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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Nick Lester

Gunman who charged dinner attended by Donald Trump was ‘lone wolf whack job’

President Donald Trump speaks in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House after the annual White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner (Jose Luis Magana/AP) - (AP)

A gunman armed with “multiple weapons” who tried to charge a Washington dinner attended by Donald Trump was “a lone wolf whack job”, according to the US president.

The White House Correspondents’ Association dinner was thrown into chaos by the attack on Saturday night and saw the American leader, who has been the previous target of an assassination attempt, swiftly evacuated by secret service agents along with other senior members of the administration.

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