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Trump: Suspect's Manifesto Shows Anti-Christian Hate

 

President Donald Trump said Sunday the armed suspect who breached security at the White House Correspondents' Association dinner had a manifesto expressing anti-Christian hate.

Cole Tomas Allen, 31, of Torrance, California, was taken into custody after law enforcement said he ran through a security checkpoint at the Washington Hilton on Saturday night and exchanged gunfire with authorities.

Just moments before the attack, Allen sent family members a note apologizing to his parents, colleagues, students, bystanders, and others for what he was about to do. The account is based on a transcript of Allen's writings provided to NBC News by a senior administration official.

"I don't expect forgiveness," Allen wrote. "Again, my sincere apologies."

In the note, Allen criticized Trump without mentioning him by name and wrote about lax security at the hotel, saying he had expected more.

The senior administration official said Allen's brother contacted the New London Police Department in Connecticut after receiving the note.

The department said it was contacted at about 10:49 p.m. EDT, just over two hours after the shooting, and then notified federal law enforcement. Authorities interviewed the caller.

Allen's sister told the Secret Service and police in Montgomery County, Maryland, after the shooting that her brother had made radical statements and had referred to a plan to do "something" to fix problems in the world, the senior administration official told NBC News.

 

In an interview with Fox News on Sunday, Trump said he was aware of the manifesto and the phone call received by New London police.

"Well, I heard about the London situation, and I wish they would have told us about it a little bit," Trump said. "But it is what it is, you know? ... But I thought Secret Service and law enforcement including D.C. police, was great. And I would be the first to complain if they weren't, believe me.

"They were looking at me probably more than anybody else.

"The guy is a sick guy when you read his manifesto. He hates Christians. That's one thing for sure, he hates Christians, a hatred. And I think his sister or his brother, actually, was complaining about it.

"You know, they were even complaining to law enforcement. So, he was a very troubled guy."

Trump said investigators "have some pretty good information" about the suspect's motive.

"He had a lot of hatred in his heart for quite a while," Trump said, "and he just … it was a religious thing, it was strongly anti-Christian.

"And I don't know if you've gotten it, it just got released, the manifesto. ... He's got some big problems with the rest of his life. Very bad situation.

"His family knew that he had difficulty. His family seemed to be, I think, they spent a lot of time with his family.

"His family says he had big difficulty. Maybe they should have reported him a little bit more strongly, probably. But it's a hard thing to do, I guess."

Hell Freezes Over As Media Reveals Remarkable Actions Trump Took After WHCD Shooting

There were definitely some crazy moments at the White House Correspondents' Dinner on Saturday when a gunman tried to shoot his way into the event, but was stopped. 

The gunman, Cole Allen, allegedly told authorities he was trying to target Trump administration officials. There were a lot there, including several Cabinet members, in addition to the president himself. The only person who was hit was reportedly a Secret Service agent, who was hit in the vest, but has now been released from the hospital.

 

It was a horrible moment. 

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In response, there were some surprising moments where the media, which is so frequently attacking Trump, seemed to recognize what a remarkable person he can be. 

Here's Weijia Jiang, CBS White House correspondent 

 

and the President of the White House Correspondents Association, who had been sitting next to Trump when it happened, recognizing and appreciating Trump's strength to hold a briefing 30 minutes later and say they would hold the dinner again within 30 days. People applauded. 

In that briefing, Trump reassured everyone and called on people to recommit themselves to settling differences peacefully.

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What was Trump thinking in the wake of this? He was concerned about whether everyone was safe, even those who had so frequently written negatively about him, like ABC's Jon Karl. 

 

Trump called him to ask if he was alright. 

"He was calling to see if I was ok with what happened last night...he reiterated many of the things he said in his press conference last night, emphasizing the unity he felt in that moment...and he was quite firm about this: 'That dinner must be rescheduled.'"

Now that's a pretty incredible gesture, showing what kind of man Trump is. A far better man than many who attack him. They've tried to demonize him, but this is who he is, and we've seen it before, in so many ways, such as with his care for the Angel moms. 

That wasn't all. Even after the shooting, with everything going on Saturday night, Trump called presidential envoy Ric Grenell

 

 to see how he was doing because his mother had died on Wednesday. 

That's so kind, especially with all that was happening. 

Will this change the media at all? I'd like to hope it would, but I wouldn't bet on it because they are who they are. 

But they finally had to acknowledge it, at least in that moment. 

 

Journalist Explains Why Vance Was Escorted From WHCD First, and It Says a Lot About Trump

The law enforcement reaction to the White House Correspondents' Dinner shooting is getting a lot of scrutiny. 

One of the questions many seemed to have was: why was Vice President JD Vance rushed out of the room before President Donald Trump was? You can see that here, in a post from Fox's Jacqui Heinrich.

