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REPORTED IMAGE and VIDEO of SHOOTER At
White House Correspondents’ Dinner Shared
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White House Correspondents’ Dinner Shared
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President Reagan was shot 25 years ago on March 30, 1981, outside the Washington Hilton in Washington, D.C. Tonight, only minutes before the White House Correspondents’ Dinner was set to kick off, multiple shots were heard ringing out inside the venue.
President Trump, First Lady Melania Trump, Vice President JD Vance, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, Karoline Leavitt, DNI Tulsi Gabbard, and several other cabinet members were in attendance for the dinner when the reported 6-7 shots were fired. Charlie Kirk’s widow, Erika Kirk, was also in attendance and was seen visibly shaken, hiding under the table.
This video shows VP JD Vance quickly exiting
President Donald Trump has already released photos and surveillance footage of the shooter at the White House correspondents’ dinner, emphasizing the importance of transparency at this time.
The president confirmed during a press conference late on Saturday evening that the shooter was a man from California, that he was in federal custody, and that the video on the president's account does show him rushing a security checkpoint in the Washington Hilton hotel. Trump did not say specifically if the name released on several websites is the shooter's name, all PJ Media can confirm at this time are the photos and videos below.
In the immediate aftermath following the apparent assassination attempt against President Donald Trump at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Saturday evening, Iran’s Tasnim News Agency was quick to question whether the shooting was staged.
Tasnim, which has close ties with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), suggested that the shooting at the Hilton Hotel in Washington, D.C., as the Correspondents Dinner was commencing, may have been a “big show” intended to bolster President Trump’s approval ratings.
The news agency speculated that it could have been staged to improve President Trump’s position ahead of the upcoming mid-term elections or perhaps to “use it against Iran or another country”.
President Donald Trump was whisked out of the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner after shots were fired in the vicinity. A mind boggling point from Adrian Vermuelue. Judge Richard Leon, appointed to the DC District Court by George W. Bush, ordered construction of the ballroom project and underground security bunker blocked, writing in his order that Trump’s team had “not provided any national security justification for why these features must be installed immediately.” Yes, this judge does not believe their is an inherent risk to the leader of the free world great enough to justify
The gunman who opened fire at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner in Washington, D.C., on Saturday night has been identified as Cole Allen of Torrance, Calif.
The 31-year-old, who federal law enforcement source confirmed is a teacher, was in custody after gunfire broke out near the event’s main security screening area just after 8:30 p.m.
Allen appeared to assemble a “long” weapon in a lightly monitored area near the terrace-level entrance before opening fire and rushing toward the ballroom.
A described a “makeshift room” near the entrance where bar carts were being stored and where “there was no security” at the time.
Fox News and New York Post columnist, Karol Markowicz, on Saturday identified the White House Correspondents Dinner shooting suspect as Cole Tomas Allen. She shared first details on X, platform formerly known as Twitter, noting that the individual is from Torrance, California and is in custody.
“The attempted shooter at the White House Correspondent's Dinner is 31 year old Cole Tomas Allen from Torrance, California and he is in custody,” she tweeted.
A White House Correspondents’ Dinner volunteer said the suspected gunman appeared to assemble a “long” weapon in a lightly monitored area near the terrace-level entrance before opening fire and rushing toward the ballroom.
The witness, Helen Mabus, a volunteer working the event who said she is from Harrisburg, Pa., described a “makeshift room” near the entrance where bar carts were being stored and where “there was no security” at the time.
“He was in that room […] he grabbed it out of a bag or something,” Mabus said, adding that the weapon “was long” and “didn’t look like a typical gun.”
The Show Will Not Go On: WH Correspondents'
Dinner to Be Rescheduled After Chaotic
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Dinner to Be Rescheduled After Chaotic
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We’ve been reporting on Saturday night’s chaos at the White House Correspondents' Association dinner, where shots were fired, and President Trump and the First Lady had to be whisked off to safety by Service Agents. In the aftermath, there has been discussion about whether to proceed with the gala, with the president affirming that he wanted the show to go on.
