We can now report a few more facts about the attempt on President Trump and Trump administration officials at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner on Saturday. More information about would-be assassin Cole Allen has been uncovered, and it’s about like you might expect.
NEWS: new info on the WHCD shooting suspect, Cole Allen, from the White House. I'll be talking with President Trump about all of this in 30 minutes on @SundayBriefFNC
The suspect’s written manifesto clearly stated he wanted to target administration officials. He also had a ton…
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NEWS: new info on the WHCD shooting suspect, Cole Allen, from the White House. I’ll be talking with President Trump about all of this in 30 minutes on
@SundayBriefFNC The suspect’s written manifesto clearly stated he wanted to target administration officials. He also had a ton of anti-Trump and anti-Christian rhetoric on his social media accounts.
ALLEN’s brother had notified New London PD (CT) of ALLEN’s alleged manifesto he had sent to his family members prior to the incident.
Secret Service and Montgomery County Police interviewed Avriana Allen, ALLEN’s sister, at their residence in Rockville, MD. The following highlights from the interview:
Allen said her brother had a tendency to make radical statements and his rhetoric constantly referenced a plan to do “something” to fix the issues with today’s world.
Confirmed ALLEN purchased two handguns and a shotgun from Cap Tactical Firearms and kept them stored at their parent’s home and that their parents were unaware that ALLEN was keeping the firearms in the home.
ALLEN would regularly go to the shooting range to train with his firearms
ALLEN was part of a group called ‘The Wide Awakes’
ALLEN attended a ‘No Kings’ protest in California at some point
The New York Post, meanwhile, reported exclusively:
Gunman Cole Allen sent an anti-President Trump manifesto to his family members about 10 minutes before opening fire at Saturday night’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner — calling himself the “Friendly Federal Assassin” and revealing he was trying to kill Trump administration officials, The Post has learned.
“Turning the other cheek is for when you yourself are oppressed. I’m not the person raped in a detention camp. I’m not the fisherman executed without trial,” Allen wrote in the document, which a relative provided to police, a US official said.
“I’m not a schoolkid blown up, or a child starved, or a teenage girl abused by the many criminals in this administration. Turning the other cheek when *someone else* is oppressed is not Christian behavior; it is complicity in the oppressor’s crimes.”
Just nuts, man. This dude, like so many people radicalized by the Domestic Terrorism Party (otherwise known as Democrats), is living an insanely different ‘reality.’ In addition, Cole Allen might be registered on the voter rolls as “no preference,” a status confirmed on Saturday. But this could be because the Democrat Party, even in California, may not be far enough to the left for him.
It comes in mens and womens and lets your friends know you're happy to express your views and don't care what anyone thinks! Cheers!
There’s one more thing that ought to have the Secret Service rethinking a couple of things about securing an event that the president and his administration are attending:
“Like, the one thing that I immediately noticed walking into the hotel is the sense of arrogance.
I walk in with multiple weapons and not a single person there considers the possibility that I could be a threat,” he wrote.“The security at the event is all outside, focused on protestors and current arrivals, because apparently no one thought about what happens if someone checks in the day before.
Like, this level of incompetence is insane, and I very sincerely hope it’s corrected by the time this country gets actually competent leadership again.”
He’s not wrong about that and it harkens back to the very near-assassination of Trump in that Butler, Pa., field.
