Donald Trump survived an apparent assassination attempt at the White House Correspondents' Dinner in Washington DC on Saturday night, according to a first-hand account by a senior journalist who says the alleged gunman slept in the hotel room next door less than 24 hours earlier.
The dramatic account comes from Hugh Dougherty, executive editor of the Daily Beast, who was staying at the Washington Hilton for the annual media–politics gala when shots rang out and chaos tore through the event. Writing in the wake of the shooting, Dougherty describes not just the panic inside the venue, but what he calls a 'jaw‑dropping security blunder' that allowed an armed man to book into his corridor and carry weapons past layers of supposed protection for Trump, one of the most heavily guarded figures on the planet.
