Schütze apparently sent a manifesto to his family

Shots fired at Trump dinner

Insider: Schütze sent manifesto to family

A man fires shots at an event with Donald Trump. Now a manifesto has apparently been found. There is also a report about oddities in advance.

After the shooting at a gala dinner with US President Donald Trump, investigators are continuing to search for the suspect’s motive and specific target. The armed 31-year-old tried to storm the banquet with the capital’s press in Washington on Saturday evening (local time), but was overwhelmed by security forces.

According to an insider, the shooter had sent a manifesto to his family shortly before his crime. In it, he mocked the security precautions at the crime scene and listed government members as targets, the Reuters news agency learned from police circles on Sunday. According to the insider, the letter said that turning the other cheek when someone else was being oppressed was not Christian behavior, but complicity in the crimes of the oppressor.

The man described himself as a “Friendly Federal Assassin”. According to the manifesto, he entered the hotel with several weapons without anyone seeing him as a threat. High-ranking government officials were on his target list.

Trump, First Lady Melania and several cabinet members were unharmed in the incident. The suspected shooter fired a shotgun at a Secret Service agent at a security checkpoint at the Washington Hilton, whose life was saved by his protective vest. The security guard was injured but has already been released from the hospital. Trump later called the suspect a “would-be assassin.” The 79-year-old told Fox News that the suspect hates Christians. He is “a sick guy.”

According to acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, the 31-year-old alleged perpetrator from Torrance, California, traveled by train via Chicago to Washington. The suspect was scheduled to be arraigned in federal court on Monday on charges including attempted murder of a federal officer.

According to the authorities, his family had previously expressed concerns. According to sources in the presidential office, his sister reported radical statements, participation in an anti-Trump protest and plans to do “something”. The incident is part of an increase in political violence in the United States, which has seen the victims of conservative activist Charlie Kirk as well as Democratic Representative Melissa Hortman and her husband in recent months. Both were murdered by politically motivated assassins.