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The time aft a gunman attempted to storm the White House Correspondents' Dinner astatine the Washington Hilton, President Trump sat down with CBS News analogous Norah O'Donnell for a "60 Minutes" interview to speech astir his experience. He spoke astir his contiguous absorption arsenic the Secret Service whisked him and the archetypal woman disconnected stage, and what investigators person learned astir the suspect's evident motivations.
Cole Allen, a 31-year-old Caltech postgraduate from Torrance, California, was tackled astatine the scene and is facing federal charges. Shortly earlier the attack, helium emailed household members what officials are calling a "manifesto," penning that helium planned to people Trump medication officials, "prioritized from highest-ranking to lowest," according to a transcript obtained by CBS News.
Trump responds to suspect's "manifesto": "He's a sick person"
O'Donnell asked Mr. Trump astir the suspect's writings, which referenced his medication but did not notation the president by name.
"The alleged manifesto is simply a stunning happening to read, Mr. President," O'Donnell said. "He appears to notation a motive successful it. He writes this, quote, 'Administration officials, they are targets.' And helium besides wrote this, 'I americium nary longer consenting to licence a pedophile, rapist, and traitor to overgarment my hands with his crimes.' What's your absorption to that?"
Mr. Trump replied, "Well, I was waiting for you to work that due to the fact that I knew you would due to the fact that you're— you're he— you're horrible people. Horrible people. Yeah, helium did constitute that. I'm — I'm not a rapist. I didn't rape anybody."
O'Donnell said, "Oh you think— bash you deliberation helium was referring to you?"
"I'm not a pedophile. Excuse me. Excuse me. I'm not a pedophile," the president said. "You work that crap from immoderate sick person? I got associated with all– worldly that has thing to bash with me. I was wholly exonerated. Your friends connected the different broadside of the sheet are the ones that were progressive with, let's say, Epstein oregon different things. But I said to myself, 'You know, I'll bash this interrogation and they'll probably'— I work the manifesto. You know, he's a sick person. But you should beryllium ashamed of yourself speechmaking that due to the fact that I'm not immoderate of those things."
"Mr. President these are the gunman's words—," O'Donnell said.
"And I was never— excuse me. Excuse me. You shouldn't beryllium speechmaking that connected 60 Minutes. You're a disgrace. But spell ahead. Let's decorativeness the interview," Mr. Trump said, adding. "You— you're disgraceful."
"I wasn't worried," Trump says. "We unrecorded successful a brainsick world."
O'Donnell, who besides attended the dinner, asked the president however helium and the archetypal woman responded erstwhile large bangs were abruptly heard from conscionable extracurricular the packed ballroom.
"Everybody deed the floor. How disquieted were you that determination were gonna beryllium injuries?"
"I wasn't worried," Mr. Trump replied. "I recognize life. We unrecorded successful a brainsick world."
"You are sitting determination adjacent to the archetypal lady," O'Donnell continued. "The entertainer named Oz Pearlman is talking to you. He's known arsenic The Mentalist. When did you cognize thing was wrong?"
"Right astir that point. In fact, you tin spot the look connected the archetypal lady's face," helium said.
O'Donnell aboriginal asked if the archetypal woman was scared.
"Well, I don't wanna say, and radical don't similar having it said that they were scared," helium replied. "But certainly, I mean, who wouldn't beryllium erstwhile you person a concern similar that? By that clip I deliberation she realized up of clip that that was much of a slug than it was a tray. And she was— I— I looked astatine her look conscionable a small portion agone earlier I came. I saw the scene. They played it for maine and, you know, beauteous bully closeup. And— she looked— precise upset astir what conscionable took place, you know? Why not?"
It took astir 10 seconds for Secret Service agents to situation the president and 20 seconds to hustle him disconnected stage.
"Well, what happened is— it was a small spot me. I wanted to spot what was happening, and I wasn't making it that casual for 'em. I wanted to spot what was going on. And by that clip we started to recognize possibly it was a atrocious problem," helium said.
Asked again astir his and the archetypal lady's thoughts astatine that moment, helium said, "Well, my thought was, 'You know, I've been done this earlier a mates of times.' And— she has not to this extent. She handled it great. I mean, she was— she's— precise strong, smart. She got it. She knew what was happening. She listened. I did too, by the way."
Trump praises "the friendship, the spirit" of the dinner, says it's "very important" to reschedule
Saturday night's White House Correspondents' Dinner, an yearly lawsuit celebrating the First Amendment and state of the press, was the archetypal 1 Mr. Trump had agreed to be arsenic president. After the disruption, helium called for it to beryllium rescheduled wrong 30 days.
"I don't privation to spot it beryllium canceled," helium said. "I don't privation to person a brainsick person— I deliberation it's truly atrocious for a brainsick idiosyncratic to beryllium capable to cancel thing similar this. There are large radical successful the property excessively I tin name, but I don't privation to— I don't privation to embarrass your show. We person immoderate large radical successful the press, immoderate precise just people, and radical that are conscionable connected my side. But for the astir part, it's a precise wide oregon precise progressive— let's usage the connection liberal. Liberal press. But— I was conscionable really— I was truly blessed to spot the— the— I don't cognize however agelong it'll last— the relationship, the friendship, the tone aft a precise atrocious lawsuit took place."
O' Donnell said, "I cognize the White House Correspondents' Association precise overmuch appreciates you going past nighttime and honoring a committedness to bash it again."
"I anticipation we're going to bash it again," helium replied. "Norah, archer 'em to get it going, and we should bash it wrong 30 days, and they'll person adjacent much security, and they'll person bigger perimeter security. It'll beryllium fine. But archer 'em to bash it again. We can't fto thing be— it's not that I wanna go. It's no— I ha— I'm precise busy. I don't request that. I deliberation it's precise important that they bash it again."
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