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Donald Trump Speaks After Shooter Apprehended at White House Correspondents’ Dinner: ‘These Are Crazy People’

Donald Trump Speaks After Shooter Apprehended at White House Correspondents’ Dinner: ‘These Are Crazy People’

Published by Sam Flores

President Donald Trump spoke from the White House Briefing Room after he was rushed from the Washington Hilton ballroom by Secret Service as the sound of gunshots rang out. “This was an event dedicated to freedom of speech that was supposed to bring together members of both parties with members of the press and in a certain way, it did,” Trump said. “Very unifying…. In one way it was a very beautiful thing to see.” At one point in the speech, he seemed to suggest that his proposed White House ballroom would be a more secure facility than the Hilton. “Look at all of the conditions that took place tonight, and it’s not a particularly secure building, and I didn’t want to say this but this is why we have to have all the attributes of what we’re planning at the White House,” Donald Trump said. “It’s actually a larger room, drone-proof, bulletproof glass. We need the ballroom.” White House reporters like Steve Doocy of Fox News rushed from the event to the briefing room …

Donald Trump Rushed Out of White House Correspondents’ Dinner After Shots Fired

Donald Trump Rushed Out of White House Correspondents’ Dinner After Shots Fired

Published by Sam Flores

US Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro and other guests are rushed onto an elevator at the Washington Hilton. Nathan Howard/Getty Images “USA!” a man started chanting after the president was removed from the building. Some in the ballroom, still full of attendees, began filming the room. In a post to Truth Social published at 9:17, Trump wrote “The shooter has been apprehended,” and saying “Secret Service and Law Enforcement did a fantastic job.” “I have recommended that we “LET THE SHOW GO ON” but, will entirely be guided by Law Enforcement,” Trump continued. At around 9:30 p.m. ET, Jiang—who is also the president of the White House Correspondents’ Association—took the podium to announce that the event would not continue. “Law enforcement has requested that we leave the premises,” she said. The president “insists that we reschedule this event in the next 30 days, and {says] he wanted to do it tonight—he wanted to continue des-pite the news, but he has to follow security protocol.” The president is expected to deliver a press …

Gavin Newsom, Bari Weiss, and the Washington Power Class Gather for the Vanity Fair and CAA Party to Celebrate WHCD Weekend

Gavin Newsom, Bari Weiss, and the Washington Power Class Gather for the Vanity Fair and CAA Party to Celebrate WHCD Weekend

Published by Sam Flores

Bari Weiss—who will have fifteen (!) tables for CBS at Saturday’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner, her first ever WCHD as well as her first as editor-in-chief of the network—chats with the New York Times’ Maureen Dowd and Michael Grynbaum (who wrote the recent history of Condé Nast, Vanity Fair’s parent company). Vermont Congresswoman Becca Balint, who recently roasted Pam Bondi during her congressional hearing , dishes that she enlarged Christopher Anderson’s photos for Vanity Fair—the ones of Susie Wiles, Karoline Leavitt, Marco Rubio, et al—and put them on her office wall. Meanwhile, former CBS producer Shawna Thomas, who left the network just months after Weiss’s contested arrival, introduces herself to California Governor Gavin Newsom, who simply cannot make it past the grand foyer and into the bustling party on account of the crowd that descends on him. “I’m the political director of MS Now,” Thomas says—or she will be. She starts in June. Newsom poses for a photo with Oz Pearlman, the mentalist booked to perform at tomorrow’s dinner. “Will you be going?” I ask …