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- WHCA President Weijia Jiang Applauds Secret Service After ‘Harrowing’ Attemp...
(AP Photo/Tom Brenner) White House Correspondents Association’ President Weijia Jiang on Sunday thanked Secret Service and law enforcement officers for thwarting the attempted shooting spree the night before at the group’s annual dinner in Washington, D.C. Jiang was sitting right next to President Donald Trump and members of his administration on stage when suspected shooter Cole Tomas Allen fired multiple shots in the venue’s lobby, forcing Secret Service to rush those on stage to safety. The WHCA president — who is also a reporter for CBS News — said she was “still processing what happened” in an X post, but that she wanted to thank the Secret Service and officers who kept her and others safe. “We are so grateful,” she wrote. Jiang added in her accompanying statement they protected “thousands of guests,” before wishing a speedy recovery to one officer who was shot by the suspect. “Last night’s shooting at the Washington Hilton was a harrowing moment for everyone” in attendance,” she said. Jiang then complimented the reporters in the room for swiftly going from party mode to professional mode amid the chaos. “Our dinner exists to celebrate the First Amendment and the hard daily work of the journalists who defend it,” Jiang wrote. “Last night, those journalists showed exactly the kind of calm and courage that work demands, jumping into reporting immediately after the incident unfolded. We are so proud of everyone in that room.” That comment certainly applied to Jiang, considering she asked Trump the first question during his press conference following the event’s cancelation. Jiang added the WHCA board will be meeting “to assess what happened and determine how to proceed.” She said she will provide any updates later on. I know many of you are still processing what happened last night. Thank you to the USSS and all the law enforcement agencies who kept us safe. We are so grateful. To the members of the WHCA, we will get through this together: pic.twitter.com/aNCO55wB7v — Weijia Jiang (@weijia) April 26, 2026 At his press conference on Saturday evening at the White House, Trump said he “fought like hell” to keep the event going, but that law enforcement protocols made it impossible. He said he hoped it would be rescheduled for late May. The suspected shooter wrote in a manifesto he was shocked at how bad the security was at the event. “This level… [TheTopNews] Read More.54 mins ago - Brennan Presses Todd Blanche On If Gun Law Failures Contributed to WHCD Shooting
Margaret Brennan, the moderator of CBS News’ Face the Nation, spoke to Acting Attorney General Todd Blanch on Sunday morning, who confirmed that the gunman who stormed the White House Correspondents’ Dinner the night before was targeting Trump administration officials. Brennan and Blanche’s lengthy discussion covered a range of issues, with Brennan pressing the top DOJ official on whether or not weak gun laws contributed to the incident. Brennan noted during the interview, “So the alleged shooter, as we just said, had multiple weapons in his possession. Here in the District of Columbia, open carry is not permitted.” “You just said he traveled from California across the country by train. At this point, are you thinking at the federal level of changing security protocols in any way — for example, to match on trains what you are expected to go through when you fly, where you do have to declare a weapon when you cross state lines? How did he travel by train without any challenge and arrive here in the nation’s capital?” she asked. Blanche replied, “And look, this isn’t about, in my mind, changing the law or making the laws more restrictive around possession of firearms. It appears he purchased these firearms over the past couple of years.” “We don’t know how those firearms ended up in his possession in D.C. We can make some assumptions based upon what I just said about how he got to D.C., but I don’t think the narrative here is about changing laws or making our laws more restrictive. This is about law enforcement who are doing their jobs and a suspect who tried to do something and failed miserably,” Blanche added. Brennan pressed further, “Well, I’m not talking about changing the law in terms of possession of a firearm. I’m asking about crossing state lines with that firearm and arriving in the capital. If you try to fly, you do have to have your firearms declared in some way. You don’t when you get on a train.” Blanche replied, “Well, look, you are talking about — I mean, if we’re asking the question, let’s talk about changing the laws. And I don’t think that’s something that we should be focused on right now in any way, shape, or form. OK, not a loophole. There are lots of ways that — yeah.” “So I mean, look, we don’t, and we… [TheTopNews] Read More.58 mins ago - House Dem Credits Shooting Victim Steve Scalise With Helping Him To Safety Durin...Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-FL) expressed his gratitude to his Republican colleague, House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (LA), for helping him to safety during the chaotic moments following a shooting at the White House Correspondents’ dinner Saturday night. After the dust settled, Moskowitz posted to X, “I am at the #WHCD. I want to thank law enforcement, Capital police. I personally want to thank Steve Scalise who grabbed me into a secure room.” Here is @SteveScalise taking me with him. Again, I am thankful to him and to law enforcement. Just 2 people who previously had assassination attempts against them, Steve’s more serious. It’s been 8 years since the shooting in Parkland at my HS Marjory Stoneman Douglas. https://t.co/cBvpyFGTXq pic.twitter.com/797yaLF6y4 — Jared Moskowitz (@JaredEMoskowitz) April 26, 2026 Moskowitz told CNN’s Dana Bash on Sunday that he was hiding under the table when he saw security rushing toward Scalise. “And so I popped up and said, ‘Steve, can I come with you?’ And he said to his detail, ‘He’s a member, grab him.’ And, you know, Steve grabbed me and put me into into the secure room with him. You know, regular members don’t have anything. We don’t have any detail. We don’t have any protection. There’s a fund we’ve been given when we’re out and about. But in an event like that, we’re just like everybody else, right? Only leadership has that. And so yeah, I’m very thankful for Steve for letting me come with him and putting me into the secure room.” Scalise was shot and seriously wounded in 2017, during a practice for the Congressional Baseball Game by a gunman who was targeting Republicans. Moskowitz had his own close call in 2024, when police raided the home of a constituent and discovered an arsenal plus Moskowitz’s name on a target list. “Me and Steve going out, again, two people who have both had to deal with this,” Moskowitz said. “I mean, you know, Steve doesn’t walk well. You know, he couldn’t run, as people were running, he couldn’t run. And so it just, you know, yeah, it’s a terrible reality.” Moskowitz is also a graduate of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, FL, where 17 people were killed by a school shooter in 2018. He has made gun violence prevention and school safety legislation a cornerstone of his time in Congress. Watch… [TheTopNews] Read More.1 hour ago
- WHCD Shooter Couldn’t Believe How Bad Security Was Before Trying to Shoot Trum...The man suspected of attempting a mass shooting while targeting President Donald Trump and members of his administration at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Saturday night wrote he was shocked at how bad the security was at the venue. “Like, this level of incompetence is insane,” Cole Tomas Allen wrote in a manifesto obtained by the New York Post. “And I very sincerely hope it’s corrected by the time this country gets actually competent leadership again.” That was part of an entire section in his manifesto dedicated to describing the terrible security at the Hilton hotel in Washington, D.C., where the annual event took place. “PS: Ok now that all the sappy stuff is done, what the hell is the Secret Service doing? Sorry, gonna rant a bit here and drop the formal tone,” Allen wrote. “Like, I expected security cameras at every bend, bugged hotel rooms, armed agents every 10 feet, metal detectors out the wazoo.” Instead, he said there was: No damn security. Not in transport. Not in the hotel. Not in the event. Allen went on to say if he was an Iranian agent he could have easily smuggled in a weapon with ease. He also said the security at the hotel was entirely focused on protesters outside the event and seemingly had not considered that a wannabe assassin could check into the hotel the day before. He added he felt a “sense of arrogance” from the hotel, as if its guests couldn’t possibly be attackers. The Post obtained his manifesto the morning after Allen fired multiple shots in the hotel lobby, minutes after the event kicked off. It was set to be Trump’s first appearance at the dinner since he became president, but instead he was rushed off the stage by Secret Service, along with First Lady Melania Trump, Vice President JD Vance, and White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, who is due to give birth any day now. Trump said at a press conference after the event was canceled that he “fought like hell” to keep it going, and hoped it would be rescheduled for May. He also shared multiple pictures of Allen being pressed against the ground after being apprehended; Trump applauded law enforcement for taking him down. “He’s a sick person, a very sick person,” Trump said about the 31-year-old from Torrance, California. Allen sent the manifesto to family members about 10… [TheTopNews] Read More.1 hour ago
