The suspected gunman in the attack on the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner on Saturday suggested President Donald Trump was one of his top targets, according to his alleged manifesto.
“I am no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist, and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes,” Cole Thomas Allen, 31, wrote, according to the document published by the New York Post. The Associated Press has detailed a similar account of alleged writings sent by the suspect.
The sentence could be a reference to accusations that Trump bore sinister connections to deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, sexual assault accusations against the president, and the events of Jan. 6, 2021.
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“Administration officials (not including Mr. Patel): they are targets, prioritized from highest-ranking to lowest,” the document read. It was signed “Cole ‘coldForce’ ‘Friendly Federal Assassin’ Allen.’”
Allen appeared to be
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