April 25, 2026 – A third assassination is attempted against Trump and administration officials at the White House Correspondents Association dinner

In Email/Dossier/Govt Corruption Investigations by Katie Weddington

Popping noises were heard at the back of the White House Correspondents Association dinner. USSS agents ran down the center aisle past me. Screams from guests. They got the president and first lady out immediately as we dove to the floor. Some people hid under tables. A very short time later, security details began to escort top officials out. The dais was mostly cleared, including the very pregnant Karoline Leavitt. Stephen Miller shielded his wife, Katie, also pregnant, on the floor, until a security official reached their side. There was a bit of delay moving some cabinet secretaries out. Hegseth was still in the room for a bit, standing up looking around. David Urban lifted Dan Scavino’s wife Erin over a chair to speed their exit. Top staff asked if they could leave with the cabinet secretaries. Sean Duffy is still here at 9:13 pm. Linda McMahon just left.

During the press conference, President Trump released footage of Cole Allen in the lobby of the Washington Hilton.

Better view:

The president released a photo of the shooter:

h/t Gateway Pundit

The suspected shooter at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner has been identified as 31-year-old Cole Tomas Allen of Torrance, California.

Allen is in custody, despite initial reports that he was fatally shot, and was taken alive after Secret Service agents neutralized him in the lobby near the security screening area.

(…) Reports indicate Allen assembled a long weapon in an unsecured back room before attempting to open fire near the magnetometers.

Video footage circulating on social media shows law enforcement and Secret Service agents detaining a man on the ground in the Hilton lobby.

🚨🇺🇸 BREAKING: The suspect in the White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooting has been identified as 31-year-old Cole Tomas Allen of Torrance, California.

-Video has emerged showing someone on the ground with U.S. Secret Service agents inside the Washington Hilton

-Believed to be the alleged shooter, taken into custody

-Allen reportedly assembled a long weapon in an unsecured back room before opening fire near the magnetometer screening area

-A law enforcement officer was struck in the vest during the incident

-Trump, Melania, and all protectees confirmed safe

The questions about how he got that close start now.

Allen appears to be a Caltech graduate who earned his master’s degree in computer science from California State University, Dominguez Hills last year.

Allen also worked as a teacher. He was named “Teacher of the Month” in December 2024 at C2 Education in Torrance, according to an Instagram post.

The shooting comes as the very same media figures who have spent weeks protesting Trump’s attendance at the dinner were demanding “forceful” pushback or outright boycotts.

More than 250 journalists, including Dan Rather and Sam Donaldson, have signed an open letter demanding that the White House Correspondents’ Association turn this Saturday’s dinner into a stage for a direct, “forceful” confrontation with President Donald Trump. (Credit: public domain)

(Read more: The Gateway Pundit, 4/26/2026)  (Archive)

WHCD Shooting Suspect Told Law Enforcement He Targeted Trump Officials, CBS News Sources Say

On Sunday it was revealed that Cole Allen wrote a manifesto and expressed his hatred for “pedophile, rapist” Trump.

Cole Allen’s manifesto sounded like Democrat-media talking points. He called himself a ‘friendly federal assassin.’

The shooter also mocked the Secret Service and said he walked right into the hotel with multiple weapons and no one noticed.

“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,” he wrote, according to The New York Post.

“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,” he wrote.

Per The New York Post:

Gunman Cole 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, The Post has learned.

“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 wrote in the document, which a relative provided to police, a US official said.

“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.”

Allen described his targets as including “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, rapist, and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes,” Allen wrote, apparently referring to the president.

(Read more: Gateway Pundit, 4/26/2026)

NEWS: new info on the WHCD shooting suspect, Cole Allen, from the White House. I’ll be talking with President Trump about all of this in 30 minutes on @SundayBriefFNC

The suspect’s written manifesto clearly stated he wanted to target administration officials. He also had a ton of anti-Trump and anti-Christian rhetoric on his social media accounts.

ALLEN’s brother had notified New London PD (CT) of ALLEN’s alleged manifesto he had sent to his family members prior to the incident.

Secret Service and Montgomery County Police interviewed Avriana Allen, ALLEN’s sister, at their residence in Rockville, MD. The following highlights from the interview:

•Allen said her brother had a tendency to make radical statements and his rhetoric constantly referenced a plan to do “something” to fix the issues with today’s world.

•Confirmed ALLEN purchased two handguns and a shotgun from Cap Tactical Firearms and kept them stored at their parent’s home and that their parents were unaware that ALLEN was keeping the firearms in the home.

•ALLEN would regularly go to the shooting range to train with his firearms

•ALLEN was part of a group called ‘The Wide Awakes’

•ALLEN attended a ‘No Kings’ protest in California at some point

More Manifesto:

Accused White House Correspondents’ Dinner gunman Cole Allen sent a chilling anti-President Trump manifesto to his family just before opening fire — calling himself the “Friendly Federal Assassin” and revealing he was hell-bent on killing Trump administration officials, The Post has learned.

Allen described his “targets” as including “Administration officials (not including [FBI Director Kash] Patel)… prioritized from highest-ranking to lowest” in the unhinged missive that went out about 10 minutes before the shooting Saturday night, two US officials said.

“I am no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist, and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes,” Allen wrote, apparently referring to the president. (Read more: New York Post, 4/26/2026)

Benny Johnson puts together a montage of the extreme leftwing response to the third assassination attempt on Trump:

“This guy did hear voices. They were Ted Lieu’s, they were Brandon Johnson’s, they were CNN’s, they were The View, they were MS NOW,” Gutfeld said.

“I think this is a helpful assassination attempt because it is the first one that shows you can be radicalized by liberal smugness,” he said.

“He wasn’t a crank. He was not deranged. Don’t buy into that narrative,” Gutfeld said. “He was just following orders.”

Zero Hedge

WHCA Shooter’s Tweets Found, Suggesting Radicalization Fueled By Democratic Messaging

This prophetic tweet has gone viral and is being discussed by many:

Benny Johnson covers the phenom:

More oddities:

Two weeks later: