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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Andrew Feinberg

‘Don’t know why, but I recognized the sound as gunshots. Then I saw President Trump swarmed and a sight that really shook me’

President Donald Trump had seemingly just arrived — and the military color guard could not have been out of the room for more than a few minutes — when what sounded like five shots rang out from just behind the door closest to the table that my two colleagues and I had been assigned to for Saturday night’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner.

“Pop-pop-pop-pop-pop,” the jarring sounds rang out in rapid succession.

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