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.
Damn. Failed again. Third time is the charm, right?
Pretty sure this would be more like attempt 6.
EDIT:
Fuck, way more than 6.
he’s working up to Adolf Hitler’s number of 42 plots.
42 is the answer to everything. I’m glad Hitler succeeded in what the others failed to do: kill Hitler. Just a bit late though. Doing it after getting rejected from art school would have been better.
“There is absolutely no place for politically motivated violence in the United States of America,” assistant US attorney Michael Friedman told Friedrich.
weird, maybe you guys should stop the administration from perpetrating a ton of politically motivated violence, then, instead of going after those merely reacting to it
(from the article of the Canadian-French (not french-canadian) woman)
The door dash lady didn’t generate enough attention, so they are upping the dramatics.
that distraction was done to death, like he has his grocery store, mcdonalds, his garbage truck gaffes. and hes constant falling asleep like a child would when the parents confront them about a problem they caused isnt working anymore. even bringing out rfk jr and JD VANCE out of the woodwork dint help.
Door dash lady?
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.
She’s an actor they pull up every now and then
Thought she was technically a lobbyist for doordash’s push for the "no tax on tips* scheme.
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.
call me an uncouth motherfucker. i got so excited for a few seconds the first headline I saw…now im just disappointedly doomscrolling
None of the liberals I know are doing this.
Political leaders will because they don’t like the idea of one of their own being assissinated.
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.
No thanks. You’re fighting fascists or you’re tacitly supporting them. We don’t need you here.
Okey dokey.
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
Where do you see that?
CNN maybe, but they’re owned by a far right oligarch, just like every other media corporation.
I’m just remembering what social media looked like the last time this happened
what social media
The place full of boys, paid shills, and bad faith “as a liberal” accounts?
Why would anyone care what they say?
Or divide the democratic party by calling them “liberals”?
Like, at best even if they’re authentic, they’re lying…
Don’t let them call themselves that if they’re not
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Hell, for the ones on TV and in office, we can keep calling them neoliberals even if they don’t like it anymore
I’m old enough to remember libs complaining that a fascist got punched, and all the crying about not protesting correctly in 2020. In the Westwing-poisoned liberal mind, the best ideas always win in the market place of ideas, and any violence or even incivility is worse than being a literal nazi.
Those are neoliberals…
They keep changing the name they call themselves to make it look like it’s not the same group of fucks and their proteges…
No, this is inherent to liberalism; a core part of liberal philosophy is idealism; that history is a struggle of ideas as opposed to materialism.
https://www.britannica.com/topic/liberalism
You should read that, and after you understand that you’re wrong:
https://www.britannica.com/money/neoliberalism
That might get you angry at the right people.
Nah it’s different now. Everyone is let down.
Well he’s definitely going to win one prize: us president with the highest number of assassination attempts.
I vote we call this award the “Nobel Rest in Peace” prize.
It’s easy to have the highest number of attempted assassinations when you repeatedly stage them.
I was downvoted for this. Another assassination before important voting…
Are all of these shooters going to Storm Trooper training academy or something?
My guess, and this is a total guess, would be that if someone tried to go through metal detectors with a gun, and then it alarmed… my guess is all the shots that were heard would have been security turning that person into swiss cheese, before they got off a shot.
… If they were even going for their gun.
We don’t have anything approaching that level of detail or info yet though.
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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.
i have a laser dot on a small pistol. the bodyguard 380. all it does is show me how much i actually shake!
Double post but:
See EDIT 3 I’ve made to the main post.
“HIGHEST APPROVAL EVER” also lowkey 3 assassination attempts. This asshole is living in the biggest bubble since the dot com boom.
Wasn’t it leaked in a memo that Trump was planning some kind of “confrontation” at the dinner?
Is anyone stupid enough to believe this asshole?
That was my first reaction too. I usually try to stop myself from falling into conspiracy thinking, but in this case it’s hard to do when a few days prior the Internet has been full with an alleged memo with plans to stage something dramatic for the press at this specific event.
Can’t rule out a real attack but at this point I wouldn’t exactly say it’s the option with the highest probability for this government filled with tv personalities at record low popularity…
also happened more than once, several assassination attempts with no followup, or investigation by the news in detail, and not vague, " caught this person". Also ms Lying cross leavitt mentioned there will be some of shooting later on.
In this case it’s extremely transparent. His polling is in the dumpster, and they last time someone “shot at him” started a long reversal in that fortune.
Damn, too bad. Maybe next time.
Having seen other “rush the president away” situations, it’s always been the secret service dudes in black suits defending him. When did he start taking a military force in full tactical gear to dinner? It’s not like they were hiding behind the scenes. They just took a few side steps to form a human wall in front of the secret service.
Basically everywhere every President has ever been in at least the last ~30 years, they’re shadowed by the suited Secret Service, the obvious, visual security, and a or multiple tactical response teams, essentially SWAT teams, just in case something like this happens.
They were in fact hiding behind the scenes, ready to jump into action if needed.
That’s actually just normal Presidential security detail, what isn’t normal is when the President is moving about or planning public appearances so suddenly that there isn’t enough time to properly draft up a security plan and get people in place.
Thats a big part of why the Butler Penn Ear Zinger ended up happening:
Firstly, Trump wasn’t the President, so, less assigned security importance.
Secondly, the Trump Campaign has a history of stiffing the bill and not actually properly paying venues that he appears at, so a lot of event venues refuse to work with him.
Thirdly, Trump Campaign events are often announced and planned last minute, not enough time to actually draft up and implement a proper security plan, partially because of thing 2.
Finally, its well documented that the security coordination at Butler was a shit show. You had Secret Service, and a variety of local and regional police outfits, half of them didn’t know who was supposed to be where, doing what.
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Well he wants to justify the firing squads so they can get them passed
BBC has video, it is barely noticeable and no one reacts to the “gun shots” until Secret Service starts moving.
Edit: just noticed the link in the post is the BBC article. I am not a smart man lol
Hehe, there’s a reason I went with the BBC.
finger guns, winks
No wait!
is shot and then tackled by Secret Service
Next morning martial law.
I mean, Trump has had the National Guard patrolling DC for… months now? Since his ‘military parade’. That never actually stopped.
But uh… yeah, nationwide martial law?
Who fucking knows, why not.
Clearly those cowards in the military can’t protect him. So he’ll call in ice to do it instead. And if they happen to run a reign of terror in the process? Boys will be boys.
Can the FBI please rehire the guy who got Kirk to get trump?
Shooter was IDF
