In short
The episode alleges “massive red flags” around a White House shooting used by Donald Trump to push construction of a “golden ballroom.” It claims the DOJ filing (described as possibly written by Trump) calls the incident an “assassination attempt” and argues a court injunction blocking the East Wing project should be dissolved. The host argues security failures: shooter Nasir Best (21) allegedly had schizophrenia, believed he was Jesus Christ, made threats, had prior Secret Service encounters, and had a failure-to-appear warrant for court in July/August 2025 after a stay-away order. Notable examples include an alleged July 10, 2025 unlawful-entry arrest near the White House and ABC reporting that Trump used the incident to renew ballroom calls.
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Chapters
Tap a time to open that second in VOAnalyzing Trump’s Security Breakdown
1:00 to 4:25
Discussion on the red flags surrounding the alleged shooting incident.
“And we have some court records right now regarding the individual who was alleged to be the shooting suspect who's now dead.”
Court Records and Implications
4:25 to 7:20
Exploration of court records related to Nasir Best and security concerns.
“catastrophic deal with Iran and him being criticized by lots of people in his party.”
Details of the Shooting Incident
7:20 to 11:30
An in-depth look at the shooting incident and Trump's response.
“This is a woman who was known for being a serial plaintiff throughout D.C.”
Impacts on National Security
11:30 to 14:03
Discussion on the implications of the shooting for national security.
“And then it goes on to say they arrived on scene.”
Trump's Response to Shooting Incident
14:03 to 14:49
Learn about Trump's reaction to a recent shooting near the White House and its implications.
“fairly impartially and consistently enforcing criminal laws of the United States and the District of Columbia.”
Media Coverage and Trump's Ballroom Plans
14:50 to 17:42
Explore how the media reported on the shooting and Trump's controversial ballroom proposal.
“future presidents to get what will be the most safe, secure space of its kind ever built in Washington, D.C.”
Republican Reactions and Funding Issues
17:43 to 19:16
Discuss Republican responses to Trump's funding requests and the ballroom controversy.
“They said, quote, Republicans don't want to say this publicly, but privately they do.”
Opposition to Trump's Ballroom Project
19:17 to 21:36
Understand the criticisms regarding the proposed ballroom and its financial implications.
“Well, I also support funding for that national security component of that, what's going to be underneath that ballroom.”
Media Reactions and Public Perception
21:37 to 23:24
Analyze media reactions to the shooting and how they influence public perception of Trump.
“And this is now becoming a meme, and people are joking about how she responded.”
Transcript
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1:00Ben Meiselas:Since we reported yesterday on the serious red flags that have surfaced about this alleged shooting incident by the White House at the same time on Saturday that Donald Trump was announcing this potential deal with Iran, and while Trump was not at his son's wedding, and we did this video red flag surfacing, there's been even more red flag surfacing. And we have some court records right now regarding the individual who was alleged to be the shooting suspect who's now dead. An individual by the name of Nasir Best, 21 years old, used to work in an Amazon factory, alleged to have schizophrenia, believed that he was Jesus Christ.
1:42Ben Meiselas:And he had numerous incidents at the White House where he had made these threatening statements and threatened to do horrible things at the White House in 2025. These court records show that he had what's referred to as an FTA, a failure to appear at his court appearances going back to July 2025. And he was on the radar of the Trump regime officials for a very long time. He was on the radar of Secret Service officials. And ultimately, the buck stops with Jeanine Pirro, who is the United States attorney for Washington, D.C. She's the top federal prosecutor in D.C. Now, the way the D.C. court system works is that the Superior Court Division, their lawyers, ultimately report to the United States attorney in Washington, D.C.
2:35Ben Meiselas:That's Janine Pirro, the top federal prosecutor in D.C. She oversees the Superior Court Division. And so Pirro oversees the lawyers who knew that this guy who was making all of these threats around the White House, Nasir Best, was on the loose. And a very basic surveillance around the White House, in my view, would have showed that this guy was around the area. He didn't leave anywhere. He didn't just disappear. The guy was in Washington, D.C., and they did nothing about it. I mean, at the very least, this is a massive security breakdown. And as you elevate up the ladder and think about what the red flags could be here.
