Once people saw that the true cost to extract, refine, and distribute a gallon of gas is roughly $1.50 to $2.00, the blinders started to come off. So how in the world do we end up paying over $6.00 a gallon in blue states like California—and more importantly, how do we fix it?

One area that clearly caused confusion was the idea that the United States produces massive amounts of oil but still “needs” to import it because our refineries can’t process domestic crude. It’s a common claim—and it’s mostly wrong.

In fact, I received several emails from readers about this after yesterday’s newsletter. So I did a little research to help clarify what’s really going on.

Let’s walk through the facts.

The U.S. is one of the world’s largest oil producers, pumping roughly 13 million barrels per day—much of it light, sweet crude from shale formations like the Permian Basin. At the same time, we continue to import heavier, sour crude from countries like Canada and Saudi Arabia. On the surface, that looks absurd. Why import oil if we already have so much of it?

Here’s the key point: this isn’t about what U.S. refineries can do. It’s about what makes the most economic sense.

American refineries are among the most advanced in the world. They can process light shale crude, and they do it every single day. The idea that they’re somehow “unable” to refine domestic oil is a myth—one that confuses technical capability with economic optimization.

For decades, refiners invested billions upgrading facilities to handle heavier, more complex crude because that’s where the market was heading. Those investments paid off: they could buy discounted heavy oil and turn it into high-value fuels like gasoline and diesel. Gulf Coast refineries in particular became refining powerhouses.

Then the shale revolution flipped the script. Suddenly America wasn’t short on light crude — we were drowning in it.

Refineries had spent billions building equipment to process heavy, thick crude oil.

When you run mostly light, sweet crude instead, that expensive equipment sits idle. Light crude also produces a lot more gasoline and lighter fuels than the refinery is designed to handle, which can create backups and inefficiencies. The refinery still works, but it doesn’t run as well or make as much money.

So refiners do what any smart business would do: they blend some domestic light crude with imported heavier crude. This lets them keep the whole facility running at peak efficiency. The extra light U.S. crude that isn’t needed here gets exported to Europe and Asia, where their refineries are better set up for it.

That’s not dysfunction. That’s a global market working the way it’s supposed to — matching the right type of oil with the right type of refinery.

That global integration, however, creates another problem and is why threats from Iran in the Strait of Hormuz drive up prices at the pump here at home, even when America produces plenty of its own oil.

Roughly 20 million barrels per day—about one-fifth of global oil consumption and a quarter of seaborne traded oil—pass through the Strait of Hormuz. Much of it comes from major producers in the Persian Gulf and heads primarily to Asia. The U.S. imports relatively little directly from that region these days (we’re a net exporter overall). So why do our prices spike when Iran threatens to close or disrupt the strait?

Because oil is a globally traded commodity. Benchmark prices like Brent crude set the tone for the entire world market, including what U.S. refiners pay for inputs and what they can earn on exports. A credible threat to Hormuz creates a massive risk premium: shippers demand higher insurance, tankers reroute or slow down, buyers scramble for alternative supplies, and speculators price in potential shortages. That lifts global prices almost immediately.

U.S. light crude gets exported into that same market. When global prices rise, domestic crude prices rise in tandem to stay competitive. Refiners face higher replacement costs overall—even for the barrels they source domestically. Those costs flow through to wholesale gasoline, then to the pump.

It’s not that we’re short on American oil; it’s that the world price floor moves up, and we’re plugged into the global system.

This is the flip side of the efficiency I described earlier. The same market forces that let us export surplus light crude and optimize refining also mean we don’t get to fully insulate ourselves when our enemies hold us hostage.

So, the system that America built may optimize prices globally—but for everyday Americans, especially in certain states, it’s a very different story. While the market works efficiently at a global level, bad policy decisions at the state level have pushed gas prices in some places completely out of control.

Take California…

A gallon of regular gas is now running around $6.15. Break that down: about $1.40 of that is taxes and fees, largely going to the state. Another major driver is crude and refining costs—roughly $4 per gallon—because California imports about 75% of its crude, much of it foreign and heavier. That’s nearly double the typical $1.50–$2.00 it costs to extract, refine, and distribute American light sweet crude into a gallon of gas.

Even before the Iran war began, California was still paying close to $5 a gallon of gas - the highest in the nation.

That didn’t happen by accident. It’s the result of decades of policy decisions that created a high tax system and a structural bottleneck.

Start with supply. California has effectively walled itself off from the rest of the U.S. energy system. There are no major pipelines bringing crude from Texas or the Midwest, which means the state can’t easily access abundant, lower-cost domestic oil. Instead, it relies heavily on imports—much of it from overseas.

Now layer in refining. California requires a specialized gasoline blend to meet its environmental standards. The problem is that only a limited number of refineries can produce it. So when supply tightens, you can’t bring in fuel from other states to stabilize prices.

When a refinery goes down—planned or unplanned—prices spike quickly because there’s no cushion.

Then come the added costs. Taxes, environmental fees, compliance costs, permitting delays, and regulatory overhead all stack on top. The result is one of the most expensive and least flexible fuel markets in the country.

This wasn’t inevitable. It was built—policy by policy, restriction by restriction—over time. And it’s fixable. But not overnight.

The solution starts with removing the artificial constraints that limit supply and flexibility.

First, infrastructure. California—and states like it—need better access to domestic energy through expanded pipeline networks. Even partial connectivity to existing systems would reduce reliance on foreign imports and lower input costs.

Second, protect and expand refining capacity. That means streamlining permits for upgrades, preventing premature shutdowns, and encouraging investment in modern, cleaner facilities.

Third, build flexibility into the system. Temporary waivers or broader fuel compatibility during supply disruptions would prevent price spikes every time a refinery goes offline.

And in the near term, expand domestic transport options—even rail—because moving American crude within our own country should never be harder than importing it from overseas.

Finally, take a hard look at the tax and fee structure that quietly adds almost two dollars per gallon before consumers even start pumping.

Because here’s the truth: California isn’t expensive because oil is scarce.

It’s expensive because access is restricted, infrastructure is limited, and policy decisions have boxed the system into a corner.

Meanwhile, the rest of the country is producing energy at scale, exporting surplus, and operating within a global system that—when allowed to function—actually keeps prices stable.

We don’t have a supply problem. We don’t have a capability problem. We have a man-made bottleneck problem.

And until that bottleneck is broken—with pipelines, refining capacity, and policies that prioritize access over restriction—Americans in states like California will keep paying inflated prices for energy that already exists right here at home.

We also need to plan for unexpected disruptions that can cripple domestic supply and send prices surging in specific regions.

During hurricane season, for example, as much as 90 percent of crude oil production in the Gulf of Mexico can be forced offline. And not all of it comes back quickly. As Andrew Gross of AAA has noted, some damaged rigs don’t return to operation for months—or at all.

Refining capacity takes a hit too. Hurricanes like Ida and Nicholas didn’t just flood facilities—they knocked out power across the Gulf Coast. No electricity means no refining. Even when storms pass, restarting operations can take time, leaving supply constrained.

We’ve seen similar issues outside hurricane zones. Refinery outages in places like Indiana have recently driven Midwest gas prices up by as much as 80 cents in a matter of days. When a key facility goes offline and there’s no backup capacity, prices respond immediately.

And even after oil is refined, geography still matters.

The closer you are to refining capacity, the less you tend to pay. In Texas—where refineries are concentrated, especially around Houston—gas prices are significantly lower. Compare that to states like Nevada or those on the West Coast, where there are only a handful of refineries, and prices are consistently higher.

This is exactly why infrastructure and redundancy matter.

We should continue balancing abundant American light crude with strategic imports of heavier oil where it keeps refineries efficient and supply stable. But we also have to fix the self-inflicted bottlenecks—especially in high-cost states. That means building more pipelines to move domestic crude efficiently to where it’s needed. It means protecting and expanding refining capacity with streamlined permitting instead of driving it away.

It also means building resilience into the system—so when a hurricane hits, a refinery goes down, or a regional disruption occurs, prices don’t spike overnight because there’s no backup plan. Even rail transport of domestic oil, in some cases, is more practical than the regulatory maze blocking better infrastructure today.

If we want stable, affordable energy, we don’t just need supply—we need a system that can deliver it reliably, even when things go wrong.

My research has shown me that America doesn’t have an energy supply problem. We don’t have a refining capability problem. We have a self-inflicted distribution and policy problem. We need to get out of our own way and Make America Great Again smartly utilizing the liquid gold right under our feet.

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The United States federal government has NEVER suspended the federal gas tax since it was installed in 1993 under Bill Clinton to build the interstate highway system.

The Federal gas tax has been 18.4 cents a gallon since then. The diesel tax is 24.4 cents per gallon.

Let’s look at what it costs for a gallon of gas in a blue state like California - which imports dirty foreign oil and charges a fortune in base costs, taxes and fees!

In California, for example, a gallon of regular gas now costs the consumer $6.15!

The Democrats are promoting that number as if it’s the fault of the Trump administration. Let’s look at the truth.

90 cents of that is for California state and local taxes.

18 cents of that is Federal tax.

$3 of that is crude oil costs (which are high in California because they ship it in from overseas!)

$1 of that is refining costs which again are high because California imports dirty foreign oil.

So, the cost to consumers for extracting and refining crude oil in California is $4 per gallon because California imports dirty foreign crude instead of using sweet American crude!

