New Delhi, July 25 -- no one quite knew whether to take it seriously.

The rescheduled dinner unfolded Friday at Washington's Waldorf Astoria hotel, a significantly smaller venue than the Washington Hilton where the original April event had been planned. That gathering was interrupted when a gunman opened fire outside the Hilton's security checkpoint; Secret Service Officer Victor Gonzales was shot but stopped the attacker, and the event was postponed. The Friday version drew roughly 680 attendees, compared to the 2,600 who would have attended in April. Trump's attendance had been contested almost since it was proposed, with weeks of back-and-forth over security arrangements and whether the evening would double as another confrontation ov...