The shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner appears to be the third assassination attempt Donald Trump has faced, following incidents in Butler, Pennsylvania in July 2024 and at his Florida golf club in September of that year. The BBC.
But in an interview with “60 Minutes” on CBS News, Trump said, “I wasn’t worried. I understand life. We live in a crazy world.”
Asked about the sequence of events — with JD Vance being the first to be led out of the hotel room — Trump said he “didn’t make it easy” for Secret Service agents to evacuate him.
“I wanted to see what was going on … And at that point we started to realize that maybe this was a serious problem,” Trump said.
Asked why he “lay down on the floor” as he was led out of the room, Trump replied, “I started walking with them (the security team). I turned around, I started walking, and they said, ‘Please lie down. Please lie down on the floor.’
“So I went to bed, and so did the first lady,” the president pointed out.
CBS News reported on a written document believed to be linked to suspect Cole Allen, which said he wanted to target members of the Trump administration “from the highest to the lowest.”
During an interview on “60 Minutes,” Trump became upset when reporter Norah O’Donnell asked him about the alleged content of the tapes, which included references to a “pedophile, rapist and traitor.”
He called O’Donnell a “disgrace” for asking him about those excerpts.
“You should be ashamed of yourself for reading that, because I’m none of that,” Trump said.
By the way, in the first interview after the attack, in a conversation with “Fox News”, Trump described the event as “a very sad evening in many ways”, but also an evening where “a lot of people gathered”. He praised the Secret Service and the police, stressing that they reacted “extraordinarily”.
Trump on the attacker: “He is a sick man who hates Christians”
He and first lady Melania Trump were evacuated from a White House Correspondents’ Association dinner Saturday night after a gunman opened fire on security personnel and injured a secret agent.
The gunman was Cole Thomas Allen, a 31-year-old American, who was later arrested.
After the FBI searched the home of the suspected gunman in Torrance, California, Mayor George Chen said that “one person does not define a community.”
World leaders expressed dismay after the attack at a glamorous media gala in Washington. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said he was “shocked by the scenes at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner in Washington,” and a similar statement came from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who indicated that he and his wife Sarah were “shocked by the assassination attempt on Trump.”
French President Emmanuel Macron also said that “violence has no place in democracy”, noting that he fully supports Donald Trump, evaluating the attack as unacceptable.
World leaders condemn shooting in Washington: “Violence has no place in democracy”
