Trump Balks Getting Off Stage at WHCD: ‘I Wanted to See What Was Going On’
President Donald Trump admitted he did not make it easy for Secret Service agents to whisk him away from danger Saturday night. “I wanted to see what was going on,” Trump said in an interview with “60 Minutes Sunday,”…
President Donald Trump admitted he did not make it easy for Secret Service agents to whisk him away from danger Saturday night.
“I wanted to see what was going on,” Trump said in an interview with “60 Minutes Sunday,” the day after the White House Correspondents’ Dinner when a man tried to storm the event and murder him and members of his administration.
Correspondent Norah O’Donnell said it took 10 seconds for Secret Service to flank Trump and 20 seconds to get him off the stage.
“It looked chaotic, at one point you were down,” O’Donnell said. “What was happening?”
Trump responded he was surrounded by “great people” and “probably made them act a little more slowly” than normal.
“Wait a minute, wait a minute, let me see. Wait a minute,” Trump said to his security team.
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He then said he started to walk out “pretty tall, a little bent over, you know, because I’m not looking to stand too tall.” He then hitt the ground after Secret Service insisted.
Trump, first lady Melania Trump, Vice President JD Vance, and White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt — who is nine months pregnant — were rushed to safety. This was Trump’s first WHC Dinner since becoming president.
Cole Tomas Allen, 31, the suspected shooter, appeared to have been motivated by conspiracy theories about Trump andJeffrey Epstein.
In his manifesto thatTrump was a “pedophile” and “rapist” who needed to be killed.