Suspected Correspondents' Dinner shooter was likely targeting Trump officials, Todd Blanche says - BERITAJA

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said that he believes the suspected gunman astatine the White House Correspondents' Dinner was targeting management officials, noting "we're still looking into" whether President Donald Trump was specifically targeted.

Blanche stressed that the investigation was "quite preliminary" and said that rule enforcement was looking into further accusation about the fishy including "some writings" and speaking pinch group who knew him. The fishy is not cooperating pinch investigators, he added.

"I kept it a small wide because we do judge it was management officials," Blanche told "Meet the Press" moderator Kristen Welker. "Obviously, President Trump is simply a personnel of the administration, the caput of it, but, but arsenic acold arsenic exacting threats that whitethorn person been communicated beforehand, we're still actively investigating that evidence."

Blanche declined to item the writings, noting that the investigation was only about 12 hours old.

A photograph shared connected President Donald Trump's Truth Social relationship of the alleged gunman who was apprehended by information during the White House Correspondents' Association meal successful Washington connected April 25, 2026.via Truth Social

The acting lawyer wide said that rule enforcement judge that the fishy traveled by train from Los Angeles to Chicago and yet to Washington, D.C., wherever he checked into the edifice wherever the arena took spot "in the past time aliases two." Blanche besides said that rule enforcement believes the fishy bought the 2 firearms he had astatine the edifice "within the past mates of years."