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  "description": "Conservative media leader and Trump confidant tells Policyband what it was like being inside the Washington Hilton ballroom when the shots rang out Saturday night\n",
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  "publishedAt": "2026-04-27T12:39:21.000Z",
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  "textContent": "💡\n\n■ Hilton Shooter Targeted FCC’s Carr, Other Top Trump Officials at Media Dinner ■ NSR Analyst Harlalka Calls Charter, Comcast Selloff ‘Bloody Friday’ ■  __Cablefax 100__ Skybox Left out a Big Name: Charter CEO Chris Winfrey ■ S&P Global Expects TV Political Ad Spending to Surge in 2026 ■ ACSI Survey Gives AT&T Fiber the Nod as Best ISP ■ SpaceX IPO Could Push Ergen’s Spectrum Windfall to $32 Billion ■ Verizon Adds 214,000 FWA Subs in Q1 ■ Will AT&T Allow Fixed Wireless to Grow Faster than Fiber? ■ Gov. Mill’s Veto of Maine Data Center Moratorium Likely to Stick ■ Former Trump COS Mulvaney Wants Kalshi, Polymarket Regulated as Sports Betting\n\nShooting: “Thud, thud, thud, thud” cut through the ballroom just as the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner began, Newsmax Chief Executive Officer**Chris Ruddy** said, describing a brief but unsettling scare inside the Washington Hilton on Saturday night.\n\nRuddy recounted the incident in an interview Sunday with  _Policyband._ He was seated with British Ambassador Sir**Christian Turner** , his wife **Lady Turner** , the Rev. **Franklin Graham** , Trump insiders **Alina Habba** and **Kari Lake,** and Newsmax host **Greta Van Susteren** and her husband **John Coale** , when the noise erupted.\n\n“The dinner was just starting. Everybody was working their salad and just finishing that and I heard  _thud, thud, thud, thud_ ,” he said. ** _(More after paywall)_**\n\n### This post is for subscribers only\n\nBecome a member to get access to all content\n\nSubscribe now",
  "title": "Newsmax CEO Chris Ruddy on White House Press Dinner Shooting: 'I Heard Thud, Thud, Thud, Thud'",
  "updatedAt": "2026-04-27T12:39:23.936Z"
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