President Trump on Sunday evening sat down with ’60 Minutes’ correspondent Norah O’Donnell to discuss the shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.
President Trump, First Lady Melania, Vice President Vance and others were rushed out of the White House Correspondents’ Dinner after an armed man, identified as Cole Allen, exchanged gunfire with Secret Service agents.
The President and his entire Cabinet were safely evacuated after shots were fired in the lobby of the Washington Hilton at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.
The shooter, identified as Cole Allen, 31, of Torrence, California, was taken into custody and charged with using a firearm during a crime of violence and assaulting a federal officer with a dangerous weapon.
The Secret Service rushed to the President and Melania Trump and told them to duck down.
Of course, this isn’t Trump’s first rodeo.
This is the third time Secret Service agents have had to pounce on the President to protect him from a would-be assassin (Ryan Routh and Thomas Crooks).
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President Trump recounted the moment that the Secret Service rushed him.
“I wanted to see what was happening, and I wasn’t making it that easy for him. I wanted to see what was going on.”
“And by that time, we started to realize maybe it was a bad problem, different kind of a problem, bad one, and different than what would be normal noise from a ballroom, which you hear all the time.”
“And I was surrounded by great people, and I probably made them act a little bit more slowly!”
“I said, wait a minute, wait a minute, let me see, wait a minute, so, you know, I’m telling guys.”
“I turned, I started walking, and they said, please go down, please go down on the floor.”
“So I went down, and First Lady went down also, but we were asked to go down by the agents as I was walking.”
“I was standing up, and then turned around the opposite direction, and started pretty much walking out, pretty tall, a little bent over because, you know, I’m not looking to be standing too tall. But I was walking out.“
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