Trump WHCD shooting highlights: President confirms ‘sick’ gunman’s brother complained about him; accused wanted to target US officials

Suspect Cole Allen's sister, who lives in Maryland, told investigators that her brother legally bought several weapons from a California gun store. According to an official cited by US reports, Allen is said to have stored them at their parents' home in Torrance without their knowledge.

The White House is reportedly considering a bulletproof vest among new security measures for President Donald Trump after the recent White House Correspondents' Dinner mishap, which marked the third possible attempt on his life in recent years.

Fox News' Peter Doocy said Sunday discussions were "underway" at the highest levels about whether "President Trump is going to have to start wearing a bullet-proof vest for future events in public."

Before the Saturday incident, Thomas Crooks tried to assassinate Trump from rooftop during a campaign stop in Butler, Pennsylvania, in 2024.

Months later, Ryan Routh tried attacking the Republican politician with an SKS assault rifle on the edge of Trump International West Palm Beach golf club.

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The suspected gunman, Cole Allen, opened up about being a part of a collective known as 'The Wide Awakes.' The group traces its roots to Civil War abolitionists, while espousing nonviolence. Today's Wide Awakes make up for a progressive group founded in 2020.

“We are infinite, disruptive, enlightened, visionary, accountable,” a Wide Awakes website reads. “We want the radical complexity of diversity. We believe creative liberation is a game and all of us can play now and forever.”

“We can emancipate ourselves without violence,” the website adds. “We don’t need to be told what to believe or how to engage, we just need to be inspired to question what’s there. Broadening perspective yields a safer world.”

Los Angeles County prosecutor, Paul Thompson, said Cole Allen and his parents lived at their Torrance home for 3 years. According to the prosecutor who has lived next door to the family, the suspect's parents are schoolteachers. He described them as a very friendly family.

As for the suspect, Thompson said, "He pretty much kept to himself. ... He didn’t really make eye contact. He didn’t do normal interactions. I never saw him really hanging out with people. He seemed kind of like a loner."

UK's King Charles and Queen Camilla's state visit to the US is set to proceed as planned, according to Buckingham Palace's public statement. The formal notification confirms that their official visit will remain undeterred despite security concerns raised by the recent shooting incident in Washington DC.

The decision had been made "after discussions on both sides of the Atlantic through the day," as per the statement.

Suspected gunman Cole Allen's family membered alerted law enforcement about his possible plans to carry out an attack, White House officials told CNN. It remains unclear whether they intimated authorities before or after the incident.

As obtained by numerous US outlets, Allen is also said to have shared a letter laying down his "manifesto" before attack at the White House Correspondents' dinner at the Washington Hilton.

Signed Cole ‘coldForce’ ‘Friendly Federal Assassin’ Allen, here's the suspect's lengthy, anti-Trump admin manifesto in full:

"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.

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."

Trump accused the press of being "almost one in the same" with the Democratic Party during an interview on CBS' 60 Minutes. His allegations of press bias were raised in response to whether the shooting at the White House Correspondents' dinner would change his relationship with the media.

“Well, look, for whatever reason, we disagree on a lot of subjects. We talk about crime. I’m very strong on crime. It seems like the press isn’t,” he said on CBS’ “60 Minutes.”

“It’s not so much the press. It’s the press plus the Democrats, because they’re almost one in the same. It’s like the craziest thing.”

Cole Allen's alleged manifesto conspicuously mentioned that FBI Director Kash Patel was not a target, even though he reportedly meant to cause harm to other Trump admin officials. Sources cited by ABC News said the suspect's message did not explain why Patel was singled out as a non-target.

The White House Correspondents' Association dinner shooting suspect, Cole Allen, reportedly sent a message to his family, just before his alleged attack at the Saturday event. Therein, he described himself as a "friendly federal assassin," as per sourced cited by ABC News.

The supposed "manifesto" suggested that he had plans to target Trump admin officials, ranging from highest-to-lowest-ranking position holders. The message, which did not explicitly single out the US president, mentioned that the dinner guests were not his "targets."

Nonetheless, he allegedly noted in the message that the would still "go through most everyone here to get to the targets if it were absolutely necessary."