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<\/p>\nUnited States President Donald Trump has made light of the chaotic White House Correspondents\u2019 Dinner shooting, joking that Secret Service agents rushed Vice President JD Vance from the stage faster than him.<\/p>\n
The President used a Police Week event in the Rose Garden on Monday to mock the dramatic evacuation, telling supporters agents grabbed Vance and pulled him from the stage before helping him to safety.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThey had great professional people, and they came out within seconds,\u201d\u00a0Trump said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI saw them take JD by the shoulders and lift him up like he was a little boy.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI said, \u2018how come they didn\u2019t lift me up so fast?\u2019 They lifted JD – got ripped out of the chair. That was a view of the week, but they did the job, JD, right? I think so.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Footage from the dinner showed an agent sprinting towards the Vice President before dragging him backwards from his chair as\u00a0additional\u00a0officers surrounded him.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Trump remained seated for several moments before agents escorted him from the stage.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
During the evacuation, he briefly stumbled forward as officers directed him towards the floor.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
The President later told CBS News he had slowed the evacuation because he wanted to assess what was unfolding.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI wanted to see what was happening\u2026 I probably made them act a little more slowly,\u201d he said.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
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He also rejected claims he had fallen during the incident.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI was walking out\u2026 about halfway there, they said, \u2018please go down to the floor,\u2019\u201d Trump said.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Authorities later\u00a0identified\u00a0the alleged\u00a0gunman\u00a0as 31-year-old California engineer Cole Allen.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Prosecutors allege Allen opened fire with a long gun near a security checkpoint outside the ballroom before law enforcement subdued him.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
One Secret Service agent suffered injuries during the shooting, though\u00a0Trump said the officer\u2019s bulletproof vest prevented more serious harm.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Allen has since been charged with attempting to assassinate the President along with firearm offences linked to the attack.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
He pleaded not guilty during a federal court appearance on Monday.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Investigators believe the suspect may have acted over political grievances, including anger linked to the war involving Iran.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"United States President Donald Trump has made light of the chaotic White House Correspondents\u2019 Dinner shooting, joking that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68473,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119],"tags":[12,169,168,6114,39875,21795],"class_list":{"0":"post-68472","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jd-vance","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-james-david-vance","10":"tag-jd-vance","11":"tag-secret-service","12":"tag-whca-shooting","13":"tag-white-house-correspondents-dinner"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@people\/116564181305608345","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}