{"id":65588,"date":"2026-02-06T08:06:47","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T13:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/06\/maryland-man-faces-murder-charges-in-plot-to-kill-trump-official\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T08:06:47","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T13:06:47","slug":"maryland-man-faces-murder-charges-in-plot-to-kill-trump-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/06\/maryland-man-faces-murder-charges-in-plot-to-kill-trump-official\/","title":{"rendered":"Maryland Man Faces Murder Charges in Plot to Kill Trump Official"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 26-year-old Maryland man named Colin Demarco is now in custody and charged with attempted murder after he allegedly showed up at the home of Russell Vought, the director of the Office of Management and Budget. Authorities say Demarco told agents that he was writing a manifesto and that the 2024 election of President Donald Trump was the \u201clowest point of his life.\u201d NBC\u2019s Kelly O\u2019Donnell reports for TODAY from the White House.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 26-year-old Maryland man named Colin Demarco is now in custody and charged with attempted murder after he allegedly showed up at the home of Russell Vought, the director of the Office of Management and Budget. Authorities say Demarco told agents that he was writing a manifesto and that the 2024 election of President Donald &#8230; <a title=\"Maryland Man Faces Murder Charges in Plot to Kill Trump Official\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/06\/maryland-man-faces-murder-charges-in-plot-to-kill-trump-official\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Maryland Man Faces Murder Charges in Plot to Kill Trump Official\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}