I Get Why People Call the White House Correspondents’ Dinner Shooting Staged. I Was There

Eric Faison/The Daily Beast/Reuters At 8.34 p.m. on Saturday night, just seconds after the pop-pop-pop-pop-pop of shots that seemed to come from directly behind me, I pressed record on my iPhone. The video is shaky because I was down on the floor, pointing my phone up. But the crash of plates and glasses as people dived to the ground, and the repeated shouts of “get down” are unmistakeable. Then I can hear my own voice. “It’s a stunt,” I say more than once to my colleague Nico Hines, who was on the floor beside me. “It’s a stunt.” Read more at The Daily Beast.

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