Cole Tomas Allen WHCD gunman sent anti Trump manifesto, ‘Friendly Federal Assassin’ to family members 10 minutes before shooting targeting White House top officials explaining his motives.
A news report has revealed that WHCD alleged gunman Cole Tomas 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.
‘Turning the other cheek is for when you yourself are oppressed. I’m not the person r*ped in a detention camp. I’m not the fisherman executed without trial,’ Allen, 31, allegedly wrote in the document, which a relative provided to police, a US official said according to the nypost.
‘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.’
WHCD gunman wanted to fix everything wrong with the world, handwritten notes reveal
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WHCD gunman mocked lack of security as he outlined ‘rules for attack’ in manifesto
Allen described his targets as including ‘Trump Administration officials (not including [FBI Director Kash] Patel): they are targets, prioritized from highest-ranking to lowest.’
‘I am no longer willing to permit a pedophile, r*pist, and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes,’ Allen wrote, apparently referring to the president.
‘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.’
Another family member told investigators that Allen had made prior ‘radical statements’ and that he frequently mentioned plans to do ‘something’ to fix problems with today’s world.
The family added that Allen would regularly visit a shooting range to train with his guns. A senior US official told CBS News that the suspected gunman was part of a group called The Wide Awakes and that he attended a No Kings protest in California.
The suspect is alleged to have legally owned two guns, one of which was used in the shooting at the Washington Hilton Hotel, law enforcement officials told CBS News.
News of the anti-Trump manifesto follows Attorney General Todd Blanche revealing to press that the Torrance, California area gunman is believed to have specifically been targeting senior members of the Trump officials present during the 2,500 person gala. Senior officials present at the event, and whisked to safety in the immediate aftermath included, Vice President JD Vance, House Speaker MikeJohnson, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., as well as Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy Stephen Miller.
