Trump says 'shooter apprehended' after president rushed from White House Correspondents' Dinner

Hmm. A correspondents dinner he never attended before in any presidency, Leavitt saying shots were going to be fired, a roast he didn't want afterward (or was it replaced with a mentalist) and according to the video he didn't react at all, but that could well be the dementia.

You sure about that? Really?

• Donald Trump is rushed from the White House Correspondents' Dinner after suspected gunshots heard

• Attendees of the dinner ducked under tables amid scenes of widespread confusion during the incident, our Washington correspondent reports from the event

• A shooter has been taken into custody, Trump writes on Truth Social

Story is developing in real time, check the actual link for more details, images and videos.

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EDIT:

I flipped to CSPAN; apparently Trump is going to be doing a press conference at the White House in ~30 minutes, all cabinet members are uninjured, as well as seemingly all other guests, and the Correspondents' Dinner is going to be rescheduled within 30 days.

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EDIT 2, from the 'article':

Still not clear what happened

published at 20:48

Bernd Debusmann Jr

White House reporter, reporting from dinner

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We still have no official confirmation of what took place.

But Fox News reporter Jacqui Heinrich, a member of the White House Correspondent's Association's board, posted on X that they've been told that an individual attempted to pass through metal detectors with a gun.

President Trump, according to Heinrich, was held in a nearby room and wanted the dinner to continue, though he just posted on social media that law enforcement have asked him to leave.

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EDIT 3:

Trump has posted a video and two pictures of the assailant to his Truth Social.

Video (Seems like a smartphone aimed at security camera monitor):

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/116468650367386223

Pic 1:

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/116468652052256305

Pic 2:

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/116468652963767750

The man appears to have bum rushed through the metal detector area at a full sprint, but was stopped by a volley of shots from different security personnel.

... and apparently, according to Trump just now at the press conference, the guy shot one Secret Service agent, but he was wearing body armor, and is apparently not badly injured.

This can be seen in the video, the srcurity guy center frame appears to be shot in the lower abdomen, then quickly draws his weapon and begins firing at the now out of frame assailant, who sprinted past.

Get ready for a week of all the most insufferable liberals you know wringing their hands about how it’s SO UNCOUTH to be disappointed he didn’t bite it, while all Democratic elected officials fall all over themselves to announce that “political violence has no place” in your country

Edit: oh, look, clown shit

I swear to Christ you people deserve whatever you get.

Door dash lady?

Seeing as I don't appear to have any Canadian ancestry...

Will do marriage for Canadian visa.

Am bi, not terribly picky, mostly just introverted.

Nah, sorry- we don’t want any cowards who flee their country rather than fight fascists.

Too crippled to fight, beyond being some kind of keyboard warrior.

They flew in some old gal from Arkansas that looked like half chewed beef jerky who (if she actually was a door dash lady) was old enough that she should be retired but obviously couldn't get by without having to work for door dash during her golden years so that she could gush over how wonderful it was that her tips weren't getting taxed.

It came out that they'd used the same lady as a prop at some other political circle jerk in the months prior.

People vastly overestimate their accuracy with a firearm. I want to say military doctrines/history generally show 100-300 meters as "the sweet spot" for a military rifle... with independent studies tending to put that at closer to 10-30 for an individual. Optics CAN help that (it stops being "line up your sight picture" and instead "pull the trigger when the dot is on the thing you want to kill") except that... most people don't have the time or resources to actually zero those properly. And this gets even worse for pistols.

This is why the vast majority (to the point I would almost say "all") of political assassinations are either a full on military hit squad... or a lone gunman at point blank range. Lincoln, Reagan, Abe, even the dude what looked vaguely like Luigi. Which... there are a LOT of reasons people are so suspicious of the murder of JFK to this very day.

No thanks. You’re fighting fascists or you’re tacitly supporting them. We don’t need you here.

Well he's definitely going to win one prize: us president with the highest number of assassination attempts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_presidential_assassination_attempts_and_plots?wprov=sfla1

I vote we call this award the "Nobel Rest in Peace" prize.

People vastly overestimate their accuracy with a firearm.

In a fluid situation, sure. Like the guy who allegedly hit Trump's ear - the police was coming after him right that moment, the missed shot was clearly taken under enormous pressure.

But with a no acute pressure situation, like the Kennedy assassination, even I could surely reliably hit at 200m with a good rifle.

If you've worked with any leftist org and talked politics, you'd have encountered people who don't use the cable news definition.