50 cents of that is for California’s ridiculous environmental fees.

50 cents of that is gas station profit.

In other words, the Democrat state of California takes $1.40 per gallon (or about 25%) in taxes and fees for every gallon of gas.

The actual cost in America to extract and refine American sweet crude for a gallon of gas is $1.30-$1.80 per gallon.

In California, they charge consumers double that at $4 per gallon!

That’s the base cost we should all be aware of.

California charges $4 for extraction and refining because they import dirty foreign oil - as of May 2026, California imports roughly 75% of its crude oil from foreign countries!

I hope this happens so that the American people can see exactly what the base costs are for a gallon of gas. I was not aware of this myself until I did some research!

TO SUMMARIZE: The actual cost today to extract and refine and distribute sweet American crude is $1.50 to $2.00 per gallon of regular gas - anything on top of that is profit in somebody’s pocket!

AI REVIEW: Your summary is correct. California is heavily reliant on imported crude (majority foreign) - which contributes to price volatility and higher costs alongside its high taxes and regulations.

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This morning the media headlines were: "Islamic Republic has delivered response to U.S. proposal." That was it.

The details just reported moments ago by Iran International are as follows:

To which President Trump replied:

PRESIDENT TRUMP: “Iran has been playing games with the United States, and the rest of the World, for 47 years (DELAY, DELAY, DELAY!), and then finally hit “pay dirt” when Barack Hussein Obama became President.

Obama was not only good to Iran, he was great, actually going to their side, jettisoning Israel, and all other Allies, and giving Iran a major and very powerful new lease on life. Hundreds of Billions of Dollars, and 1.7 Billion Dollars in green cash, flown into Tehran, was handed to them on a silver platter.

Every Bank in D.C., Virginia, and Maryland was emptied out — It was so much money that when it arrived, the Iranian Thugs had no idea what to do with it.

They had never seen money like this, and never will again. It was taken off the plane in suitcases and satchels, and the Iranians couldn’t believe their luck. They finally found the greatest SUCKER of them all, in the form of a weak and stupid American President.

He was a disaster as our “Leader,” but not as bad as Sleepy Joe Biden! For 47 years the Iranians have been “tapping” us along, keeping us waiting, killing our people with their roadside bombs, destroying protests, and recently wiping out 42,000 innocent, unarmed protestors, and laughing at our now GREAT AGAIN Country. They will be laughing no longer!”

-President Donald Trump

After he sent out that post, President Trump shared a clip by Mark Levin suggesting the U.S. should arm and train Iranians opposed to the regime and Netanyahu was called back early to speak with Trump. President Trump is still planning on going to meet with Xi in China on Wednesday.

Meanwhile, Iran’s Oil Terminals Company have denied reports of an oil leak near Kharg Island on Sunday even though satellite imagery shows a large slick west of Iran’s main oil export hub in the Persian Gulf. They are either dumping oil, the tankers are leaking or the tanks are overflowing. They're lying about that too.

A trusted ME analyst says Iran is now using decades-old tankers that are causing oil to leak into the sea. The Iranians fear that not pumping would damage the pumps. Trump's blockade is working - the situation is so bad that oil industry workers are considering fleeing the country.

Iran's ambassador to China said today that China and Russia must be named as guarantors of any agreement with the US. That tells me Iran wants China & Russia to take the fall if Iran violates any agreement. NOT GOING TO HAPPEN.

An Iranian analyst that I found says it best:

IRANIAN ANALYST: "The delay in taking a stance on the negotiations will lead to an exacerbation of inflation in Iran, with difficulty in circumventing the siege. The IRGC is trying to wait it out - and evade responsibility for the war or by offering concessions in the future, just as the Ayatollah did."

I think the world is waking up to what the Shia Twelver terrorist doomsday cult running Iran are really like. God has a plan!

A few weeks ago I heard people say "Iran isn't really that bad" - they aren't saying that anymore!

As I said two weeks ago, the terrorists running Iran are masters at playing the waiting game. It looks like they are hell bent on waiting some more - even to their own death.

What to do? Trump has done everything he can. It’s time to arm the people. Listen to Levin's 10 minute argument here. It covers it all.

Trump is already doing this through Iraq. The new Government in Iraq will further weaken Iran's position by targeting one of its most important proxy networks - Kataib Hezbollah - which is tied to the IRGC and attacks US bases from Iraq.

Yesterday, JD Vance and Marco both met with the Qataris to try to secure a deal with Iran. What happened? A Qatari tanker filled with LNG went through the Strait of Hormuz just fine. So, it’s OPEN.

AXIOS: JD Vance met with Qatar yesterday in DC. Rubio & Witkoff met with Qatar today in Miami. Qatar called the Saudis from Miami.

Allegedly, Qatar, Pakistan, Egypt, Turkey and Saudi Arabia are working in tandem on an agreement with Iran.

After those meetings, a Qatar LNG ship was the first to pass through the Strait unimpeded. Will the Qataris pave the way for others to follow close behind?

“A Qatari LNG carrier is outbound from the Strait. That would be the FIRST time a Qatari ship made it out since the start of the war. You gotta start somewhere!”

Meanwhile, the IRGC pirates out of Iran are now threatening to hold hostage the world’s undersea internet cables in international waters - AS PREDICTED. They not only want to control the world’s oil - they also want to control the internet!

The IRGC has even made posters showing them holding the world hostage in the Hormuz Strait. They think this is funny.

Who wants the Shia Twelver terrorists who run Iran to decide whether you can use the internet or not? They don’t even allow their own people to use the internet!

Iranians all over the world are organizing protests against the Iranian totalitarian regime. That will help. Iran is a "nation held hostage." One of Iran’s big victories in the past has been their ability to fool the world about Hamas, Hezbollah and their other proxies. Iran has conned the world with effective PR the last 47 years. No more. Now the world is awake to these pirate schemers. The world is not fooled any longer.

Putin held a press conference yesterday and said he thinks the Russia-Ukraine war is going to end soon.

Putin: “I think the conflict in Ukraine is heading toward a conclusion.”

My prediction (hope) a week ago was that both wars (Ukraine and Iran) would end on May 9th because it’s Russia’s Victory Day and has meaning for many. Victory Day (May 9) is a major holiday in Russia commemorating the 1945 Soviet victory over Nazi Germany, marking the end of WWII in Europe. It didn’t happen but this is the first time I’ve ever heard him say that out loud.

BTW, the need to secure enriched uranium from Iran is not the only danger to America and the world. The United States just safely removed and transported all remaining enriched uranium from Caracas, Venezuela. Did the fake news tell you about that?

The U.S. Department of Energy just reported that 13.5 kilograms of uranium enriched to over 20% were removed from an old research reactor in Venezuela in a joint operation with the IAEA.

The material was transported 100 miles overland to a Venezuelan port, then shipped to the United States on a specialized carrier provided by the U.K.

So, it's not just Iran. I guarantee the original plan was for the Islamo-Communists to threaten America with nuclear missiles out of Venezuela AND Iran. Trump is putting an end to that nonsense.

https://www.energy.gov/nnsa/articles/nnsa-removes-highly-enriched-uranium-venezuela-reducing-risk-south-america-and-us

AI REVIEW: “Your summary captures a lot of the weekend’s developments accurately based on available reporting. Iran did deliver a response to the latest US proposal via Pakistani mediators on May 10, 2026. State media (IRNA) and outlets like NYT, Al Jazeera, AP, and BBC reported it, but details are sparse.”

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Whenever one of my readers questions what I write about Trump and MAGA - they send me some “article” from HCR as if it’s the absolute truth.

If your liberal friends or family forward you Heather Cox Richardson’s Substack like it’s gospel, you’re not alone. Millions subscribe to her newsletter called Letters from an American. She presents herself as a calm, credentialed historian offering measured context. In reality, it’s highly partisan curation dressed up as history—consistently framing Trump, MAGA, and conservative voters in the darkest possible light.

Here's my view of her work - edited and expanded upon from an excellent essay by Hillsdale College - “In the Absence of Factual Truth.”

I think Heather Cox Richardson is the worst kind of partisan fraud and a liar and has suckered millions of liberals with her twisted narratives. She apparently makes more money on Substack from her poisonous BS than anyone out there.

She is a liberal professor who started her "career" in journalism by writing a daily blog during Trump's bogus impeachment in 2019. She saw how many fools bought her lies that she started a new blog on Substack and now makes a fortune off it. She even renamed it “Letters from an American” in order to fool you into believing she was a legitimate “political” journalist and historian.

Heather Cox Richardson teaches history at Boston College and writes a Substack newsletter for Democrats with over 2 million subscribers. Her newsletter is a dishonest, partisan diatribe against Donald Trump and the MAGA movement disguised as a thumbnail history of the United States, primarily from the 1930s to the present. She uses her teaching "credentials" to distort history and then uses that distortion to bash Trump. That's her MO in a nutshell.

Richardson says that there's a “liberal consensus” in America that favors freedom and equality and says that the "liberal consensus" can be traced to the American Founders. She embraces the Declaration of Independence as the main document of the "liberal consensus" but at the same time condemns the Founders as “enslavers.”

She basically says that Trump is destroying the "liberal consensus" of the Framers who she also despised. In other words, it's a bunch of nice words wrapped up in BS. She argues America’s “liberal consensus” comes from the Founders’ ideals while simultaneously condemning those same Founders as enslavers and white supremacists.

