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.
Yeah and also trump is covering and can grow his ear back so there is no sign of anything happen.
All they need is to convince some mentally ill person that he will is part of secret program to protect trump and get him there with blanks.
Then have someone shot into the crowd to add realism.
Oh and if you think they wouldn't hurt innocent people you've been living under a rock for the past 10 years.
putin (biggest beneficiary of the current US foreign policy) murdered 300 people and injured over 1,000 (in apartment bombings) to get elected.
I truly do not know why or how so many people struggle with the concept of a shallow graze injury from a bullet, to an ear, that has an absolute ton of easily broken capillaries, especially a near 80 year old ear.
Its honestly entirely possible this shooting at the Press Dinner had some MK Ultra bs going on, the dude was psyop'd into it.
That wouldn't surprise me at all.
It wouldn't surprise me if they knew this guy was coming, that he planned to do this, and they just figured they could stop him, and it would somehow be advantageous for them to go with that.
... But I also don't like to confidently state things I do not know to be true.
Produce evidence there was a shooter in the crowd at Butler, and I'll look at it.
Other than that: Anybody can just say shit confidently.
This is typically called being a con artist.
Because those types of wounds take forever to heal in a geriatric.
His ear cartilage would almost certainly have been shattered by a bullet, but even if it wasn't his ear would be purple for weeks.
Plus, there's no way secret service would let him stand back up for his photo op. And Trump is such a scared baby that there's no way he would have stood back up if there was an active shooter. This is the dude who hid in a bunker because there was a protest outside.
Why would his ear cartilidge have been shattered if the bullet just grazed over the top of the helix of his ear?
https://xcancel.com/David_Leavitt/status/1817386288749633869
2 weeks after the shooting:
The helix of his ear is perhaps uncommon in that it is nearly flat when viewed from side on, where most people's ear's helix are more convex, more curved.
The bullet did not actually punch through any part of his ear.
The shooter was at an elevation barely any higher that the elevation Trump was standing at on a raised platform, so the shot came from his from his from right, essentially flat trajectory.
The bullet barely grazed the section of his ear that is here, 2 weeks later, still showing a bunch of burst capillaries.
Its essentially a serious abrasion wound, not a puncture or blunt impact wound.
This is what you would expect from essentinally holding a drill bit covered in ~160 grit sand paper, rotating at ~280,000 rpm, just barely touching your ear, for a tiny fraction of a second.
The images from during the shooting are 100% consistent with this area as the origin point for the blood that streamed down his ear and parts of his face.
Blood trickles downward, thanks to gravity, and covered portions of his ear, that many people seem to think are parts of his ear that got totally obliterated, punched out, by the bullet.
But that isn't what happened.
You could see by day 7 that no major portion of the interior of his ear had been obliterated.
https://www.tmz.com/2024/07/20/donald-trump-rally-bandage-bandaid-bullet-injured/
One week after the shooting:
Had the interior of his ear been punched out, he'd still be wearing a very large bandage covering much of his ear, to prevent potential infection getting into the punched out hole.
But there was no punched out hole, so this was not necessary.
Also, his ear would not have been entirely purple from the scenario I am describing.
That is what you would expect if somebody gave a left hook to his ear, or smacked it with an almanac or something like that: a blunt force injury across the entire ear, that would have broken so many capillaries that he'd have blood pooling internally (ie, bruising) throughout the ear.
... but that is not what happened.
As to him not standing up... Trump would have been able to hear the much closer to him counter sniper firing off rounds toward the would be assasin.
He's a showman. Wants to be famous, wants to be admired, knows the value of good PR, even if his idea of what constitutes good PR is quite often deranged.