continue to exist CNN <\/a>after all the pieces went right down to detail his experience. He said he was walking back to the ballroom on the time, after which \u201cheard three, possibly six gunshots\u201d and that it was \u201cenormously loud.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\tThe journalist added that \u201cwhen the cop pushed me down, I said to myself, \u2018I ponder if I used to be the goal or whatever,\u2019 and thank God I wasn\u2019t \u2019cause I used to be not shot. I used to be just thrown to the bottom and guarded.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tFollowing the shooting, 31-year-old Cole Tomas Allen was later identified because the suspect and quickly taken into custody. U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro confirmed in a press briefing that the suspect might be charged with using a firearm and assaulting a federal officer with a dangerous weapon, and that there’ll likely be \u201cmany more charges\u201d to return.<\/p>\n
\n\tPresident Donald\u00a0Trump\u00a0and first lady Melania Trump, who were sitting onstage on the time of the incident, were also rushed out of the ballroom. He later shared details surrounding the shooting at a press conference on the White House, revealing that an officer was shot but saved by a bulletproof vest.<\/p>\n
\n\tTrump added that he plans to reschedule the White House Correspondents\u2019 Association dinner.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cWe\u2019re gonna do it again, we\u2019re not gonna let anybody take over our society; we\u2019re not gonna cancel things because we are able to\u2019t do this,\u201d the president added. \u201cWe desired to stay tonight. I’ll let you know, I fought like hell to remain, however it was protocol.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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Wolf Blitzer is recounting his \u201cfrightening experience\u201d when shots were fired through the White House Correspondents\u2019 Association dinner Saturday night. The longtime CNN anchor spoke to USA Today after the incident, saying he was near the gunman, who had charged through a security checkpoint and into the Washington Hilton ballroom with multiple weapons. \u201cI feel […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":325000,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20669],"tags":[51060,51059,539,840,18066,2524,11652,12382],"class_list":["post-324999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hollywood","tag-blitzer","tag-cnns","tag-details","tag-experience","tag-frightening","tag-shooting","tag-whcd","tag-wolf"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324999"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":325002,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324999\/revisions\/325002"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}