US EditionTrump says Correspondents' dinner shooting suspect wrote anti-Christian manifesto
Investigators say Allen sent family a manifesto minutes before the attack and carried multiple weapons, while officials believe he aimed at Trump administration targets.
- On Saturday, Cole Tomas Allen, 31, charged a security checkpoint at the Washington Hilton during the White House Correspondents' Dinner, firing a shotgun and wounding a Secret Service agent before being tackled and arrested.
- Sent to his family 10 minutes before the attack, Allen's manifesto dubbed him the "Friendly Federal Assassin" and detailed plans to kill Trump administration officials, according to law enforcement officials.
- Allen legally purchased a.38-caliber pistol in October 2023 and a 12-gauge shotgun in August 2025, then traveled from Southern California to Washington, D.C. by rail to execute the attack.
- President Donald Trump and other officials were safely evacuated as security personnel formed a protective cordon; the wounded Secret Service agent escaped serious injury because his bulletproof vest stopped the shot.
- Trump intends to reschedule the dinner within 30 days while continuing to lobby for a secure ballroom facility on White House grounds to prevent future security lapses at high-profile events.
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On 25 April 2026, under the golden chandeliers of the White House correspondents' dinner, a bullet whistled. A bullet fired by a thirty-one-year-old man, Cole Thomas Allen, a professor of literature at a Californian university, who, the day before, corrected copies by dreaming of a rainbow revolution. His manifesto, sent to his family a few minutes before the gesture, is of icy clarity: "Trump embodies the end of our world. You have to shoot it …
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On Sunday, April 27, Donald Trump described the alleged shotgun at the press gala in Washington, D.C., Cole Tomas Allen, as "a sick guy," who "hates Christians." The suspect, a 31-year-old man, had written a manifesto in which he claimed that he could no longer "let a paedophile, rapist and traitor" splash with "his crimes."
What drove the shooter at Donald Trump's correspondent dinner? He was supposed to have sent a manifesto to his family.
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