As loudly as President Donald Trump praised the security at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner on Saturday night, the truth is that it was a fiasco.

Secret Service agents were racing down the center aisle at the dinner after the shots were fired, while Trump and the head table guests were still sitting.

Mentalist Oz Perlman, the entertainment for the evening, was doing an illusion for Melania Trump before being rushed out through a side entrance.

Thankfully, nobody was killed, and the would-be assassin was stopped before he could carry out his deadly mission.

But let’s not forget just how close he got.

The 31-year-old gunman was just feet away from sprinting into a room filled with the president, the vice president, major figures in the........

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