Barry Donadio Fox News April 26th 2026 Attempted Trump Assassination Washington Hilton

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Attempted Assassination of President Trump Thwarted By U.S. Secret Service Barry Donadio LIVE on Fox News LiveNow with Andy Mac on April 26th 2026.  #barrydonadio #SecretService #Trump #assasinationattempt #washintonhilton #washingtondc #saturdaymorningvoguereview #celebrity #author #commentary #newscommentator #ert #FoxNews #FoxNewsLive  link to video  https://youtu.be/9pX6WpAQylg?si=U7SbTK-ZvRH8lsBV   Available for freelance news commentary and subject matter expertise Barry Donadio is a former member of the U.S. Secret Service, a Republican elected official, a news commentator, a celebrity author, the Founder of Public Security LLC, a war veteran, The Sergeant At Arms of the Maryland Republican Party, a TWA flight 800 first responder in 1996, a September .11th, 2001 Military Responder and a Trump Alternate Delegate to the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee 2024.  Barry Donadio is a prominent news commentator who gained significant recognition starting July 13, 2024. He has appeared on major networks including NEWMAX, ABC News, CBS News, BBC News, Sky News, Sky News Arabia, Komo News, Capitol News Service, Alarabia News, Aletihad News, Alghad News, Jusoor News, Alhurra TV, Shams TV, AlQahera News TRT News, Al Taghier Channel, and other agencies. His rise to fame occurred rapidly, as he became a world-renowned figure in the news commentary space almost overnight.  Donadio talks about and offers commentary on the following subjects: U.S. Secret Service Trump assassination attempts Defending Trump policies The White House Aviation Disasters TWA Flight 800 crash First Responder American Airlines 5342 Executive Protection National Security Military Strategy Ukraine / Russia War Israel / Iran War China / Taiwan Israel / Hamas War Syria War Yemen U.S. Air Force Security Police and law enforcement Questionable Police use of force Questionable Police shootings Police excessive force  CONTACT ​ Cell phone USA 202-631-1153 International contact via Whatsapp 2026311153 Email for live video Interviews, send video zoom links to barrydonadio@yahoo.com Official website www.barrydonadio.com Official facebook https://www.facebook.com/barrydonadioofficial/Official X profile https://x.com/Barrydonadio LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/barry-donadio-37879868/  For some examples of Barry Donadio LIVE interview appearences see hus youtube channel Youtube https://www.youtube.com/@saturdaymorningvoguereview.  #barrydonadio #donadio #newscommentator #commentator #secretservice #formersecretservice #usarmy #usairforce #whitehouse #privatedetective #privateinvestigator #publicsecurityllc #antiterrorconsultant #securityconsultant

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00:01All right. Welcome back in here to Alive Now from Fox. I am Andy Mack. We're learning more

00:05about what happened last night, but also the response from law enforcement investigators,

00:10but Secret Service of kind about what's going on there. A live look at the White House here

00:15on this Sunday afternoon as investigators treating the writings of this individual,

00:21Cole Allen, along with a trail of social media posts, interviews with family members,

00:25as some of the clearest evidence yet of the suspect's mindset and motives. We also heard

00:30from the White House, President Trump and the White House on saying this about what happened

00:35at the White House Correspondents Dinner, saying in a horrific moment on April 25th, President Trump,

00:40members of the cabinet survived an assassination attempt when shots were fired. The president,

00:44first lady, vice president, cabinet officials are all safe and unharmed. And President Trump

00:49actually commended the Secret Service for their actions last night. Let's listen in to this.

00:56U.S. Secret Service protection ability. We saw several of the detailees take minutes to be

01:01escorted out of the room. No, they acted very quickly. No, I was very impressed by Secret Service.

01:06I mean, I'm the one, and Mark Wayne, you would agree with that, I think. I'm the one that

01:12would complain. You don't have to complain for me. I would be complaining. I'd be up here right now

01:16saying they didn't do their job. Oh, believe me, because, you know, it's my life and I want to live

01:22because I want to make this country great. That's why I want to live. But when you're impactful,

01:26they go after you. When you're not impactful, they leave you alone. Okay, a couple of, a couple of

01:31more. All right, just listening in there to the president about this. Let's be joined right now

01:34by Barry Denadio, a former Secret Service officer. Barry, thank you so much for joining us. And I can

01:39only imagine what Secret Service officers were feeling in that moment last night, the third such

01:44potential attack on his life in the last two years, less than two years. When you look at the video,

01:52what is your vantage point? How do you view it? Thanks for having me on your show. And looking

01:57at the surveillance video, the checkpoint, it is rather troubling. This individual is running as

02:03fast as he can to bum rush through the checkpoint. And it's a good thing the officers were there

02:09paying attention to what's going on. And they addressed him, they drew their weapons and tackled

02:14him right off the view of the camera. But they got the job done. Now, right about that time they

02:21were

02:21opening fire as well. And the other videos that we see are inside where the stage is where President

02:27Trump is. And you can faintly hear the shots going off. And literally, only a few seconds after that,

02:34there was already an agent running across the stage, then agents getting in front and next to the

02:40president, giving him basically a shelter in place and getting him on the ground where it's safe at that

02:46moment until you see the counter assault team, then respond to the stage, take up a tactical position

02:53to potentially repel fire if they need to. A decision was made most likely from the shift lead there

03:00to move the president off the stage. And they hastily did so. The president did stumble and fall.

