Ozzie Pillman details moment Trump was tackled during shooting

spiritualist Ozzie Pillman perform for president Donald Trumpfirst lady Melania Trump and press secretary Caroline Levitt exist White House Correspondents’ Dinner On Saturday, April 24, he realized something was very wrong.

“I was performing for the president, the press secretary and the first lady,” the magician said on the Sunday, April 26, show. CNN state of the union address. “This is a key moment in magic and you’re about to reveal it…and we heard the commotion.”

The psychologist initially thought someone in the ballroom was experiencing a medical emergency until the seriousness of the situation became apparent.

“I saw everyone crowded together at one table,” Pillman continued. “I didn’t hear any gunshots or see anything that looked like a shooter. I thought there was going to be a bomb. I really, really thought, ‘Oh my God, it’s going to go off,’ because of the way it was approaching.”

Shortly after the annual event celebrating the First Amendment began on Saturday, a gunman tried to storm the ballroom. this 31 year old gunmanHe was arrested before entering, armed with a shotgun, pistol and multiple knives. A Secret Service agent was shot but his bulletproof vest protected him and he was later released from the hospital.

No one else was injured in the incident.

The President, First Lady and Members of the Trump Administration All were evacuated quickly from the building. The remainder of the event was cancelled.

“It’s incredibly surreal,” Pearman said Sunday as Secret Service agents restrained the president and tried to remove him from the scene. “I was on all fours, facing left, stage left. They rushed to get the President of the United States, and the President was knocked down by the Secret Service – we don’t know what happened – and he fell.”

He added, “You can look at the video — I don’t know how far away, but it was less than a foot away — and I’ll never forget it in my life because I’m on all fours, turned around like this, and they bring the president right in front of me, and we just look at each other for about two seconds.”

At that moment, Pillman told CNN, he thought his life was coming to an end.

“In my mind — obviously it was a huge amount of adrenaline — it was like, ‘Oh no, are we going to die?’ because I thought it was about to explode,” Pillman said. “I guess…it’s really my instinct.”

The performer continued, “Then I heard what I thought was a gunshot, and that’s when my mind changed. I wasn’t sure if (Trump) was hurt, either—they picked him up, and they got out, and we were on the ground.”

Pillman said he “all crawled off” the stage for fear he would be shot if he stood up.

“We didn’t want to stand up because I didn’t want to get hit,” he explained.

On Sunday, the acting attorney general Todd Branch He told multiple media outlets that ongoing investigations have revealed that the shooter was an engineer and part-time teacher who targeted Trump and senior Trump administration officials.

In an interview with Fox News, the president himself detailed an alleged manifesto written by the suspected shooter.

“When you read his manifesto, you’ll see that he hates Christians, that’s for sure,” the president claimed on Sunday, going on to call the suspect a “sick man.” (Us Weekly has not independently reviewed the alleged manifesto to corroborate the president’s claims.)

White House sources told multiple outlets, including NPRNBC News and CNN reported that Allen’s sister was interviewed by Secret Service agents and police in Montgomery County, Maryland, claiming that her brother “had a tendency to make radical statements that constantly referenced a plan to do ‘something’ to solve the problems of today’s world.”