President Donald Trump on Sunday said he believed the gunman who attacked the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner hated Christians, suggesting the violence could have been religiously motivated.
“The guy is a sick guy when you read his manifesto. He hates Christians. That’s one thing for sure. He hates Christians, a hatred,” Trump said during an interview on Fox News’s The Sunday Briefing. “He had a lot of hatred in his heart. … It was a religious thing.”
The suspect, who has been widely identified as Cole Thomas Allen, is in custody after being arrested for allegedly charging the Washington Hilton’s security checkpoint, shooting a Secret Service officer, and beginning to run toward the main room where Trump and other attendees were gathered.
Trump weighed in on reports that the suspect’s brother notified the New London Police Department in Connecticut regarding Allen’s plan before the incident. He said he wished he had been warned about
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