{"id":11135,"date":"2026-04-27T06:58:58","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T06:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/influencerswiki.org\/blog\/karoline-leavitt-addresses-white-house-correspondents-dinner-shooting-amid-controversial-shots-fired-remarks\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T06:58:58","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T06:58:58","slug":"karoline-leavitt-addresses-white-house-correspondents-dinner-shooting-amid-controversial-shots-fired-remarks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/influencerswiki.org\/blog\/karoline-leavitt-addresses-white-house-correspondents-dinner-shooting-amid-controversial-shots-fired-remarks\/","title":{"rendered":"Karoline Leavitt Addresses White House Correspondents\u2019 Dinner Shooting Amid Controversial &#8216;Shots Fired&#8217; Remarks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>White House press secretary <strong>Karoline Leavitt<\/strong> broke her silence on the White House Correspondents\u2019 Dinner shooting after previously declaring there would be \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/karoline-leavitt-promised-shots-fired-before-whcd-shooting\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">shots fired<\/a>\u201d at the event.<\/p>\n<p>Leavitt, 28, took to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DXmyIHskeDD\/?img_index=6\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a> on Sunday, April 26, to reflect on the shooting that saw her, President <strong>Donald Trump<\/strong>, first lady <strong>Melania Trump<\/strong> and other administration officers evacuated from the Washington Hilton ballroom one day prior due to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/shots-fired-at-white-house-correspondents-dinner-trump-safe\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">shots ringing out<\/a> over dinner.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat was supposed to be a fun night with President Trump delivering jokes and celebrating free speech was hijacked by a depraved anti-Trump lunatic who sought to assassinate the President and kill as many top Trump administration officials as possible,\u201d Leavitt\u2019s Instagram post read.<\/p>\n<p>Just minutes before shots were heard at the gala, Leavitt, who is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-moms\/news\/karoline-leavitt-says-shes-having-baby-no-2-any-minute\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt broke her silence on the White House Correspondents\u2019 Dinner shooting after previously declaring there would be \u201c shots fired \u201d at the event. Leavitt, 28, took to Instagram on Sunday, April 26, to reflect on the shooting that saw her, President Donald&#8230;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3588,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/influencerswiki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/influencerswiki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/influencerswiki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/influencerswiki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/influencerswiki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/influencerswiki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/influencerswiki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/influencerswiki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/influencerswiki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/influencerswiki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}