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The White House is considering enhanced security measures for President Trump, including a bulletproof vest, it’s being reported.
According to Fox News correspondent Peter Doocy, there are “discussions underway” about whether “President Trump is going to have to start wearing a bullet-proof vest for future events in public.”
Saturday’s attempt on the President’s life was the third—at least—in two years.
Cole Thomas Allen stormed a security checkpoint at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, opening fire and injuring a Secret Service agent before being taken down.
Injured, he was taken into custody.
According to a manifesto he wrote and distributed shortly before the attack, he was targeting Trump and senior members of his cabinet.
“I am a citizen of the United States of America,” he wrote.
“What my representatives do reflects on me.
“And I am no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist, and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes.”
In the manifesto, Allen also ridicule the event security.
“I walk in with multiple weapons and not a single person there considers the possibility that I could be a threat.
“The security at the event is all outside, focused on protestors and current arrivals, because apparently no one thought about what happens if someone checks in the day before.
“Like, this level of incompetence is insane, and I very sincerely hope it’s corrected by the time this country gets actually competent leadership again.
“Like, if I was an Iranian agent, instead of an American citizen, I could have brought a damn Ma Deuce in here and no one would have noticed shit.”
Allen is currently facing two charges; although he is likely to face “many more.”
“The defendant will be arraigned on Monday in federal district court, but make no mistake, there will be many more charges based upon the information that we are learning in this very fluid situation,” US Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro said during a press conference.
Pirro said the suspect will face a count of using a firearm during a crime of violence, and a count relating to assault on a federal officer with a deadly weapon.
Both the suspect and Secret Service agent were taken to hospital.
In a briefing at the White House, the President confirmed a Secret Service agent was shot, and said that he was “doing great.”
President Trump also said the suspect is from California, and that authorities were in the process of raiding his home.
Interim DC Chief of Police Jeff Carroll said the suspect was armed with a shotgun, handgun and multiple knives. He added that the man appeared to be acting alone.
