The armed suspect at the White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA) Dinner “charged from 50 yards away,” President Donald Trump said during a late night press conference Saturday.
Trump held a press conference after being whisked away at the WHCA dinner after a gunman charged a magnetometer and shot a Secret Service member in the chest. The agent was wearing a bulletproof vest, and while he was shot at a close distance “with a very powerful gun,” Trump said the “vest did the job” and that the officer is “doing great.”
The president provided further details on the shocking incident, contending that the room itself was “very very secure.”
“You know, he charged from 50 yards away,” Trump said. “So he was very far away from the room.”
Trump also shared security footage on his Truth Social account of the suspect charging through.
Despite the fact that he was “very far away
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