Critical link in radicalization uncovered of the failed Trump assassin

The suspect who tried to storm the White House Correspondents’ Dinner with a plan to assassinate President Donald Trump and a bunch of top administration officials was potentially motivated by anger about the war in Iran, according to the Department of Homeland Security.

A DHS intelligence report obtained by Reuters on Wednesday concluded that the ongoing conflict between the United States and Iran “may have contributed” to Cole Allen’s “decision to conduct the attack.” Posts on a social media account linked to Allen raged against the U.S. government’s actions in Iran and recently called for Trump to be impeached over the president’s warning that “a whole civilization will die.”

A DHS spokesman told Reuters that the intelligence report was created to “notify our partners of the latest available information following significant incidents that have impacts to homeland security.”

Allen wrote out some of his motivations in a manifesto that he shared with family members minutes before he attempted to charge into the ballroom at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, according to federal prosecutors. In a 1,000-word document, the suspected would-be assassin referred to Trump as a “pedophile, rapist, and traitor” and wrote that his goal was to murder Trump administration officials at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, targeting them from “highest-ranking to lowest.”

While Allen did not mention any frustrations about the Iran war in his manifesto, in a criticism of the security at the Washington Hilton, the suspect wrote, “If I was an Iranian agent, instead of an American citizen, I could have brought a damn Ma Deuce in here and no one would have noticed sh*t.” [A 'Ma Deuce' is a .50-caliber heavy machine gun used by many militaries. Doesn't Allen sound like totally cool and macho.]

In the manifesto, Allen condemned other U.S. military action, highlighting strikes on suspected drug runners in the Caribbean. Allen said the suspected drug runners were “fisherman executed without trial.”

In the manifesto, the suspect called himself the “Friendly Federal Assassin” and invoked his Christian faith, arguing that “Turning the other cheek when someone else is oppressed is not Christian behavior; it is complicity in the oppressor’s crimes.”

Minutes after President Trump arrived at the Washington Hilton for the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on April 25, Allen ran through a security checkpoint and fired one shot from his Mossberg 12-gauge pump-action shotgun that struck a Secret Service agent, according to the Justice Department. A Secret Service agent returned fire, and Allen was detained shortly after he got past the security checkpoint when he fell to the ground. Allen was not hit by any of the agent’s shots, and the agent who was shot by Allen was protected by a bulletproof vest.Allen was also carrying a fully-loaded Rock Island Armory 1911 .38 caliber pistol and multiple knives when he attacked, the Justice Department said. Allen was initially charged with attempting to assassinate the president of the United States, transportation of a firearm and ammunition in interstate commerce with intent to commit a felony, and discharge of a firearm during a crime of violence. On Tuesday, federal prosecutors added an additional charge of assault on a federal officer. U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro said Sunday that the Secret Service agent was “definitively” shot by Allen.

“He had every intention to kill him and anyone who got in his way on his way to killing the president of the United States,” Pirro said.

Earlier this week, the judge overseeing Allen’s case apologized to the suspect for the conditions he has faced in jail. Judge Zia Faruqui, who has a soft-on-crime record, grilled jail officials for placing Allen on a temporary suicide watch that required 24-hour isolation.

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POTUS calls for Kimmel to be fired; Melania calls the "comedian" a "coward"

President Trump called on ABC to fire Jimmy Kimmel on Monday after the insensitive, low-talent jerk referred to the first lady as “an expectant widow” two days before Saturday’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner. And we all know what happened at the dinner.

“Jimmy Kimmel should be immediately fired by Disney and ABC,” the president wrote in a post on Truth Social, echoing a call made by the first lady earlier in the day.

“Kimmel, who is in no way funny as attested to by his terrible Television Ratings, made a statement on his Show that is really shocking. He showed a fake video of the First Lady, Melania, and our son, Barron, like they were actually sitting in his studio, listening to him speak, which they weren’t, and never would be,” the president noted.

