Why did JD Vance evacuate before Trump during the WHCD shooting? The president explained what happened, “I wanted to see…”

“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?”

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“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.'”

“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.”

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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White House Correspondents’ Dinner Shooting Suspect Cole Thomas AllenThe 31-year-old faces two counts of using a firearm during a violent crime and one count of assaulting a police officer with a dangerous weapon after breaching security at the Washington Hilton. He shot and killed a law enforcement officer, but his injuries were not serious, Newsweek reported.

trump card and other government officials evacuated from the Washington Hilton Hotel White House Correspondents’ Dinner After the gunshot.