According to the information, the officials of the Secret Service were warned by local police officers that a “suicide -prone” man from the state of Indiana was on the way to Washington. His car was discovered in the immediate vicinity of the White House.
A little later, the Secret Service officials had seen a man to whom the description of the local police reported, Guglielmi reported in the online service X. “When the officials came closer, the man pulled a firearm and there was an armed argument in which our officials fired shots.”
The man was then taken to a hospital, it said. His state of health is “not known”. Nobody was injured by the parties involved.
It initially remained unclear whether the man wanted to attack the White House or US President Trump. This was not in Washington at the weekend, but in his private residence in Mar-A-Lago in Florida.
The Republican had won the presidential election in November after an extremely aggressive election campaign, which was primarily aimed at migrants and political establishment in Washington. Previously, on July 13, last year, he almost missed an assassination attempt that was committed to him when he was performed in Pennsylvania. In view of the heated political atmosphere, especially since the right -wing populist returned to the White House in January, there is concern in Washington that violence could occur again.
