As per the PEOPLE, citing the source, Kennedy “went into the other room and got a chair because when [the man] first started falling, he thought maybe he just needed to sit.”
White House deputy press secretary Kush Desai reacted furiously to a post on X that criticized Kennedy for leaving the room.

“The Secretary rushed to get medical assistance while others tended to the man, you ghoul,” said Desai.
According to PEOPLE’s source, the man who collapsed was in “pretty bad shape”.
“He tried to sit up for a while but he was definitely pale and they laid him down again and then they took him out on a gurney.”