The president of the United States, Donald Trump, considered this Sunday that political violence “has always been” latent in his country, while warning of how “dangerous” the “hate speech of Democrats” is, in his opinion, today. Trump has also assured that the perpetrator of the shooting that occurred on Saturday at the White House correspondents’ dinner acted motivated by a deep “hatred” towards Christians, based on a manifesto and information collected by the authorities after the incident. Investigators believe that the attacker, Cole Allen, was targeting people linked to the US Administration and probably also the president, according to the acting attorney general of the United States, Todd Blanche. The prosecutor has reconstructed the steps of Allen, who took a train from Los Angeles to Chicago and later traveled from there to Washington, where he stayed at the Washington Hilton hotel a few days before the events. The establishment was celebrating the annual dinner of the White House Correspondents’ Association when the sound of several gunshots forced security forces to evacuate Trump, First Lady Melania and his entire cabinet.
