The man responsible for the shooting incident outside the White House Correspondents’ Dinner had ominously dubbed himself the ‘Friendly Federal Assassin’ in a disturbing manifesto he penned ahead of the attack.
Identified as Cole Allen, 31, the gunman dispatched this unsettling document to family members a mere ten minutes before he targeted the hotel in Washington D.C., where the prestigious media event was unfolding on Saturday evening.
A relative handed over the chilling manifesto to authorities, according to a U.S. official.
The New York Post reported that Allen’s manifesto included statements such as, “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.”
Allen’s writing continued, “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.”
He also noted his intention to “minimize casualties” by opting to use buckshot rather than slugs, which he believed would result in 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.’
His targets included ‘Administration officials (not including [FBI Director Kash] Patel): they are targets, prioritized from highest-ranking to lowest.’
Allen wrote, allegedly refencing the president: ‘I am no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist, and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes.’
Cole Allen, 31, sent the eerie anti-Trump writing to his family members just 10 minutes before he fired shots at the hotel in Washington, where the ritzy press gala was taking place on Saturday night
Guests at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner were told to get to the ground after shots were fired outside the ballroom
Donald Trump spoke out on Sunday morning, following the chaotic night at the dinner.
He told Fox that the shooter ‘had a lot of hatred in his heart’ and that religion was a reason why the gunman attacked.
The President said this morning: ‘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, anti Christian. And I don’t know if you’ve gotten it released the manifesto.
‘He’s got some big problems with the rest of his life, but it’s very, very bad, very bad situation,’ the President continued.
Cole Allen, a teacher from Torrance, California, had a manifesto, and his siblings knew he had firearms and were worried about him.
On Saturday night, chilling surveillance footage captured the moment gun-wielding Allen stormed past security at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.
Allen was seen wearing all black as he sprinted inside the Washington Hilton hotel on Saturday evening with a gun in hand, video posted by President Donald Trump on Truth Social showed.
Just moments before he ran, security guards were seen standing in the hallway, but as soon as he sped by, they immediately reacted and pulled out their firearms.
Police revealed the suspect had a number of weapons on him, including a shotgun, a handgun, and multiple knives.
President Trump shared a stunning image shortly after the shooting, showing the suspect shirtless and lying face down on the carpet.
Law enforcement confirmed he was not struck by gunfire while being stopped but has since been taken to the hospital for evaluation.
Allen was a guest at the Hilton hotel where the event was taking place.
Surveillance video shows the suspect sprinting past a security checkpoint and attempting to reach the doors to the ballroom where the president was gathered, along with his most senior cabinet members and thousands of journalists.
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