03:08That is to be expected in a situation like this. And the Secret Service is prepared for that.

03:12And they got him off the stage and ultimately saving his life. Yeah. And obviously, they are

03:17familiar with this Washington Hilton. How much did that home field advantage play a role in Secret

03:23Service? Just the familiarity of the venue and exit strategies? Well, it certainly helps. And you said

03:29it exactly right. It's home field advantage. When I was in the Secret Service, I had attended some events

03:35there and worked at the same location. It's a big hotel. So I know there's a lot of talk that,

03:41you know, there are guests and why were they allowed to be guests in a hotel. But you could

03:45be a guest in that hotel and really have nothing to do with that event and not even go into

03:50the

03:51security perimeter. And that's how big this place is. So any guests that stayed overnight,

03:56they would have to still go through all the checkpoints that everybody in that ballroom would

03:59have to go through. But ultimately, there's all sorts of bells and whistles and security measures in

04:06place to keep the president safe. And we also have to remember there is an a front door to every

04:12castle

04:13or a front gate to every military base, as well as a front checkpoint, even at an airport outside of

04:21that checkpoint that we see on the video. That's the open world. Anything could be there, a man with a

04:26gun

04:26or evil or anything. And the purpose of that checkpoint is to stop that right there and say beyond this

04:33checkpoint, it is safe. And that's exactly what it's for. That's what it did. It was a big success

04:38ultimately. And do you feel that the magnetometer should have been further out? Because there are

04:43some questions about that, how close anyone really could walk into the Hilton, Washington Hilton with

04:49a ticket to another of the private parties, not necessarily directly affiliated with this White

04:54House Correspondents Association dinner. The magnetometer being in that location, do you think

04:59they'll reevaluate that moving forward? No, I think it's an appropriate location. And from what

05:05I can tell from that video, that's not necessarily the front entrance of that hotel. That seems to be

05:11like a guest hallway corridor or a tradesman entrance. So that's not the main entrance. But I think

05:18everything would be the same. The only thing that rings a bell to me is, do we now have to

05:22have some

05:23kind of like a fence or some kind of a barrier to allow only one person at a time to

05:29go through just

05:30in case this happens again, where somebody decides to run and, you know, what if they're unable to be

05:36tackled, then they can meet a fence to where the gate is closed. And we're letting people in one at

05:40a

05:40time, even after their magnetometer, we might go that route, that would be a logistical nightmare and

05:47add a lot to the protective package of logistically bringing that all in there. But we might be there

05:54right now. And as a reminder, and I'm not sure if other people are reporting it, this is the hotel

05:58where Reagan was shot as well. So there's also other additions that have been made. There's a

06:03Sally Port there as well that contributes to the security of the hotel there, as well as the home

06:10court advantage. Like you mentioned, those officers and agents kind of have gone been there. And it's

06:17somewhat routine at this point for them to be there. Yeah, obviously familiar with the Justin's

06:21proximity, but also the fact that it's been used for multiple White House correspondents. There's

06:26other high profile events. We talk about this. Now we know that it was a lone wolf from California

06:32that was involved in this attack, Cole Allen, a 31-year-old. But in the immediate aftermath,

06:38Secret Service law enforcement, they don't know that. How do they go through it? What checklists are

06:43they kind of trying to figure out if this is a multiple person attack? What are they going through?

06:48Well, right away during this attack, you're absolutely right. They don't know what they're

06:53up against. And that's the more important thing to deploy the forces that you've seen on a stage

06:57and make a decision. Where are we going to go with the president? We don't want to get into a

07:02gunfight

07:03with a thousand people in a ballroom. So it's best to get out of the line of fire,

07:08get him out of there, get him to an undisclosed location and protect him from there and not fight

07:15in a ballroom full of hundreds of people, thousands of people. So what's in their mind,

07:20I can tell you that the Secret Service members are not afraid of anything. They're not afraid to die

07:26in their mission. They're only afraid to fail at their mission. So their mission is so important

07:31that they're willing to give their lives for the president, the people of the United States,

07:36and the mission itself. It is a very serious job. There are no mistakes allowed. People are not

07:44doing this job just for a job. It is a way of life. And it really is. Your whole entire

07:50life

07:50is that job. And as you can see, they performed flawlessly. They did everything textbook from what

07:56I'm seeing from the videos. And ultimately, they saved the president's life yet again.

08:02Can I ask you, because we know the president in attendance, he usually doesn't show up

08:06to these. But other people in the line of the president, including the vice president,

08:10the speaker of the house, Mike Johnson, we also know the first lady was in attendance from that.

