certain tweet she had published on Saturday.
UPDATE: I just got a call from US Secret Service and have an upcoming rendezvous with them this week re my Ted Cruz tweet pic from inside the NRA forum… stay tuned 👀
— Lauren Windsor (@lawindsor) May 29, 2022
“UPDATE: I just got a call from US Secret Service and have an upcoming rendezvous with them this week re my Ted Cruz tweet pic from inside the NRA forum,” she wrote adding, “stay tuned.”
What Windsor glossed over in her update was the severity of what she had claimed to accomplish in gaining entry to the convention in the first place.
Ted Cruz wants every school in America to operate w/ a single point of entry every day. Well, the @NRA & Secret Service couldn’t do it for *one* afternoon to protect Trump. A friend and I walked in an unlocked side door — no screening — past an officer and into reserved seating. pic.twitter.com/bqQfhse5Gw
— Lauren Windsor (@lawindsor) May 28, 2022
In trying to prove a point that Republican calls for stricter security measures at schools following the tragedy at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas would not matter, she detailed, “Ted Cruz wants every school in America to operate [with] a single point of entry every day. Well, the [NRA] & Secret Service couldn’t do it for *one* afternoon to protect Trump. A friend and I walked in an unlocked side door – no screening – past an officer and into reserved seating.”
Aside from the numerous followers of Windsor’s who replied to her post proving they, too, were unable to understand certain basic logical realities –
— — • 𝗖 𝗛 𝗘 𝗘 𝗞 𝗬 • — (@andreagail_k) May 28, 2022
See, if you line the kids up at one door, the shooting is easier. That’s their monstrous logic
— Jtbobbit (@jtbobbit) May 28, 2022
Has anyone bothered to think of the implications regarding fire safety with a one-door policy?
— Officious Jim (@JimOfficious) May 28, 2022
– that one point of entrance does not equate to only one point of exit, attorney Ken White who writes the Popehat Report offered up some snark for Windsor with a few insights of his own.
“Perhaps Ms. Windsor thinks the Secret Service would like to praise her moxie and seek her wise counsel on event security issues,” he posited. “Perhaps she thinks they’ll bring some appropriately congratulatory token, like a potted plant. Perhaps she thinks they just like journalists?”
/4 Anyway, sure, it could go that way. On the other hand, the Secret Service may have asked to meet with her to determine just how stupid she is. Is she stupid enough to admit that she knew at the time she entered the restricted area she wasn’t authorized to do so?
— PeachtreeDishHat (@Popehat) May 30, 2022
In addition to suggesting that she was indeed “stupid enough to admit that she knew at the time she entered the restricted area she wasn’t authorized” to be in, he later noted the Secret Service may just be looking to scare her as punishment for her transgression.
Warning: Language
/8 Or maybe they don’t plan to get a confession to the knowledge element of the crime to prosecute her, but just want to absolutely scare the living shit out of her and make her life miserable for a while, pour encourager les autres.
— PeachtreeDishHat (@Popehat) May 30, 2022
Of course, Windsor’s virtue was not to be tarnished by the supposition of any wrongdoing on her part and she made certain to express her not quite gracious receipt of White’s unsolicited advice.
Maybe @Popehat should reach out and ask me before issuing condescending threads that speculate on my thinking. I have an attorney, and this isn’t my first rodeo. I acted within the bounds of the law.
Keep your advice to yourself, asshat. https://t.co/fHFs4QDgJf
— Lauren Windsor (@lawindsor) May 30, 2022
“Maybe [White] should reach out and ask me before issuing condescending threads that speculate on my thinking,” she wrote before rather forcefully suggesting he mind his business. On that point, he offered her one last free suggestion.
That’s why you bragged on Twitter about what’s arguably a federal crime? pic.twitter.com/znKgkBRQ2p
— PeachtreeDishHat (@Popehat) May 30, 2022
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Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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