SO the 2026 White House Correspondents’ Dinner, got way more attention than usual because the president and first lady actually showed up for the first time since they entered the White House. Kimmel mocked the whole thing on his show Thursday night, delivering his own lame speech that included this gem: “Our first lady, Melania, is here. Look at Melania, so beautiful. Mrs. Trump, you have a glow like an expectant widow.”

What an butt-munch.

Melania Trump absolutely torched the late-night hack earlier Monday, calling him a “coward” who “hides behind ABC because he knows the network will keep running cover to protect him.”“Enough is enough,” Melania added on X. “It is time for ABC to take a stand. How many times will ABC’s leadership enable Kimmel’s atrocious behavior at the expense of our community?” 

The Trump administration went full scorched earth on Kimmel and also hammered the Democratic lawmakers whose unhinged rhetoric helped create the kind of atmosphere that led to Saturday night’s mess.

“Who, in their right mind, says a wife would be glowing over the potential murder of her beloved husband?” asked White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt on Monday. “And having experienced what I did with the first lady on Saturday night, I can tell you that she was anything but.”

Leavitt, who is nine months pregnant, was seated at the head table at Saturday night’s dinner, next to the first lady.

Both women had to crawl off stage as security escorted them, and the president, to safety. 

Kimmel is being blasted from every direction after Saturday’s attack on the gala dinner, where a Secret Service agent took minor injuries when a gunman charged a checkpoint in a pathetic attempt to kill President Trump and others in his administration.

The failed assassin suspect, Cole Allen, 31, was detained by authorities and was arraigned on multiple federal charges Monday afternoon in the DC federal court.

Monday marked the second time Trump has called for the Kimmel's firing. The first was in September 2025, when the scumcrumpet was yanked off the air for a week after affiliates revolted over his disgusting comments about conservative activist Charlie Kirk following his assassination.The week-long suspension of “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” triggered massive boycotts of Disney, with liberals screaming that it violated the First Amendment. But he's a Democrat, the media are Democrats, the Democrats hate conservatives like Charlie Kirk and Trump, so all they did was have Kimmel stand in the corner and promise to be a good boy for a while.

Melania Trump called for Jimmy Kimmel to be fired for his comments. Maybe more should be done to those who incite violence, even when it's implied.

Kimmel, ever the coward, failed to apologize upon his return to the air Sept. 23, but said: “It was never my intention to make light of a murder of a young man. I don’t think there’s anything funny about it.” 

But President Trump unloaded on ABC for handing him his show back anyway.

“I can’t believe ABC Fake News gave Jimmy Kimmel his job back,” he wrote in a Truth Social post at the time.

“The White House was told by ABC that his Show was cancelled! Something happened between then and now because his audience is GONE, and his ‘talent’ was never there.”

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Failed Trump assassin warned gender dysphoric people they needed to buy guns

The failed Trump assassin, or suspected assassin, Cole T. Allen who tried to take out our president at the White House Correspondents' Dinner had gone on social media to encourage even more transgender people to buy guns than who already is packing. He worried the Trump administration might ban gender dysphoric people [those mentally ill individuals who sadly believe they were born in the wrong body, once it became a left-wing craze] from owning firearms.

Of course that is ridiculous because it's totally unconstitutional. 

A Bluesky account suspected to be Allen’s posted a CNN [Communist News Network] article, “Trump DOJ is looking at ways to ban transgender Americans from owning guns, sources say,” with the caption “Best time to buy a gun was <greater than or equal to your state’s waiting period> days ago Second best time is today.”

The September 2025 CNN article discussed a mass shooting that took place at a Minneapolis Catholic church in August, carried out by a “23-year-old transgender woman.” The article says the Department of Justice was “weighing proposals to limit transgender people’s right to possess firearms” and framed this potential move as “a dramatic escalation of the Trump administration’s fight against the rights of transgender Americans.”

