WORLD NEWS: Trump, evacuated unharmed from the White House correspondents’ dinner after a shooting | International
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The president of the United States, Donald Trump, was evacuated this Saturday night from the White House Correspondents’ Dinner after the Secret Service prevented a man armed with a shotgun, a pistol and several knives from entering the room where the event was being held. The attack occurred shortly after 8:30 p.m. in Washington (2:30 p.m. Spanish peninsular time). Both the president and the first lady, Melania Trump, and the rest of the members of his Cabinet were escorted out of the Hilton hotel in Washington, where the dinner was being held, which was suddenly taken over by chaos. The suspect, who allegedly opened fire in the Hilton lobby before being subdued, is in custody and is expected to appear before a judge on Monday. This is Cole Allen, a 31-year-old Californian; According to initial information, he had stayed as a guest at the hotel. The FBI has cordoned off his home in Torrance, a suburb of Los Angeles. Trump published on his social network an image in which Allen is seen on the ground, bare-chested, after being subdued by the police. The president, still dressed in a tuxedo, later said at a White House news conference that the man was carrying “several weapons.” “It seems that he acted alone, that he was a lone wolf,” he added. “But it’s not clear. We’ll see.” Trump stated in his impromptu appearance before the press that the attacker had fired his shotgun at an agent, and that he was saved thanks to his bulletproof vest. The spokesman for the United States Secret Service, Anthony Guglielmi, later confirmed that the police officer was in good condition and had already been released from the hospital.00:48Images of the shooting suspect detainedAgents subdue the suspect in the attack against Donald Trump in Washington, this Saturday. Photo: CASA BLANCAThis is the third attack that the president of the United States survives. In July 2024, when the then Republican candidate was giving a rally in Butler (Pennsylvania), a sniper shot him up to eight times and one of those bullets grazed his right ear. In September of that same year, just two months before the elections, an armed man was discovered on a Florida golf course with plans to assassinate the magnate. Five shots were heard from inside the Hilton lounge where journalists, politicians and celebrities were dining this Saturday. The diners were at that moment starting the first course. After a few seconds of confusion, security agents rushed into the room and evacuated Trump, his wife and his entire team. In one of the videos recorded by the attendees, you can see how the vice president, JD Vance, is the first to be removed by the police from one side of the stage and, then, the president is evacuated from the other side. The area in which the incident occurred, one floor above the venue, was immediately cordoned off. The outside of the hotel, where attendees were evacuated, was filled with police. The sound of sirens and helicopters flying overhead suddenly took over Saturday night in the American capital. Many of those present chose to leave, although the authorities asked those who remained in the hotel to stay so that the dinner could continue, something that ultimately did not happen. Press and powerTrump was preparing to give a speech at the traditional meeting between the press and the power of Washington. It was his first time as president that he attended the dinner, after years of boycotting a celebration that is organized as a tribute to the First Amendment, which guarantees freedom of expression. Trump is the president who has attacked the press the most in recent US history. And this Saturday is surely the event with the highest number of reporters per square meter in the world. A little less than an hour had passed since the television broadcast the chaotic images of his evacuation when Trump published the following message on Truth Social: “It has been an intense night in DC [siglas del Distrito de Columbia]. The Secret Service and law enforcement have done a fantastic job. They acted quickly and bravely. The shooter has been arrested, and I have recommended that ‘THE SHOW GO ON’; However, I will be guided entirely by the instructions of law enforcement agencies. They will make a decision shortly. Regardless of this decision, the evening will be very different from what was planned.”The president of the United States, Donald Trump, is escorted after a shooting during the annual dinner of the White House Correspondents’ Association in Washington, this Saturday. Bo Erickson (REUTERS)Authorities reported that all members of the Government had emerged unharmed and that there were no injuries or deaths.Tom Brenner (AP)Many of those present chose to leave, although the authorities asked those who remained in the hotel to They would stay so that the dinner could continue.Evan Vucci (REUTERS)Security force agents after arresting the alleged perpetrator of the shooting, Cole Tomas Allen, this Saturday.DONALD J TRUMP via Truth Social (via REUTERS)The evacuation occurred after sounds of gunshots in the lobby.Tom Brenner (AP)Guests take shelter after the