{"id":72676,"date":"2026-04-26T16:55:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T21:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/26\/anti-trump-sentiment-being-examined-as-motive-for-white-house-press-dinner-shooting\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T16:55:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T21:55:08","slug":"anti-trump-sentiment-being-examined-as-motive-for-white-house-press-dinner-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/26\/anti-trump-sentiment-being-examined-as-motive-for-white-house-press-dinner-shooting\/","title":{"rendered":"Anti-Trump sentiment being examined as motive for White House press dinner shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alleged manifesto reportedly written by the suspect had Trump administration officials at top of list<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2026\/apr\/26\/white-house-correspondents-dinner-shooting-latest-donald-trump-suspect-washington-hilton\">White House press dinner shooting aftermath \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Investigators were looking into anti-Trump sentiment as being a motive for the attacker who sought to breach the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/white-house-correspondents--dinner-shooting\">White House Correspondents\u2019 Dinner <\/a>in Washington DC where the US president and top members of his administration were present.<\/p>\n<p>Officials have said that the shooter likely <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/26\/details-white-house-correspondents-dinner-shooting\">was targeting<\/a> Donald Trump and other senior administration officials. \u201cWe do believe, based upon just a very preliminary start to understanding what happened, that he was targeting members of the administration,\u201d Blanche said in a TV <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/todd-blanche-acting-attorney-general-face-the-nation-transcript-04-26-2026\/\">interview.<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/26\/white-house-press-dinner-shooting-motive\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alleged manifesto reportedly written by the suspect had Trump administration officials at top of list White House press dinner shooting aftermath \u2013 latest updates Investigators were looking into anti-Trump sentiment as being a motive for the attacker who sought to breach the White House Correspondents\u2019 Dinner in Washington DC where the US president and top &#8230; <a title=\"Anti-Trump sentiment being examined as motive for White House press dinner shooting\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/26\/anti-trump-sentiment-being-examined-as-motive-for-white-house-press-dinner-shooting\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Anti-Trump sentiment being examined as motive for White House press dinner shooting\">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_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72676","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=72676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}