Apparently, Secret Service has whisked the president away from a press conference.
Rumor is, shots fired at the White House
Rumor is, shots fired at the White House
Trump taken away by Secret Service.
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Blimey
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Yikes. Drudge confirms. Probably a yahoo outside the gates.
Steal2B
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Near 17th and Penn. of White House grounds ... shots fired by law enforcement at perp who did not follow warnings. secret service providing 1st aid.
Edit ... This was from scanner chatter. Waited on posting until some verification broadcasted
Edit ... This was from scanner chatter. Waited on posting until some verification broadcasted
BDinPutnam
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When they're not drunkenly philandering, USSS is a top notch agency.
Steal2B
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Is the President is channeling a little bit of fellow Republucan Teddy Roosevelt?
GOYABEAN
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Fake news next 12hrs President Trump rattled by gunfire 10 miles away from the white house 
kev74
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Carlos Hathcock
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Would like to have seen him reach for the 4 o'clock hip.
Shot before giving the speech not during
Steal2B
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Did not think you were there. Here is a more accurate but less eloquent version for you.
I just could not fit the whole story in a readable font for the meme ...
The shooting had occurred just after 8 p.m. as Roosevelt entered his car outside the Gilpatrick Hotel. As he stood up in the open-air automobile and waved his hat with his right hand to the crowd, a flash from a Colt revolver 5 feet away lit up the night. The candidate’s stenographer quickly put the would-be assassin in a half nelson and grabbed the assailant’s right wrist to prevent him from firing a second shot.
The well-wishing crowd morphed into a bloodthirsty pack, raining blows on the shooter and shouting, “Kill him!” According to an eyewitness, one man was “the coolest and least excited of anyone in the frenzied mob”: Roosevelt. The man who had been propelled to the Oval Office after an assassin felled President William McKinley bellowed out, “Don’t hurt him. Bring him here. I want to see him.” Roosevelt asked the shooter, “What did you do it for?” With no answer forthcoming, he said, “Oh, what’s the use? Turn him over to the police.”
Although there were no outward signs of blood, the former president reached inside his heavy overcoat and felt a dime-sized bullet hole on the right side of his chest. “He pinked me,” Roosevelt told a party official. He coughed into his hand three times. Not seeing any telltale blood, he determined that the bullet hadn’t penetrated his lungs. An accompanying doctor naturally told the driver to head directly to the hospital, but Colonel Roosevelt gave different marching orders: “You get me to that speech.”
The speech was at the nearby Milwaukee Auditorium.
Theodore Roosevelt’s opening line was hardly remarkable for a presidential campaign speech: “Friends, I shall ask you to be as quiet as possible.” His second line, however, was a bombshell.
“I don’t know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot.”
The horrified audience in the Milwaukee Auditorium on October 14, 1912, gasped as the former president unbuttoned his vest to reveal his bloodstained shirt. “It takes more than that to kill a bull moose,” the wounded candidate assured them. He reached into his coat pocket and pulled out a bullet-riddled, 50-page speech. Holding up his prepared remarks, which had two big holes blown through each page, Roosevelt continued. “Fortunately I had my manuscript, so you see I was going to make a long speech, and there is a bullet—there is where the bullet went through—and it probably saved me from it going into my heart. The bullet is in me now, so that I cannot make a very long speech, but I will try my best.”
For the next 90 minutes the 53-year-old former president proved it. “I give you my word, I do not care a rap about being shot; not a rap,” he claimed. Few could doubt him. Although his voice weakened and his breath shortened, Roosevelt glared at his nervous aides whenever they begged him to stop speaking or positioned themselves around the podium to catch him if he collapsed. Only with the speech completed did he agree to visit the hospital.
John Schrank - Wikipedia
Did not think you were there. Here is a more accurate but less eloquent version for you.
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I just could not fit the whole story in a readable font for the meme ...
The shooting had occurred just after 8 p.m. as Roosevelt entered his car outside the Gilpatrick Hotel. As he stood up in the open-air automobile and waved his hat with his right hand to the crowd, a flash from a Colt revolver 5 feet away lit up the night. The candidate’s stenographer quickly put the would-be assassin in a half nelson and grabbed the assailant’s right wrist to prevent him from firing a second shot.
The well-wishing crowd morphed into a bloodthirsty pack, raining blows on the shooter and shouting, “Kill him!” According to an eyewitness, one man was “the coolest and least excited of anyone in the frenzied mob”: Roosevelt. The man who had been propelled to the Oval Office after an assassin felled President William McKinley bellowed out, “Don’t hurt him. Bring him here. I want to see him.” Roosevelt asked the shooter, “What did you do it for?” With no answer forthcoming, he said, “Oh, what’s the use? Turn him over to the police.”
Although there were no outward signs of blood, the former president reached inside his heavy overcoat and felt a dime-sized bullet hole on the right side of his chest. “He pinked me,” Roosevelt told a party official. He coughed into his hand three times. Not seeing any telltale blood, he determined that the bullet hadn’t penetrated his lungs. An accompanying doctor naturally told the driver to head directly to the hospital, but Colonel Roosevelt gave different marching orders: “You get me to that speech.”
The speech was at the nearby Milwaukee Auditorium.
Theodore Roosevelt’s opening line was hardly remarkable for a presidential campaign speech: “Friends, I shall ask you to be as quiet as possible.” His second line, however, was a bombshell.
“I don’t know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot.”
The horrified audience in the Milwaukee Auditorium on October 14, 1912, gasped as the former president unbuttoned his vest to reveal his bloodstained shirt. “It takes more than that to kill a bull moose,” the wounded candidate assured them. He reached into his coat pocket and pulled out a bullet-riddled, 50-page speech. Holding up his prepared remarks, which had two big holes blown through each page, Roosevelt continued. “Fortunately I had my manuscript, so you see I was going to make a long speech, and there is a bullet—there is where the bullet went through—and it probably saved me from it going into my heart. The bullet is in me now, so that I cannot make a very long speech, but I will try my best.”
For the next 90 minutes the 53-year-old former president proved it. “I give you my word, I do not care a rap about being shot; not a rap,” he claimed. Few could doubt him. Although his voice weakened and his breath shortened, Roosevelt glared at his nervous aides whenever they begged him to stop speaking or positioned themselves around the podium to catch him if he collapsed. Only with the speech completed did he agree to visit the hospital.
John Schrank - Wikipedia
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Me not here??
Steal2B
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No, Milwaukee during the campaign.
Steal2B
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When I do check, you and I are usually two of the 50 or 60 members who always seem to be here.
E the massive
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Thrilling.
Almost good enough for pay per view
Teddy is a gentleman badass
Deplorable Me
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Pelosi may have had an orgasam.
ArmedCorgi
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ArmedCorgi
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Yeah. I'm guessing it's a suitcase nuke.Anyone else notice that bulge under the agents jacket?
BREAKING: Secret Service says person shot outside the White House is a 51-year-old male who walked up to an agent & advised he had a weapon. The suspect made a “drawing motion” and then “crouched into a shooter stance" before being shot.
kev74
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He probably doesn’t give a fuck. I wouldn’t.
kev74
20×102mm Vulcan
I imagine despite all the support he's getting from his coworkers, the Secret Service higher ups probably aren't planning a party with cake and a pinata for him.
