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Rep. Jared Moskowitz, D-Fla., said House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, who was shot at a practice for the Congressional Baseball Game in 2017, led him to safety.

CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer, who was attending the event when the gunfire rang out, said he heard about six shots in a tight corridor just outside the ballroom moments after dinner service had begun.

The shooting suspect was identified as Cole Tomas Allen, 31, of Torrance, California, two law enforcement officials told The Associated Press.

Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, said that the suspect is being arraigned Monday in federal court on two counts — using a firearm during a crime of violence and assault on a federal officer using a dangerous weapon.

“This was an event dedicated to the freedom of speech that was supposed to bring together members of both parties with members of the press, and in a certain way, it did,” Trump said. “I saw a room that was just totally unified.”

The Washington Hilton is the same hotel where Ronald Reagan was shot and gravely wounded by a would-be assassin in 1981.

Rep. Andy Ogles, R-Tenn., said on X that he, Reps. Marlin Stutzman, R-Ind., and Abe Hamadeh, R-Ariz., had left the dinner after the incident. "Pray for our country, pray for our leaders," he said in a video posted to X. "Crazy time." Fox News Jacqui Heinrich and David Spunt contributed to this report.

Mabus described a “makeshift room” near the entrance where bar carts were being stored and where “there was no security” at the time.

“He was in that room […] he grabbed it out of a bag or something,” she said, adding that the weapon “was long” and “didn’t look like a typical gun.”

“He put it together and […] ran towards the stairs to go down to the ballroom. It just seem like he was shooting all over the place,” she said, estimating she heard “at least 10 shots.”

Erika Kirk — the widow of slain conservative icon Charlie Kirk — was visibly shaken and in tears as she was abruptly rushed out of the ballroom, an eyewitness told The Post.

The eyewitness also reported seeing a disoriented and “delirious” Robert F. Kennedy Jr. being carried out by members of his security details.

Sources said there are no metal detectors until the ballroom, meaning guests can go straight up the escalator before hitting a security screening.

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Thanks for signing up! Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, who sat with The Post at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, bemoaned the tragic history of the Washington Hilton, where the marquee dinner is held each year.

Before the event, pro-Palestine protesters lined the street outside the Washington Hilton, waving flags and holding signs that read “Media lies, Gaza dies” and “no war for Israel.”

One protester stormed the red carpet as guests arrived — only to be swiftly hauled away into custody.

The suspect was armed with a shotgun, handgun and multiple knives, and may have been a guest at the hotel, Jeff Carroll, interim chief of police for the Metropolitan Police Department, said at a press conference with law enforcement officials. Carroll said the suspect was not shot, and no motive had been established yet.