3:19Ben Meiselas:The questions that should be asked is, did Jeanine Pirro and the Trump regime know about this guy, know about his threats? I mean, I think they were at least on constructive notice and allow him to be in this area to continue to make these threats. And then the question is, why? Did they allow it to happen so it could be used as a pretext for the golden ballroom? Because the Trump regime, Donald Trump, his White House spokespeople immediately after this instance that you see, we need golden ballroom. We need golden ballroom. And I'm not suggesting that the shooting didn't happen. I don't want to go there.
3:56Ben Meiselas:But my question is, were they aware that they had these violent schizophrenic people who were sufficiently far enough away from the White House where there wasn't a real threat being posed, but they would cause situations and scenes that could then be used as a pretext to say, see, I'm not safe. I need a golden ballroom that taxpayers need to pay for. And also the timing of it occurring right in the middle of Donald Trump announcing this catastrophic deal with Iran and him being criticized by lots of people in his party. Let's go through the data as we do here on the Midas Touch Network. Let's go through the court filings.
4:38Ben Meiselas:Let's go through the superior court rules. So we just, we stick to the facts, draw the implications that you will. We stick to the facts. Late last night, Donald Trump's department of justice made another court filing, which seems that Donald Trump himself wrote, seeking to leverage this purported shooting on Saturday to build the ballroom and to stop a judge from blocking the ballroom construction. The Trump DOJ calls the latest episode a, quote, assassination attempt. It cites news reports, but no other proof for legal cases, ending with an exclamation point, as Josh Gerstein puts it. Let's go through the filing that Donald Trump made last night.
5:22Ben Meiselas:I mean, doesn't this raise massive red flags? Here's what it says. Notice of supplemental authority in support of motion for indicative ruling dissolving the court's injunction. In other words, judge, stop blocking the construction of our ballroom. We need it built because of this incident that just took place. And here's what the Trump DOJ wrote, although it looks like Donald Trump himself wrote it. On Saturday night, May 23rd, a shooter once again sought to murder the president, his family, and his staff at the historic White House complex. We submit this urgent filing to update the court on a second attempted assassination on the president within a single month.
6:01Ben Meiselas:Last night, shortly after 6 p.m., an armed assassin approached a White House security checkpoint near 17th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue, professionally pulled a high caliber gun from a bag and opened fire in the exact direction of the White House. Brave Secret Service officers returned fire. The gunman was killed and an innocent bystander was seriously wounded in the shooting. This second attack on the president this month underscores the critical need for top level state of the art security at the White House, including the ballroom, a knitted, unified, cohesive part of the East Wing project, which is vital for national security and is being constructed to ensure the president can perform his constitutional duties in a safe and heavily secured facility.
6:47Ben Meiselas:The court's unlawful injunction has wrongfully cast a cloud of uncertainty around the future of the entire East Wing project, which is being constructed for the physical safety and security of all presidents, their safety, foreign dignitaries and guests. When completed, this highly-knitted, integrated, and unified project, which is a singular and vital national security facility, will provide a safe haven from attackers, such as the one last night and on April 25th, referring to the White House Correspondents Dinner incident, which also raised massive red flags, and when Donald Trump filed something just like this right after the White House Correspondents Dinner incident.
7:28Ben Meiselas:Then Trump concludes this motion by saying, in light of the recent attacks against President Trump's life, including two attempts in less than a month, the injunction entered by this court for the benefit of a strolling woman who filed suit against the East Wing project long before she knew what was going to be built. This is a woman who was known for being a serial plaintiff throughout D.C. and who has absolutely no standing, must immediately be vacated in this suit, which is a complete embarrassment to our country must be dismissed. This is a terrible, tremendously harmful case to the United States of America and all it stands for, exclamation point.
