Jim Antle, the magazine’s executive editor, brings to life the pages of the Washington Examiner’s magazine in the show Inside Scoop. Each episode features exclusive insight from the article authors and expert analysis.
Antle begins the show by giving his analysis on whether the United States is experiencing an epidemic of left‑wing political violence. A recent attempted assassination of President Donald Trump at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner is the third prominent attempt on Trump’s life. Antle notes, the most striking thing about Cole Allen’s manifesto is how “normal it is.”
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“All of these things exist in a broader climate of anger, division,” Antle said. “You’re starting to see, demographically speaking, according to polling and studies, college‑educated, liberal‑leaning voters and American citizens who are trafficking in a lot of this sort of thought, and even if only a very small fraction of them ever decide to act upon it in some kind of violent way, it’s really a major political and cultural problem.”
Next in the show, Antle sits down with congressional reporter Hailey Bullis to discuss the new momentum for Trump’s proposed new ballroom at the White House, which gained traction after a gunman disrupted the WHCA gala.
“There are a few different proposals circulating from lawmakers about how to get his ballroom across the finish line,” Bullis said. “Republicans want to give him that ballroom, because, like the president said after the White House Correspondents’ dinner shooting, it’s about full security, with an underground bunker built into that building.”
However, not everyone is on board.
“Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries called it a vanity project to reporters,” Bullis said. “So it’s definitely not popular across the aisle.”
Finally, in the show, despite the Left’s affinity for “no kings,” the public very much likes the royal family as King Charles III and Queen Camilla were well received during their royal visit. Antle discusses with Washington Examiner columnist, Dominic Green, King Charles’s visit to the U.S. as Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour government struggles across the pond.
“What we saw with the state visit was a tale of two kings,” Green said. “There is the king on his official duties abroad, presenting the best aspects, I think, of Britain, past and present, and then there is the political reality. Charles comes home and finds himself ruling over a failing state with all kinds of discontents, and no real horizon for repairing them.”
Dominic questions Britain’s value as an ally if it doesn’t pull its weight. From his perspective, warm feelings aren’t enough to sustain the “special relationship” between the U.S. and Britain.
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“However warm people may feel towards Charles and Camilla and the British people in general,” Green said, “there’s a clear understanding that if the British government doesn’t step up, well, what’s the point in having an ally who doesn’t do anything for you.”
Tune in each week at washingtonexaminer.com and across all our social media platforms to go behind the headlines in the Washington Examiner’s magazine show, Inside Scoop.
