Acting attorney general says suspect was believed to have been targeting top Trump administration officials
The gunman who tried to breach the ballroom at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner in Washington DC on Saturday night could be charged with trying to assassinate Donald Trump, the acting US attorney general, Todd Blanche, said on Sunday.
Blanche said in a live interview with CNN on Sunday morning, when asked if the suspect apprehended could be charged with trying to assassinate the US president, “absolutely”.
Earlier in the day he said that the armed 31-year-old man who had rushed towards the ballroom where the event was being held but was stopped, was believed to have been targeting top officials of the Trump administration who were at the dinner.
Trump, Melania Trump and JD Vance were on the high table at the head of the large ballroom at the Washington Hilton hotel on Saturday night as the event was getting under way, which was packed with thousands of journalists and their guests.