There have been a number of recent high-profile shootings in the past several years with ties to transgenderism, leading the Trump administration to examine the relationship between transgenderism and violence. Some of the confirmed U.S. mass shootings involving transgender perpetrators (broadly defined) are listed chronologically:

September 20, 2018 – Aberdeen, Maryland (Rite Aid warehouse)
Perpetrator: Snochia Moseley (26, transgender man). Killed 3 coworkers, injured 3 others, then died by suicide.

May 7, 2019 – Highlands Ranch, Colorado (STEM School Highlands Ranch)
Perpetrator: Alec McKinney (16, transgender boy; legally Maya Elizabeth McKinney at birth), with an accomplice. Killed 1 student, injured 8 others.

November 19, 2022 – Colorado Springs, Colorado (Club Q nightclub)
Perpetrator: Anderson Lee Aldrich (22, identified as nonbinary). Killed 5, injured 17.

March 27, 2023 – Nashville, Tennessee (The Covenant School)
Perpetrator: Audrey Hale (28, transgender man). Killed 6 (3 children, 3 adults), then killed by police.

August 27, 2025 – Minneapolis, Minnesota (Annunciation Catholic School/Church)
Perpetrator: Robin Westman (23, transgender woman; born Robert Westman). Killed 2 children, injured ~18 others (fired through church windows during Mass), then died by suicide.

February 16, 2026 – Pawtucket, Rhode Island (Dennis M. Lynch Arena, high-school hockey game)
Perpetrator: Robert Dorgan / Roberta Esposito / Roberta Dorgano (56, transgender woman). Killed 2 family members (ex-wife and son) and injured 3 others in a targeted family dispute, then died by suicide.

One caveat is that many of these transgender shooters had documented mental health issues with prior warnings and/or other complicated factors that we generally see with all mass shooters.

Claims of “dozens” or “disproportionate” rates often rely on unverified cases, broader active-shooter counts (including non-public or non-mass events), or disputed identifications. 

In general, transgender individuals tend more often to be victims of violence rather than perpetrators of same. 

Meanwhile it seems clear, at least to this writer, that Cole Allen, while apparently quite intelligent, is also quite crazy and thankfully, a very poor planner of violent assaults.

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We Have Allen's Manifesto

Unless you've been living in a hermetically-sealed room on the moon, or perhaps Somalia, you are probably aware that the White House Correspondence Dinner (WHCD) was disrupted by a man named Cole Allen, a 31-year-old man from Torrence, California when he attempted to breach security and shoot people, most likely President Trump, and others in his administration. Fortunately, he was stopped after shooting a Secret Service agent in his tactical vest. 

Allen was tackled and taken into custody. Both he and the agent were taken to the hospital for non-life- threatening injuries.

While the motive is being sold to us as unknown, Allen apparently attended a "No Kings" rally and later admitted to targeting President Trump, his lovely wife Melania, Vice President JD Vance, and other top officials and congressional folks who attended the dinner.

Like all good psychopaths, Allen wrote a manifesto and we have a copy (via NY Post):

Hello everybody!

So I may have given a lot of people a surprise today. Let me start off by apologizing to everyone whose trust I abused.

I apologize to my parents for saying I had an interview without specifying it was for “Most Wanted.”

I apologize to my colleagues and students for saying I had a personal emergency (by the time anyone reads this, I probably most certainly DO need to go to the ER, but can hardly call that not a self-inflicted status.)

I apologize to all of the people I traveled next to, all the workers who handled my luggage, and all the other non-targeted people at the hotel who I put in danger simply by being near.

I apologize to everyone who was abused and/or murdered before this, to all those who suffered before I was able to attempt this, to all who may still suffer after, regardless of my success or failure.

I don’t expect forgiveness, but if I could have seen any other way to get this close, I would have taken it. Again, my sincere apologies.

On to why I did any of this:

I am a citizen of the United States of America.

What my representatives do reflects on me.

And I am no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist, and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes.

(Well, to be completely honest, I was no longer willing a long time ago, but this is the first real opportunity I’ve had to do something about it.)

