India, April 26 -- The US acting attorney general, Todd Blanche, on Sunday said that the gunman who tried to breach the ballroom at the White House Correspondents' Association dinner is believed to have been targeting members of the Trump administration, including President Donald Trump himself.

Speaking to NBC, Blanche said officials believe the suspect travelled by train from California to Chicago and then on to Washington, where he checked in as a guest at the Washington Hilton, where one of the US capital's glitziest events was being held on Saturday night.

"It does appear that he did, in fact, have set out to target folks that work in the administration, likely including the President," he said.

The acting AG also informed that th...