{"id":512,"date":"2026-04-26T15:31:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T15:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/2026\/04\/26\/cnns-wolf-blitzer-recounts-frightening-experience-after-white-house-correspondents-dinner-shooting\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T15:31:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T15:31:00","slug":"cnns-wolf-blitzer-recounts-frightening-experience-after-white-house-correspondents-dinner-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/2026\/04\/26\/cnns-wolf-blitzer-recounts-frightening-experience-after-white-house-correspondents-dinner-shooting\/","title":{"rendered":"CNN\u2019s Wolf Blitzer Recounts \u201cFrightening Experience\u201d After White House Correspondents\u2019 Dinner Shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\tWolf Blitzer<\/a> is recounting his \u201cfrightening experience\u201d when shots were fired during the White House Correspondents\u2019 Association dinner<\/a> Saturday night.<\/p>\n

\tThe longtime CNN<\/a> anchor spoke to USA Today <\/a><\/em>after the incident, saying he was near the gunman, who had charged through a security checkpoint and into the Washington Hilton ballroom with multiple weapons. <\/p>\n

\t\u201cI feel fine. I\u2019m just scared. It was scary,\u201d he recalled. \u201cI was a few feet away from the gunman as he was firing. It was loud. It was scary. The cops got on top of him and then they got on top of me to protect me. And then they took me away into a secure room, the men\u2019s room. It was just a frightening experience.\u201d \t<\/p>\n

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\tBlitzer also went live on CNN <\/a>after everything went down to detail his experience. He said he was walking back to the ballroom at the time, and then \u201cheard three, maybe six gunshots\u201d and that it was \u201cenormously loud.\u201d <\/p>\n

\tThe journalist added that \u201cwhen the cop pushed me down, I said to myself, \u2018I wonder if I was the target or whatever,\u2019 and thank God I wasn\u2019t \u2019cause I was not shot. I was just thrown to the ground and protected.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tFollowing the shooting, 31-year-old Cole Tomas Allen<\/a> was later identified as the suspect and quickly taken into custody. U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro confirmed in a press briefing that the suspect will be charged with using a firearm and assaulting a federal officer with a dangerous weapon, and that there will likely be \u201cmany more charges\u201d to come.<\/p>\n

\tPresident Donald\u00a0Trump\u00a0and first lady Melania Trump, who were sitting onstage at the time of the incident, were also rushed out of the ballroom. He later shared details surrounding the shooting at a press conference at the White House, revealing that an officer was shot but saved by a bulletproof vest. \t<\/p>\n

\tTrump added that he plans to reschedule the White House Correspondents\u2019 Association dinner.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cWe\u2019re gonna do it again, we\u2019re not gonna let anybody take over our society; we\u2019re not gonna cancel things because we can\u2019t do that,\u201d the president added. \u201cWe wanted to stay tonight. I will tell you, I fought like hell to stay, but it was protocol.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wolf Blitzer is recounting his \u201cfrightening experience\u201d when shots were fired during the White House Correspondents\u2019 Association dinner Saturday night. The longtime CNN anchor spoke to USA Today after the incident, saying he was near the gunman, who had charged through a security checkpoint and into the Washington Hilton ballroom with multiple weapons. \u201cI feel fine. I\u2019m just scared. It was scary,\u201d he recalled. \u201cI was a few feet away from the gunman as he was firing. It was loud. It was scary. The cops got on top of him and then they got on top of me to protect me. And then they took me away into a secure […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":513,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[200,173,65,2,131,201],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cnn","category-donald-trump","category-general-news","category-hollywood","category-white-house-correspondents-association-dinner","category-wolf-blitzer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}