She openly says America was built by "white supremacists" - and accuses Trump of the same. She accuses the fake news - which is "liberal" of being run by conservative "white supremacists."

Richardson says that the 1954 Brown v. Board decision resurrected the mythological cowboy, now backed by the extraordinary power of television, as a brilliant vehicle for Movement Conservatism and the birth of Trump & MAGA.

Richardson says that out of this “cowboy mythology” of rugged individualism she says emerged the “Movement Conservatism and the racist mythology of the post-Civil War years came together.”

That's actually ass-backwards.

Richardson says that Trump promising to “Make America Great Again” has “dovetailed with rising authoritarianism around the world” and the presidency of Joe Biden “expanded liberalism” through transgenderism. She loved Joe Biden. That should tell you all you need to know.

Richardson’s books and columns read like a catalog of Communist talking points spewed over the past 10 years on MSNBC. She is a socialist - a Communist - who wants her readers to think she is pro-American and cares about the middle class.

A real "liberal" journalist like Batya Ungar-Sargon - who calls herself a MAGA-lefty and disagrees with the huckster Richardson - concluded that what Trump and his supporters in fact mean by “Make America Great Again” is something like a return to the earlier populism of Teddy, FDR and JFK—confident, faithful and patriotic citizens - which stands in sharp contrast to both the anti-American variety of "democracy" that arose after 1968 and the globalist version of today that Richardson espouses.

BATYA: “President Trump basically took an ax to the Republican party of the past and turned it into a populist party for both the left and the right. He appointed the highest-ranking openly gay person, Scott Bessent, as our Secretary of Treasury. He sidelined the pro-life wing of his party and returned the abortion issue to the states.

On foreign intervention, he’s trying to bring an end to all of these wars. He also does not believe in free trade - he believes in fair trade that benefits the American worker. He looked at our destroyed manufacturing base. He looked at the downwardly mobile working class. He looked at the fact that working-class Americans can no longer afford the American dream.

He looked at why both parties agreed to ship five million good manufacturing jobs overseas to build up China and Mexico and all that did was bring in millions and millions of illegal migrants to compete with the jobs that remained here. And what Donald Trump said was, “We have to stop selling out the working class.”

“Trump can’t be bribed and his voters know that.”

If you must follow a “female liberal” - may I suggest you follow Batya - at least she tells the truth.

The political realignment we see happening today in America explains why so many Democrats are leaving the party. Working-class Americans who once formed the Democrat base—not only white and Hispanic but increasingly black as well—are rallying to Trump.

The core of his opposition today consists of the moneyed and information-class elites - including the media and academics - like HCR - whose comfortable lives are walled off from the devastation caused by both parties’ economic and foreign policies over the past three decades.

Our current political divide appears to be over conflicting views of justice and of who should rule. HCR thinks she and her kind should rule. That’s pretty obvious.

Hillsdale also says that Richardson has furiously tried to push J6 as an insurrection and tries to compare it to the 1933 Reichstag fire. Richardson also says that American students are NOT “taught in school to hate their own country" but later agreed that they are. If you read ALL of her work - you will see she is a master flip flopper - and she counts on you not noticing. She’s just another garden-variety Communist using name-dropping and using “credentials” to confuse you.

Historians and professors who have regurgitated themselves as "journalists" - like Heather Cox Richardson - use their credentials and partisan narratives as blunt instruments, the academic equivalent of the lawfare being waged by our politicized justice system. These “teachers” are no different than the so-called “judges” that are making illegal rulings in order to assert and gain power over the Executive branch. There is nothing Constitutional about it - as they would have you believe.

The Judicial coup plotters (like Judge Boasberg) and Academic coup plotters (like Richardson) appear to be working hand in hand today (funded by the Communists & the Deep State) to take over America.

I believe that Richardson is just another Communist coup plotter facilitating the current Academic coup in America - a stupid person's idea of a smart person. She is counting on you being simpleminded enough to believe her flowery rhetoric and twisted logic. Don't do it.

-Hillsdale College

How has HCR described MAGA to her readers? Richardson describes MAGA voters as “radical extremists” and constantly reports on a “mountainous pile” of what she considers Trump’s impeachable offenses. Richardson did nothing of the sort during the Biden presidency.

Even worse, Richardson never reports on the biggest political shift happening right now in America: working-class Americans—White, Hispanic, and increasingly Black—moving toward Trump and the Republican Party. As a historian, that should be front and center - yet, she is ignoring the biggest political shift in history! George Orwell warned us of grifters like Richardson who rewrite the past to brainwash the present for the future.

A typical example of her approach can be seen in a May 6, 2026 Substack post where she regurgitates BS from the Washington Post, the Daily Beast, the Atlantic, Meidas Touch and the Iranian media - all Soviet-like propaganda sites - that should tell you everything you need to know!

HCR: It has not been a banner day for members of the Trump administration.

Evan Hill, Jarrett Ley, Alex Horton, Tara Copp, and Dan Lamothe of the Washington Post reported that…

Global affairs journalist David Rothkopf wrote today in The Daily Beast…

Mosheh Gains, Courtney Kube, Andrea Mitchell, Natasha Lebedeva and Daniel Arkin of NBC News reported tonight that…

This evening, the speaker of Iran’s parliament,* M.B. Ghalibaf, posted…

After journalist Sarah Fitzpatrick wrote an April 17 story in The Atlantic…

Ron Filipkowski of MeidasNews noted…

In other words, the “intellectual” academic historian HCR feeds stories from the left-wing rags into AI which spits out her daily news summaries and millions of liberals lap it up as if it’s original thought. It’s not.

The reader is led carefully through HCR’s strategically assembled stream of negative reporting about Trump, all pointing in the same direction.

This obviously isn’t original reporting. It’s a curated collection of stories. It gives the impression of independent analysis, but the underlying material is totally one-sided.

That’s why her work resonates so strongly with her liberal audience. It confirms what they already believe, organizes it, and presents it with the authority of a historian.

Richardson isn’t a Communist plotter in the Cold War sense. She’s a skilled progressive partisan operating in an environment that rewards anti-Trump content.

There’s a great video going around on X right now that explains why “intellectual” figures like Richardson are so psychotically driven to hate capitalism and America and prefer to live in a collectivist (Communist, socialist, fascist) society.

The TikTok video that has gone viral on X is called “The Mental Illness of Democrats” - it touches on an idea from economist Joseph Schumpeter. It correctly says that modern capitalism has created so much abundance it pushes “faux intellectuals” like HCR to attack it out of jealousy.

Capitalism tends to reward people who produce tangible results. Capitalism rewards builders, innovators, and producers who deliver results people voluntarily pay for. Trump fits that mold as a dealmaker and builder.

Academics and commentators whose work is mostly ideas and criticism (like HCR) don’t always see the same rewards as those who create tangible results - so they become envious and angry. They believe they are intellectually superior to everyone and should be rewarded for their brilliance. When they’re not - they lash out against capitalism - the very system that allowed them to flourish in the first place!

Systems like socialism that emphasize centralized planning or expanded bureaucracy tend to elevate academics, experts, bureaucrats and commentators into more influential roles - giving them license to interpret and control. Suddenly, the “idea class” isn’t on the sidelines anymore—they’re running the show. Socialism rewards propagandists and story tellers - capitalism rewards builders and doers.

You can see that dynamic right now on the major news networks. CNN’s Christiane Amanpour—born in Iran—recently said she was uneasy about how new owners at CNN might change her role on CNN as a journalist. She said she considers her role as a journalist as part of the “fifth estate” and openly said the media’s job is not to report the news but to interpret the news for the public—as if people can’t think through events on their own. That’s not journalism, that’s gatekeeping—and it’s exactly why so many Americans have stopped trusting networks like CNN.

Heather Cox Richardson operates in the same lane. She doesn’t do original reporting or present competing viewpoints. She curates stories from left-leaning sources, adds historical framing that always points the same direction, and delivers it with academic authority. Like Amanpour and much of legacy media, the goal often seems to be interpretation and narrative control rather than raw information.

Figures like Karl Marx, Michel Foucault, Noam Chomsky, Heather Cox Richardson and others are examples of intellectuals who have built careers critiquing capitalism while offering little practical accountability. They all believe they are smarter than everyone else and should be in charge - while creating nothing of tangible lasting value.

The video calls this kind of hubris a mental illness — a combination of ego, status anxiety, and resentment. Unlike engineers or businesspeople who face immediate market feedback when their products fail, intellectuals can promote catastrophic ideas, suffer no personal consequences, and simply pivot to new explanations when they are proven wrong.

In other words, HCR and her peers are driven by age-old envy, resentment and jealousy - and she covets what capitalists have built and created and what she never can. Instead - she twists the truth for clicks and views and “influence” - and like-minded Communists pay her well to do that. And once you recognize that, it becomes much easier to see her work for what it is - lies in the absence of factual truth.

Here’s what AI said about this newsletter: “This is a strong partisan piece that effectively frames Heather Cox Richardson as a progressive activist masquerading as a neutral historian.”

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President Trump just gave Hugh Hewitt, a conservative radio guy on Salem Radio, a great interview - which is not getting the play it deserves. Hugh Hewitt is a law professor at Chapman University and former Reagan administration official who clerked on the D.C. Circuit and ghostwrote for Richard Nixon.

