Jeanine Pirro says Secret Service WAS hit by Correspondents Dinner shooter’s bullet… as CNN’s Jake Tapper repeats foul manifesto line that triggered Trump

US Attorney Jeanine Pirro revealed that evidence shows the White House Correspondents’ dinner shooter struck a Secret Service agent.

Evidence shows that the bullet that hit the agent came from the weapon carried by alleged gunman Cole Thomas Allen, 31, Pirro announced during an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper on Sunday.

‘Well, we have been able to determine which gun it was. First of all, there is video of the defendant shooting at the Secret Service agent. There is also the agent who will tell you himself that he was shot at. And then he returned the fire,’ she said.

‘But more importantly, Jake, 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.’

Pirro added, ‘It is definitely his bullet. He hit that Secret Service agent. He had every intention to kill him and anyone who got in his way on his way to the killing, the President of the United States.’

Tapper went on to press Pirro about who the target of the shooting was, repeating a line from the alleged manifesto that included harsh allegations against Donald Trump.

‘He does say, and I want to apologize for using this language, but he does say, quote, I am no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes, unquote,’ Tapper said.

Pirro slammed Tapper for reading that portion, saying, ‘First of all, that’s outrageous. I mean, there’s a lot of other things you could have referred to. This guy is a hater. He hates Trump so much. He wants to kill him.’

That excerpt from the manifesto appeared to particularly upset Trump during the 60 Minutes interview he did in the wake of the attempted assassination. 

Trump told CBS News anchor Norah O’Donnell she was a ‘disgrace’ for reading some of the most inciting lines of Allen’s missive during their interview. 

O’Donnell said, ‘He appears to reference a motive. In it, he writes this: quote, ”Administrative officials, they are targets.” He also wrote this: “I am no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist, and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes.” What’s your reaction to that?’

Trump replied: ‘Well, I was waiting for you to read that, because I knew you would. Because you’re horrible people. Horrible people. Yeah, he did write that. I am not a rapist. I didn’t rape anybody.’

O’Donnell attempted to interrupt Trump, asking: ‘Oh, do you think he was referring to you?’

‘Excuse me. Excuse me. I am not a pedophile,’ he quickly said, cutting the anchor off.

Trump then appeared to refer to what he felt was the connection Allen was attempting to make between himself and pedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein.

‘You read that crap from some sick person. I got associated with all stuff that has nothing to do with me. I was totally exonerated. Your friends on the other side of the plate are the ones that were involved with, let’s say, Epstein or other things.’

Trump has never been charged with a crime in connection to Epstein, who the President has said he kicked out of his Mar-a-Lago club decades ago.

Pirro’s office has charged Allen with attempted assassination, as well as two additional firearms counts, including discharging a weapon during a crime of violence.

Prosecutors say Allen attempted to storm the event on April 25, where President Trump and a number of his top cabinet officials were attending the press event at the Hilton Hotel in Washington DC.

This is a developing story.