- CNN’s Dana Bash Presses Top Dem On Anti-Trump ‘Heat Rhetoric’: ‘Do You T...CNN anchor Dana Bash spoke to Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) on Sunday following an armed man storming the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner attended by President Donald Trump the previous night. The gunman was quickly apprehended and has since been revealed to have used “anti-Trump and anti-Christian rhetoric” on social media, according to CBS News’ Jennifer Jacobs. “Obviously, there are lots of different aspects to this. One is a question of the gun, and Todd Blanche told me that they believe that the alleged shooter purchased the guns legally within the last year. So there’s that, and then there’s the political rhetoric that we have seen just become kind of off the rails, and how that has perhaps gone hand-in-hand with the political violence that we have seen spike,” Bash began. Raskin replied, “Well, that’s why I was so happy that President Trump went to that, because he had called the press the enemy of the people. There have been so many attacks on reporters. You know, there have been lawsuits brought against media entities, and so there’s been this terrible assault on the First Amendment and freedom of press and speech. So I thought last night would be a wonderful opportunity to try to reclaim the basic values of the country.” “Yeah, and you have, as many of your fellow Democrats have, used some heated rhetoric against the president. And do you think twice about that when something like this happens?” Bash pressed. Raskin pushed back, asking, “What rhetoric do you have in mind?” “Well, just talking about the fact that he, you know, is terrible for this country and so on and so forth. I understand that that’s your democratic right, but overall–” Bash replied as Raskin answered: I have no personal problem with Donald Trump at all. I mean, I talk about the policies of this administration, the authoritarianism, like we saw on display in Minneapolis, where two of our citizens were gunned down in the streets simply for exercising their First Amendment rights — Renee Good, Alex Pretti, and others who, you know, died in custody. I’m talking about policies. I don’t personalize it. And I certainly have never called the press the enemy of the people. I think the press are the people’s best friend, and that’s why it’s written right there into the First Amendment. We need the press to be a… [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago
- ‘Tone Down The Flipping Rhetoric!’ John Roberts Rips Hakeem Jeffries For Com...Fox News anchor John Roberts admonished House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) for comments he made after the shooting incident at Saturday night’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner. Roberts was at the event at the Washington Hilton when a gunman ran through the magnetometer and fired shots before being tackled by security. One Secret Service agent was saved when his bulletproof vest caught the shooter’s round. President Donald Trump, Melania Trump, and Trump officials were safely ushered out of the venue. Roberts told host Trace Gallagher that future correspondents’ dinners “need to have Trump-level security.” “And then again, you know, we heard from Hakeem Jeffries just before you and I came on together. And he said, ‘Oh, we are so happy nobody was hurt.’ Well, you know, then tone down the flipping rhetoric!” “You might not like the guy,” Roberts said of Trump. “You might not be able to stand him. But you call him Hitler, you call him a fascist, you call him all of these things. You call him a threat to democracy. Some lunatic out there is going to take that language to heart, that rhetoric to heart.” “And feel emboldened!” Gallagher agreed. “This suspect, as we are learning, all of a sudden he seems like a very smart guy, right? Went to CalTech.” “Clearly has some problems,” Roberts added. “I mean, he was very Christian, part of the Christian thing, and then all of a sudden he has this anti-Christian diatribe,” Gallagher said. “So, it’s changing. And the way that people change is because of rhetoric. Is because of some things that people say, it hits you somewhere, and people they are all of this anti-Trump, ‘He’s this, he’s Hitler, he’s dangerous, he needs to be stopped.’ All that rhetoric plays into it in some fashion.” Watch the clip above via Fox News.The post ‘Tone Down The Flipping Rhetoric!’ John Roberts Rips Hakeem Jeffries For Comments After WHCD first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago
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