08:15How does that complicate the scenario for Secret Service, knowing there are very high profile,

08:21important principles, multiple of them in the same room?

08:25Right. So it sounds complicated, but not really, because they all have their own dedicated protective

08:31details. Although, let's say the president and the vice president, although that's a secret service

08:36detail, they are separate. They're separate entities. And one is taking care of the vice president. And

08:42that's what we saw on the stage. It looked to me just by default that the vice president's agent

08:48just happened to be right there when the turmoil started. So he grabbed the vice president,

08:53advance, got him off the stage rather quickly, even a little bit before some of the forces can

08:59deploy quick enough and a large amount of agents, of course, around the president and then the tactical

09:04team coming out and then they got him off. So that was by default, in my opinion. We saw the

09:10other

09:10cabinet members get whisked away as well by their respective protective details. They're all doing it

09:16on their own. They're separate details. The secret service knows that they're there and the secret

09:22service pretty much knows what they're going to be doing in an emergency. So although it may sound

09:28confusing in a sense, it is rather coordinated. And another thing that I didn't get when I was working

09:34at the Hilton era secret service, I see that this detail was supplemented by what appears to be U.S.

09:40Army military police, which is another added caveat that I'm sure added a great deal of protection.

09:47I'm very proud to see them there. So thank you to the military police as well. They also

09:52helped protect this event in a very good manner. President Trump was also asked about the incident

09:58at Butler, Pennsylvania when he was on the campaign trail, the first such assassination attempt on his

10:04life. What similarities, what differences do you see in how the secret service responded to that

10:09back then and this last night? Well, essentially the same. You saw agents run to him, get him down,

10:16and you saw the tactical team respond. They posted up in a position where if they needed to return fire,

10:24they could, which is a good thing in case they needed to. And they got him out of there. So

10:30it's

10:31essentially the same escape plan, except this time really without any kind of sniper interaction,

10:37because we're indoors. So that would be less applicable. But there was no shortage of secret

10:43service there because of the large scale event, no shortage of law enforcement officers, certainly

10:49no shortage of communication because I think when those shots first got fired, there was some

10:56questioning, were those actually shots? And I'm certain the officers at the checkpoint voiced over the

11:02radio, shots fired. And then we see the agents go into their roles of getting the president out of

11:10there. So it didn't take long. The communications worked great. The operational aspect worked great.

11:16Protective mission, everybody seemed to do just what they were supposed to do and turned chaos into

11:23an orderly withdrawal and getting the president out of there, which is exactly what they're supposed to

11:29be doing. And of course, we know that there are no fatalities in this. Although a secret service

11:33officer was struck, they fortunately were wearing some of the protective gear that didn't make it a

11:39more dire situation. In terms of just what tactical gear secret service wears, is that common for them

11:46to wear a plate in that way? Is that the location? Is that just a general practice?

11:51Now, of course, they wear body armor that's going to protect them. I wore it every day that I was

11:57on duty.

11:58So yes, they're all wearing protective body armor and have equipment to protect themselves from this

12:05kind of attack, as you can imagine. And the finest equipment money can buy and the finest training

12:10that can be given by the U.S. government. The top of the line.

12:14One of my last questions, Barry, before I let you go, because we know they're looking into this.

12:18Potentially a member of their family was alerted to this individual trying to carry out this attack,

12:24referring to himself as a, quote, friendly federal assassin. And there's also an anti-Trump social

12:30media trail. How aware is Secret Service of potentially threats out there for the president?

12:36Are they going to be further informed of such options in the future? How does that coordination

12:42work with Secret Service? Yeah, this is a tough case because it's being reported that this individual

12:48has no criminal background whatsoever and allegedly a schoolteacher. So he fits the role of a lone wolf

12:55person. None of us would expect that he would do something like this, even though he's a stranger to

12:59us. We would never think that he would do that. The trail on the Internet, that is kind of the

13:06regular

13:06norm these days. If you go on any social media platform, it is that much hatred filled. And,

13:14you know, we might have to start looking at ourselves and take a step back from this,

13:19from both sides. Because what it's doing is it's turning people like this defendant,

13:25which I don't think normally would have done this if he didn't have maybe the ideology really pressed

13:32on him through social media and through other outlets, probably never would have thought to do this.

13:38So I think that's the big concern. And it's so hard to detect because we are a free country.

13:43Government can't just go and start looking at us because they feel like it. They have to have a

13:47warrant or something under the Patriot Act or red flag bill could be something as well.

13:52There are tools for them to use to detect this. But we're a big country. We have millions of people

13:59and everybody says something on social media. It doesn't necessarily mean they're going to do this.

14:05So it's a dangerous world. But my hat's off to the Secret Service. They did a great job and they

14:10saved the president. Yeah. And obviously commend them for their action, their swift action in that

14:15sign of chaos following the incident last night at the Washington Hilton. Barry, thank you so much.

14:20I appreciate your time. You're in sight. You're on live now. Thank you.

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