Trump escorted from briefing by Secret Service after shooting outside White House – live
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We were less than three minutes in with the president holding court on one of his favourite subjects – mail-in voting – when pandemonium broke out.
A Secret Service agent – grey suit, shaved head, earpiece with squiggly wire – leaned in and spoke quietly to Donald Trump, asking to step outside.
“Excuse me?” asked the president.
Surprised, he turned, stopped, looked askance for a moment, then followed the agent out of the White House briefing room at a leisurely pace.
Trump’s press conference has ended after a series of falsehoods and misleading claims. At one point he compared the Covid-19 crisis to the “the great pandemic” of 1917, saying it was a “terrible thing” that “probably ended the Second World War, all the soldiers were sick”.
The pandemic occurred in 1918, and World War II ended in 1945.
Trump says the pandemic of 1918 which he says occurred in 1917 ended the Second World War, which ended in 1945.
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