Donald Trump Tells ’60 Minutes’ About Moments Secret Service Scrambled To Get Him Out Of Hilton Ballroom: “I Wanted To See What Was Happening”

60 Minutes released his first clip from its beryllium down pinch Donald Trump, successful which nan president described nan moments that shots were heard successful nan Washington Hilton ballroom during nan White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner and he and different apical officials were rushed out.

Norah O’Donnell referred to video of nan moment, captured by Getty Images, erstwhile first Vice President JD Vance is dragged from his spot by Secret Service agents, and past Trump is ushered away.

O’Donnell asked Trump, “You spot nan information moving quickly, wrong seconds, grabbing nan vice president by his coat, lifting him up, bringing him out, past nan antagonistic battle comes in. It took 10 seconds for them to flank you, Mr. President, and past 20 seconds to get you out. It looked chaotic. At 1 constituent you were down. What was happening?”

Trump said, “Well, what happened is it was a small spot me. I wanted to spot what was happening, and I wasn’t making it that easy for him. I wanted to spot what was going on. And by that time, we started to recognize possibly it was a bad problem, different benignant of a problem, bad one. And different than what would beryllium normal sound from a ballroom, which you perceive each nan time. And I was surrounded by awesome people, and I astir apt made them enactment a small spot much slowly. I said, ‘Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Let maine see, hold a minute.'”

O’Donnell past asked him astir a infinitesimal successful nan video successful which Trump looks to person gone down to nan ground.

What happened is, past I started stepping pinch him. I turned, I started walking, and they said, ‘Please spell down. Please spell down connected nan floor. ‘So I went down, and first woman went down also. We were asked to spell down by nan agents arsenic I was walking.”

O’Donnell said, “They wanted you almost to crawl.”

Trump said, “Pretty much. I was opinionated up, and past turned astir nan other guidance and started beautiful overmuch stepping out, beautiful tall, a small bent over, because, you know, I’m not looking to beryllium opinionated excessively gangly but I was stepping out. It was beautiful astir halfway there, and they said, ‘Please spell down to nan floor. Please spell down to nan floor.’ So I dropped to nan floor. So did nan first lady.”

The interview, taped astatine nan White House connected Sunday, will aerial connected Sunday evening’s 60 Minutes.