Disturbing Remarks Made By Karoline’s Husband To Reporter

Okay, there are a couple of things about last night’s active shooter incident to share, so let’s get the party started! Our first visit is to some comments made that were unnerving about the occurrence. We have a Fox News reporter, of all people, who caught some remarks made right before the shooter incident started. My gratitude to Raw Story:

Speculation swirled Sunday morning after a viral clip captured Fox News reporter Aishah Hasnie recounting chilling remarks from Nicholas Riccio – the husband of White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt – made just moments before the White House Correspondents’ Dinner (WHCD) shooting, with the call also appearing to drop mid-sentence.

The annual WHCD was disrupted Saturday night by a shooting after a suspected armed gunman “charged at a Secret Service checkpoint” at the event.

President Donald Trump and other administration officials were evacuated without incident, while one Secret Service agent was hospitalized after being shot by the suspected gunman.

Wait a minute here. How can a gunman be suspected after there were shots fired and a Secret Service agent was taken to the hospital? But as usual, I digress. Ooookay now. Remarks made and call dropping. That could be a little concern, or a lot. The timing was apparently unintentional for this to happen. Oddly, Mr. Riccio had comments to make. This is the first time we’ve heard from him, which is surprising, given that he’s Karoline Leavitt’s husband. He’s been very careful to stay out of the spotlight until now. Perhaps he didn’t want to cause her any more trouble. She does that well enough on her own.

Amid the chaos, Hasnie, who was attending the WHCD, phoned into Fox News to recount remarks Riccio made to her moments before the shooting.

“He was seated right next to me, and right as the dinner was starting, he leaned over and said ‘I’ve watched you on TV, you do a great job – you need to be very safe,’” Hasnie said. “And he was very serious when he said that to me, and he kind of looked around the room and he said, ‘there are some…’

The phone call appeared to have dropped mid-sentence, with the clip of Hasnie’s remarks sparking an online firestorm. //// “I definitely wanted to hear what she had to say,” wrote Trisha Hope, a conservative Texas-based political activist and Jan. 6 advocate, in a social media post on X. /// “I want to hear the rest of what she had to say,” wrote journalist Cassandra MacDonald Sunday on X.

And who wouldn’t want to hear them? That clip is unnerving, considering what happened next. It doesn’t tell us if she’s okay. It doesn’t tell us if anyone is okay. It just drops. Now, some people would panic and start going off thinking Mr. Riccio was part of the planned shooting. But there are those of us who don’t automatically jump to conspiracy theory conclusions. We know better. The truth will come out when it’s time. We wait, instead.

Speculation around the clip had grown so strong that Hasnie apparently felt compelled to provide an explanation early Sunday morning, telling her more than 103,000 followers on X that the call likely dropped due to poor cellular service in the event space. She also shared the remainder of what she intended to say before the call apparently dropped.

“To finish the story, he was telling me to be careful with my own safety because the world is crazy,” Hasnie wrote. “Which is what my own father and other people have also said to me recently.

He was expressing his concern for my safety. I was going to say – before I lost my signal – that it was unfortunate that only a short time later, this all happened.”

We can heave a sigh of relief. It’s great, and ironic, he was saying this to her. We all need to be more careful because things *are* crazy these days. You have to try to prepare as much as possible and hope you never need it. My household has gone over active shooter scenarios, considering something that happened one New Year’s Eve when I was out at the store, of all places. It turned out it wasn’t major, but it could have gone that way. But I was prepared, and ironically, a *lot* calmer than all the people around me. And it all came out okay. But the world is crazy. And we don’t know if it will ever calm down. Be prepared.

See you soon!

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