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Trump Calls for Arrests After U.N. Escalatorgate: Time

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"Not one, not two, but three very sinister events” occurred at the U.N. General Assembly meeting, Trump posted on Truth Social, also referencing an the escalator, his teleprompter and the sound system when he spoke before the body.
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A spokesperson for the U.N. Secretary-General, said that a White House videographer running backwards up the escalator ahead of Trump appeared to have “inadvertently triggered” the built-in stop safety mechanism at the top of the escalator.
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“The escalator going up to the Main Speaking Floor came to a screeching halt. It stopped on a dime,” Trump continued in his post. “It’s amazing that Melania and I didn’t fall forward onto the sharp edges of these steel steps, face first. It was only that we were each holding the handrail tightly or, it would have been a disaster.”

“The people that did it should be arrested,” Trump added. He said the Secret Service will be looking into the incident and that he sent a letter to U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres demanding an “immediate investigation.”
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In addition to the escalator malfunction, Trump said the teleprompter went “stone cold dark” and that the sound was off during his speech, such that attendees could only hear his remarks through interpreters’ earpieces. “The first person I saw at the conclusion of the Speech was Melania, who was sitting right up front. I said, ‘How did I do?’ And she said, ‘I couldn’t hear a word you said,’” Trump wrote. “This wasn’t a coincidence, this was triple sabotage at the UN.”
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the White House was responsible for operating the teleprompter for Trump, and that the sound system was designed for people at their seats to hear the addresses translated into six different languages. [in other words little amplification, because you wear expected to use earpiece for translation].
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“No way those were accidents,” a right-wing influencer that goes by the username @wallstreetmav on X, posted. “I’d bet UN staff (which wouldn’t have jobs without our taxes) conspired to embarrass President Trump.”

“Trump isn’t taking the UN escalator situation seriously,” Mike Cernovich, a right-wing commentator and conspiracy theorist, posted on X. “I feel like I’m watching the Bolshevik revolution repeat. Where everyone on my side is in la la land and doesn’t understand what they are going to do to us if they can.”
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Tennessee Republican Rep. Tim Burchett and right-wing activist Liz Wheeler publicly called for the U.N. to be defunded.

Mike Waltz, the U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., posted on X, “The United States will not tolerate threats to our security or dignity at international forums. We expect swift cooperation and decisive action.” Waltz said the embassy has issued formal demands to the U.N., including requiring “the complete results of the UN’s internal investigation into the escalator malfunction, including who or what caused it to halt and whether it was intentional sabotage.”

“They sabotaged them, and they could’ve hurt the first lady,” Fox News host Jesse Watters said.

She continued [joked???]: “I mean, this is an insurrection, and what we need to do is either leave the U.N. or we need to bomb it, It is in New York, though, right? Could be some fallout there—alright. Maybe gas it? No? OK. But we need to destroy it. Maybe can we demolish the building? Have everybody leave and then we will demolish the building?”

A columnist for the Sunday Times reported before the incident that U.N. staffers had “joked that they may turn off the escalators,” without citing specific sources.
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“If someone in the building wanted Trump assassinated this would have been a great way to freeze him,” Chamberlain posted on X. Mark Lucas, founder of “America First” advocacy organization Veteran Action and founding board member of the Article III Project, said Trump “was trapped in a ‘fatal funnel’ when the escalator paused.”

“The stalled escalator with President Trump and first lady Melania stuck on it was a classic set up for an assasination hit,” Susan Crabtree, political correspondent for RealClearPolitics, posted, adding that the Secret Service failed to react quickly and decisively.
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Whether glitch or plot, to Trump, the escalator fault was another example of the U.S. being dealt an unfair hand by the world.
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