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The article says Ortega-Hernandez's 2013 guilty plea let him avoid being charged with attempted assassination. But the public record shows he had already been formally charged long before that plea.

On January 17, 2012, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia announced that a federal grand jury had indicted Ortega-Hernandez "for attempting to assassinate the President of the United States." That means the charge already existed more than a year before his September 2013 plea.

Later, at sentencing, DOJ said Ortega-Hernandez pleaded guilty to two counts and that he was sentenced on those offenses. So the accurate description is that the plea bargain avoided a trial or conviction on the attempted-assassination charge because that charge was among the counts later dropped — not that he avoided being charged with it in the first place.

The sentence gets the location partly right — Obama was not at the White House — but the reason is wrong. Official White House records place President Obama in San Diego, California on November 11, 2011, the day of the shooting.

A White House press briefing from that afternoon was held aboard Air Force One en route to San Diego, California. A White House recap published the next day also says that Obama and Michelle Obama ended Veterans Day aboard the USS Carl Vinson in San Diego on November 11. So he was away from Washington on domestic travel, not "on a trip abroad" at the time of the shooting.

A more accurate wording would be that Obama was not in Washington because he was in San Diego on Veterans Day.

The article states that Ortega-Hernandez bought the rifle from "a gun shop in Idaho." But official federal case summaries describe the purchase differently.

DOJ's sentencing announcement says that on March 19, 2011, Ortega-Hernandez purchased the Romanian Cugir SA semiautomatic rifle "from an individual in Idaho for $550." An FBI summary of the case says the same thing: he purchased the rifle from an individual in Idaho, not from a gun shop.

Because both federal law-enforcement summaries describe a private sale from an individual, the article's specific claim that the rifle came from a gun shop is not supported and is contradicted by the official case record.