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Report: Trump rushed to underground bunker during protests

Bret Gibson
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President Donald Trump walks Saturday on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington after stepping off Marine One as he returns from Kennedy Space Center for the SpaceX Falcon 9 launch.

President Trump was moved Friday evening to an underground bunker at the White House as protesters clashed with police and Secret Service agents outside, CNN reported late Sunday.

Officials told The New York Times that they never believed the president was in danger but took the precaution as tensions escalated.

According to CNN, the president remained in the bunker for almost an hour as protesters pulled metal barricades away from the White House gates. Some protesters threw bricks and bottles at Trump’s residence. Others shouted and cursed the president’s name.

The National Guard was deployed in Washington during the weekend at the Pentagon’s request to help maintain order near the White House.

“Big crowd, professionally organized, but nobody came close to breaching the fence. If they had they would have been greeted with the most vicious dogs, and most ominous weapons, I have ever seen,” Trump tweeted on Saturday.

Bret Gibson is a TribLive digital producer. A South Hills resident, he started working for the Trib in 1998. He can be reached at bgibson@triblive.com.

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