On Thursday, the man accused of attempting to kill President Donald Trump by storming the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner with firearms and knives decided to remain in jail while awaiting trial. Cole Tomas Allen did not register a plea in his brief appearance before Magistrate Moxila Upadhyaya.
Prosecutors say Allen plotted his attack for weeks and researched Trump’s travels online before running through a magnetometer at the Washington Hilton on Saturday night with a long gun, disrupting one of the most high-profile annual events in the US capital.
Officials said that a Secret Service officer was shot but survived because he was wearing a bullet-resistant vest.
Prosecutors believe Allen fired his shotgun at least once, and a Secret Service agent fired five shots. They haven’t publicly confirmed that Allen’s gunshot hit the agent’s vest.
In a letter to prosecutors on Wednesday, Allen’s attorneys claimed that some of acting Attorney General Todd Blanche’s statements “indicate that the recovered ballistics evidence is inconsistent with aspects of the government’s theory, evidence collected by the government, and/or statements made by witnesses.
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