Suspected Correspondents' Dinner Shooter Was Likely Targeting Trump Officials, Todd Blanche Says

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

Blanche stressed that nan investigation was "quite preliminary" and said that rule enforcement was looking into further accusation astir nan 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 nan Press" moderator Kristen Welker. "Obviously, President Trump is simply a personnel of nan administration, nan 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 nan writings, noting that nan investigation was only astir 12 hours old.

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

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