8:05Ben Meiselas:Now, you go back to the first page or so when Donald Trump was like, this individual, he pulled out the weapon in a very professional style and he knew exactly what he was doing. Let's go through the facts of who the shooter who was killed actually was because here on the Midas Touch Network, we stick with the facts. So let's talk about fact number one. Here's the suspect. He was killed in this incident on Saturday late afternoon evening. His name was Nasir Best, 21 years old. His online presence, this guy was online. People knew where he was. He believed he was Jesus Christ. He had other incidents around the White House.
8:43Ben Meiselas:That's fact number one, right? Let's go through his court document. Hat tip, Anarchy Princess. She does a great job pulling up a lot of these court records. She said, saw it being reported that the shooter, Nassari Best, had previously been arrested near the White House and received a stay-away order. Looks like he was released the day of that incident, July 11, 2025. Did not stay in compliance with pretrial, never showed back up to court, and had a bench warrant. So that means he was arrested for previously making threats in 2025, and this actually happened multiple times, he didn't show up to his court case.
9:21Ben Meiselas:There was a warrant for his arrest, but no one went out and arrested him. And think about this, with all of the effort that the Trump regime puts into rounding up migrants and throwing them into concentration camps and hunting down abuela and abuelo and abuela who have been here 30 years, hardworking, taxpaying people, finding them, surveilling their homes, throwing them into detention center. Someone who's made threats against the White House and Donald Trump doesn't show up to court and they're like, yeah, whatever. Let's let this guy roam around Washington, D.C. Red freaking flag. Red freaking flag.
9:59Ben Meiselas:Let's look at the docket. July 11, 2025, charges filed for what? Unlawful entry into the White House. Then they have his arraignments that day. You'll see that he was released the same. They released him that day. They gave him a stay away order. As you go through, he had to, through the docket, he had to show back up August 7th, 2025. He does not show up on August 7th, 2025. An alert is issued. FTA means failure to appear for Nasir Best right there. And then it says the defendant did not appear for this hearing and counsel of record did not have representations. The government's request for a warrant was granted.
10:44Ben Meiselas:The government, they report to Jeanine Pirro. And then it basically, that's the last docket right there. We have the affidavit from before his arrest. This is July 10th, 2025. Let me just Share with you July 10, 2025. The event occurred Thursday, July 10, 2025 at 1726 hours right by the White House. Officer Vargas in full police uniform was working at a pedestrian access control post at the White House when he observed suspect one later identified as Nasir Best walk into a restricted area by using the exit turnstile lane located by the station. The restricted area has multiple signs stating, do not enter.
11:31Ben Meiselas:And then it goes on to say they arrived on scene. They see Secret Service sees him. They see that he was trying to gain access to these areas where he didn't belong. He was placed under arrest for unlawful entry. And so then they issued a warrant. A new interview with someone who knew Nasir Best dropped, Anarchy Princess, posts it. 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 he started talking about being in reality and how he could tap into different frequencies and hear and peep things that we couldn't.
12:14Ben Meiselas:Eventually, Patterson said that Nasir Best became convinced that he was God, which led him to quit his job at Amazon. He eventually blocked and stopped talking to his closest friends and disappeared, Patterson said, adding that Nasir Best was not on good terms with his family. Best began having run-ins with Secret Service officers last summer when he would walk around the White House and stop at various entry points and ask officers how he could get inside, according to court records. In late June, the Secret Service sought to have Best involuntarily committed after he blocked a vehicle trying to enter the White House grounds.
12:52Ben Meiselas:Then on July 10th, Best was arrested after he walked through an exit turnstile. That was what I read for you before and tried to go further into the White House grounds. Officers in court records had Best told them that he was Jesus Christ and that he wanted to get arrested. A DC judge released Best who pled not guilty, apparently on the condition that he stay away from the White House. And then he didn't show up to his next court appearance. And again, You would think this would register at Jeanine Pirro's level or at least some deputy's level. Hey, guy threatening Trump, threatening White House on the loose.