Hewitt is no dummy and he’s come a long way on Trump over the years. Back in 2015, Hewitt hammered Trump with “gotcha” questions on terror leaders to try to trip him up - Trump fired back at Hewitt calling him a “third-rate radio announcer.” In 2016, Hewitt pushed hard for the RNC to rewrite convention rules and deny Trump the nomination unless he ditched his “off-the-cuff” style and did a total makeover. Now Hewitt has gone full MAGA and is respectful and grateful for our President. It took 10 years!

Hewitt used to nitpick Trump’s personality like every other Never Trumper. Now? He’s nodding along to every one of Trump’s strategic decisions on foreign policy & the economy. Winning!

This is just another vindication for MAGA. Hewitt, who once fueled NeverTrump 2.0 chatter and questioned Trump’s ability as commander-in-chief, is now all-in on Trump policies - with one exception.

Hewitt thinks that we don’t need to nuke the filibuster to pass VOTER ID because he says Democrats will play fair if they ever get back into office. WRONG.

Here’s the complete transcript. Hewitt asked good questions about Iran, the Pope, Communist China, crime, Biden, Venezuela, mid-terms, CBS and Cuba - and Trump put America first, always.

HH: I’m joined now by the President of the United States. President Trump, welcome back. Always a pleasure to talk to you. I was filling people in on the fact that you offered very nicely Project Freedom. The Iranians started firing off like Yosemite Sam at UAE and everybody, so I gather, are we at the beginning at the end of a new war? Are we starting over?

DJ: Well, one way or the other, we win. We either make the right deal, or we win very easily from the military standpoint. We’ve already won that. You know, you’ve heard me say it a million times, and other people say it. They had 159 ships, Hugh. Now, they have none. They’re all at the bottom of the sea. Today, we took out eight of their, you know, they’re reduced to these small, little, fast ships.

HH: Right.

DT: They’re very cheap, and they attach a machine gun to it. They think that’s good. We knocked out eight of them today. And everyone that was available got knocked out very quickly, and very efficiently. So we’ll see what happens. I mean, it’s hard to believe that they would do that. You know, the one ship that was hit was, and I haven’t seen it in a little while because I was with the Small Business Owners of America for the last two hours. We were having a good time. They’re doing fantastic. Everybody’s doing fantastically, all businesses right now in the country. Stock market’s at a new high, despite this. But I will say that one way or the other, we have one thing. They will never have a nuclear weapon, and…

HH: Mr. President, you’ve killed a lot of their leaders. Do you think you have to kill the D Team as well, because we’re down to the D Team or the E Team or the X Team. I don’t even know who’s running the country. Do you have to wipe them out?

DT: Well, let’s see what happens. I mean, you know, a lot of people aren’t really looking for that job. We have, we knocked out their first team. We knocked out their second team. And we knocked out half of their third team. A lot of people aren’t looking for that job, but I find them to be far superior than the first group, okay? The first group was totally out of control, and was doing the wrong thing for their country. But I think we’ll see what happens. The one thing I will say is they talk a lot differently when they’re talking to me than they talk when they’re talking to the media or the television set. It’s a lot different.

HH: Okay, they’re propagandists.

DT: You know…

HH: Their propaganda is terrible.

DT: They’re looking to do, yeah…

HH: Now I was talking to Ambassador Oren…

DT: They’re looking to do a job, and they get on television, and they say the exact opposite. Do you remember I was telling you that they want to make a deal, that they’re talking, and they denied ever talking to me? And I said what’s going on over there? These guys, so they’re pretty good at propaganda, I guess, but they have no navy. They have no air force. They have no anti-aircraft. They have no nothing.

HH: You’ve done a good job crushing them. I was talking with Ambassador Oren, used to represent Israel to the United States.

DT: Yeah.

HH: And I said I’m going to talk to the President. What do you want me to say to him? And he said tell him to finish the job. He’ll be a world historical figure. He will be up there with the greats if he takes out this regime. Do you see it that way?

DT: Well, a lot of people have said that, a lot of very smart people. A lot of semi-moderate people have said that. Others would like to see a deal, because you know, it’s a travesty when you do that, when you go that far. We’ve taken out much of what we’d have to do, probably another two weeks, two weeks, maybe three weeks. And time is not of the essence for us. You know, I’ll say to you as a very, very highly-respected guy, a lot of people think oh, I want to do it for the midterms. I think, you know, I made a speech the other day in front of great senior citizens, unbelievable, thousands and thousands of them. And the thing that got the biggest, then I want to Kravis Center and said the same thing in Palm Beach, a different kind of a group of people. Both of them, the thing that got the biggest hand, and you may have seen it on television, was when I said Iran will not have a nuclear weapon.

HH: That was big. The bigger was when you said these people are lunatics, because they are.

DT: Well, I did. I actually, I wanted to be nice. I actually said these lunatics will not have a nuke. I wanted to be a little bit nicer. I wanted to clean up my act a little bit. But I said these lunatics will not have a nuclear weapon. Well now, I know you were watching. That’s very good.

HH: Oh, yeah. Well, that’s who they are. I’ve got grandkids. I understand the stakes. These people cannot, they’re fanatics. They cannot have nuclear weapons. Do you think the country understands the stakes, Mr. President?

DT: Well, I think they do, because you know, again, this was a pretty big sample. I’ll bet we had 35,000-40,000 people outside of the room where I was speaking where we had, I guess it holds about five or six thousand people, and then they had another room that was packed of equal size. And they had thousands of people outside. And they all went crazy when I said it. And now I said no tax on tips, I said no tax on Social Security for our seniors, no tax on overtime, and you know, that was great. But this blew it away. And then I see these fake polls that 32% of the public wants, meaning a lot more don’t want, and I think they probably the way they, you know, I could ask this question a lot of different ways. But if you just said to protect our country, and to protect the world, I mean, look, the Middle East, Israel and the Middle East would be wiped out within the first hour that they had it.

HH: Correct.

DT: And you know, the Iran nuclear deal that was given to us by Barack Hussein Obama, that was a shortcut to a nuclear weapon. And we would not have been able to live with that. They would have used it. We can’t allow this to happen.

HH: The JCPOA was a guarantee. It was a guarantee that they would get a weapon.

DT: 100%. Yeah, it’s 100% they would have.

HH: One of your redlines is they have to renounce having their nuclear ambition.

DT: Correct.

HH: Do we have to get back the highly-enriched uranium? Is that a redline for a deal?

DT: Yes. Yes, we do. That’s part of it.

HH: Do they have to cap their missile production?

DT: And by the way, from a standpoint of value, it’s not very valuable. Probably can’t be used. They may not be able to get it, because you know, despite, they love to say oh, maybe these great pilots didn’t do their job. In the dead of night at 1:00 in the morning with no Moon, every single bomb went down those airshafts. It was the most incredible…totally, you know, I use the word obliterated. And the Atomic Energy Commission agreed with me. So people don’t even know if you can get it.

HH: Yeah.

DT: And by the way, if they could have gotten it, they would have gotten it. It was, that was one of the great military maneuvers ever, because that, and Venezuela…

HH: I agree. It’s glowing dust, but I’d like to get it back so that they can’t be tempted. Is that part of your redlines? They’ve got to give that back to us?

DT: Yes, it is. No, we want it back. We want it back 100%.

HH: How about, is it a redline that they have to cap their missile program and have intrusive inspections, because I don’t trust them.

DT: Yeah, but you know, you have to look at little bit like at the neighbors. You know, they can’t have less than, you know, they say oh, what about other people. Look, missiles are bad, but yeah, and they do have to cap it, but this is about they cannot have a nuclear weapon.

HH: Well, that’s number one. But what about proxies? They can’t keep feeding Hamas and Hezbollah and the Houthis.

DT: Well, they’re not going to, because right now, if we left today, it would take them 20 years to build back their country, and it can never be the same. So if we left today…but you know, they have a problem coming up, because they have, it’s a very explosive situation in a lot of different ways. You know, their oil, when you turn off the oil, underground, and the mechanical, too, but underground, it has a tendency, in almost like 100% of the cases, to literally explode and just destroy everything around it. And you can never get that oil again. In other words, you can get back 30-40%, but it can never be like it is right now. It does tremendous damage to the oil system in a country if that happens.

HH: Now Mr. President, last time you were on…

DT: And they’ve run out of areas for storage.

HH: Oh, yeah.

DT: And they say that in two weeks, you know, when they talk about time, in two weeks, they’re going to have a natural explosion of their oil that’s going to make it impossible for them to really recover from.

HH: They need a deal. Now last time you were on, you said to the people of Iran, stay the course, help is on the way. But they murdered 40,000 of them.

DT: Yeah.

HH: Do you want the people of Iran to come out, yet? Or do you want them to stay inside?

DT: Well, look, the problem is you can’t, if you have five people with a gun, and 250,000, the five people with a gun, assuming it’s used fast enough, which they do, the five people, they’re going to win. They have to, they don’t have weapons. They lost 42,000, to be exact. 42,000 people in about a two week period. Protesters, innocent, unarmed protesters. You know, they killed the wrestlers, actually a world-class wrestler.

HH: Yup.

DT: They killed him and his two friends. They hung him from a crane in the square.

HH: Oh, they’re lunatics.

DT: So we’re not dealing with, you know, your typical people. Despite all of that, we’ve obliterated their military. I mean, literally, now they may have built up a little bit over there. The one bad thing about a ceasefire is you can build up a little bit. We’ll knock that out. We know everything they’ve done. We’ll knock that out in the first few hours.

