Late Saturday night, President Trump delivered a forceful set of remarks following the shooting inside the Washington Hilton outside the White House Correspondents Dinner (WHCD), calling it the work of a “very sick person” and “thug” who “attacked our Constitution” and “free speech” itself, but failed in his attempts at bloodshed.
Rather, Trump said, it reminded Americans of the need to “recommit with their hearts and resolving our differences peacefully” even though “no country is immune” from political violence and what could be a third shooter who targeted him for assassination.
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