Trump evacuated from White House correspondents dinner
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Influencers jumped to fill the information void with conspiracy theories about the attack at the White House Correspondents’ dinner on Saturday.
The intrigue before the White House Correspondents' Dinner had been about Trump-press tensions. Gunshots cut the evening short.
House Majority Whip Tom Emmer recounts chaotic escape from the WHCD dinner shooting, highlighting the swift Secret Service response.
President Trump was rushed from the stage of a dinner hosted by the White House reporters’ association. Trump said a Secret Service agent was shot at but “saved” by his bulletproof vest. The F.B.I. said a suspect was in custody.
President Trump told reporters at the White House on Saturday night, after the WHCA Dinner had to be evacuated over an active shooter, that the remarks he had prepared were going to be "the most inappropriate speech ever made.
Within hours, the Correspondents’ Association issued a statement saying the dinner is meant to celebrate “our common commitment to a vigorous and free press while honoring civility, great reporting and scholarship winners” and saying Wolf’s monologue "was not in the spirit of that mission.”
The dinner will reportedly take place at the Institute of Peace on Thursday evening and comes hours after Warner Bros. Discovery investors approved a $111 billion merger with Paramount Skydance