HH: Is the ceasefire over, Mr. President? Is it over? Are we going to hit them tonight?

DT: Well, I can’t tell you that.

HH: All right. That’s fine.

DT: You wouldn’t, if I answered that question, you’d say this man is not smart enough to be leading the United States of America.

HH: I’ve got to ask anyway. Got to ask.

DT: But I appreciate the question. I love the point.

HH: Mr. President, I’m very disappointed in Europe. I’m a big Atlanticist. I’m very disappointed in Europe. I’m very glad you’re taking the troops out of Germany.

DT: Yeah.

HH: However, I’m very encouraged by Zelenskyy. President Zelenskyy sent the UAE all their anti-drone stuff. Do you feel better about Zelenskyy now?

DT: Well, first of all, we have great drone stuff, and we have great anti-drone stuff. You know, when he offered, he’s a tricky person. He’s a tricky guy. And we want to get a settlement. And you know, they are losing territory, but it’s at a big cost to Russia and to them. And I like Zelenskyy. I’ve always sort of gotten along with him other than the one moment in the White House, which I thought was a little aggressive on his behalf, you know, the Oval Office.

HH: Oh, yeah.

DT: I’m sure you perhaps remember.

HH: With the Vice-President, yeah.

DT: But I will say that, look, Biden gave them $350 billion dollars’ worth of money and equipment and everything else, which is ridiculous that he did that, but he did it. But you know, and I gave, I sell them equipment. Full course, we sell it to the European Union, and we sell it to NATO, basically, and they give it out. I will say this. They fight, because whether the equipment is great or less than great, they are able to fight.

HH: They’re better than any of our NATO allies.

DT: They fight against a very big monster, and they’ve held it back for a long time.

HH: They’re better than anybody in Europe in this fight. At least they’re helping.

DT: Well, Europe has been very disappointing, and one of the things that came out of our skirmish with Iran, I think, is that NATO wasn’t there for us. You know, we spend, we spend trillions of dollars over a short, relatively short period of time on NATO. There was a time before I got here, we were spending, we were paying for 100% of the costs of NATO. Not 80%, not 50%, we were paying for a 100%. Now, they pay more, and they also pay for, we no longer lose money, because they have the money. I say you have to pay for it. You buy missiles, you have to pay for it. They pay for it. They probably then give it over to Ukraine to use, and Ukraine uses them well. But it turned out to be a paper tiger. And when we needed NATO, you have to remember, I hope you remember. You’ve got a lot of people listening and watching your show. I hope you remember. When we needed NATO, they were not there for us.

HH: Oh, I’m not going to forget that. That’s why…

DT: And if we have a bigger case, if we have the big one, and hopefully we never will have the big one. You know, I’m going to the big one very soon, and I look forward to it. I have a very good relationship with President Xi. But if we ever have the big one or a bigger one, I don’t believe they’d be there for us, Hugh.

HH: You know, you’re going to China. Let’s talk about that, Mr. President.

DT: Right.

HH: You’ve had this back and forth with Pope Leo. I wish Pope Leo would talk about Jimmy Lai. You talk about Jimmy Lai with the Chairman. Will you be bringing him up again?

DT: Hugh, I will. I brought him up, and there’s a lot of, there’s a little bitterness, I would say, with him and Jimmy Lai. You know, he was, Hong Kong was not as easy, but I will be, I will be bringing him up. Yeah, Hugh. I bring…

HH: I want the Pope to talk about Jimmy Lai, and I want you to bring him home. That would be a good deal.

DT: Well, the Pope would rather talk about the fact that it’s okay for Iran to have a nuclear weapon, and I don’t think that’s very good. I think he’s endangering a lot of Catholics and a lot of people. But I guess if it’s up to the Pope, he thinks it’s just fine for Iran to have a nuclear weapon.

HH: He’s from Chicago. He’s got to learn a few things. He’s from Chicago. Let me ask you about China. What do you want out of this trip with the Chairman?

DT: So he’s coming here in November or so, and we have a very good relationship. We’re adversaries, but we have a very good relationship. When I took over, China was just ripping us like nobody’s ever seen. And now, it’s the opposite. I mean, we’re doing very nicely with China, but we do have a very strong relationship. And I think it’s better to get along with China than it is to fight with China, and they feel the same thing. And don’t kid yourself. They watch what happened in Venezuela. They watch what happened in Iran, because militarily, Iran is essentially over. You understand. I mean, they’re…

HH: Oh, you know, they’re beaten, but you do have to get rid of that regime. You’ve got to get the nuclear dust back.

DT: Well, no, I mean, the one thing is look, anybody could say gee, we’re going to dop a couple of mines in this rather narrow channel, and you know, claim that gee, they have power. Remember this. They said they were going to take over the Hormuz Strait and then, and when they, then we thought they might have, we took it over from them. We have control. The one thing you can’t stop is somebody’s going to want to drop a little mine in the middle, and you happen to own a billion dollar ship. I’m not sure you’re going to be thrilled about sailing it up the harbor. So we’ll see, but we…

HH: They’ll deal with it. You’re taking all their oil. You’re seizing their tankers out on the Indian Ocean. Who’s that oil going to go to, Mr. President? Is that for the people of Iran when you eventually sell it?

DT: Well, mostly it comes back, most of it comes back into the United States. Well, the people of Iran, so look, if they had guns, which they don’t have, if they had guns, you know, guns were sent, and other people took those guns. If they had guns, they would fight back. I’m convinced of that. But you know, you can’t have an unarmed population against people with AK-47’s and stand there, even if you have 250,000 people. So you know, you started it off by asking me would I like to see them. And I’m very torn on it, because they lost 42,000 people in the first two weeks. I don’t really want to see that. They have to have guns. And I think they’re getting some guns. As soon as they have guns, they’ll fight like, as good as anybody there is. But when you have people that are armed, and you know, they have very good weapons on the other side…now they’ve been depleted. A lot of the people fighting don’t want to fight anymore. They’re not getting paid anymore from what I’m hearing, because we have obliterated them like, in the military, we’ve done the same thing to them financially, economically. We don’t think they’re paying their soldiers and their Guard anymore. So they’ve got a lot of problems, but we’ll see what happens. We have all the cards. We have all the cards.

HH: Any signs that the regular army, any signs that the regular army might march in and take over from the fanatics? They do have the regular army.

DT: Well, I guess things, you know, we purposefully have not gone after them too much, because we think that they’re much more moderate, actually. You know what I mean.

HH: Oh, yeah.

DT: They’re a much more moderate group.

HH: Oh, it’s a smart plan.

DT: And we’re not looking to decimate the army. You know, when they did Iraq, between, and the worst thing was they got rid of the all the leaders, so nobody knew who the leader was. And then all of a sudden, you had ISIS. We don’t want to do that. The Venezuela, the people running Venezuela right now, it’s running very, it’s running incredibly, actually. It’s so smooth. We’ve taken out many times in money, many times the cost of the war, of prosecuting the war in Venezuela. And when was the last time you heard that?

HH: Yeah, not at all.

DT: And when I say many times, like 25 times. And we get along great with the people. They respect us. They listen to us. And you know, Venezuela is, and actually, it’s a happy country again. The people are happy. We have all the big oil companies moving in, spending a lot of money building rigs, because their rigs were all depleted and gone, rusted out, closed for years and years. Venezuela is a growing country.

HH: Very serious question, Mr. President. Are you going to do for Cuba what you’ve done for Venezuela – bring in new leadership and free those people up to be happy again? Is Cuba on the line?

DT: Well, I don’t want to really talk about Cuba too much other than to say perhaps on the way back from Iran, as we finish that one, you’d like to do one after the other, right? But we’ll stop the Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier, the most gorgeous carrier I’ve ever seen. We’ll stop the Abraham Lincoln a couple hundred yards offshore, and we’ll watch them wanting to do something. No, the people of Cuba, the country is devastated right now. It’s devastated. So it would be an honor to free it up. You know, I got all the Cuban vote. I got 94% of the Cuban vote in the U.S.

HH: Yup.

DT: And you know, I have an obligation, frankly, to do something. What they did to the Cubans, what they did to the families of the people that are living in the United States is unthinkable. Very much like Iran in that way.

HH: Now Mr. President, before I run out of time, I want to ask you about the attempt on your life. And I’m very, everyone who’s listening, very grateful, very prayerful that you were not harmed. There have been four attempts on your life. First of all, I’m not going to ask you about the shooter’s manifesto. I can’t believe Norah O’Donnell did that. That was rehearsed, of course.

DT: She’s terrible. She’s so terrible.

HH: They wanted you to walk off. Did you think about walking off?

DT: No, because then you make it a bigger story, actually. She’s terrible. I mean, she’s interviewed me, she’s a regular person that gets paid a lot of money. She’s no different. I could get any woman off the street practically, and they would do just as good a job as her. There’s nothing special. And actually, as soon as she said the word manifesto, I said here we go with the nonsense again. You know, this is a sick guy, a really sick guy, a deranged guy. And he writes stuff, and I was none of those things, and was never proven to be one of those things. And that she would say that was disgusting. And the problem with walking off, it’s like it becomes a bigger story. And you don’t want to have that.

HH: Yeah, I figured. Well, I was on Saturday with Aishah over on Fox, and she asked me what about the Democrats because of Graham Platner, and they got the El-Sayed guy in Michigan, and the Flanagan lady in Minnesota.

DT: Right.

HH: I said, I think this is a direct quote, President Trump has broken the Democrats. I think they’ve lost the thread about serving the working man. Have you done that. Do you think you’ve broken the Democrats?

DT: Well, I don’t want to be the one to say it, but there is such a thing as Trump Derangement Syndrome, and nobody’s seen every anything like it. And part of it, because we’ve really done well. Look at our stock market. It’s at an all-time high in the middle of what some people could consider a war, okay? It’s, I don’t consider it a big one. But it’s still a war. And our stock market’s at an all-time high. More people are working in the United States right now than at any time in the history of our country. And I could go list after list. We’re drilling more oil. We are now doing more oil than Saudi Arabia and Russia combined. Think of that. And, very importantly, you know, one of the reasons, when I first did this, I thought maybe the market would go down 20 or 25%. And I was okay with that, because I know it would come back up. But I thought it would go down, and I thought oil could hit $200-250. Oil’s at $100 dollars, $102 dollars. And you did, too. Most people did. You know the genius of the whole thing is people have found ways around the Hormuz Strait. They’re heading up to Texas. They’re heading up to Alaska. They’re heading up to Louisiana. And you see it. We see it through satellite. There are ships all over the ocean coming up. They find ways of, you know, just you can’t go to Hormuz, they find other, let’s go to Texas. So it’s just really sort of an amazing thing. They find ways of getting it done. So it’s not going to be at $250 and $300. And the stock market, again, the stock market’s at a record high.

HH: And I think Republicans have got to put their arms around this and say we’ve got to win in Iran. We’re not worried about the midterms. Are you worried about the midterms, because it’s so much more important to win.

DT: No, because I have, yeah, I mean, the one thing is you know, I’ve gotten such, you know, I won the Hispanic vote. Look at the votes I got. I got votes, and also, I got traditional Republicans, but I got votes that really had, along the Texas border, I won every single city and town along the Texas border to Mexico. It’s never, nobody’s ever, no Republican has ever won one town. So the question is, is it transformable? And I will tell you, and I don’t know your view on this. I listen to you, but I don’t know your view on this, and I don’t know why, but they have to terminate the filibuster so we can improve things.

HH: Oh, we disagree, Mr. President. We disagree.

DT: Oh, all right. Well, we disagree.

HH: We won’t waste time on that. I’m afraid the Democrats will pack the Supreme Court.

DT: Well, let me just, let me just, I know, but let me just ask you. You know, the Democrats are going to do it, right?

HH: No, I don’t think they will. They talk a good game, but they don’t deliver. They’re not like you.

DT: I think I’d win a lot of money from you, but that’s okay. I don’t mind if you say that. But I’m very surprised at you, because I thought you were a brilliant man.

HH: Well, I’ve always been for the filibuster. I’ll argue it out with you. But more important that people hear your view…

DT: Well, they have to do the SAVE America act. And if they do the filibuster, they do the Save America act. And you have to have voter ID, and you have to have proof of citizenship.

HH: I’m for that. I just want to win 60 Senate seats and do that. If we lose the House, Mr. President, they will impeach you. Does it bother you? They’ll impeach you four times. Does that bother you? [Sorry, but Hewitt sounds excited about this happening…]

DT: Well, they’ll impeach me like they did the last time, and now they want to overturn those impeachments, because there was total nonsense. And what we’ve learned even since, and look at all the stuff that’s coming out now about all these people. It’s a corrupt group of people. And the Republicans play much nicer, okay?

HH: Yes, we do.

DT: We don’t go around impeaching somebody. Joe Biden should be impeached. What he did was so bad. Now in the case of Biden, he had no idea he was doing it, all right?

HH: He should have been removed from office under the 25th.

DT: What the Biden administration, he had some very smart lunatics circling him around that beautiful, as you know, the beautiful Oval Office and that incredible desk I sit behind, you know? Hey, look, he had smart people, really radical left, and they would destroy the country. Open borders, to me, the biggest sin of all was allowing 25 million people into our country – murderers, drug dealers, people from mental institutions, and we’re doing great with it despite the courts that are so stacked against us. We’re doing great with it. You know, by the way, I don’t know if you know. Murders were down the lowest in 125 years.

HH: Oh, let me ask you about…oh yes,

DT: Despite all of this.

HH: I had out-of-town visitors yesterday down by Nationals Stadium yesterday, and they said how is the National Guard working, and it’s beautiful. It’s very, very nice. Let me ask you about the White House…

DT: Washington now is one of the safest cities in the country.

HH: Yes.

DT: And a year ago, when I came in, it was one of the most unsafe places in the country. And we took out 5,000 career criminals. And once stat, before I forget, one stat – 2% of the people create 90% of the crime. And I love that stat, because it means you can fix it. And we’ve done that wherever we go.

HH: I know you have to run. You offered to the White House Correspondents’ Association to use the ballroom when it gets done.

DT: Yeah.

HH: I’m just wondering, could they put a tent on the backyard? Would you let them to do a tented thing on the South Lawn to do their dinner?

DT: Well, we’ve done tents for years. Tents don’t work, and when it rains, you know, it’s very wet land here. It’s sort of marsh land. And when it rains, it’s brutal. You know, you have a thing, and the water literally goes over their shoes. I would do it. But I mean, more importantly for the future, we’re building a room. You know, it’s ahead of schedule, on budget, ahead of schedule, and it’ll be one of the most beautiful and one of the most safest ballrooms anywhere in the world. But it’ll be one of the most beautiful ballrooms. It’s been needed for a 150 years.

HH: I approve of the ballroom. I’ve been in the White House. I worked for Reagan. There’s no place to have a real dinner.

DT: And the military likes it.

HH: It’s a nightmare, and it’s got to be safe. Two final last fun questions, Mr. President, for your bio.

DT: Go ahead.

HH: If there’s no McDonald’s around, Burger King or Wendy’s?

DT: Well, I’ll tell you, you know, a friend of mine, he’s sort of an old friend, but he’s not really a friend anymore. I don’t like him too much, but I’ve always liked Wendy’s. I have liked Wendy’s.

HH: Okay.

DT: But the person that controls it, I don’t like him so much anymore, so I don’t want to give him any, but Wendy’s is pretty good.

HH: Okay, and a last fun question.

DT: I’ll do that for old time’s sake.

HH: On par 5’s, when you’ve hit a good drive, do you always go for the green in two? Or do you lay up?

DT: Well, it depends. You know, I hit it good. I won 38 club championships, including seniors. That’s a lot. But you know, it depends on the length. A lot of times, that’s like strategy. It’s like I knew a guy that you would have known. I won’t mention the name. He went all the time, and this whole life was like that. No, I don’t always go for it. I think sometimes, you’re better off laying up for a wedge and being safe. Would I take the guaranteed par as opposed to risk it for a birdie? I would lay up a lot. But if I could reach it, I’d generally try it.

HH: Don’t take the wedge on Iran, Mr. President. Hit for the green. Go for the green on Iran.

DT: Well, I know how you feel, and I think you’re going to be extremely happy when it all ends. And it shouldn’t be that long. We’re trying to be nice. But I know exactly, and some very, very smart people feel that you’re right about that.

HH: Well, it’s the most important thing you’ve done in your two terms.

DT: And these are very unreliable people if you make a deal. You know?

HH: Yeah, it’s the most important thing you’ve done in two terms, and I applaud it. I hope you just see it through.

DT: Well, somebody should have done it long before I got here.

HH: Yes.

DT: 47 years of this stuff, whether the USS Cole or you could mention 100 different things. And thousands and thousands of American lives, and thousands of kids are walking around, now they’re no longer kids, without arms, without legs, with a face that got blown to pieces because of Soleimani, who I killed. I killed Soleimani.

HH: Yup.

DT: That was another big one. I did a lot, Hugh. I did a lot.

HH: Keep it going, Mr. President, because it’s the number one thing.

DT: I will.

HH: And thank you for your time, sir. I appreciate it.

DT: And you keep it going, Hugh. And you’re wrong about the filibuster. But other than that, Hugh, have a good time.

HH: Another time. Thank you, sir.

DT: Okay, bye.

Correct me if I’m wrong - but Hewitt sounds giddy that Trump could be impeached again if the Republicans lose the House and he doesn’t seem to care. His question on that seemed odd to me. It appears to me that Hewitt would rather preserve the filibuster to help the Democrats than codify Voter ID for the American people. Send me an email with your thoughts.

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I know many people inflicted with TDS who STILL say the same things about President Trump today and I am glad M.B. Mathews had the courage to admit he was wrong! I wish more people were that honest and humble!

I was wrong about Trump

By M.B. Mathews

“I recently wrote a column about why I believed Trump should not run for President. I was wrong. I allowed my distaste for Trump’s personality to override his virtues, which are considerable. 

Some people want Trump without his vices. I was among them -- until yesterday, when I watched and listened to Tom Klingenstein’s speech titled “Trump’s virtues.”  It was masterful and shamed me that I did not make the distinction between Trump's character and his virtues, the former being deeply flawed, the latter being almost perfect.