evacuation, in Washington.Jessica Koscielniak (REUTERS)President Donald Trump, during the conference of press that he offered in the James Brady press room of the White House, this Saturday. Associate Press/ LaPresse Only Italy and SpainAssociated Press/LaPresse (APN)Journalists follow Donald Trump’s conference remotely.Elizabeth Frantz (REUTERS)Donald Trump speaks with the press in the James Brady room, in the White House.Tom Brenner (AP)Members of the press prepare for Trump’s speech.Jonathan Ernst (REUTERS)The White House Correspondents’ Association has about 800 members and this evening is the most important moment of its annual activities.Jonathan Ernst (REUTERS)Guests hug each other after the evacuation.Jonathan Ernst (REUTERS)The event took place at the Hilton Washington Hotel.YURI GRIPAS / POOL (EFE)Some guests in the dinner room after the evacuation.Tom Brenner (AP)Guests and members of the press leave the room.Tom Brenner (AP)Guests watch from their tables after the President of the United States, Donald Trump, and the first lady, Melania Trump, were removed from the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner.Jessica Koscielniak (REUTERS)Marco Rubio and his wife Jeanette Dousdebes Rubio wait outside one of the rooms of The House White.Jonathan Ernst (REUTERS)FBI Director Kash Patel speaking on the phone while top American leaders were evacuated.Tom Brenner (AP)If it is confirmed that the man who shot in the hotel lobby came looking for Trump, this would be the third that the president of the United States survives.Tom Brenner (AP)Police officers escort the Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.Tom Brenner (AP)Donald Trump and Melania Trump, minutes before the attempted attack.Yuri Gripas / POOL (EFE)A guest covers himself during the incident.Jessica Koscielniak (REUTERS)The National Guard escorts journalists, in Washington. Mark Schiefelbein (AP)Trump was preparing to give a speech at the traditional meeting between the press and the power of Washington. It was his first time as president that he attended the dinner.Yuri Gripas / POOL (EFE)Service agents. secret respond immediately after Donal Trump’s departure.Alex Brandon (AP)The sound of sirens and the overflight of helicopters also suddenly took over Saturday night in the American capital.Tom Brenner (AP)Moment of Trump’s departure, escorted by his security team.Bo Erickson (REUTERS)Some American media reported, before he himself said it on his social network, that Trump was willing to return to the dinner and comply with the tradition of offering a monologue for the nearly three thousand attendees at an event broadcast live on television. Tom Brenner (AP) Agents intervene during the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, this Saturday. Alex Brandon (AP) Weijia Jiang, president of the Correspondents’ association, speaks at the beginning of the dinner. Tom Brenner (AP) The area where this incident occurred was immediately cordoned off. Evacuated attendees, filled with police. Allison Robbert (AP) About 20 minutes after the incident, Weijia Jiang, White House correspondent for CBS News, announced that the party was going to resume “as soon as possible.” the microphone to say that the Secret Services had asked the organization of the event to suspend it. He also warned that Trump had called a press conference “in the next thirty minutes.” “And it’s not a joke,” Jiang added. All of this information was confirmed by the president himself in another message in Truth. comply with the tradition of offering a comic monologue for the nearly 3,000 attendees at an event that is broadcast live by the main news networks. At his press conference at the White House, he said that he planned to give the “most incorrect speech in history.” the history of political violence in the United States. At the back entrance of that imposing hotel with a double arch, a plaque remembers that at 2:27 p.m. on March 30, 1981, precisely “on the 100th visit of an American president” to the place, John Hinckley Jr., who was looking to impress the actress Jodie Foster, shot Ronald Reagan with a .22 caliber revolver loaded with “expansive” bullets. who evacuated Reagan to the George Washington Hospital, saved the life of the then president, who had only been in office for a few months. From the assassination in 1865 of President Abraham Lincoln at the hands of the Confederate John Wilkes Booth in the Ford Theater in Washington to the assassination in 1963 of John Fitzgerald Kennedy in Dallas, for which Lee Harvey Oswald was accused, the democracy of the United States can also be counted in the attacks that shook its foundations. In addition to Lincoln and Kennedy, two other tenants of the White House died. shot: James A. Garfield, in 1881, and William McKinley, 20 years later. The list of presidents or former presidents who suffered attacks but survived them – a list to which Trump said he was proud to belong this Saturday – includes, in addition to Reagan, a guy named John Schrank, who acted, he said, guided by the spirit of McKinley, shot Roosevelt on October 14, 2010. 1912, when he had already left the White House. He was arriving at a campaign event in Milwaukee (Wisconsin).
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