While I’m discussing this, I’ll also go over my expected rules of engagement (probably in a terrible format, but I’m not military so too bad.)

Administration officials (not including Mr. Patel): they are targets, prioritized from highest-ranking to lowest

Secret Service: they are targets only if necessary, and to be incapacitated non-lethally if possible (aka, I hope they’re wearing body armor because center mass with shotguns messes up people who *aren’t*

Hotel Security: not targets if at all possible (aka unless they shoot at me)

Capitol Police: same as Hotel Security

National Guard: same as Hotel Security

Hotel Employees: not targets at all

Guests: not targets at all

In order to minimize casualties I will also be using buckshot rather than slugs (less penetration through walls)

I would still go through most everyone here to get to the targets if it were absolutely necessary (on the basis that most people *chose* to attend a speech by a pedophile, rapist, and traitor, and are thus complicit) but I really hope it doesn’t come to that.

Rebuttals to objections:

Objection 1: As a Christian, you should turn the other cheek.

Rebuttal: 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. 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.

Objection 2: This is not a convenient time for you to do this.

Rebuttal: I need whoever thinks this way to take a couple minutes and realize that the world isn’t about them. Do you think that when I see someone raped or murdered or abused, I should walk on by because it would be “inconvenient” for people who aren’t the victim?

This was the best timing and chance of success I could come up with.

Objection 3: You didn’t get them all.

Rebuttal: Gotta start somewhere.

Objection 4: As a half-black, half-white person, you shouldn’t be the one doing this.

Rebuttal: I don’t see anyone else picking up the slack

Objection 5: Yield unto Caesar what is Caesar’s.

Rebuttal: The United States of America are ruled by the law, not by any one or several people. In so far as representatives and judges do not follow the law, no one is required to yield them anything so unlawfully ordered.

I would also like to extend my appreciation to a great many people since I will not be likely to be able to talk with them again (unless the Secret Service is *astoundingly* incompetent.)

Thank you to my family, both personal and church, for your love over these 31 years.

Thank you to my friends, for your companionship over many years.

Thank you to my colleagues over many jobs, for your positivity and professionalism.

Thank you to my students for your enthusiasm and love of learning.

Thank you to the many acquaintances I’ve met, in person and online, for short interactions and long-term relationships, for your perspectives and inspiration.

Thank you all for everything.

Sincerely,

Cole “coldForce” “Friendly Federal Assassin” Allen

PS: Ok now that all the sappy stuff is done, what the hell is the Secret Service doing? Sorry, gonna rant a bit here and drop the formal tone.

Like, I expected security cameras at every bend, bugged hotel rooms, armed agents every 10 feet, metal detectors out the wazoo.

What I got (who knows, maybe they’re pranking me!) is nothing.

No damn security.

Not in transport.

Not in the hotel.

Not in the event.

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.

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.

Like, if I was an Iranian agent, instead of an American citizen, I could have brought a damn Ma Deuce in here and no one would have noticed shit.

Actually insane.

Oh and if anyone is curious is how doing something like feels: it’s awful. I want to throw up; I want to cry for all the things I wanted to do and never will, for all the people whose trust this betrays; I experience rage thinking about everything this administration has done.

Can’t really recommend it! Stay in school, kids.

It appears that Cole Allen is a mentally ill, narcissist whose fifteen minutes of fame should land him life in the slammer. What a schmuck.

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White House Correspondents' Dinner.shooter had a manifesto

In a conversation with Fox News' Maria Bartiromo, President Trump praised the "unified" response of guests and law enforcement after a gunman opened fire at the Washington Hilton, injuring a Secret Service agent and forcing the evacuation of the entire Cabinet during the White House Correspondents' Dinner.

The suspect in the White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooting told law enforcement after his arrest Saturday night that he intended to target Trump administration officials, senior federal law enforcement sources confirmed to Fox News.

