A new assassination attempt against former President of the United States, Donald Trump, generated shock and opened a federal investigation into possible security breaches during a public event. The incident occurred when an armed man managed to approach a sensitive area of the operation before being neutralized by security forces
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The attacker was identified as Cole Tomas Allen, 31, a California native. According to initial reports, he managed to infiltrate the event and assemble a long gun inside an unsupervised room before opening fire near the control area. The rapid intervention of agents prevented major consequences, and Trump was unharmed, although the episode set off alarms throughout the national security apparatus
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The fact is particularly worrying: the aggressor would have taken advantage of an uncontrolled area within the perimeter, exposing a chain of faults that are now under federal investigation. Authorities indicated that access, monitoring and coordination protocols between agencies responsible for the protection of high-profile figures will be reviewed
. Cole Allen was identified as the shooter, who has provided support to Kamala Harris during the last presidential elections
Trump speaks from the podium at the White House Accompanied by the
director of the FBI, Kash Patel, the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, Markwayne Mullin, and the acting attorney general, Todd Blanche, and other officials of his administration, President Donald Trump gave a press conference after surviving a
fourth attack against him.
The president explained that a Secret Service agent was shot in the chest but was wearing a bulletproof vest. “They shot him from very close range with a very powerful weapon, and the vest did the job. I just spoke to the officer and he's doing great.”
He added that the dinner with the journalists was “an event dedicated to freedom of expression that was supposedly going to bring together members of both parties with members of the press, and in a way it was.” Trump also said that the Hilton Hotel in Washington, where the event was taking place, “is not a particularly secure building.”
Speaking about the militant terrorist from the Democratic Party who tried to end his life, Trump stated that the shooter appears to have acted alone, but that they will find out more about the profile soon.
“It's always shocking when something like this happens; a little bit happened to me, and that never changes the fact that we were sitting next to each other, the First Lady on my right, and I heard a noise, and in a way I thought it was a tray. I thought it was a tray falling, a lot of times it happens, and it was a pretty loud noise, and it came from quite far away,” said the Republican president
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“Melania was very aware, I think, of what happened. Do I think you knew right away what happened? She said: 'That's a bad noise'. And they took us flying out along with other people. But they really flew us out. And again, the performance of the Secret Service and the police, of all law enforcement, I thought was really good,” he added.
Trump then answered a question about why the left still wants to assassinate him.
“Well, you know, I've studied assassinations, and I have to tell you that the most influential people, the people who do the most... take a look at the people, Abraham Lincoln, I mean, go over the list of people who have been through this, when they caught up with them; but the people who do the most, the people who make the most impact, those are the ones they're after. They don't persecute those who don't do much, because they like it that way. And when you look at people who have suffered either an attempt or a completed attempt, they are very influential people. Just look at the names there, the big names. And I hate to say that I'm honored by that.”
“We've taken this country, and we were the laughing stock for years, and now we're the most important country anywhere in the world. We have changed this country, and there are a lot of people who are not happy with that,” said the magnate.
