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Trump Explains His Fall While Fleeing WHCD Scene And It’s Raising Eyebrows

Why the president fell while fleeing at the White House Correspondents Dinner.

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Why did Donald Trump fall down while the Secret Service was escorting him out when a gunman emerged during the White House Correspondents Association Dinner on Saturday?

The president tried to explain during his 60 Minutes interview with Norah O’Donnell on Sunday.

“I started walking, and they said, ‘Please go down, please go down on the floor,’” Trump recounted on the show. “So I went down, and the first lady went down also…. But we were asked to go down by the agents as I was walking,”

“So I dropped to the floor, so did the first lady,” he added.

“You see the security moving quickly, within seconds, grabbing the vice president by his coat, lifting him up, bringing him out,” O’Donnell asked. “Then, the counterassault comes in, took 10 seconds for them to flank you, Mr. President, and then 20 seconds to get you out. It looked chaotic. At one point, you were down. What was happening?”

“Well, what happened is, it was a little bit me,” Trump said in the interview. “I wanted to see what was happening, and I wasn’t making it that easy for them…. I was surrounded by great people, and I probably made them act a little bit more slowly. I said, ‘Wait a minute, wait a minute. Let me see, wait a minute.’”

O’Donnell also asked Trump why Vice President JD Vance was escorted out more quickly than he was.

“You see the security moving quickly, within seconds, grabbing the vice president by his coat, lifting him up, bringing him out,” O’Donnell said to the president. “Then, the counterassault comes in, took 10 seconds for them to flank you, Mr. President, and then 20 seconds to get you out. It looked chaotic. At one point, you were down. What was happening?”

Some on social media didn’t quite buy that explanation.

Photo courtesy of an X screenshot. 
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