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President Trump and first lady Melania Trump were rushed out of the Washington Hilton as shots rang out at the White House Correspondents Dinner.
A Secret Service agent shot during former President Reagan’s 1981 assassination attempt said Monday that law enforcement did a “hell of a good job” protecting the president during the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner shooting on Saturday.
( NewsNation) — A retired Secret Service agent who took a bullet during the 1981 assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan is praising his former agency for the way it stopped a gunman from harming President Donald Trump at a Saturday event in Washington, D.C.
The shooting incident at the annual White House Correspondents’ Association dinner on Saturday (April 25) night has evoked memories of the attempted assassination of former US President Ronald Reagan in 1981.
Saturday's incident happened at The Washington Hilton Hotel. This is the same where an assassination attempt was made at former President Ronald Reagan more than 40 years ago.
Tim McCarthy, a retired Secret Service agent who took a bullet for Ronald Reagan during an assassination attempt in 1981, praised security's response.
The Washington Hilton was the scene of the attempted assassination of President Ronald Reagan in 1981, who was shot and wounded by John Hinckley Jr. outside an entrance to the building after a speaking engagement at the hotel.
Since the United States’ founding, four sitting presidents have been assassinated and several others have survived attempted murders. From Donald Trump to Ronald Reagan to the Roosevelts and Andrew Jackson,
A shooting incident at the White House Correspondents' Dinner saw President Trump evacuated after a shotgun-wielding assailant targeted security. This echoes the 1981 assassination attempt on President Reagan at the same Washington Hilton venue,
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Live updates: Correspondents' dinner shooting suspect may have been targeting Trump, acting AG says
The shooting prompted the evacuation of President Donald Trump and other high-profile guests from the White House Correspondents' Association dinner Saturday. The suspect is in custody.