• Donald Trump is rushed from the White House Correspondents' Dinner after suspected gunshots heard

• Attendees of the dinner ducked under tables amid scenes of widespread confusion during the incident, our Washington correspondent reports from the event

• A shooter has been taken into custody, Trump writes on Truth Social

Story is developing in real time, check the actual link for more details, images and videos.

---

EDIT:

I flipped to CSPAN; apparently Trump is going to be doing a press conference at the White House in ~30 minutes, all cabinet members are uninjured, as well as seemingly all other guests, and the Correspondents' Dinner is going to be rescheduled within 30 days.

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EDIT 2, from the 'article':

Still not clear what happened

published at 20:48

Bernd Debusmann Jr

White House reporter, reporting from dinner

---

We still have no official confirmation of what took place.

But Fox News reporter Jacqui Heinrich, a member of the White House Correspondent's Association's board, posted on X that they've been told that an individual attempted to pass through metal detectors with a gun.

President Trump, according to Heinrich, was held in a nearby room and wanted the dinner to continue, though he just posted on social media that law enforcement have asked him to leave.

---

EDIT 3:

Trump has posted a video and two pictures of the assailant to his Truth Social.

Video (Seems like a smartphone aimed at security camera monitor):

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/116468650367386223

Pic 1:

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/116468652052256305

Pic 2:

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/116468652963767750

The man appears to have bum rushed through the metal detector area at a full sprint, but was stopped by a volley of shots from different security personnel.

... and apparently, according to Trump just now at the press conference, the guy shot one Secret Service agent, but he was wearing body armor, and is apparently not badly injured.

This can be seen in the video, the srcurity guy center frame appears to be shot in the lower abdomen, then quickly draws his weapon and begins firing at the now out of frame assailant, who sprinted past.

Why would they just shoot the person instead of arresting lmao

People vastly overestimate their accuracy with a firearm. I want to say military doctrines/history generally show 100-300 meters as "the sweet spot" for a military rifle... with independent studies tending to put that at closer to 10-30 for an individual. Optics CAN help that (it stops being "line up your sight picture" and instead "pull the trigger when the dot is on the thing you want to kill") except that... most people don't have the time or resources to actually zero those properly. And this gets even worse for pistols.

This is why the vast majority (to the point I would almost say "all") of political assassinations are either a full on military hit squad... or a lone gunman at point blank range. Lincoln, Reagan, Abe, even the dude what looked vaguely like Luigi. Which... there are a LOT of reasons people are so suspicious of the murder of JFK to this very day.

Damn. Failed again. Third time is the charm, right?

The shooting tonight at the Washington Hilton demonstrates the need to have a White House ballroom, President Trump tells reporters in the press briefing room.

So he's taking this opportunity to whine about his ballroom. As one does. Perfectly normal. "An awful lot of Americans seem to want me dead, that's why I need a party fortress!"

The WHCD is a private event, no affiliation with the government. It presumably would never happen at a White House ballroom.

America, Fuck Yeah!

• Donald Trump is rushed from the White House Correspondents' Dinner after suspected gunshots heard

• Attendees of the dinner ducked under tables amid scenes of widespread confusion during the incident, our Washington correspondent reports from the event

• A shooter has been taken into custody, Trump writes on Truth Social

Story is developing in real time, check the actual link for more details, images and videos.

---

EDIT:

I flipped to CSPAN; apparently Trump is going to be doing a press conference at the White House in ~30 minutes, all cabinet members are uninjured, as well as seemingly all other guests, and the Correspondents' Dinner is going to be rescheduled within 30 days.

---

EDIT 2, from the 'article':

Still not clear what happened

published at 20:48

Bernd Debusmann Jr

White House reporter, reporting from dinner

---

We still have no official confirmation of what took place.

But Fox News reporter Jacqui Heinrich, a member of the White House Correspondent's Association's board, posted on X that they've been told that an individual attempted to pass through metal detectors with a gun.

President Trump, according to Heinrich, was held in a nearby room and wanted the dinner to continue, though he just posted on social media that law enforcement have asked him to leave.

---

EDIT 3:

Trump has posted a video and two pictures of the assailant to his Truth Social.

Video (Seems like a smartphone aimed at security camera monitor):

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/116468650367386223

Pic 1:

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/116468652052256305

Pic 2:

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/116468652963767750

The man appears to have bum rushed through the metal detector area at a full sprint, but was stopped by a volley of shots from different security personnel.

... and apparently, according to Trump just now at the press conference, the guy shot one Secret Service agent, but he was wearing body armor, and is apparently not badly injured.

This can be seen in the video, the srcurity guy center frame appears to be shot in the lower abdomen, then quickly draws his weapon and begins firing at the now out of frame assailant, who sprinted past.