American President Donald Trump categorically denied the allegations contained in the “manifesto“ of the man who committed the shooting at the reception.
He said in an interview with CBS News that the arrested Cole Thomas Allen “was radicalized and seems to be a sick person“.
“I'm not a rapist, I've never raped anyone“, said the American president, commenting on the allegations of the man who accused him of pedophilia and sexual assault. "I'm not a pedophile," the US president continued, accusing his Democratic political opponents of ties to financier Jeffrey Epstein, a convicted pedophile.
Turning to the interviewer, the US leader expressed dissatisfaction that she was "reading nonsense written by a sick person." "You should be ashamed of yourself for reading this, because none of it applies to me," he said.
Trump himself described Allen as "radicalized" and a man with "strong anti-Christian views," although the suspect's social media profiles linked him to Christian organizations during his studies.
"The security guys did a very good job, they did a really good job. The attacker was caught pretty easily“, the head of state also said
The American leader also admitted that he delayed the security during the evacuation to personally assess the situation. “I was surrounded by wonderful people and I probably delayed them a little bit. I said to myself: “Wait a minute, let me see, wait a minute“, he said.
Trump admitted that he did not know if he was the shooter's target.
“I don't know“, Trump said, answering a question from the host.
Earlier, acting US Attorney General Todd Blanch told NBC News that based on the preliminary results of the investigation, the shooter's targets were US administration officials.