MAGA darling defends viral reaction to WHCD shooting: ‘I didn’t kill anybody’
Debra Lea, a 25-year-old MAGA TikToker featured in the White House’s “new media” influencers pool, came under fire after she fled from the Washington Hilton on Saturday night.
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US News MAGA darling defends viral reaction to WHCD shooting: ‘I didn’t kill anybody’ By Caitlin McCormack Published April 29, 2026, 6:26 p.m. ET A conservative influencer defended her viral reaction to the shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, where she posted a kissy-faced selfie and echoed other media outlets’ reporting that the gunman was dead. Debra Lea, a 25-year-old MAGA TikToker featured in the White House’s “new media” influencers pool, came under fire after she fled from the mayhem at the Washington Hilton on Saturday night. When she was safely a few blocks away, Lea — a frequent guest on Fox News — took to X and shared a selfie she’d taken earlier that day, accompanied by the caption: “Shooter at WH correspondence dinner. Shooter is dead.
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