I need to man up in my defense of the President's virtues. The speech was among the most pointed I have heard and deserves some exposure. Klingenstein says:

Other Republicans say some version of “I like Trump policies but I don’t like the rest of him.” This gets it almost backwards. Although Trump advanced many important policies, it is the 'rest of him' that contains the virtue that inspires the movement… Trump was born for the current crisis, a life and death struggle against a totalitarian enemy I call woke communism... that control all the cultural and economic powers in America…  

Trump revealed, not caused, the divide in this country. In war, you must make a stand… Trump is a manly man... traditional manhood, even when flawed, is absolutely essential… Trump plays to win... There are no clean hands in a fistfight…Trump is unreservedly, unquestionably pro-America… Trump is a refreshing break from the guilt and self-loathing that marks our age…

It is anti-Americanism that makes so many of us very angry: The Left have trashed America's Founding and her history to the point where some believe it virtuous to hate America. Rather than advocating forgiveness for sins, the Left are advocating hair shirts, self-flagellation, and perpetual guilt. It is un-American and certainly un-Christian.

Trump thinks we can vanquish all comers if we just put our minds to it, and he's right… Courage never demands perfection… Trump over and over said exactly what political correctness prohibits one from saying... Trump said Haiti is a shithole and that representative Maxine Waters has a low IQ. These were not racist lies. They were uncouth, politically incorrect observations that most of us would agree with but would not dare say.

In 2016, we loved Trump for his outspokenness. But many seem to have changed their minds without cause; Trump is the same today as he was before. The very things we disdain today are the things that made him the man for our time.

From morning to night, we were told that Trump is a racist. But endless repetition does not make it true. It isn’t. Trump’s contempt for political correctness showed patriotic Americans that its ever-tightening grip could be loosened... It is difficult to overestimate the significance of Trump’s fight against political correctness, a fight which most Republicans are reluctant to engage… Trump treated the woke media with the same contempt he treated political correctness, provoking their outrage and revealing their utter corruption... it must be defeated.

I take back my unwillingness to engage Trump on his own terms. It is the Left, not we, who are politically correct. They are the ones restricting speech, cancelling and censoring, not we on the Right.

Unlike most politicians, when Trump sees a problem, he goes out and fixes it. He fixed our porous borders. He moved our Israeli embassy to Jerusalem after decades of inaction. He eliminated hate-America critical race theory in his administrative agency. He achieved energy independence and much, much more.

His accomplishments far outweigh his personality quirks. No other president did so much in so little time.

Trump smoked rats out of hiding places. Because of Trump we know our intelligence agencies are corrupt. We know also that the mainstream media is not just biased, that it is the propaganda arm of the Democratic party.

Had it not been for the vehement and irrational hatred of Trump, we never would have discovered that our own security and intelligence structures are compromised. I blame Never Trumpers for corrupting these Agencies. This unprecedented breach of the very security of this nation is unprecedented and deeply dangerous, leaving us open to the espionage of courtesans who prey on politicians who think with their private parts.

A large part of Trump’s appeal was that he was a bona fide outsider. He distrusted the experts who believe they knew better than the average American how to run the country. This distrust was appealing to Trump’s base who believed, and with good reason, that is the experts who created the despotic mess in which we find ourselves.

We always knew but never had anyone champion that we, not the Swamp, knew better how to manage our money, our time, our personal lives, our resources and our families. In their authoritarian mindsets, the Left wanted to take over all these very personal, uniquely American functions and replace it with governmental overreach. They nearly got their wish, had it not been for COVID's home zoom classes where we found out that very young children are being sexualized, perverted, deliberately alienated from their parents and taught to hate America and white people.

…They know that Republicans will lose all further elections until they get to the bottom of the last one.

This most sensitive area of politics is a disaster. I believe the election was stolen and millions of others do. We now have evidence from many quarters that this is so. It cannot be permitted a repeat or there will be severe repercussions that will dwarf the current ones.

Some will say that Trump is a bad man and that disqualifies him. I do not think Trump is a bad man, but for those who do I remind them that a bad man in some circumstances can be a good president. If you’re dying of thirst and there is only one person offering you water, you accept the water gratefully without much concern for the character of your rescuer.

We wanted Trump not only to fix things; we wanted him to be perfect while doing it. That is unrealistic in the average family, the average relationship, the average business and the average political or cultural milieu. Yet some of us wanted Trump to be perfect enough to invite to tea. He is not that man. But he is the man for our tumultuous times.

This enumeration of Trump’s virtues does not fully capture his uncommon courage and firmness of purpose. Trump is the most towering political figure in living memory… Trump inspired a movement. If properly deployed this movement might challenge the woke-comms, and God willing, save the country.

These very things are what the Left hate, yet it is not their favor we need to care about. They will not embrace anyone on the Republican ticket and certainly not one they cannot bully. We need to stop worrying about acceptance of our candidates by the Left or they will have won.

Republicans, however, should not forget that it is his support and the spirit they embrace that have become the life force of the Republican party. Among the talked-about alternatives to Trump I have not yet seen anyone who possesses or even understands Trump’s virtues. Nor have I seen anyone with his backbone and fortitude. One does not appreciate the strength of relentless gale-force winds until one is in the eye of the storm.

…which is exactly where Trump and we are at this moment. We have to prepare for the gale-force winds we will encounter. To not do this is to ignore the lessons of the recent past and it will be forever to our sorrow to ignore them.

His virtue must be the standard by which we judge other candidates.

Amen and amen. We don't have to like his personality but his virtues far outweigh it. I humbly stand corrected and offer my mea culpa.”

How did President Trump respond to this when it was written?

“Wow! What a great honor to have this written about me. We must Save America, and will! Thank you, M.B.”

That’s my President!

For all the noise, outrage, and endless repetition of the same tired attacks on President Trump, the fundamental truth hasn’t changed: the case against Trump still rests far more on emotion than evidence. What some dismissively call “Trump Derangement Syndrome” reflects, at its core, a refusal to confront reality with intellectual honesty.

History does not judge presidents by personality; it judges them by results. And by that standard, Trump’s record on behalf of the American people remains substantial, consequential, and difficult to refute.

Those still clinging to the same objections in 2026 are, in many ways, where M.B. Mathews once was: focused on Trump’s flaws while overlooking the scale of his effectiveness - and willfully ignoring the very reasons that God has saved Trump thus far - to save us from ourselves. As Mathews ultimately recognized, leadership in turbulent times is not about perfection, but about resolve, clarity, and the willingness to confront entrenched power.

Disagreement, of course, is healthy. But there is a difference between disagreement and willful blindness. At some point, intellectual honesty requires an act of humility: a willingness to say, plainly and without qualification: “I was wrong about Trump.”

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I agree. Here’s my take on this. I embellished and expanded his POV - regardless of who wrote it. I think this newsletter provides a good counter-balance argument to those of either party who like to bash Trump on a regular basis.

I also don’t view Donald Trump as a traditional Republican, nor do I believe he sees himself that way. In my view, Donald Trump is not a conservative or a liberal - he is a common-sense pragmatist.

Even Obama called Trump a pragmatist in 2016: “I don’t think he is ideological. Ultimately he is pragmatic.” That’s one of the few things that Obama got right!

A pragmatist is someone who is practical and focused on reaching a goal. A pragmatist usually has a straightforward, matter-of-fact approach and doesn’t let emotion distract him or her. I get that. I view myself as a pragmatist. A pragmatist is someone who is focused on results and driven by outcomes rather than ideology. A pragmatist sees a problem and understands it must be fixed - not filtered through partisan lenses, not reshaped to satisfy political narratives, but addressed directly and effectively.

I believe that is a quality that should be admired and applauded, not condemned. That distinction matters, because for decades this country has been governed largely by ideology rather than results.

Viewing problems strictly from a liberal perspective has often produced more bureaucracy, more problems, more political correctness, more entitlement programs, more dependency, more attacks on the working class and more government expansion - frequently compounding the very problems those policies aimed to solve.

On the other hand, the so-called conservative establishment has too often delivered excessive spending, global entanglements, and weak, risk-averse leadership that talks about principles but governs without conviction.

Viewing things according to the so-called Republican conservative perspective has brought globalism to the detriment of American interests and well-being, denial of what the real problems are, weak, ineffective, milquetoast leadership that amounts to a Barney Fife deputy sheriff—appeasement-oriented and afraid of its own shadow. In brief, it has brought liberal ideology with a pachyderm as a mascot juxtaposed to the ass of the Democrat Party.

In short, both parties—each in their own way—have contributed to a steady erosion of effective, results-driven governance.

Donald Trump disrupted that pattern.

Immigration

Immigration, for example, is not a Republican problem or a Democrat problem—it is an American problem. It affects national security, economic stability, and the rule of law. Trump approached it not as a talking point, but as a structural issue requiring enforcement, deterrence, and policy change. Agree or disagree with the specifics, but the approach itself was grounded in identifying a problem and acting on it.

Trade

The same applies to trade. For years, free trade was treated as unquestionable orthodoxy, particularly within Republican circles and tariffs were rejected even though America was BUILT on tariffs before the income tax.

Trump rejected those assumptions and took a more pragmatic approach—using tariffs as a pragmatic negotiating tool on Communist China and her terrorist proxies and renegotiating trade deals like NAFTA into the USMCA. In trade policy, he went against the free trade dogma of both parties by increasing tariffs in order to protect domestic industry against Chinese (and also European) competition. His argument was simple: trade should benefit American workers, not just satisfy economic theory. That is pragmatism in action—responding to outcomes, not ideology.

