Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump said Monday he would have stormed into the Florida high school to stop the gunman perpetrating the nation's latest mass shooting "even if I didn't have a weapon" as he lambasted the inaction of a sheriff's deputy assigned to the school.
"You don't know until you test it, but I think, I really believe I'd run in there, even if I didn't have a weapon, and I think most of the people in this room would have done that too," Trump told a gathering of US governors at the White House.
Signaling more than one sheriff's deputy was at fault, Trump said the Broward County Sheriff's deputies who remained outside the school as the shooting unfolded "weren't exactly Medal of Honor winners" and said "the way they performed was frankly disgusting."
"The way they performed was really a disgrace," Trump added.
Asked by CNN's Jim Acosta if the President has been trained in using a handgun or firearm, Sanders said "I don't think that was the point he was making. He was saying that he would be a leader and would want to take a courageous action.
"A lot of the individuals that helped protect others that day weren't carrying firearms, which i think shows that you can be helpful in that process without it," she added.
