by Nick Gilbertson
The suspected shooter at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner wrote a manifesto and attended a No King’s protest, according to a senior Trump administration official.
Cole Tomas Allen, 31, had a manifesto detailing his intention to target officials in the Trump administration, a senior Trump administration official confirmed to Breitbart News. Fox News’s Jacqui Heinrich first reported on the details.
Allen allegedly shared a manifesto with family before he allegedly stormed the Washington Hilton — where the dinner was being held in the ballroom—with what NBC News reported was a shotgun, a handgun, and several knives. His brother alerted authorities after receiving the alleged manifesto, Heinrich reported in a post on X.
Allen also attended a leftist anti-Trump No Kings protest, was a regular at the shooting range, and was a member of a group known as The Wide Awakes, Heinrich wrote.
Heinrich’s reporting, which Breitbart News confirmed with a senior administration official, details that the Secret Service interviewed Allen’s sister, Avriana Allen.
“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,” Heinrich shared in a post on X.
According to Charlie Kirk Show executive producer Andrew Kolvet, Allen was active on BlueSky “where he went by the handle ColdForce.bsky.social with multiple references violence and guns.”