Justice department to hold news conference at 3pm ET after suspect's court appearance
Source: The Guardian
Justice department to hold news conference today, April 27 at 3pm ET after suspect's court appearance
The Department of Justice will hold a 3pm ET news conference today, led by acting attorney general Todd Blanche, FBI director Kash Patel, and US attorney Jeanine Pirro, following the initial appearance in federal court of the suspected White House correspondents dinner gunman.
Well bring you all the key lines from that when it gets under way later.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2026/apr/27/white-house-correspondents-dinner-shooting-suspect-charges-donald-trump-king-charles-latest-news-updates
mwmisses4289
(4,533 posts)maxsolomon
(38,973 posts)There was a Coup attempt, a mob actually broke into and occupied Congress, Ashley Babbit was killed, cops beaten within an inch of their lives, but they sent out a couple mid-level FBI managers to tap dance and say basically nothing, and that was that. I don't remember an update.
SunSeeker
(58,354 posts)She said one of the SS officers fired 5 shots, none of them hit Cole Allen, but one SS agent was hit with a bullet in his bullet proof vest. Blanche said Cole Allen fired one round of buckshot out of his shotgun, with the spent cartridge of that one round still in his shotgun when he was apprehended. It doesnt sound like shotgun buckshot was what hit the SS agent. And Piro and Blanche refused to say who shot the bullet that hit the SS agent, and Allen was not charged with assault on an officer. Sure looks like the agent was hit with friendly fire.
And they said Allen fell as he was running, then he was tackled and apprehended. So he did not fall because he was tackled, he was tackled after he fell.
Skittles
(172,355 posts)zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz