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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Sara Braun

Anti-Trump sentiment being examined as motive for White House press dinner shooting

People with cameras stand in front of houses
Journalists stand in front of a house believed to be linked to the suspect in the shooting at the White House correspondents' dinner, on Sunday in Torrance, California. Photograph: Apu Gomes/Getty Images

Investigators are looking into anti-Trump sentiment as being a motive for the attacker who sought to breach the White House correspondents’ dinner in Washington DC where the US president and top members of his administration were present.

Officials have said that the shooter was probably targeting Donald Trump and other senior administration officials. “We do believe, based upon just a very preliminary start to understanding what happened, that he was targeting members of the administration,” the acting US attorney general, Todd Blanche, said in a TV interview.

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