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White House Press Secretary Carolyn Levitt’s comments before the White House Correspondents’ Dinner after the event was disrupted by the shooting have gone viral.Speaking before the dinner, Levitt described the evening as “classic Donald Trump”, adding that it would be “fun” and “entertaining”, and also saying that “there will be some bullets fired in the room tonight”, a line that has since attracted widespread attention. Levitt said before the event, “He’s ready to rumble, I’ll tell you that. This speech tonight will be a classic Donald J. Trump speech. It will be fun, it will be entertaining. There will be some shots fired in the room tonight. So everyone should join in, it’s going to be really great.” US Secret Service agents quickly removed US President Donald Trump from the stage after gunshots rang out during a media event on Saturday evening, which the President later described as an assassination attempt.According to officials, armed security personnel opened fire on the suspect, who forced his way through a security checkpoint just outside the ballroom, where Trump, first lady Melania Trump, senior government officials and hundreds of guests had gathered.A panic broke out inside the high-profile event in the US capital as guests jumped under tables to hide while Secret Service agents stormed the annual White House Correspondents’ Association dinner at the Washington Hilton, causing chaotic scenes.Addressing a press conference at the White House shortly after the incident, Trump said, “An individual armed with multiple weapons attacked a security checkpoint and was apprehended by some very brave members of the Secret Service.”Trump said one officer was shot at close range but was not seriously injured. He raised concerns about security at the venue, which he described as a “not particularly safe” facility.Speaking at the press conference, Trump said he initially thought the sound was the sound of a falling tray, but later realized it was gunfire. He said he intended to reschedule the media event within a month regardless of the incident.City officials have identified the suspect as Cole Tomas Allen, 31, of Torrance, Calif., who is expected to be arraigned on firearms and assault charges on Monday.Authorities said it appeared he was a hotel guest and had a shotgun, a handgun and knives.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" White House Press Secretary Carolyn Levitt’s comments before the White House Correspondents’ Dinner after the event was disrupted by the shooting have gone viral.Speaking before the dinner, Levitt described the evening as “classic Donald Trump”, adding that it would be “fun” and “entertaining”, and also saying that “there will be some bullets fired in the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":98680,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[12511,9381,2317,5845,2972,496,12782,405,1261,1241],"class_list":{"0":"post-98679","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bible-news","8":"tag-bullets","9":"tag-caroline","10":"tag-comments","11":"tag-dinner","12":"tag-fired","13":"tag-house","14":"tag-levitts","15":"tag-shooting","16":"tag-viral","17":"tag-white"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98679"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98681,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98679\/revisions\/98681"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}