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.
The suspect likely traveled ​from Los Angeles to Chicago and then to the District of Columbia by train, Blanche said.
The president and First Lady Melania Trump were evacuated from the event at the Washington Hilton on Saturday evening after a Secret Service agent was shot. The president later said the agent was “doing great.”…