Now, however, according to the president, that’s not going to happen. He posted to social media minutes ago:
His full message at 9:36 pm ET:
Law Enforcement has requested that we leave the premises, consistent with protocol, which we will do, immediately.
According to on-air reports, which were covering other topics when it occurred, shots have been fired at the White House Correspondents' Dinner.
Video of C-Span's coverage shows people ducking below their tables while the head table, where President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump were sitting, evacuated. The anchor can be heard breaking in to point out the developing situation. [Tweet, video]
The situation is fluid, and this post will be updated as more information becomes known.
UPDATE:
It is now being reported that the Secret Service has killed the shooter. It's not clear whether the assailant ever got a shot off.
President Trump was evacuated from the White House Correspondents' Dinner after gunfire erupted.
Eyewitnesses told The Post at least four shots went off inside the Washington Hilton.
Trump, along with the rest of his cabinet, were evacuated room he ballroom shortly after arriving to the annual event, hosted by the White House Correspondents' Association.
The Secret Service has since locked down the hotel as scores of reporters remain inside.
CINCINNATI — Ousted Cincinnati Police Chief Teresa Theetge is appealing her dismissal and filing a lawsuit against the city, Mayor Aftab Pureval and City Manager Sheryl Long, her attorney announced Friday afternoon.
Long announced on Thursday that while she recognized Theetge's 35 years of service in the Cincinnati Police Department, "it's become clear that a change in leadership is necessary for the department moving forward."
A shooting at a Chicago hospital on Saturday morning has left a police officer dead and another critically injured, according to NBC 5 Chicago.
The suspect, who has not been publicly identified, is in custody, according to Andre Vasquez, alderperson for the city’s 40th ward.
The individual had already been in police custody when they were transported to Endeavor Health Swedish hospital’s emergency department for treatment, the hospital said in a social media post.
“In accordance with Endeavor Health public safety weapon detection protocols, this individual was wanded upon arrival,” the hospital wrote.
The suspect opened fire on officers before exiting the building. He was later apprehended, according to the hospital.
Baton Rouge officials shared a big update on Friday in the investigation of the deadly mass shooting at the Mall of Louisiana. A teenager has been arrested, and another unknown person is wanted.
Gunshots rang out from the food court at 1:22 p.m. Thursday afternoon.
“The BRPD officer assigned to the mall and an East Baton Rouge Sheriff’s deputy were in the area,” Baton Rouge Police Chief Thomas Morse Junior said in a press conference Friday.
The officers were in the food court within seconds.
“Almost immediately, law enforcement officials were able to begin identifying the suspects, using security camera footage and other investigative tools,” an investigator added.
President Trump is set to feast on the “fake news” media Saturday night when he attends his first White House Correspondents’ dinner as commander-in-chief.
Despite turning down invitations to the annual event throughout his first term and last year, the president appeared to be eager for dishing out a roast, repeatedly prodding reporters at the White House this week.
“You’re such a disgrace,” he told one on Thursday. The appearance gives Trump his chance to put his mark on the dinner, after famously serving as the repeated butt of former President Barack Obama’s jokes during his 2011 routine – a skewering that is said to have solidified the billionaire’s decision to seek
The 10 Commandments are back in the news. A federal appeals court this week ruled that it’s fine for them to be printed on posters and tacked to the wall in Texas public school classrooms. The plaintiffs in the case are poised to appeal this decision to the Supreme Court of the United States, so the fate of this law remains uncertain.The majority opinion noted that “No child is made to recite the Commandments, believe them, or affirm their divine origin,” so the law’s requirements are essentially passive and pretty benign. But liberals continue to regurgitate the same arguments they have since the 1962 Engel v. Vitale decision outlawing voluntary,
Starmer is Finished. But, More Importantly,
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We are about to witness an implosion in British politics with a real risk that we will reach entirely the wrong conclusion.
Keir Starmer is already a lame duck Prime Minister but – like many who hold that office – he is stubborn and thus likely to stagger on until the untenability of his position is punched into him by his Parliamentary colleagues.
