‘I Wanted to See What Was Going On’: Trump Tells 60 Minutes He Held Up Secret Service From Rushing Him out of Chaotic WHCD Shooting
EXCERPT:
TRUMP: "Well, what happened is — it was a little bit me. I wanted to see what was happening, and I wasn't making it that easy for 'em. I wanted to see what was going on. And by that time we started to realize maybe it was a bad problem, different kind of a problem, bad one. And different than what would be normal noise from a ballroom, which you hear all the time. And — I was surrounded by great people. And I probably made them act a little bit more slowly. I said, 'Wait a minute, wait a minute. Lemme see. Wait a minute.' So, you know, I'm telling guys to — "
O'DONNELL: "Just at that moment where it looks like you go sort of down with the Service, you were telling them to wait?"
TRUMP: "Well, they asked me — well, I — no, what happened is then I started walking with them. I turned, I started walking, and they said, 'Please go down. Please go down on the floor.' So I went down, and the First Lady went down also.”
(Via Mediaite)