Here's what White House correspondent for Diario ABC, David Alandete,

 

 said about the events. 

I was right there. I saw everything. 

The reason JD Vance left earlier through a different door from Trump's is that he was alone. 

On the other side of the table were the president, the first lady, and the press secretary, who was very pregnant.

 

The Secret Service immediately created a security perimeter to get them out. Trump, who doesn't let himself get carried away easily, demanded explanations. He wanted to know what was happening, ordered that the first lady's evacuation be prioritized, asked that the journalists be removed, and decided to leave on his own two feet but making sure to get the press secretary out first. He didn't want to duck down. He fell briefly after a shove from the agents and left the room on foot.

Now, that's pretty brave of Trump, and I think the Secret Service always has to think about getting him out first.

But it says a lot about him that he wanted to prioritize his wife and White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt before himself. He has real courage under fire, as he showed in Butler. Leavitt had just had her last briefing on Friday because she's about to have the baby this week, and is going to be taking time off. 

Melania had a look of shock on her face when she realized what was going on. Trump indicated that she had probably gotten it before he did, and he said it was traumatic for her.

 

Trump said that immediately, Melania Trump recognized the sound as a 'bad noise,' adding that 'it was a rather traumatic experience for her.' 

'Melania was very cognizant,' he continued.

The President also shared his wife's fear for his safety given the multiple assassination attempts against him. 

'The first lady was doing a terrific job. She loves the country. She recognizes it better than any. But she told me numerous times, she said "you are in a dangerous job."'

It has to be hard on her at this point to have to keep going through this, and then this time to be there personally. 

As we reported, Trump also tried to reassure people, holding a briefing immediately after at the White House and calling for unity, saying they would have the event again, and they would not let bad people stop it. He also subsequently even called up a reporter who's had pretty negative coverage of him, to make sure he was okay. 

 

Barack Obama Did Not Just Say That About the WHCA Shooting

Cole Allen, 31, from Torrance, California, attempted to assassinate President Trump and other government officials during the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner on Saturday. It’s a fact. It’s in his manifesto. 

President Trump was at the event with Vice President JD Vance and other top officials when Allen sprinted past security checkpoints outside the ballroom. He was caught, but not before gunfire was exchanged. He wasn't hit during the attack but was armed with multiple guns and knives. 

“I am no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist, and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes,” Allen wrote. He confessed to the police early Sunday morning that his targets were Trump officials. His written work emphasizes that and includes the president on the list, not that we couldn’t infer that from the initial confession. 

Still, the media and now former presidents are trying to play the ‘we don’t know game.’ Look at Barack Obama here:

Although we don’t yet have the details about the motives behind last night's shooting at the White House Correspondents Dinner, it’s incumbent upon all us to reject the idea that violence has any place in our democracy. It’s also a sobering reminder of the courage and sacrifice that U.S. Secret Service Agents show every day. I’m grateful to them – and thankful that the agent who was shot is going to be okay.

Traitorous Video below 

  

Yeah, Obama is still lying. What else is new?

You are a disgusting liar https://t.co/p7o0YiIqBY

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) April 26, 2026

This guy. We don’t have the motives? There’s a damn manifesto that details everything. https://t.co/mvCSi5MbSw

— Katie Pavlich (@KatiePavlich) April 27, 2026

This is a lie—the gunman's manifesto was published six hours ago. But it's also a confession—an admission that the motive is damning to President Obama's side, hence the need to lie. https://t.co/0JPUQEQTly

— Batya Ungar-Sargon (@bungarsargon) April 26, 2026

 

Daily Beast Editor Stayed Next Door to the WHCA Dinner Shooter...and Noted This Security Issue

The Daily Beast wrote something worth reading, which wasn’t filled with anti-Trump garbage or had something in the opening that undermined the headline and the story entirely: their executive editor, Hugh Dougherty, 

 

stayed next door to Cole Allen, the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner shooter, at the Washington Hilton. 

He detailed how he couldn’t return to his room for quite some time, as law enforcement was standing in the hall, where they finally told him the area was an FBI crime scene and the police were awaiting a warrant from a judge to enter the room next to his. He also noted this security issue: no one was checking luggage (via Daily Beast) [emphasis mine]:

When I went back upstairs to get into 10235, the 20 minutes I’d been asked to wait were long gone.

The Hilton worker was much nearer the elevator this time. There were many more uniformed men behind him. “I’m sorry, Sir, I can’t let you go further,” he said. “I know you were here earlier.”

“When do you think I can get back in?” I asked. “I don’t know, Sir,” a man in a Metropolitan Police uniform next to the Hilton worker said. “We’re waiting on a judge.”

In that moment, I had a flash of realization: The police needed a judge because they needed to search the room. Already, security sources had said that they were working on the theory that the gunman had been a hotel guest.

