{"id":1080773,"date":"2021-12-03T13:43:47","date_gmt":"2021-12-03T18:43:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1080773"},"modified":"2021-12-03T13:43:49","modified_gmt":"2021-12-03T18:43:49","slug":"alec-baldwin-admits-he-cocked-the-gun-before-fatal-rust-set-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/alec-baldwin-admits-he-cocked-the-gun-before-fatal-rust-set-shooting\/","title":{"rendered":"Alec Baldwin Admits He Cocked the Gun Before Fatal &#039;Rust&#039; Set 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\">24<\/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-admits-he-cocked-the-gun-before-fatal-rust-set-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=1080773&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\/alec-baldwin-finger-gun-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Actor Alec Baldwin told ABC News\u2019&nbsp;George Stephanopoulos that he cocked the gun that fatally shot the cinematographer for his unfinished film&nbsp;<em>Rust<\/em>&nbsp;\u2014 but insisted that he did not pull the trigger.<\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Alec Baldwin speaks out in 1st interview since fatal shooting on set of \u2018Rust\u2019 film l GMA\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sUjQSfhNCFc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/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>Halyna Hutchins was killed and director Joel Souza was wounded in the October 21, 2021, shooting incident.<\/p>\n<p>The first part of Stephanopoulos\u2019 interview with Baldwin aired Thursday, and a new preview clip aired Friday morning on&nbsp;<em>Good Morning America.<\/em>&nbsp;<em>USA Today<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/movies\/2021\/12\/02\/alec-baldwin-rust-shooting-interview-george-stephanopoulos\/8839098002\/\">quoted<\/a> Baldwin recounting the fatal moment.<\/p>\n<p>Baldwin said, \u201cI\u2019m holding the gun where she [Hutchins] told me to hold it.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>He added, \u201cIn the scene [being rehearsed] I would have cocked the gun, and I said, \u2018Do you want to see that?&nbsp;And she said yes.&nbsp;So I take the gun and I sort of cock the gun, I\u2019m not going to pull the trigger.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Baldwin said that Hutchins then had him adjust the angle at which he was holding the revolver.<\/p>\n<p>He then told Stephanopoulos, \u201cI cock the gun and I go, \u2018Can you see that? Can you see that? Can you see that?\u2019 And I let go of the hammer of the gun and the gun goes off.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Baldwin also&nbsp;told&nbsp;Stephanopoulos, \u201cThe trigger wasn\u2019t pulled. I didn\u2019t pull the trigger.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News<\/em><em>&nbsp;and the writer\/curator of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/downrange\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Down Range with AWR Hawkins<\/a>,&nbsp;<\/em><em>a weekly newsletter focused o<\/em><em>n al<\/em><em>l things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for Armed American Radio and a Turning Point USA Ambassador. Follow him on Instagram:&nbsp;<\/em><em><a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/awr_hawkins\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@awr_hawkins<\/a>. Reach him at&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"mailto:awrhawkins@breitbart.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">awrhawkins@breitbart.com<\/a>. You can sign up to get Down Range at&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/downrange\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">breitbart.com\/downrange<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actor Alec Baldwin told ABC News\u2019\u00a0George Stephanopoulos that he cocked the gun that fatally shot the cinematographer for his unfinished film\u00a0Rust\u00a0\u2014 but insisted that he did not pull the trigger. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"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-1080773","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\/1080773","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\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1080773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1080773\/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=1080773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1080773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1080773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}