US EditionWhite House Correspondents' Association dinner shooting: Acting AG Blanche says changing gun laws isn't right response
Todd Blanche said the suspect carried two firearms and knives and was stopped before reaching Trump or other officials, the Secret Service said.
- On Saturday, a gunman stormed the White House Correspondents Dinner at the Washington Hilton Hotel, but Secret Service agents stopped the intruder before he neared President Trump.
- Cole Allen, 31, of Torrance, California, traveled to Washington by train with two firearms and knives, though authorities are still investigating how he acquired the weapons.
- Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche confirmed the gunman targeted administration officials during a Sunday interview with Margaret Brennan on CBS News Face the Nation.
- This incident follows previous attempts in Butler, Pennsylvania, and Mar-a-Lago, as political violence has become a "routine intruder" into American life.
- Concurrent with these attacks, Trump's approval ratings hit a personal low of below 40% last week, while the "rising unpopularity" of the war in Iran strains his political standing.
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How did America’s political violence get so bad?
As polarisation increasingly divides America, violence is becoming embedded in its politics.“We do believe it was administration officials,” said Acting US Attorney General Todd Blanche, when asked for the target of the shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner in Washington. “But as far as exacting threats that may have been communicated beforehand, we’re still actively investigating that evidence.”For many Americans, Satur…
Todd Blanche shuts down network anchor trying to turn attempted Trump assassination into a gun-control debate
Source link Acting U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche appeared on CBS’s Face the Nation with host Margaret Brennan to discuss yet another attempted assassination against President Trump and his administration officials. Margaret Brennan tried to get Blanche in a debate about gun control after a left-wing would-be assassin stormed the lobby
Todd Blanche shuts down network anchor trying to turn attempted Trump assassination into a gun-control debate * WorldNetDaily * by Cristina Laila, The Gateway Pundit
'This is about law enforcement who are doing their jobs and a suspect who tried to do something and failed miserably'
White House Correspondents' Association dinner shooting: Acting AG Blanche says changing gun laws isn't right response
A day after a shooting at the WHCA dinner, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche opposed tightening gun laws, calling it the wrong focus. The suspect, who traveled by train with legally purchased firearms, was quickly subdued. Officials are probing security gaps and motive.
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