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The suspect accused of attempting to storm into Saturday’s White House Correspondents’ Association dinner carrying multiple firearms was charged this afternoon with attempting to assassinate Donald Trump (along with two separate gun charges). Cole Tomas Allen, 31, made his first appearance in a D.C. federal court, where he did not enter a plea.
- Allen is expected back in court for another hearing later this week.
At Karoline Leavitt’s first briefing since the incident, the White House press secretary abandoned the conciliatory tone that Trump struck in the hours after the shooting and said there was “no difference at all” between Democrats’ rhetoric and the suspect’s alleged manifesto.