I knew then that I had been next door to the man who wanted to turn the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner into a mass shooting. Maybe I had slept the night with an assassin in the next room.

“He was next door to me?” I asked the Hilton worker. “I can’t tell you anything, Sir,” he said. An officer in a Metropolitan Police Department “detective” windbreaker turned to me and said, “I’m sorry, Sir,”

Another officer said, “Sir, just to let you know, this will be an FBI crime scene when they get here. We’re waiting for a judge. When exactly did you check in?”

That was apparent confirmation that, yes, the gunman had been the guest next door—and that I might actually be a witness to this whole case.

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I asked the detective another question. “Do you want to talk to me? I mean, I was next door.”

I gave him my business card, then told him the only things I could think of that might be relevant. I knew when I had checked in. I knew when the cleaner had been in my room in the morning. I had seen no guests in the rooms beside mine at the end of the corridor.

Then I was left incredulous by what he did. The detective said to the Hilton worker, “I need the cleaning logs for the room.”

They hadn’t thought of this? It was almost three hours since I had been lying on a floor, the echo of gunshots in my head.

“We’ll be in touch, sir.”

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It does not take a security expert to unravel the layers of failure that happened at a Washington, D.C. hotel on Saturday night.

How on earth could someone with a disassembled long gun check into a room at a hotel where the president was going to speak? I can answer that: Nobody even looked at my luggage on Friday afternoon. 

Worse, my colleague arrived on Saturday at 5 p.m. Nobody looked at his luggage either: No magnometers, no hand checks, no I.D. checks. Nothing.

How on earth could that person get downstairs and assemble a long gun? I can answer that too. I moved up and down from Floor 10 all day. Nobody ever stopped me and asked me anything. I have never shown my I.D., except to the clerk who checked me in; I have never been searched or frisked when I checked in, or moved in and out of the hotel. To get down from my room to the dinner, I simply flashed my ticket. It could have been a photocopy.

The only time I went past a checkpoint was at the same magnetometers that Cole Allen, 31, sprinted past with his gun.

Another colleague was outside; I texted them a copy of their ticket. That allowed them to get into the hotel as far as those same magnetometers, entirely unchecked.

How on earth could that be considered safe?

Yeah, there will be adjustments the next time this dinner is held, which should be soon. Trump said it’s happening. White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles has been one of the top officials keeping an eye on the Secret Service post-Butler, so no doubt she will be making some severe changes the next time the core of the presidential line of succession is at this event. 

Cole Allen, 31, admitted to planning to target Trump officials at this event, while his manifesto is directed at the president. Allen was armed with a shotgun, a handgun, and two knives. He traveled by train from Torrance, California, to D.C. to carry out this attack. 

 

President Donald Trump has confirmed that Cole Tomas Allen, a 31-year-old Los Angeles resident identified as the shooter at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, allegedly left behind a manifesto in which he expressed hostility toward Christians.

 

In an interview on Fox News’ “Sunday Briefing,” Trump described Allen as a “sick guy,” noting that the suspect’s own family had previously attempted to warn law enforcement about his radicalizing views.

“When you read his manifesto, he hates ‌Christians —that’s one thing for sure. He hates Christians, a hatred,” the president said.

The manifesto, which was reportedly shared with his family members via email just minutes before the attack, framed Allen’s motives as a moral necessity.

 

“Turning the other cheek when *someone else* is oppressed is not Christian behavior; it is complicity in the oppressor’s crimes,” the manifesto read, according to a law enforcement official.

His brother alerted New London, Connecticut police after receiving it minutes before the shooting occurred. In it, Allen allegedly referred to himself as the “Friendly Federal Assassin.”

The document reportedly outlined plans to target administration officials, prioritized from highest-ranking to lowest. Notably, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Kash Patel was omitted from the list.

 

Additionally, the manifesto mocked the “insane” lack of security at the hotel where the event was held.

“Like, the one thing that I immediately noticed walking into the hotel is the sense of arrogance,” the manifesto reportedly said. “I ​walk in with multiple weapons and not a single person there considers the possibility that I could be a threat.”

According to the Washington Metropolitan Police Department, Allen was carrying a shotgun, a handgun, and multiple knives when he stormed a security checkpoint on the lobby level. One Secret Service officer was struck in the chest during the ensuing struggle but was saved by his ballistic vest.

 

Allen is expected to be charged in federal court on Monday with assault on a federal officer and attempting to kill a federal official.

 

GOP Faces Ultimatum: Nuke the Filibuster or Watch Democracy Die

A recent Glenn Beck segment on BlazeTV — bluntly headlined “NUKE the Filibuster!” — has lit a match under an already combustible debate in the GOP: whether to tear down the Senate’s 60-vote cloture threshold to force passage of the SAVE America Act. Conservatives are fed up, and the argument Beck aired echoes a growing chorus demanding action to secure our elections and stop the left’s march to reshape the electorate. The anger is real and organized; House Republicans already passed the SAVE Act and now watch the Senate stumble on arcane rules while Americans demand results.

