Jeanine Pirro: WHCD Shooting Suspect 'Definitively' Fired His Weapon In 'Premeditated' Act

Jeanine Pirro, U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, said the suspect of the White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooting “definitively” shot the Secret Service agent.

“First of all, there is video of the defendant shooting at the Secret Service agent,” Pirro said on Sunday’s episode of “State of the Union.” “There is also the agent who will tell you himself that he was shot at and then he returned the fire. But, more importantly is the fact that we now can establish that a pellet that came from the buckshot from the defendant’s Mossberg pump-action shotgun was intertwined with the fiber of the vest of the Secret Service officer.”

She continued: “It is definitively his bullet [that] hit that Secret Service agent. He had every intention to kill him and anyone who got in his way, on his way to killing the president of the United States. This was a premeditated, violent act calculated to take down the president and anyone who was in the line of fire.”

Last week, a shooting broke out at the Washington Hilton, where President Donald Trump and some of the nation’s top reporters were for the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. As the suspect was trying to run past Secret Service agents to allegedly get to the ballroom where Trump was, a Secret Service agent was shot. The suspect’s attorneys have been skeptical that he ever fired his gun. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said last week the suspect fired his gun once.

The suspect has been charged with attempted assassination of Trump, as well as transportation of a firearm and ammunition in intrastate commerce with intent to commit a felony, and discharge of a firearm during a crime of violence.

Pirro said on “State of the Union” that her office has “a lot of evidence that indicates” Trump was the suspect’s target.

“And make no mistake, it is not just the manifesto,” Pirro said. “It is his actions...I can tell you we will be able to prove that beyond a reasonable doubt. The one issue that people might think about, is he insane, he is far from insane. He is brilliant. He has a master’s degree. He worked at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory.”

The suspect’s alleged manifesto never names Trump specifically, but he alludes to the president, writing, “I am no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes.”