What We Know Now: Suspect Mailed Manifesto to Family Just Before WHCD Attack

We can now report a few more facts about the attempt on President Trump and Trump administration officials at the White House Correspondents' Association dinner on Saturday. More information about would-be assassin Cole Allen has been uncovered, and it's about like you might expect.

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…
— Jacqui Heinrich (@JacquiHeinrich) April 26, 2026

Jacqui Heinrich's full post reads:

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

A new Sunday morning exclusive at the New York Post has more:

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.”

The operative word here would seem to be "nuts."

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The invocation of Christian behavior here is a real eyebrow-raiser; most Christians and, indeed, anyone who is familiar with Christian principles and ethics, would tell you that assassination is frowned upon in the Christian world. But from the evidence now coming to light, it is pretty plain what kind of person we're dealing with here; Cole Allen may be listed on the voter rolls as "no preference," which we verified on Saturday, but that may well be because the Democratic Party, even in California, doesn't seem to be far enough to the left for him.

Here's the part that should have the Secret Service sweating:

“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.
“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's not entirely wrong, and that's a statement that brings back memories of the event at a Trump rally in a place called Butler, Pennsylvania.

Check back regularly, folks. As we learn more about Cole Allen, we'll bring you the details.

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