{"id":1074203,"date":"2021-12-01T19:43:59","date_gmt":"2021-12-02T00:43:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1074203"},"modified":"2021-12-01T19:44:01","modified_gmt":"2021-12-02T00:44:01","slug":"alec-baldwin-breaks-down-says-i-didnt-pull-the-trigger-during-fatal-rust-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/alec-baldwin-breaks-down-says-i-didnt-pull-the-trigger-during-fatal-rust-shooting\/","title":{"rendered":"Alec Baldwin Breaks Down, Says &#039;I Didn\u2019t Pull the Trigger&#039; During Fatal \u2018Rust\u2019 Shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Falec-baldwin-breaks-down-says-i-didnt-pull-the-trigger-during-fatal-rust-shooting%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1074203&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/alecbaldwinweep1-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Alec Baldwin told ABC\u2019s George Stephanopoulos in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2021\/12\/01\/alec-baldwin-sits-for-abc-news-interview-after-fatal-rust-shooting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">interview<\/a> airing Thursday that he did not pull the trigger on a prop gun he was holding on a New Mexico film set when it went off, killing a cinematographer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t pull the trigger,\u201d Alec Baldwin said. \u201cI would never point a gun at anyone and pull the trigger at them. Never.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p><strong><em>Watch&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong><b><i>below:&nbsp;<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"10.530259365994\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Asked by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GStephanopoulos?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@GStephanopoulos<\/a> how a real bullet got on the &#8220;Rust&#8221; set, Alec Baldwin says: \u201cI have no idea. Someone put a live bullet in a gun. A bullet that wasn\u2019t even supposed to be on the property.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Watch TOMORROW 8pm ET on ABC and stream later on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hulu?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@hulu<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fJQly1za1T\">https:\/\/t.co\/fJQly1za1T<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OnpDuYERiC\">pic.twitter.com\/OnpDuYERiC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ABC News (@ABC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ABC\/status\/1466104944059199489?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 1, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It is Baldwin\u2019s first sitdown interview since the Oct. 21 shooting on the set of the western film \u201cRust.\u201d Authorities have said Baldwin was told the gun was safe to handle but continue to investigate how a live round ended up in the weapon.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>ABC released a clip Wednesday that shows Baldwin breaking down in tears while describing Halyna Hutchins, the cinematographer who was killed on the set. Director Joel Souza was also wounded.<\/p>\n<p>He said in response to a question about how a live round ended up on the set: \u201cI have no idea. \u201cSomeone put a live bullet in a gun, a bullet that wasn\u2019t even supposed to be on the property.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The interview will air as part of an hourlong special on ABC at 8 p.m. Eastern time on Thursday and stream on Hulu later that evening.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators have described \u201csome complacency\u201d in how weapons were handled on the \u201cRust\u201d set. They have said it is too soon to determine whether charges will be filed, amid independent civil lawsuits concerning liability in the fatal shooting.<\/p>\n<p>ABC said a two-hour special \u201c20\/20\u201d next week will examine the investigation into the shooting in more depth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Alec Baldwin told ABC\u2019s George Stephanopoulos in an interview airing Thursday that he did not pull the trigger on a prop gun he was holding on &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1074203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1074203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1074203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1074203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1074203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}