The White House experienced a dramatic security breach late Tuesday night, forcing President Donald Trump to be evacuated from the White House Correspondents’ Dinner held at the Washington Hilton Hotel, after an armed intruder attempted to storm the venue.<\/p>\n
Speaking exclusively to dzwatch<\/strong>, Trump confirmed that the shooter had been apprehended, noting that authorities believe the attacker acted alone. “He was a very evil-looking man when he went down,” Trump stated.<\/p>\n The suspect, who was armed with a hunting rifle, a pistol, and multiple knives, told law enforcement after his arrest that he intended to open fire on members of the Trump administration.<\/p>\n Investigators are currently conducting search operations across Southern California and Washington DC in connection with the suspect.<\/p>\n Trump praised the performance of the Secret Service and law enforcement agencies, confirming that the First Lady, Vice President, and all cabinet members were safe and unharmed. “It was an incredible evening in Washington,” he added, commending what he called outstanding work by security personnel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The White House experienced a dramatic security breach late Tuesday night, forcing President Donald Trump to be evacuated from the White House Correspondents’ Dinner held at the Washington Hilton Hotel, after an armed intruder attempted to storm the venue. Speaking exclusively to dzwatch, Trump confirmed that the shooter had been apprehended, noting that authorities believe …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59379,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/59379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}