Trump calls suspect in press dinner attack ‘pretty sick guy’

US President Donald Trump has said that the suspect accused of trying to attack administration officials at a black-tie gala on Saturday night was a “pretty sick guy” who had been flagged to law enforcement by family members. Trump said in TV interviews that the suspect, whom an official identified as 31-year-old Cole Tomas Allen, of Torrance, California, had posted what Trump described as an “anti-Christian” manifesto. “He was a Christian, ‌believer, and then he became an anti-Christian, and he had a lot of change,” Trump told CBS’ “60 Minutes” programme. “He was probably a pretty sick guy.”