The 1,052 word manifesto, Cole Allen called himself a “Friendly Federal Assassin” and said he was prioritising targets from highest-ranking to lowest.
The suspect who stormed the White House Correspondents’ Dinner and opened fire had previously outlined his plans to target Donald Trump’s administration officials in a manifesto. Cole Allen shared the document with his brother just ten minutes before the events unfolded.
In it, he called himself a “Friendly Federal Assassin” prioritising his targets from highest-ranking to lowest. Allen’s family reportedly flagged the document to local law enforcement in Connecticut after Saturday’s gala in D.C.
The shooting took place just minutes after the dinner got underway as Allen rushed past security. First Lady Melania Trump appeared to be the first to notice that something was wrong as she and the President were entertained by mentalist Oz Pearlman.
Agents then rushed to bundle Trump off the stage, with Melania also rushed to safety and agents seen grabbing JD Vance by the jacket and hauling him off the stage. Allen, 31, is alleged to have shot one police officer who was wearing a bulletproof vest and is now recovering.
Allen was tackled to the ground in a violent scene that resulted in shots being fired, Trump being rushed off the stage, and tripping in the process, and guests ducking for cover. The Mirror reports in Allen’s manifesto, he wrote: “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 the 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 behaviour; it is complicity in the oppressor’s crimes. In order to minimise 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 paedophile, rapist, and traitor, and are thus complicit) but I really hope it doesn’t come to that.”
Allen described his targets as being “administration officials (not including [FBI Director Kash] Patel): they are targets, prioritised from highest-ranking to lowest.” Allegedly referring to Trump, Allen wrote: “I am no longer willing to permit a paedophile, rapist, and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes.”
The 1,052 word manifesto was signed off “Cole ‘coldForce’ ‘Friendly Federal Assassin’ Allen”. The manifesto makes repeated references to Trump without naming him directly, and alludes to grievances over a range of actions undertaken by Trump’s administration and recent events, including US strikes on drug smuggling boats in the eastern Pacific according to an official.
Investigators are treating the writings, along with a trail of social media posts and interviews with family members, as some of the clearest evidence yet of the suspect’s possible motives and mindset. Authorities uncovered what an official described as numerous anti-Trump posts on social media linked to Allen.
Speaking on Sunday morning, Trump told Fox News: “He had a lot of hatred in his heart for quite a while, and he just, I don’t know, it was a religious thing. It was strongly anti-Christian. And I don’t know if you’ve gotten it, [the] released manifesto. He’s got some big problems with the rest of his life, but it’s very, very bad, very bad situation.”
It is believed Allen bought the two firearms he carried within the last couple of years. Attorney General Todd Blanche said he was not being ‘co-operative’ with interviewers. Federal agents have interviewed Allen’s sister, who told investigators her brother had legally purchased several weapons from a gun store in California and kept them at their parents’ home in Torrance without their knowledge.
Allen legally bought a .38-caliber semiautomatic pistol in October 2023, and a 12-guage shotgun two years later, according to the official and another member of law enforcement. Allen’s sister described her brother as being prone to making radical statements, according to an official.
A photo posted on LinkedIn shows him in a graduation cap and gown after earning a master’s degree in computer science from California State University, Dominguez Hills. Allen earned a bachelor’s degree in 2017 in mechanical engineering from the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. While there, he was listed as being involved in a Christian student fellowship and a campus group that battled using Nerf guns.
Allen, of Torrance, California, is expected to face criminal charges on Monday.
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