2026-04-26 23:09:49 UTC / 路透社
作者：雅娜·温特、格拉姆·斯莱特里、乌姆埃拉·帕穆克
2026年4月26日 世界标准时间23:09 更新于18分钟前
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[1/2]2026年4月25日，美国加利福尼亚州托伦斯，联邦调查局探员在与科尔·托马斯·艾伦相关的住所外行走。艾伦是华盛顿特区白宫记者协会年度晚宴枪击事件的嫌疑人。路透社/丹尼尔·科尔
- 综述
- 官员称总统周边安保 perimeter 或需扩大
- 官员表示，活动期间各机构间协调存在挑战
- 枪击目标为华盛顿知名晚宴
华盛顿，4月26日（路透社）——一名枪手在白宫记者协会晚宴附近开枪后，美国执法官员正在重新评估安保安排，这引发了人们对他如何能如此近距离接触有总统唐纳德·特朗普、内阁成员和国会议员出席的活动的质疑。
两名前特勤局特工和三名美国高级官员周日告诉路透社，联邦特工在周六晚上似乎有效执行了保护总统的计划，在涉嫌枪手抵达特朗普即将发表演讲的华盛顿希尔顿酒店地下室之前将其拦下。
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但官员们表示，尽管2024年竞选期间针对特朗普的两起暗杀企图已经促使总统安保措施加强，但一些与会者听到向特勤局特工开枪的声音，这凸显了安保漏洞。
特勤局没有立即回应路透社的置评请求。
前执法官员表示，这起事件最明显的教训是，安保人员可能需要扩大总统在大型公共场所的保护范围，即使这会给公众带来不便。
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一些美国官员指出，特朗普竞选集会的安保范围通常比周六晚上划定的范围要大得多。
在周六的晚宴上，宾客进入宴会厅需要通过磁力仪或金属探测器，但进入酒店本身只需门票。据一位直接了解活动策划情况的人士透露，有几个人试图用去年的门票入场。
官员们表示，这名涉嫌携带多件武器冲刺越过安保人员的加州男子，似乎通过在活动前几天入住酒店，绕过了哪怕是这一基本安检步骤。
扩大安保范围
曾在特勤局反突击小队服役六年、现任安全港安全集团执行保护总监的比尔·盖奇表示，事件后的审查至少会部分聚焦于将磁力仪移得更远，以扩大外围安保范围。
特勤局，盖奇说，“必须找到更好的方法来保护大型酒店，即使这会给酒店住客和酒店带来不便。”
他还表示，特勤局需要更好地协调其他政府官员的撤离工作。
从美国法警局到外交安全局在内的多个执法机构在枪击事件后迅速疏散了与会者，这凸显了负责保护不同贵宾的机构之间复杂的网络可能导致看似不协调的应对措施。
据路透社进行的视频和音频分析，在最后一声枪响后仅30多秒，特朗普就被带离了舞台，但卫生与公众服务部长小罗伯特·F·肯尼迪离开房间至少用了100秒，国务卿马可·卢比奥和五角大楼负责人皮特·赫格斯西离开则用了约150秒。
曾在华盛顿希尔顿酒店参与过往届记者晚宴安保工作的前特勤局高级特工唐·米哈莱克表示，保护这片广阔的场地长期以来一直是个挑战。
“我相信特勤局会回头重新审视那里的安保设置，而且由于这次事件，可能会进一步扩大安保范围，”米哈莱克说。
特朗普本人在周六晚间的临时新闻发布会上表示，华盛顿希尔顿酒店“不是一个特别安全的建筑”。
2024年7月，在宾夕法尼亚州巴特勒的一场竞选集会上，针对特朗普的首次暗杀企图中，执法官员因未能设置有效的安保范围而受到批评。这一疏漏让枪手能够清晰瞄准当时还是候选人的特朗普，导致其耳朵被擦伤。
“我本以为每个拐角处都有监控摄像头”
批评此次活动安保态势的人包括枪手本人，他在一份书面宣言中（首先由《纽约邮报》报道）表示，安保似乎过于松懈。
“比如，我本以为每个拐角处都有监控摄像头、酒店房间被窃听、每10英尺就有武装特工、到处都是金属探测器，”这名加州男子写道。“但我得到的（谁知道呢，也许他们在跟我开玩笑！）却什么都没有。”
包括代理司法部长托德·布兰奇在内的保守派影响者和官员迅速在X平台上表示，这起事件表明特朗普为何应该继续推进白宫场地内宴会厅的建设。
一名联邦法官在3月底下令暂停该宴会厅的建设，称该项目未经国会批准即为非法，尽管联邦上诉法院后来暂停了这项禁令。
一名美国官员表示，他预计将对总统及其内阁的安保情况进行审查，并可能做出一些调整。第二名美国官员指出，今年2月伊朗战争爆发时，部分内阁成员的安保级别已经得到提升。
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White House dinner shooting prompts scrutiny of Trump security arrangements
2026-04-26 23:09:49 UTC / Reuters
By Jana Winter, Gram Slattery and Humeyra Pamuk
April 26, 2026 11:09 PM UTC Updated 18 mins ago
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[1/2]FBI agents walk outside residence associated with Cole Tomas Allen, the suspect in the shooting incident at the annual White House Correspondents’ Association dinner in Washington, D.C., in Torrance, California, U.S., April 25, 2026. REUTERS/Daniel Cole
- Officials say security perimeter around president may need expanding
- Coordination among agencies a challenge at events, officials say
- Shooting targeted prominent Washington gala
WASHINGTON, April 26 (Reuters) – U.S. law enforcement officials are reassessing security arrangements after a gunman opened fire near the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, raising questions about how he was able to get so close to an event attended by President Donald Trump, cabinet members and lawmakers.
