Blanche: Suspect Likely Targeted Trump, Officials at Dinner Event Shooting

President Donald Trump was evacuated from an annual dinner of White House correspondents on Saturday night after shots were fired.

President Donald Trump and members of his administration were the likely targets of a suspect who fired on a Secret Service agent at the White House Correspondents’ Association ​dinner in Washington Saturday night, U.S. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday.

“It does appear that he did, in ​fact, have set out to target folks ​that work in the administration, likely including the ⁠president,” Blanche said.

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Original News Source Link – Epoch Times