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JD Vance smiles during Donald Trump’s press conference after shooting at the Press Gala
Protocol never indicates to give priority to the vice president. And it seems that Trump was already waiting for that moment.
Suddenly, Iran was no longer the central issue around Donald Trump: happened during the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, where the US president was.
A man, however identified as , had a shotgun. He was a “potential killer”, according to Trump. The attacker shot a member of the security forces, according to the Secret Service.
The videos captured by those who were at the event show a mix of people somewhat scared, to get down immediately, with others who even smile and they sat – or even stood – watching what was happening and filming it with their cell phones.
Footage of Trump being evacuated after shots fired
CNN reports shots were fired in the lobby and the shooter is dead.
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Theories quickly arose that this attack was staged. Unfounded conspiracy theories, reinforces .
A moment that fueled these theories was the live broadcast by Aishah Hasnie, a Fox News journalist, after the shots.
The journalist was at that event and reported on a conversation she was having with Nicholas Riccio, husband of Karoline Leavitt, White House spokesperson.
“I was sitting next to Karoline Leavitt’s husband. He was one of our guests, he was here next to me, and when dinner started, the national anthem came on, and he looked at me and said, ‘I see you on television, you do a great job: you really need to be safe now‘. And he was very serious when he told me that. AND looked around the room and said, ‘You know, there are some…‘” – and the direct was interrupted.
Fox explained that the call dropped because there were a lot of people wanting to talk on their cell phones, in the same space.
Fox’s Aishah Hasnie: Karoline Leavitt’s husband leaned over and told me right as the WH Correspondents Dinner was starting, “You need to be very safe.”
“He was very serious when that said that to me, and he kinda looked around the room and said, ‘There are some–’”
*Call drops*
— Chris Menahan 🇺🇸 (@infolibnews)
But there is another moment that further reinforces the arguments of those who argue that this alleged attack was prepared.
It’s this moment:
Breaking News 🚨 was just rushed off the stage during the Correspondents’ after shooting at the event. Shooter is confirmed dead, CNN Reports
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Or vice-president J.D. Vance left from that stage before of the president Donald Trump.
As , a former CIA analyst who worked in the counterterrorism department at the White House, highlights: “This is not just my opinion. (…) The first thing that caught my attention was that, in the midst of gunfire abroad, the first person taken out was… JD Vance. What’s going on? The protocol is: remove the president! Everyone else can die! The person who has to save first is the president! Supposedly, the Secret Service is trained to do this. They didn’t.”
Larry also noticed another dubious fact: in the midst of that supposed chaos, Donald Trump sat and watched, calmly: “Did he know this was going to happen? Was it staged? I believe it was staged.”
The video above shows Melania Trump admiring, apparently scared – but her husband barely reacts and remains on stage.
“Well, what happened was… It was a little bit of my fault. I wanted to see what was happening and I wasn’t making it easy for them. I wanted to see what was happening. (…) And I probably made them act a little slower. I said, ‘Wait a minute, wait a minute. Let me see. Wait a minute,'” the US president said on .
Larry Johnson also warns that the security perimeter failedessentially outside the hotel. No unauthorized person should even be inside the hotel.
