FIRST ON FOX — Sen.John Fetterman, D-Pa., discussed why he supports President Donald Trump’s White House ballroom project in an interview published Tuesday, where he also assailed members of his own party who doubted the validity of the April assassination attempt.During an interview segment on "The Katie Miller Podcast," Miller and Fetterman discussed the April 25 shooting during the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner, which Trump was attending for the first time as president.
Miller was also in attendance with her husband, White House senior advisor Stephen Miller."Now more than a third of my party thinks that was a hoax, that’s wild," Fetterman said in a clip obtained by Fox News Digital."Everyone was there, you could confirm that was real in the middle of that.
And the first assassination [attempt in Butler] where he was hit in the [ear], that was in my state.And how crazy, how dangerous and how awful that was.
And half an inch over to the left … and that could have plunged our nation into untold chaos."A poll in April found about one-third of Democratic respondents thought the April 25 shooting was staged.WITNESSES RECOUNT CHAOS AT WHCA DINNER AFTER SHOOTING, SECRET SERVICE AGENTS DREW GUNS TO EVACUATE TRUMPSen.John Fetterman, D-Pa., speaks to the media at the U.S.
Capitol on March 5, 2026, in Washington, D.C.(Nathan Howard/Reuters)Fetterman recounted how the shooting at the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner could have impacted the country."And now here we were, back at that event and walking in, it takes 30 minutes to get to the table, you can confirm how crowded it is there… the entire line of succession is in a room not much bigger than where we [are] shooting this," he said. "So that’s why, there should be a secure facility like a ballroom," the Pennsylvania senator added. In May, Trump told reporters that the future White House ballroom would not just serve as an event venue, but as a hardened security structur...