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Chaos at White House correspondents' dinner after gunfire erupts 81%
4/27/2026, 12:41:51 PM
BS Summary: This video contains 23 faulty reasoning types, including Availability Heuristic, Anecdotal, and Framing Effect, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 54.5% saturation with 296 hits. Analysis detected 1,930 faulty-reasoning hits from 543 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 73.3% and a BS Rank of 81% (3,299 of 16,813 videos). This video is worse (more manipulative) than 80.40% of the video peer group.
This morning, the terrifying and chaotic scene at the White House correspondents dinner. The president, first lady, and the evening's entertainer owes the mentalist seen talking on stage when a loud bang was heard.
The first lady visibly shaken, appearing to mouth, what happened. Law enforcement immediately rushing in, swarming the ballroom. Secret Service forcing the president to the ground, rushing him off stage overnight, telling CBS about the moment.
moment. I wanted to see what was happening and I wasn't making it that easy for him.
I wanted to see what was going on. And by that time, we started to realize maybe it was a bad problem, different kind of a problem, bad one.
>> Meanwhile, some 2600 guests hitting the ground, ducking under tables.
>> It's certainly a very unsettling scene.
Just a few moments uh into this dinner, we're all just trying to piece together what exactly just happened here.
Agents in full tactical gear, guns drawn, escorting out lawmakers and top administration officials.
Most of the presidential line of succession, they're in the room. Vice President JD Vance, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Marco Rubio, and Pete Hegth, all evacuated.
FBI director Cash Patel right there, too, just outside the ballroom.
Trump posting this video of the alleged suspect, now identified as 31-year-old Cole Allen,
charging past a Secret Service checkpoint.
Aaron Tilman had stepped out of the dinner to check on her kids only to watch the alleged attacker rush by.
>> and he had a look of determination and focus and he was zeroed in on something and he was running in my direction as I was on the phone with my son and um then
I heard three really loud gunshots. My ear is still ringing from being so close to the gunshots.
>> Secret Service forcing the wouldbe gunman to the ground. One agent shot and wounded in the attempted attack.
Law enforcement officials now say he was planning a mass shooting, targeting the president and other top administration officials.
officials. Back at the White House, Trump addressing reporters shortly after the incident.
>> My impression is he was a a lone wolf.
Uh whack job
>> and describing that harrowing moment.
>> I heard a noise and sort of thought it was a tray. I thought it was a tray going down. You know, I've heard that many times and it was pretty loud noise.
The president who had survived two previous assassination attempts acknowledging the state of political violence in the country.
>> It's a dangerous profession, but I don't view it that way.
Look, I'm here to do a job.
>> The president arguing that unfortunately this is now a part of doing that job. He is though saying that he's not reconsidering his own security posture going forward or attending events like this in the future. But he is using this attempted attack to justify the building of his White House ballroom here on the grounds which is being challenged now that construction. The president saying this is exactly why they need that kind of space here at the White House.
Michael.
>> All right, Mary. Thank you so much. We reported
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