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Trump Rushed Off Stage After Shots Fired at White House Correspondents Dinner
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Trump Rushed Off Stage After Shots Fired at White House Correspondents Dinner

TIME·Richard Hall·about 1 month ago
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President Donald Trump was rushed out of the White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA) dinner on Saturday evening after a gunman reportedly opened fire while trying to enter the event. Video of the incident at the Washington Hilton hotel in Washington, D.C., showed Secret Service agents running onto the stage where the president was sitting before escorting him off. Many of the roughly 2,600 attendees took cover under their tables as gunshots rang out and a voice could be heard shouting, "Get down!" The Secret Service said in a statement that a person was in custody and it was "investigating a shooting incident near the main magnetometer screening area at the White House Correspondents' Dinner." CNN’s Wolf Blitzer, in an interview on the network, said he witnessed a gunman fire a "very serious weapon" at least six times from a few feet away.…

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