The U.S. Attorney's Office believes the entire Trump administration was targeted by the attack
California professor Ole Allen Cole Cole, who has apparently been arrested on charges of shooting, has acknowledged that his intention was to kill any member of the Trump administration.
Acting U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche believes that the midnight shooting at the correspondents "dinnerwas aimed atany member of the government.
That's what Blanch told NBC in an interview. Apparently, Californian professor\u00A0 Cole Allen , who has been arrested on charges of shooting, has acknowledged that his intention was to kill any member of the Trump administration.
"We believe his targets were members of the US Government," Blanche told Meet the Press, without confirming whether Trump was the main target of the shooting. Blanche added that the exact causes of the attack are not yet known, although he made it clear that it does not appear to be closely related to a specific policy.
The shooting took place at 8:00 p.m. (2:00 a.m. in the Basque Country). At that time, Allen passed the final security check for the hotel's main hall, the same place where the attack on President Ronald Reagan took place in 1981.
When the police approached the suspect, he fired and ran across the security perimeter.
Hours later, Trump appeared before the media to report the incident and thanked the Administration's Secret Service for its "excellent work."
If it is confirmed that Cole Allen's intention was to assassinate Trump, today would be the third attack on the US president since 2024.
A shot by young sniper Thomas Crooks hit a millimeter from his head during a speech in Pennsylvania in 2024.
The same year, but a month earlier, the secret services intercepted an armed man near the golf course at the West Palm Beach Club, Florida, and arrested him.
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