13:29Ben Meiselas:He's saying he's Jesus. He's saying he's God. He keeps on doing it. No, they just let him go all over the place, basically. Just so you can see for yourself, that case was filed in Superior Court Division. It's the district. Imagine like state court, if you will, versus federal court. but that's district court, the superior court. The superior court division is responsible for prosecuting most local crimes occurring within the District of Columbia. The mission of the superior court division is to promote public safety and vindicate the rights of victims by fairly impartially and consistently enforcing criminal laws of the United States and the District of Columbia.
14:11Ben Meiselas:And then it is reporting to the United States Attorney's Office. You see at top there. And that's Janine Pirro, federal prosecutor. Now, I will share this with you as well. Right after the incident, Donald Trump made the following social media post about ballrooms. Thank you to our great Secret Service and law enforcement for the swift and professional action taken this evening against a gunman near the White House who had a violent history and possible obsession with our country's most cherished structure. The gunman is dead after an exchange of gunfire with Secret Service agents near the White House gates.
14:48Ben Meiselas:The event is one month removed from the White House correspondent dinner shooting and goes to show how important it is for all future presidents to get what will be the most safe, secure space of its kind ever built in Washington, D.C. The national security of our country demands it. Lots of people were kind of mocking Donald Trump saying this and the way everything's gone down recently. I saw somebody posts this parody breaking. The following bullets have been recovered at the scene of today's White House shooting. And the bullets say anti-ballroom, or I saw somebody post this meme. Trump's still spamming the assassination gimmick in 2026.
15:27Ben Meiselas:Now here's how they were reporting about it on ABC. Selena Wang, as you remember, was one of the reporters who was there who heard the gunfire while she was doing a social media hit. And remember, most of the bullets you hear are coming from the Secret Service. And the shooter was not really all that close even. Nasir Best was, I mean, he was a healthy distance away from the White House, never got through the perimeter. But all those shots you heard were from the Secret Service coming down, those 30 rounds or so that you heard. here's how they describe it on ABC. Donald Trump is using this to try to build the ballroom.
16:12Ben Meiselas:That's what they're saying on ABC. Play this clip. Hours after Secret Service agents shot and killed a suspect who opened fire just steps from the White House. Tonight, President Trump using the incident to renew his calls for the construction of the White House ballroom. Trump was in the Oval Office with his aides as a gunman approached a security checkpoint on Saturday night with a gun and started firing.
16:40The president, who is facing backlash from even within his own party for his $1 billion request and taxpayer money for the White House complex, saying it goes to show how important it is for all future presidents to get what will be the most safe and secure space of its kind ever built in Washington, D.C. Officials say the suspect has a history of incidents involving the White House. He encountered law enforcement in June 2025 for blocking a point of entry at the White House. He was detained and involuntarily committed for a mental evaluation. One month later, he was arrested after he attempted to enter a White House checkpoint.
17:23Court records showing a judge ordered he stay away from White House grounds.
17:28Ben Meiselas:Then throughout Sunday morning, you had the Trump sycophants, like his national economic advisor, Kevin Hassett, trying to push the ballroom. We need the ballroom. Look what happened last night. Ballroom, ballroom. Play this clip. The Wall Street Journal editorial board really took a swipe at the president over that fund, over the ballroom on Saturday. They said, quote, Republicans don't want to say this publicly, but privately they do. President Trump's personal political obsessions are hurting his presidency, hurting the chances for further foreign policy gains and putting control of the House and Senate in jeopardy.
18:05Does the president realize that he is putting Republicans in a tough spot by forcing them to take votes on things that are unpopular, like the fund, like the ballroom, like the war in a midterm election year? Look, I respect The Wall Street Journal very much. I saw Paul Giago at the Kevin Warsh signing in just on Friday. But the bottom line is the president believes that the ballroom is something that should have been there for a long time. And he's using his own money and the money of donors to make it so that the taxpayers don't have to pay for that ballroom. And as far as weaponization, I don't think that you or I would disagree.
