WASHINGTON — President Trump was abruptly pulled out of the White House Briefing Room in midsentence during a televised news conference on Monday after a shooting near the Executive Mansion. Mr. Trump had just kicked off his recently revived coronavirus daily briefing with an attack on mail-in voting and a prediction that the stock market would be “topping records, hopefully soon” when a Secret Service agent standing to his right interrupted him. “We have shots fired outside,” the agent said quietly to the president. After being instructed to leave the room, Mr. Trump and his aides — including Steven Mnuchin, the Treasury secretary, and Russell T. Vought, the budget director — calmly exited without immediate explanation. The president returned a few minutes later to report that there had been a shooting by the Secret Service outside the White House grounds, near the fence.

Source: New York Times August 10, 2020 22:34 UTC