{"id":608803,"date":"2026-04-27T06:43:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T06:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/608803\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T06:43:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T06:43:16","slug":"washington-hotel-shooting-exposes-gaps-in-security-protocols-for-trump-and-other-vips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/608803\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington hotel shooting exposes gaps in security protocols for Trump and other VIPs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">US law enforcement officials are reassessing security arrangements after \u2060a gunman opened fire near the White House Correspondents\u2019 Association dinner, raising questions about \u2060how he was able to get so close to an event attended by President Donald Trump, cabinet members and lawmakers.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Two former Secret Service agents and three senior US officials told Reuters on Sunday that federal agents appeared to carry out their plan to protect the president effectively on Saturday night, stopping the alleged gunman before he reached the basement level of the Washington Hilton, where Trump was set to speak.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">But the fact that some attendees could hear the shots fired at a Secret Service agent underscored vulnerabilities, the officials said, even after a \u200cpair of assassination attempts against Trump during the 2024 campaign had already prompted stronger measures around the president\u2019s security.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The Secret Service did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"US President Donald Trump being escorted by his security team on Saturday night. Photo: Bo Erickson via Reuters\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/9c96c825-1948-40be-a716-ba21d5c37cff_158b875d.jpg\" title=\"US President Donald Trump being escorted by his security team on Saturday night. Photo: Bo Erickson via Reuters\"\/>US President Donald Trump being escorted by his security team on Saturday night. Photo: Bo Erickson via Reuters<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The most obvious lesson from the incident, the former law enforcement officials said, was that security personnel may need to expand the protective perimeter around the president at large public venues, even if that leads to public inconvenience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US law enforcement officials are reassessing security arrangements after \u2060a gunman opened fire near the White House Correspondents\u2019&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":608804,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,264560,7918,2356,12,801,33824,3,1572,38575,75778,36214,116294,21,19,22,20,25,264561,24,263740,262612,20433],"class_list":["post-608803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-bill-gage","tag-butler","tag-california","tag-donald-trump","tag-iran","tag-new-york-post","tag-news","tag-pete-hegseth","tag-reuters","tag-robert-f-kennedy-jnr","tag-secret-service","tag-todd-blanche","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-us-marshals","tag-usa","tag-washington-hilton","tag-white-house-correspondents-association","tag-x"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=608803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/608804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}