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Trump turns WHCA dinner shooting into a sales pitch

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  Gunman in custody after shots fired outside White House correspondents’ dinner ballroom. One officer injured, no other casualties reported Sunday Dose of Democracy: VIDEO OF THE DAY:  Trump gives pathetic and all-too-predictable response to White House Correspondents' Dinner attack Speaking just hours after a lone gunman reportedly fired multiple shots and was apprehended outside the Washington Hilton Hotel ballroom where the annual White House Correspondents' Association dinner was being held last night, Donald Trump decided to spin the affair into — why not — a sales pitch for  his  $400 million dollar ballroom. In other words, there's actually a beneficiary to this disaster, and, wouldn't you know it, it's Donald himself. The self-important man-child is nothing if not consistent in taking the wrong lesson from literally every situation. And not for nothing, the  right-wing messaging machine  was primed and quick to spring into action. Take Action:...