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.
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.
The right has NORMALIZED political violence and blare out the pacifist bullshit to make it look unacceptable for anyone not them to do it. Protest and picket lines mean nothing if violence isn’t considered a step in the chain somewhere. The GQP have shown us this by demanding special protest zones around their events so people can’t just rush in or be heard.
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.
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.
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
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
Quick edit:
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.
Here’s a book going through every major liberal philosopher and how they dealt with the inherent conflicts of liberalism: http://acdc2007.free.fr/losurdo2011.pdf
I’m going off what liberalism has meant for centuries and what it means if you read any serious political work.
Nah it’s different now. Everyone is let down.