Welcome to Monday’s edition of Washington Secrets. We spent the weekend at the parties, receptions and after-parties that come with the White House correspondents’ dinner, in between an interlude under a table. Today we bring you details of how it all went down, including one official who won praise for his calmness in a crisis, plus the Donald Trump critic who will have to save his walkout protest for another year…

The sound of five gunshots. An attempted presidential assassination. A gala dinner thrown into chaos. Tears and jangled nerves.