Starmer’s political obituary will read that he misled Parliament (or at best was economical with the truth), that he ran a No. 10 operation that was out of control and alienated many of his own MPs, —
Labour is pressing ahead with plans to make hybrid drivers liable for a new pay-per-mile tax despite admitting they barely use their vehicles in electric mode. The Telegraph has the story.
Plug-in hybrid cars (PHEV) will become liable for Rachel Reeves’s new electric road tax from 2028, with each mile driven attracting a 1.5p fee. It will be half the 3p levy paid by owners of electric vehicles (EVs).
Last year, justifying the policy, the Treasury said PHEV motorists drove “more or less than 50% in electric mode”.
Theft as Social Justice
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If a violent social revolution were truly to break out, and Piker and Tolentino became its victims, one assumes they’d find crime less fun.
Is robbing the Louvre a good idea?
Left-wing influencer Hasan Piker and New Yorker writer Jia Tolentino did a much-discussed video interview with the New York Times on the ethics of theft and came out four-square in favor of stealing things, including artwork from the Louvre. They consider larceny an appropriate response to the inherent corruption and injustice of the American capitalist system. The merits of this position aside,
It's pretty safe to say at this point that Democrats want as many illegal immigrants to enter the country as possible because they believe they will eventually become loyal Democrat voters. So it's no surprise that they have complete disdain for agencies like Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), who are trying to remove those potential Democrat voters. And as Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) demonstrated, they don't care who knows it. According to Breitbart Texas, during a late-night Senate debate on funding the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and ending the partial government shutdown that, yes, is still going on, Schumer said this:
America's insurance system is broken — and patients are rightfully frustrated. But Democrats are exploiting that frustration to push for a cure that would be worse than the disease: socialized medicine. U.S. Democrat Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY-14) recently suggested that the solution to America's insurance woes is to simply "allow everyone to buy into Medicare."What this conveniently ignores is that Democrats' years-long push for socialized health care created the mess we're in today.
Democrats shoved the Affordable Care Act through Congress and expanded it into a vast system of healthcare subsidies.
A few years ago, I was eating breakfast in a DC hotel listening to two men talk about their schedule for the day. Their business was decorating homes for Christmas, and they were discussing their heavy workload. As I listened quietly the men were describing premium rates for DC families who wanted their decorating services completed fastest. The average rate was $15,000 per residence for 30-day interior holiday decorating, and the rates went up from there. They were overwhelmed with business calls.
I sat there stunned doing spit-takes with my coffee while thinking, “holy cow, who has that kind of money to blow, just renting Holiday decorations?”
The same scenario plays itself out thousands of times across the country each week, as hundreds of news outlets report on gang shootings, lootings, robberies, and rapes, alleging that “teens” are the perpetrators. The legacy news media either can’t or won’t come up with a more accurate term for reasons we need to address up front. Most (but not all) of these stories involve minority males under the age of 18. To avoid appearing racist, or to actively suppress the facts in the stories, the reporters, editors, and producers involved euphemize the alleged perpetrators by referring to them the generic “teen.” To be sure, an increasing number of juveniles involved
The narratives often suggest that the US campaign has failed and that Tehran remains firmly in control. In reality, however, US President Donald J. Trump has pursued a strategy that departs radically from decades of precedent — one that has left the Iranian regime cornered in ways not previously seen.
Rather than adhering to the usual norms of the international system, Trump redefined them — combining military force, economic coercion, serious deadlines and diplomatic "off-ramps" in rapid succession — denying Iran the ability to settle into its familiar pattern of adaptation and delay.
The richest man in Mississippi, Tom Duff, and his brother James Duff, have been under a Justice Department investigation for potentially defrauding a federal pandemic-era relief program of $6.7 million since 2024, court records show.
A lawsuit filed against the brothers by Relator LLC claims the two “looted the government” by filing “falsified loan documents to the Small Business Administration in order to obtain taxpayer-funded payments through the Paycheck Protection Program.”
The case will move to Mississippi after a federal judge in March granted the Duffs’ motion to transfer the case.
According to the documents, the brothers applied for the loans using their tire company, the Southern Tire Mart, which is valued at