{"id":84141,"date":"2026-04-26T14:05:30","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T12:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/?p=84141"},"modified":"2026-04-26T15:39:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T13:39:06","slug":"shooting-at-trump-dinner-berisha-reacts-a-horror-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/shooting-at-trump-dinner-berisha-reacts-a-horror-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Shooting at Trump dinner, Berisha reacts: \u201cA horror act\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"102\" data-end=\"539\">The leader of the Democratic Party, <strong data-start=\"138\" data-end=\"179\"><span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Sali Berisha<\/span><\/span><\/strong>, reacted through a post on <strong data-start=\"207\" data-end=\"248\"><span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Facebook<\/span><\/span><\/strong> regarding the shooting reported during the White House Correspondents\u2019 Association dinner. Berisha described the attack as a \u201chorror act.\u201d Among other things, he added that the Democratic Party strongly condemns the attack, which according to him aimed to change history through a massacre.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"541\" data-end=\"877\">\u201cHorror act! Last night, an individual armed with firearms and cold weapons, identified as Cole Tomas Alen, 31 years old, a teacher from California, breached the security perimeter of the dinner hosted by President <strong data-start=\"756\" data-end=\"797\"><span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Donald Trump<\/span><\/span><\/strong> for the media at the <strong data-start=\"819\" data-end=\"840\">Washington Hilton<\/strong> and, in a horrific act, opened fire.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"879\" data-end=\"1154\">Secret Service agents evacuated President Trump and the First Lady. The perpetrator was quickly arrested by security guards. A Secret Service employee was injured, but fortunately for the American nation and its friends, there were no casualties or injuries among the guests.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1156\" data-end=\"1462\">President Trump returned to the free speech dinner and delivered his scheduled remarks, in which he condemned the criminal act carried out during the Evening of Free Speech by what he described as an unstable individual, and praised the swift, courageous, and successful intervention of the Secret Service.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1464\" data-end=\"1587\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">The Democratic Party strongly condemns this horrific act, which aimed to change history through a massacre,\u201d Berisha wrote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The leader of the Democratic Party, Sali Berisha, reacted through a post on Facebook regarding the shooting reported during the White House Correspondents\u2019 Association dinner. Berisha described the attack as a \u201chorror act.\u201d Among other things, he added that the Democratic Party strongly condemns the attack, which according to him aimed to change history through [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":84142,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[153,1803],"tags":[243,151],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Shooting at Trump dinner, Berisha reacts: \u201cA horror act\u201d - Euronews Albania<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/shooting-at-trump-dinner-berisha-reacts-a-horror-act\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Shooting at Trump dinner, Berisha reacts: \u201cA horror act\u201d - Euronews Albania\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The leader of the Democratic Party, Sali Berisha, reacted through a post on Facebook regarding the shooting reported during the White House Correspondents\u2019 Association dinner. 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