Acting Attorney General Blanche, FBI Director Patel, and U.S. Attorney Pirro Announce Federal Charges Against the WHCD Dinner Gunman, Apr. 28, 2026
April 28, 2026 · The Justice Department · 0:31:01
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What happened
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, FBI Director Kash Patel, and U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro held a press conference on April 28, 2026, following the initial appearance in federal court of the suspected White House Correspondents’ Dinner gunman, to announce the federal charges, according to the Justice Department’s description of the upload. The charges are recorded here as the officials announced them; a charge is an allegation, not a finding.
Why it matters
The Attorney General, the FBI Director, and the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia announcing charges together is the department’s senior-leadership format for a case arising from an attack connected to the Correspondents’ Dinner — recorded here as the department published it, on the Justice & Crime hub.
Scoreboard watch
Scoreboard candidate: the federal charges announcement as stated by the three officials is a dated enforcement action. Flagged for the weekly editor; no entry is published from this page.
Sources: U.S. Department of Justice, “Acting AG Blanche, FBI Dir Patel, USA Pirro Announce Federal Charges Against WHCD Dinner Gunman,” April 28, 2026 (official upload, embedded above). This page is grounded in the department’s published description of the upload and the upload’s metadata.
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