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US president and first lady safe, with suspect in custody after "shooting incident", US Secret Service says.

  • 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.

    • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
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      7 hours ago

      Ok, so, I still have CSPAN on, and almost every single caller in the last ~30 minutes has either alluded to the idea, or directly stated that they think this is probably some kind of false flag, or ‘Hollywood drama’, that this is some kind of manufactured event.

      … It is kind of odd that the 3 people talking to the callers are all responding to callers with basically historical / personal anecdotes … its odd that none of them seem to be recognizing this obvious pattern that almost every caller thinks this was staged, and whether or not it was, its still notable that that is the instant reaction of so many people.