Badlands Media Special Coverage: 4/27/26 - White House Press Briefing
White House Press Secretary Caroline Leavitt opens an unscheduled briefing days before her maternity leave to address the third assassination attempt on President Trump, which occurred Saturday at the White House Correspondents Association dinner. A shooter attempted to breach the security perimeter and was immediately neutralized. One Secret Service agent took a bullet to the chest and was saved by his vest. Leavitt directly links the attempt to years of heated anti-Trump rhetoric from Democrat officials and media figures, citing specific quotes, and calls out Congress for leaving DHS…
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