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.
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.
Why would they just shoot the person instead of arresting lmao
this is america. cops kill.
America, Fuck Yeah!
🎶 Gunning again to save the mothafuckin day now 🎶
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!
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.
How about 200m, target is moving at 15 - 25 mph, both laterally and vertically across your FOV/sight picture, and they're also moving away from you, constantly altering the range of the shot, and they are passing behind visual obstructions, as you are tracking them?
You can still find JFK Reloaded on some abandonware sites, go for the 'high score'.
EDIT:
Also even if you go with the 100% official story of the Kennedy assasination, the building was in the process of being renovated when Oswald 'took the shot', so he'd have been sneaking in the weapon, setting up boxes to visually obscure his shooting position from the hallway/stairway, hoping he could make the shot before anyone happened upon the floor he was on, or near enough to it to block an escape route, etc.
Not exactly 0 pressure, the building was not empty of other people.
Double post but:
See EDIT 3 I've made to the main post.