{"id":33462,"date":"2026-05-11T19:02:53","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T19:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yxnews.online\/?p=33462"},"modified":"2026-05-11T19:02:54","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T19:02:54","slug":"shooting-suspect-charged-with-attempted-assassination-of-trump-at-washington-dinner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yxnews.online\/?p=33462","title":{"rendered":"Shooting suspect charged with attempted assassination of Trump at Washington dinner"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A lot has happened today in the aftermath of Saturday\u2019s shooting at the White House Correspondents\u2019 Dinner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The suspected gunman, Cole Tomas Allen, appeared in court for the first time as Trump administration officials tried to paint a clearer picture of what allegedly happened at the Hilton hotel that night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are a few key takeaways from the day:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The 31-year-old suspect appeared before a judge in a Washington DC federal court<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>He\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/live\/c1je28p42ret?post=asset%3Ae4e5410f-8713-45b0-a737-068c55d4490a#post\">faces three charges<\/a>, the most serious of which is attempting to assassinate the president. It could carry a life sentence if he is convicted.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Allen did not enter a plea today, and his next appearance is on Thursday<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/live\/c1je28p42ret?post=asset%3A2307dce4-f919-4deb-bfa1-783b1a7eff20#post\">More charges<\/a>\u00a0may be coming, officials said<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Justice Department leaders spoke about Allen\u2019s alleged plans for the shooting, including photos of knives and guns they say Allen carried with him and an email they describe as a \u201cmanifesto\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>But they say a more specific motive is not clear yet<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Officials have also stressed that security protocols at the event worked, but the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cgj0j9439vlo\">White House said today<\/a>\u00a0they are not ruling out changes to the president\u2019s security<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Meanwhile, both the president and Melania Trump have\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c04x40d4424o\">taken aim at Jimmy Kimmel<\/a>\u00a0for a joke he made last week, calling the first lady an \u201cexpectant widow\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lot has happened today in the aftermath of Saturday\u2019s shooting at the White House Correspondents\u2019 Dinner. The suspected gunman, Cole Tomas Allen, appeared in court for&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":201,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yxnews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yxnews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yxnews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yxnews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yxnews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33462"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yxnews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33463,"href":"https:\/\/yxnews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33462\/revisions\/33463"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yxnews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yxnews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yxnews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yxnews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}