Two former Secret Service agents and three senior U.S. officials told Reuters on Sunday that federal agents appeared to carry out their plan to protect the president effectively on Saturday night, stopping the alleged gunman before he reached the basement level of the Washington Hilton, where Trump was set to speak.
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But the fact that some attendees could hear the shots fired at a Secret Service agent underscored vulnerabilities, the officials said, even after a pair of assassination attempts against Trump during the 2024 campaign had already prompted stronger measures around the president’s security.
The Secret Service did not immediately respond to Reuters’ request for comment.
The most obvious lesson from the incident, the former law enforcement officials said, is that security personnel may need to expand the protective perimeter around the president at large public venues, even if that leads to public inconvenience.
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Some of the U.S. officials noted the security perimeter at Trump’s rallies is often much more expansive than the one that was established on Saturday night.
At Saturday’s dinner, guests were required to pass through magnetometers, or metal detectors, to enter the ballroom but needed only a ticket to access the hotel itself. Several people tried to enter using last year’s ticket, according to a person with direct knowledge of the event’s planning.
Officials said the California man who allegedly sprinted past security, armed with multiple weapons, appeared to circumvent even that basic step by checking in to the hotel in the days before the event.
EXPAND THE PERIMETER
Bill Gage, who served on the Secret Service’s Counter Assault Team for six years and is now executive protection director for the SafeHaven Security Group, said post-incident reviews will likely focus at least in part on pushing the magnetometers farther out to expand the outer perimeter.
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The Secret Service, Gage said, “is going to have to find a way to better secure large hotels that may inconvenience the hotel goers and the hotel.”
He also said the Secret Service would need to do a better job coordinating the evacuation of other administration officials.
Several law enforcement bodies, from the U.S. Marshals to the Diplomatic Security Service, spirited away attendees after the shooting, highlighting how the complex web of those charged with protecting different VIPs can lead to seemingly uncoordinated responses.
While Trump was whisked off stage just over 30 seconds after the last shots were fired, according to a video and audio analysis conducted by Reuters, it took at least 100 seconds for Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to leave the room and around 150 seconds for Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth to exit.
Don Mihalek, a former senior Secret Service agent who has worked previous correspondents’ dinners at the Washington Hilton, said securing the sprawling site has long posed challenges.
“I’m sure the service is going to go back and re-look at the set-up there, and probably push out the perimeter some more now, because of what happened,” Mihalek said.
Trump himself said at an impromptu news conference late on Saturday that the Washington Hilton was “not a particularly secure building.”
During the first assassination attempt against Trump, which took place at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, in July 2024, law enforcement officials were criticized for failing to set an effective security perimeter. That omission allowed a gunman to get a clean line of sight at the then-candidate, who was clipped in the ear.
“I EXPECTED SECURITY CAMERAS AT EVERY BEND”
Among those who were critical of the event’s security posture was the shooter himself, who mused in a written manifesto, first reported by the New York Post, about how lax security appeared to be.
“Like, I expected security cameras at every bend, bugged hotel rooms, armed agents every 10 feet, metal detectors out the wazoo,” the California man wrote. “What I got (who knows, maybe they’re pranking me!) is nothing.”
Conservative influencers and officials, including acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, quickly took to X to say the incident showed why Trump should move ahead with construction of a ballroom on White House grounds.
A federal judge ordered a halt to the ballroom’s construction in late March, saying the project was unlawful without congressional approval, although a federal appeals court later stayed that injunction.
One of the U.S. officials said he was anticipating a review of security around the president and his cabinet, and possibly some changes. A second U.S. official noted that security of some cabinet members had been increased when the Iran war began in February.
Reporting by Jana Winter, Gram Slattery and Humeyra Pamuk; Additional reporting by Trevor Hunnicutt and Milan Pavicic; Editing by Colleen Jenkins and Ethan Smith
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