The White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner shooting suspect reportedly wrote a chilling anti-Trump manifesto in which he assails the president as a “traitor” and “pedophile” and details his desire to kill administration officials.
Alleged gunman Cole Tomas Allen, 31, sent the anti-Trump manifesto to family members, including a sister in Rockville, Maryland, and a brother in Connecticut, just minutes before Saturday night’s shooting, multiple news outlets have reported.
Mr. Allen, who is in federal custody following the shooting outside the Washington Hilton ballroom, had made several anti-Trump and anti-Christian posts on social media, President Trump said during a Fox News interview.
The president said Mr. Allen was “a sick guy” and his manifesto made clear that he “hates Christians.”
The New York Post published excerpts from the manifesto.
In the manifesto, Mr. Allen called himself the “Friendly Federal Assassin” and detailed grievances with the Trump administration. He planned to target administration officials, “prioritized from highest-ranking to lowest,” according to the Post.
However, the manifesto said that FBI Director Kash Patel would not be among his targets, though it doesn’t explain why he would be spared.
Mr. Allen wrote that hotel employees and guests weren’t his main targets, but he would attack them to get to administration officials, adding “I really hope it doesn’t come to that.”
“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 a trial,” Mr. Allen wrote, the Post reported. “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 comments appear to refer to several Trump administration policies, including the targeting of suspected drug boats in international waters that have killed nearly 200 people, the president’s crackdown on illegal immigration and the handling of files related to the late sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
“I am no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes,” Mr. Allen wrote, apparently referring to the president.
But Mr. Allen reportedly details his desire not to harm others in the room, except administration officials, the published excerpts revealed.
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“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,” he wrote.
He also expressed surprise over the lack of security at the Washington Hilton, writing that it was “insane” how easily someone could have penetrated the event and that Iranians could have brought more powerful weapons and “no one would have noticed shit.”
“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 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.”
• Jeff Mordock can be reached at jmordock@washingtontimes.com.
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