Bernd De Boosman

I did.

It was very clear, and it was very clear to me that it was gunshots.

I've heard gunshots before, and there was probably four or five of them.

At that point, everyone took ducks mostly beneath their tables, and that's when I saw an agent, I assume an FBI agent or Secret Service agent, kind of jump over several chairs to get to FBI Director Kash Patel and his girlfriend and remove them from our immediate vicinity.

It is, and I was also at Butler, Pennsylvania, and I think that when then-candidate Trump was shot, this is something they've rehearsed for very often, and the security just to get into the venue even before the shooting

was really quite intense.

The streets around the Washington Hilton were closed.

There was full kind of almost airport-type security screening just to get in the venue, metal detectors and such.

It's very unclear what happened, but from where I was sitting, it appeared or it sounded as if the gunshots had come from kind of towards the lobby area.

They weren't actually in the ballroom where we are at the moment.