Here’s the blunt reality: the SAVE America Act is popular with voters, passed the House, but the Senate’s cloture math means Democrats can block it unless Republicans are willing to change the rules. Senate Majority Leader John Thune has admitted the GOP doesn’t currently have the numbers to “nuke” the filibuster or even rely on a full-blown talking filibuster, which leaves the bill stranded unless leadership shows real muscle. Nobody likes playing procedural games while America’s sovereignty and election integrity hang in the balance; that’s why the base is demanding decisive leadership now, not tomorrow.

Conservative leaders and activists aren’t just whining — they’re laying out options. Senators like Ron Johnson and Roger Marshall have publicly said they’d be ready to use the nuclear option if necessary, and operatives such as Mark Meadows have been posting whip counts and naming which Republicans are standing with the people versus which are standing with Washington placation. This isn’t nostalgia for chaos; it’s a strategic calculation: if the left will weaponize every rule to get its way, Republicans have to be willing to fight with every tool at their disposal to preserve the Republic.

 

There are legitimate warnings about the long-term consequences of blowing up the filibuster — and conservatives know that danger; this isn’t about ego, it’s about survival. But conservatives also see a stark choice: allow the left to entrench power via unchecked control of federal institutions and voting rules, or accept a short-term tactical upset to lock in commonsense voter ID and citizenship requirements that most Americans want. The argument from the right isn’t reckless; it’s patriotic in tone — put principles and the safety of future elections before the sentimental attachment to a Senate procedure that too often protects the politically powerful.

Pressure on Senate leadership is intensifying and it’s not coming from random pundits — it’s from voters, House members, governors, and even some senators who warn that failure to act could demoralize the entire conservative movement ahead of crucial elections. Figures like Rep. Greg Steube and others are publicly demanding the change, and the White House has been explicit that passing this bill is non-negotiable for its agenda. If Republicans want to keep their mandate and prove they can govern, now is the time for spine, not sop.

If there’s one sensible rule to this fight — the only circumstance where nuking the filibuster makes strategic sense — it’s when every avenue of ordinary governance has been exhausted and the Left uses the rules to lock in permanent advantages that will make future peaceful change impossible. Senators such as Ron Johnson have even said the calculus changes if Democrats continue to obstruct critical funding or weaponize procedures, which is the precise trigger conservatives argue should justify dramatic action. Patriots don’t love breaking norms for its own sake, but we will not stand by while the future of self-government is bargained away; if Washington won’t deliver, use the majority to defend the republic.

 

Democratic Leader Flustered by Child's Brutal Question on Voter Opinion

House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries managed to turn what should have been a wholesome “Take Your Child to Work Day” into a cringe-filled moment that revealed more about Democratic panic than about parenting. A blunt, unscripted question from a child cut straight to the heart of the party’s messaging failures and left Mr. Jeffries visibly flustered.

The exchange — reportedly from the daughter of CNN’s Manu Raju — was simply devastatingly honest: “Why do voters view Democrats so poorly?” The room laughed, Jeffries blinked, and for a brief, telling moment the polished spin machine sputtered.

Jeffries’ answer wandered into the usual lefty boilerplate about distrust in institutions and economic anxiety, a long explanation that tried to paper over the real problem: accountability. His office even issued a press release touting Democratic themes and framing the day around condolences and policy rhetoric, underscoring how reflexively partisan the response was to a simple children’s question.

This was not just a flub — it was a display of what happens when a party of elites is confronted with plainspoken reality. Kids don’t care about focus-grouped talking points; they ask the honest questions voters are too polite to say out loud. Conservatives should relish the moment: the left’s bubble of talking points can’t survive daylight and curiosity.

Jeffries’ instinct was to pivot straight back to the national narrative that absolves Democrats of responsibility — blaming systemic distrust rather than specific policy failures. That reflex shows why ordinary Americans feel ignored: when confronted, Democrats retreat to excuses instead of offering real solutions.

This episode should be a wake-up call for Republican candidates and conservative media: keep asking the simple questions, keep forcing answers, and keep reminding voters of who actually delivers on safety, prosperity, and accountability. Political theater looks good on cable, but voters reward results.

Let the elites clutch their pearls — Americans respect hard work and plain talk, not polished evasion. When a child can expose the hollow center of a political pitch, you know the problem runs deep. Conservatives should push that contrast relentlessly between real-world outcomes and the Washington performance machine.

If Democrats want to stop being mocked at children’s events and town halls alike, they’ll have to stop hiding behind institutional grievances and start fixing the problems people actually feel in their wallets and their communities. Until then, moments like this will keep happening — and every time they do, patriotic Americans get a clearer look at who’s offering solutions and who’s offering excuses.

 

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