president Donald Trump Explaining why he collapsed on the floor during the evacuation of a shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Saturday night. Trump made the remarks during a conversation with CBS News’ Norah O’Donnell on “60 Minutes” on Sunday, April 26.
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After shots were fired, Trump was seen falling to the ground as Secret Service agents removed him from the podium. Agents were seen quickly pulling him to his feet and then urging him to leave the scene Ballroom at the Washington Hilton Hotel in Washington, D.C.
“I started walking and they said, ‘Please get down, please get down on the floor,'” Trump recalled. “So I fell, and so did the first lady.”
“But as I was walking, the agents asked us to get down,” he added.
When O’Donnell asked the Secret Service agent if he expected he and Melania Trump to essentially crawl out, Trump responded: “Very much.”
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“You could see the security personnel moving very quickly, within seconds, grabbing the vice president by his coat, lifting him up and taking him out,” O’Donnell told the president. “Then the counterattack came, Mr. President, and it took them 10 seconds to flank you and then 20 seconds to get you out. It looked like chaos. At one point, you fell. What happened?”
“Well, what happened is, it was kind of me,” Trump responded. “I wanted to see what was going on, but I wasn’t making it easy for them. I wanted to see what was going on. At that point, we started to realize that maybe this was a bad problem, a different kind of problem, a bad problem.”
“It’s not like the normal noise you hear in a ballroom,” Trump added. “I’m surrounded by great people and I probably tell them to move a little slower. I say, ‘Wait a minute, wait a minute. Let me think, wait a minute.'”
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“Then, I started walking with them. I turned around and started walking. They said, ‘Please get down. Please get down on the floor,'” Trump went on to explain why he fell to the ground during the evacuation. “So I went down, and the first lady went down. But as I was walking, the agents asked us to go down.”
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