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In a press briefing taking place after the attack, Trump called the suspect a \u201cwhack job\u201d and a \u201clone wolf.\u201d<\/h2>\n
\u201cMy impression is he was a lone wolf whack job. These are crazy people,\u201d he said and continued: \u201cI saw a room that was just totally unified. It was, in one way, very beautiful, a very beautiful thing. To see a man charge a security checkpoint armed with multiple weapons, and he was taken down by some very brave members of the Secret Service, and they acted very quickly. It is always shocking when something like this happens.\u201d<\/p>\n
According to Blanche, the suspected shooter is believed to have \u201ctraveled by train from Los Angeles to Chicago, and then Chicago to Washington, D.C., where he checked into the hotel where the correspondents\u2019 dinner was at in the last day or two.\u201d<\/p>\n
The focus of the event quickly shifted toward the historic weight of the setting itself. The Washington Hilton is far from a standard venue; it is the same hotel where, over four decades ago, an American president narrowly survived an assassination attempt.<\/p>\n
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On March 1981, only moments after delivering a speech to the members of AFL-CIO, John Hinckley fired upon President Reagan. The official records at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library revealed that Hinckley used a .22 caliber revolver fitted with \u201cdevastator\u201d bullets. One of these rounds ricocheted off the presidential limousine, striking Reagan under the arm and inflicting life-threatening injuries in what remains one of the most significant security breaches in modern political history.<\/p>\n
Decades later, the same scene became a setting for another assassination attempt on a president of the United States.<\/p>\n