Vice President JD Vance appeared on Fox News’ The Will Cain Show on Wednesday and recounted the nerve-racking experience of being at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Saturday night when gunshots were fired. He described the initial tense moments when he realized that something was wrong, although he didn’t know exactly what was happening:
I want to say it was tougher for my wife, who was at home with the kids and started hearing things through, you know, text messages and social media, than it was for me.
I really didn’t know what was going on. Just to give you my perspective, I’m sitting up there on the dais with some journalists, and obviously with the President of the United States, a few seats to my right, and there’s a lot of commotion, you kind of hear some loud noises. I had no idea what it was.
And before I had any idea what was going on, I started seeing people sort of duck under their tables or respond to what was going on, far in the back of the ballroom, and then an agent comes and whispers in my ear, basically says, “Sir, we have to leave,” and you can kind of, you see the video, Will, where the agent sort of lifts me to my feet, and then I walk off stage and then go to my hold room and kind of wait and see what’s going on.
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At first, the VP said he thought a Secret Service agent had been killed:
So, you know, the first thing that happened that actually freaked me out a little bit, Will, is that we heard that an agent had been shot, and in the fog of war, I thought, you know, Oh, my God, this guy’s actually seriously injured, or maybe worse. And then we found out later, of course, that he was uninjured or not seriously injured.
Next, Vance said that amid the assassinations, attempted assassinations, and violence directed towards President Trump’s supports at protests and other venues, it’s past time for the Domestic Terrorist Party to look in a mirror regarding their nasty, inflammatory rhetoric: