Two minutes into the press conference, a Secret Service agent interrupted Trump and led him out of the room. When asked if he was taken down to the White House bunker, Trump said he was taken to the Oval Office. “It was a shooting outside of the White House,” Trump told reporters, according to a press pool report. The Secret Service later confirmed that there was an officer-involved shooting near the White House at 17th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue, about a block from the White House grounds. It is unclear what the threat was, but Trump told reporters that, “from what I understand,” the person shot was armed.

Source: Huffington Post August 10, 2020 22:03 UTC