I awoke this morning to the news that there had been another assassination attempt against US President Donald Trump. The incident occurred at the White House Correspondents Dinner when the shooter apparently hid in a side room before making his attempt on the life of the President.
Thankfully the Secret Service managed to effectively protect the VIP’s present which included not just the President but also the Vice President and his family. The shooter is alleged to have fired at a Secret Serviceman with a shotgun but the officer’s ballistic vest absorbed the pellets which protected him from any serious harm.
Going by what I’m seeing on social media the US Left has completely lost their minds and are accusing the President of setting up a hoax assassination in order to bolster support for him and his party. This is the sort of tin foil hat nonsense that we’ve come to expect from the Left. When they are not blaming Jews for all the world’s ills, they are making outrageous and most likely false claims about big events such as the attempted assassination of a US president.
As for the alleged shooter. Well I’m completely unsurprised at the nature of this man. Apparently the man accused of the shooting is a 31 year old Californian teacher, a graduate from Caltech, with pronouns in his social media bio called Cole Allen. Apparently he’s also one of those who donated to the electoral campaign of Kamala Harris.
The reason why I’m completely unsurprised by the nature of this shooter is that the Left is so often more ready to indulge in violence than many of the Right are. We saw that after the George Floyd death when Leftists across the West encouraged and indulged in violence in response to that death, we’ve seen it in the anti-ICE protests in the USA and in the behaviour of Antifa across the USA and Europe.
I’m glad that the alleged shooter has been captured alive as we might find out via the inevitable trial how and why this man got so radicalised that he thought that attempting to kill the President of the USA was the right thing for him to do. Something or someone must have radicalised him to this. Who on earth would have thought that a teacher, someone who is in a trusted position and who might have had to pass psychological and criminal record checks to do the job he held, would travel most of the way across the USA, go to the venue for the White House Correspondents Dinner armed to the teeth with guns and a knife and attempt to murder the President. Whatever else comes out of this incident the trial of this man might reveal much about not just this man but also his personal and political networks.
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CBS report on the assassination attempt on Donald Trump
I predict that he** will not see a trial. He** will either be declared mad, or ‘suicided’ beforehand.
** I don’t know, or care, what his** pronouns are.
At this stage there’s no indication of madness but it’s possible that he could have been groomed into madness by Leftists. Not sure about the suicide idea, the State has a lot to gain by this man being kept alive and to face trial.
The most obvious question doesn’t seem to have been asked: How did he get into the venue, let alone get in armed? There is something very worrying about this and somewhere there have been failures, or worse, someone on the inside as part of this.
I tend to lean towards cock up rather than conspiracy with stories like this. If it is not an inside job then it’s a case of someone buggered up somewhere, maybe didn’t secure a service door or goods area which allowed the guy entry. I’ve also seen some accounts (not verified) that the ticket checking was a bit less strict than maybe it should have been.
The more I find out about this alleged shooter the more I’m seeing parallels with the Unabomber. Both the Unabomber and this guy were top knotch intellects but like the Unabomber he got a bee in his bonnet about something and this is the result. This doesn’t look to me like a spur of the moment attack, unlike the keffiya clad nutjob woman who launched herself at Trump’s motorcade afterwards, this guy planned out his weapons acquisition, intelligence on the building and his travel from California in order to do this. That sort of thing takes brains to do. This guy is a world away in terms of planning ability than the Islamic nutjob who shot up a synagogue in the US recently.
Edit to add:
New York Post has detailed report of this nutter’s manifesto and beliefs. He is linked with other extreme lefties and is clever enough to work out the security holes that this event seems to have been cursed with.
https://nypost.com/2026/04/26/us-news/whcd-gunman-cole-allen-sent-anti-trump-manifesto-to-family-just-before-opening/