Authorities identified the suspect as 31-year-old scumwafer Cole Allen, of Torrance, Calif. He prepared a manifesto outlining his intent and shared anti-Trump and anti-Christian rhetoric on social media. As the dinner was underway, Allen allegedly rushed a Secret Service checkpoint at the Washington Hilton while armed with multiple weapons and opened fire, striking a Secret Service officer in his ballistic vest. 

Agents returned fire and tackled the shooter to the ground. The suspect and the injured officer were transported to a hospital. The Secret Service agent is expected to recover and the Democrats are expected to find a way to blame Trump.

This incident adds to a growing list of threats against President Donald Trump, including two confirmed assassination attempts and a recent incident involving an armed intruder at Mar-a-Lago.

Overnight, the FBI and local law enforcement secured Allen’s home in Torrance, California. A federal judge in the Central District of California is expected to approve a search warrant, which would allow investigators to search the residence.

The White House said Sunday that Allen’s brother contacted the New London Police Department in Connecticut prior to the shooting. He reported that Allen had sent family members an alleged manifesto outlining his intent to target administration officials.

Officials also said Allen’s social media included anti-Trump and anti-Christian rhetoric. President Trump, speaking on Fox News’ "The Sunday Briefing," described Allen as "a very troubled guy," citing the manifesto. He said that if the White House had the ballroom he wanted, this would have never happened. 

He's probably right.

Allen’s sister, Avriana Allen, told investigators in Rockville, Maryland, that her brother had made increasingly radical statements and often spoke about doing "something" to address issues in the world.

She said he had purchased two handguns and a shotgun, which he stored at their parents’ home without their knowledge, and that he regularly trained at a shooting range.

She also told authorities that Allen was affiliated with a group called "The Wide Awakes" and had attended a "No Kings" protest in California, indicating that in all likelihood, he is a dedicated Democrat.

Investigators believe Allen traveled from Los Angeles to Washington, D.C., by train, with a stop in Chicago, according to acting U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche. He said the investigation is ongoing and that more details are expected as formal charges are filed.

Blanche also noted that while the motive remains under investigation, authorities preliminarily believe Allen was targeting administration officials.

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White House Correspondence Dinner: what we know about the shooter

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Cole Tomas Allen (aka Cole Thomas Allen, aka Cole Allen) 31, is from Torrence, California and is, of course, the "suspect" in the shooting incident at the White House Correspondence Dinner at the Washington Hilton, historically remembered as the same hotel where in 1981, then-President Ronald Reagan was the target of an attempted assassination.

Allen was a guest staying at the hotel. He was armed with a shotgun, handgun and several knives when he charged a security checkpoint outside the ballroom where the event was to take place and guests had gathered.

He exchanged gunfire with Secret Service and other law enforcement and fired at least once (some say several times). He struck a Secret Service agent in his bulletproof vest and the agent was hospitalized and expected to recover. There were no other injuries reported. Allen was quickly subdued and taken into custody--he was not shot--and was transported to Howard University Hospital for evaluation.

President Trump, Melania Trump, JD Vance and other officials were immediately evacuated. The President later called the shooter a "lone wolf" and praised the Secret Service.

The dinner will be rescheduled.

Allen, we know, worked as a part-time teacher/tutor at C2 Education, a test-prep and tutoring center in Torrence, CA, where he was named "Teacher of the Month" in December 2024. He has a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from Caltech and master's in computer science from California State University-Dominguez Hills (around 2024-2025).

Public records reveal that he donated $25 to a Kamala Harris supporting PAC in October 2024, and although California voting records do not show a party affiliation, it's unlikely that he votes Republican.

Allen appears to have acted alone and the motive is currently being investigated. It's possible that he doesn't like President Trump, but that's only speculation based on his behavior. How he was able to access the area is also being investigated and is probably related to him being a guest of the hotel.

FBI agents have been at his Torrence home.

He is being charged with using a firearm during a crime of violence and assault on a federal officer, but more charges are expected.

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