President Trump Evacuated After Shots Fired At…
President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump have been evacuated from their tables at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. Reports are still developing, but three loud bangs have been said to be heard, and a suspect is reportedly in custody.
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POLITICO studies that President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump have been sitting at a desk inside a ballroom at the Washington Hilton on Saturday (April 25). As captured in a number of digital camera photos, the scene in which the president and his spouse have been whisked away to security was frantic
According to the X feed of GWN‘s Chief White House Correspondent and anchor of The Source, Kaitlyn Collins, a Secret Service agent informed her that a shooter was taken down at the scene and is reported to be useless.
Just moments in the past, Collins shared the next to her X account feed:
We are inside the ballroom of the Hilton. One Service agent told me the shooter is confirmed useless. Agents swarmed the room within minutes of photographs being heard, working down the main aisle. But because Cabinet officers are seated throughout the room, many of them remained on the ground, crouched under tables as the president was evacuated from the stage.
Weija Jang of CBS, who serves as the White House Correspondents Association president, shared at the event that “the program will resume,” although that appears curious following a taking pictures.
Thus far, there have been no reported accidents among attendees, who reportedly took cowl under tables when the skirmish started.
We will return to this post with particulars as they emerge. There are also skeptics on social media who consider the event might need been staged, comparable to the taking pictures when Trump was on the marketing campaign path. We’ll share reactions online below.
UPDATE — As seen on Kaitlyn Collins’ X feed:
UPDATE 2 — GWN is reporting that a man armed with a shotgun carried out the assault, according to Secret Service officers. President Trump also posted on Truth Social tonight (April 25) that the shooter was taken into custody, which conflicted with earlier accounts.
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