18:40Well, they would have to pay a billion dollars, correct? No, it's not for the ballroom. That's for securing the entire White House. And my goodness, to argue about that after we were all here yesterday. I actually wasn't here. I was at my home a couple blocks away.
18:51Ben Meiselas:when the shooting happened, of course, we've got to make the White House more secure. And you had Ron Johnson from Wisconsin, MAGA Republican senator, doing the same. Play this clip. Move on to the ballroom because there is an issue about funding for security purposes. After what we saw happen at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, you know, the president definitely talked about the ballroom being necessary for many reasons, but that it also is a national security issue. That is a sticking point as well right now. Your thoughts? Well, I also support funding for that national security component of that, what's going to be underneath that ballroom.
19:27Again, I don't want to talk further about it than that, but I mean, there's certainly a national security component. And listen, I'm a big fiscal hawk. When government's going to spend money, I don't mind them spending it on infrastructure that's going to be around for decades that also is involved in national security. And just the ballroom itself now, based on the correspondence dinner, it would be nice to have a larger ballroom that can accommodate those types of events for the president. His cabinet members are attending and they can do it in far greater security.
19:53Ben Meiselas:And then on Meet the Press, when they were trying to talk about the ballroom to Thomas Massey, Thomas Massey was able to really kind of take command of this conversation and point out just how ridiculous this golden ballroom is. Here's what Massey had to say. Let's play this clip right here. Did see Republicans in Congress actually reject some of President Trump's priorities, refusing to vote on funding for both his ballroom and that$1.8 billion so-called anti-weaponization fund. Some of the strongest opposition, quite frankly, that we have seen from members of Congress, Republicans to President Trump to date.
20:32Do you think that the party is beginning to break with President Trump? Well, listen, they're worried about their own political mortality. It's true you can take out Republicans in primaries, but Republicans are going to be very vulnerable this fall. The ballroom, I mean, that is such an egregious waste of money. We were told that would be funded with private money initially. I'd like to joke that Miriam Adelson spent so much money in my race, they have to ask for taxpayer money for the ballroom now. and it's i think it's a slap in the face of americans the president was bragging on the roman architecture when in fact we're operating like a roman empire we're overextended overseas with our foreign aid with our foreign bases we're spending money uh that we don't have and the gasoline and rent and groceries are so high that people can't afford it i do think it's dangerous to indulge in these things like a gold-plated ballroom in Washington, D.C., while Americans are suffering.
21:36Ben Meiselas:You know, and then there was that weird video of Julie Serskin, the NBC correspondent when the shooting was taking place. And this is now becoming a meme, and people are joking about how she responded. And her response was very odd. But you know what it kind of reminds me of a little bit and tell me if you disagree. Remember like when media tried to normalize like how weird of a guy Barron Trump is like he's a weirdo. And in my view, a grifter also not giving you my opinion, of course. And then remember after the 2024 elections, they were all like doing like my suitcase, my suitcase. And they tried to turn like it into like a funny meme to like normalize all of this.
22:23Ben Meiselas:I, you know, I'm just saying that like people are turning this into like a funny meme and look how she reacted and da, da, da, da, da. But to me, this is all playing into what the white house ultimately wants for its propaganda, which is the golden ballroom. And they're kind of like, they're kind of treating it like a joke, right? I mean, it, this is, and it was, it reminds me of the white house correspondence incident as well, which is like, they were all laughing afterwards, like it's funny. Like if these are, if we are to take these things seriously, people should act like these are serious things.
22:55Ben Meiselas:And here's how Sirkin reacted, just to remind you. What is that?
23:07What is that?
23:20Ben Meiselas:Anyway, there you have it. Let me know what you think. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 7 million subscribers. Thanks for watching.
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MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on his opinion regarding the shocking red flags about the White House shooting and how the Trump DOJ likely knew who the shooter was before the incident and Meiselas reports on how suspiciously Trump is acting after the shooting.
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