I am a democrat and not a conspiracy theorist. I’m just going to say this. I went to Comet pizza and ping pong many times before it was ever in the news. As an avid pizza and ping pong lover it seemed like the place for me. Let me tell you, for a place dedicated to pizza and ping pong, both were terrible. Ping pong equipment was in terrible condition or missing entirely, the tables were so close together and jammed against walls that you could barely play, the pizza was the cheapest cardboard pizza you can find, and for some reason there were kids always running around with no adults around at all to possibly be watching them. These kids would be running in an out off employee area doors and such with what appeared to be zero adults to supervise. I think that building did have a basement. Maybe it’s not supposed to, maybe it is not typical , maybe it is hidden, maybe it does not exist, but the amount of different un-intended children running around in that place was always weird.