{"id":82408,"date":"2026-04-26T07:51:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T11:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=82408"},"modified":"2026-04-26T07:51:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T11:51:20","slug":"lone-wolf-gunman-rushes-white-house-dinner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/lone-wolf-gunman-rushes-white-house-dinner\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Lone Wolf&#8217; Gunman Rushes White House Dinner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From AP:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A man armed with guns and knives stormed the lobby outside the\u00a0<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/photo-gallery\/trump-white-house-correspondents-evacuated-photo-gallery-687f1bef35d3d1c10b4fff9a3b2bf6a0\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">White House Correspondents\u2019 Association Dinner<\/a><\/span>\u00a0attended by\u00a0<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/donald-trump\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">President Donald Trump<\/a><\/span> on Saturday night, charging toward the ballroom in a chaotic encounter with Secret Service agents as guests dived under tables at the sound of shots being fired.\u00a0The president was uninjured and was rushed off the stage. The armed man, who officials said was a guest at the Washington Hilton where the dinner was being held, was taken into custody and was expected in court Monday. Police believe he opened fire and acted alone but did not say who was his intended target or describe a motive.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you\u2019re impactful, they go after you. When you\u2019re not impactful, they leave you alone,\u201d Trump, safe and uninjured and still in his tuxedo, said at the White House two hours later. \u201cThey seem to think he was a lone wolf.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" \r\n\t            data-post_type=\"post\" \r\n\t            data-cat=\"news\" \r\n\t            data-modified=\"120\"\r\n\t            data-created=\"1777189880\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"&#8216;Lone Wolf&#8217; Gunman Rushes White House Dinner\" \r\n\t            data-home=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From AP: A man armed with guns and knives stormed the lobby outside the\u00a0White House Correspondents\u2019 Association Dinner\u00a0attended by\u00a0President Donald.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-82408","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82408"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82409,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82408\/revisions\/82409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}