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White House press dinner shooting: Trump says suspect wrote ‘anti-Christian’ manifesto, calls him ‘pretty sick guy’

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“He was a Christian, believer, and then he became an anti-Christian, and he had a lot of change,” U.S. President Donald Trump said. File
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U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday (April 26, 2026) that the suspect accused of trying to attack administration officials at a black-tie gala on Saturday night (April 25) was a “pretty sick guy” who had been flagged to law enforcement by family members.

Mr. Trump said in ‌TV interviews that the suspect, whom an official identified as 31-year-old Cole Tomas Allen, of Torrance, California, had posted what Mr. Trump described as an “anti-Christian” manifesto.

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