Trump Visits Scalise In Hospital After GOP Baseball Practice Shooting

President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump walks to their vehicle after visiting MedStar Washington Hospital Center in Washington, Wednesday, June 14, 2017, where House Majority Leader Steve Scalise of La. was taken after being shot in Alexandria, Va., during a Congressional baseball practice. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump walks to their vehicle after visiting MedStar Washington Hospital Center in Washington, Wednesday, June 14, 2017, where House Majority Leader Steve Scalise of La. w... President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump walks to their vehicle after visiting MedStar Washington Hospital Center in Washington, Wednesday, June 14, 2017, where House Majority Leader Steve Scalise of La. was taken after being shot in Alexandria, Va., during a Congressional baseball practice. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) MORE LESS
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President Donald Trump on Wednesday night visited Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA), who is being treated in a Washington, D.C. hospital for injuries sustained when he was shot in the hip at a GOP congressional baseball practice earlier in the day.

Melania Trump accompanied the President to the visit at the MedStar Washington Hospital Center, according to a White House pool report. They also visited Capitol Police Officer Crystal Griner, who was injured in the shooting, and brought bouquets of white flowers for both victims, per the pool report.

White House Press Secretary told the pool reporter that Trump sat at Scalise’s bedside and also spoke with the congressman’s wife and doctors.

Scalise was in critical condition as of Wednesday night. He had surgery earlier in the day, as well as blood transfusions, and he will require additional operations, according to an update from the hospital. He was one of at least five people hospitalized after the shooting.

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  1. Note to self—put NO VISITS FROM TRUMP, heavily underscored, at top of living will

  2. Even if Melania dances around an IV pole?

  3. No, Donald, you may not take his blood and organs yet.

  4. Anyone else notice that Mr. and Mrs. Trump are going out of their way to hold hands ?
    Isn’t that sweet.

    …or a strict enforcement of the prenup paragraph 5 section 8

  5. She discovered a loophole. If she holds his hand, through paragraph 5 section 8, it covers “touching his poodledinger” mentioned in paragraph 32, section 1.

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