Crime

Even in criminal justice reform, Trump demonstrated a willingness to step outside traditional partisan lines. The First Step Act, a bipartisan effort aimed at reducing recidivism and improving sentencing fairness, reflected a results-oriented mindset. It addressed a widely acknowledged problem not by clinging to “tough on crime” rhetoric, but by supporting reforms that could actually work.

Trump sent in ICE and the National Guard to fix inner city crime and remove illegal criminal terrorist threats - in spite of blowback from the fake news, the RINOs and the Democrats. He did it for America - not for political gain.

Foreign policy

In foreign policy, Trump again broke from convention. He pressured NATO allies to increase their financial commitments—challenging a status quo that had long gone unquestioned. His approach was not rooted in isolationism or interventionism as abstract doctrines, but in leverage, negotiation, and measurable outcomes.

Donald Trump has also demonstrated his pragmatism in how he is handling the war with Iran and the ongoing war in Ukraine. In both cases, he is not treating the conflicts as ideological crusades, but as geopolitical realities that must be exploited or managed to achieve specific American interests.

In Iran, he authorized force to degrade Tehran’s nuclear and proxy capabilities, but has repeatedly signaled that he is ready to shift toward a negotiated settlement if the terms are workable for him and his domestic base. This is not the behavior of a doctrinaire war hawk; it is the behavior of a negotiator who understands that war without a path to a deal is a liability, not a victory. He even moved on Iran during a mid-term year at risk to his own political future - because he knew the threat from Iran’s ballistic missile program was real and America couldn’t wait.

In Ukraine, Trump has oscillated on support, paused and restarted aid, and pushed Ukraine toward a territorial compromise that Russia can sell as a win while still preserving a degree of Ukrainian sovereignty. Some critics accuse him of appeasement; others say he finally grasps that the war cannot be prosecuted indefinitely at American expense.

Whether you like it or not, that is the essence of pragmatism: he is allowing the war to play out in a way that preserves leverage over both sides, protects core U.S. interests, and avoids the kind of open‑ended, ideologically‑driven quagmire that doomed past administrations. He is not winning the war on paper by clinging to maximalist slogans; he is trying to win a usable peace that keeps America out of a permanent European entanglement and frees Washington to focus on the threats from Communist China and domestic priorities.

Abortion

On abortion, Trump again revealed his pragmatic rather than ideological instincts. He did not push the Supreme Court to outlaw abortion nationwide, nor did he ram through a rigid, uniform federal ban that would have shattered the Republican coalition. Instead, he pushed the issue back to the states, allowing voters and legislatures to decide how to regulate abortion within their own borders.

That is exactly what a pragmatist with an electoral calculus does: he knows that the GOP can win national elections with a pro‑state‑rights stance on abortion, but it would fracture and lose if it moved aggressively toward a one‑size‑fits‑all national ban. He also carved out explicit exceptions for rape, incest, and the life of the mother, which narrows the wedge Democrats can use while still preserving the core anti‑abortion base.

Trump understands that ideology only goes so far in politics. Conservatives can’t govern if they don’t win elections, and they won’t win national elections trying to impose a single, rigid moral regime on every state. By letting the states decide, he turned abortion into a state‑level issue where local politics, culture, and coalitions matter more than the Washington dogma of either party. That is classic pragmatism: he chose the path he could actually win with and govern through, not the path that would feel purest to the ideological purists.

Successful businessmen like Donald Trump find ways to make things work; they do not promise to accommodate.

Economy

Trump uniquely understands that Communist China’s manipulation of currency is not a Republican problem or a Democrat problem. It is a problem that threatens our financial stability, and he understands the proper balance needed to fix it. He understands that the cost of energy impacts everything so he is pragmatically removing our enemies’ and OPEC’s ability to control that going forward.

The impending collapse of the US dollar by the CCP and BRICS wasn’t a liberal or conservative problem; it is an American problem. As a pragmatist, Donald Trump hasn’t made wild, pie-in-the-sky promises of a cell phone in every pocket, free college tuition, and a $15-an-hour minimum wage for working the drive-through at Carl’s Hamburgers - as if those things will fix anything long term. He is tackling the economy from a global energy perspective - moving pieces on the chess board all over the world to accomplish a pro-America First goal.

This is how a pragmatist operates.

Matthew Schmitz of The American Conservative magazine considers Trump to be “a pragmatic if unpredictable kind of moderate”—and his popularity is explained by the fact that he is “less an ideological warrior than a flexible-minded businessman who favors negotiation and compromise.”

Successful businessmen—like Trump—do not have the luxury of clinging to ideas that fail. If something doesn’t work, they change it. They adapt. They find solutions. That mindset stands in stark contrast to a political system where failed policies are often recycled, repackaged, and defended simply because they align with party ideology.

Trump’s communication style reflects this same approach. He speaks directly, often bluntly, and without the carefully filtered language of career politicians. To some, that is offensive. To others, it is refreshing. But it is undeniably different—and it signals a break from a political culture built on calculated messaging and empty promises.

Many who oppose him interpret his confidence as arrogance. Supporters, however, see decisiveness, independence, and a willingness to say what others won’t. They see someone not bound by the “good old boy” system of backroom deals, donor obligations, and political scripting.

And that raises an uncomfortable but necessary question: after decades of leadership shaped by entrenched political ideologies, are we better off?

Has the system delivered meaningful, lasting solutions—or has it sustained itself by keeping problems just unresolved enough to campaign on them again?

Donald Trump represents, to many, a departure from that cycle. Not because he fits neatly into a political category, but because he doesn’t.

You may not like his style. You may disagree with specific policies. But dismissing him as merely another partisan figure misses what makes him distinct—and why his message resonates with so many Americans.

At a time when ideological rigidity has too often replaced practical problem-solving, a pragmatist—someone focused on outcomes, willing to challenge assumptions, and unafraid to act—may be exactly what the country needs.

I argue that America needs pragmatists because pragmatists see a problem and find ways to fix it. They do not see a problem and compound it by creating more problems.

You may not like Donald Trump, but I suspect that the reason some people do not like him is because:
(1) he is antithetical to the “good old boy” method of brokering backroom deals that fatten the coffers of politicians;
(2) they are unaccustomed to hearing a president speak who is unencumbered by the financial shackles of those to whom he is beholden via donations;
(3) he is someone who is free of idiomatic political ideology;
(4) he says what he is thinking, is unapologetic for his outspoken thoughts, speaks very straightforwardly using everyday language that can be understood by all (and is offensive to some who dislike him anyway), making him a great communicator, and for the most part, does what he says he will do; and
(5) he is someone who understands that it takes more than hollow promises and political correctness to make America great again.

Listening to Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders talk about fixing America is like listening to two lunatics trying to “out-crazy” one another. The Bush family is owned, lock, stock, and barrel, by the bankers, corporations, and big-dollar donors funding their campaigns. Bush can deny it, but common sense tells anyone willing to face facts that people don’t give tens of millions without expecting something in return.

We have had Democratic and Republican ideologues in power - and what has it brought us? A mess that Trump has to fix!

Are we better off today or worse off? Has it happened overnight, or has it been a steady decline brought on by both parties?

I submit that a pragmatist is just what America needs right now. People are quick to confuse and despise confidence as arrogance, but that is common among those who have never accomplished anything in their lives (or politicians who never really solved a problem, because it’s better to still have “issues to be solved”—so re-elect me to solve them, which never happens), and those who have always played it safe (again, all politicians), not willing to risk failure to try to achieve success.

Donald Trump put his total financial empire at risk in running for president and certainly did not need—or possibly even want—the job; that says it all.

Donald Trump is not a savior, nor is he a saint. He is a disruptor—a blunt, results-obsessed pragmatist who measures success by outcomes, not applause from Washington insiders or ideological purity tests. In an era when both parties have perfected the art of managing decline while enriching themselves, Trump’s greatest offense is that he refuses to play the game.

He speaks plainly because he thinks plainly. He acts decisively because he judges policies by whether they work for Americans, not whether they flatter the experts, the donors, or the pundits. He threatens the comfortable equilibrium that has allowed career politicians from both sides to fail upward for decades.

That is precisely why the entrenched political class despises him. He exposes their failures. He rejects their excuses. He refuses to accept the slow erosion of American strength, sovereignty, and prosperity as inevitable.

America does not need another ideologue in either direction. It does not need smoother talkers, more sophisticated excuses, or leaders who excel at campaign rhetoric but crumble under the weight of real governance. What America desperately needs right now is a cold-eyed pragmatist willing to confront hard realities, challenge failed orthodoxies, and deliver measurable results—even if it ruffles feathers and shatters sacred cows along the way.

Donald Trump is imperfect. So is every leader who has ever walked onto the stage of history. But unlike most of his predecessors from both parties, he has shown a consistent willingness to put America’s interests ahead of party dogma, personal comfort, or elite approval.

In a time of cascading crises—open borders, economic vulnerability, cultural decay, and strategic competitors who do not wish us well—pragmatism is not just preferable. It is essential.

The age of comfortable failure is over. The country needs fighters and fixers more than it needs guardians of the status quo. Trump’s willingness to risk everything—his fortune, his reputation, and his peace—simply to try to reverse decades of decline reveals something rare in modern politics: genuine conviction rooted in love of country.

That spirit, however imperfectly expressed, may be the best chance we have to restore American greatness.

God bless America—and may He grant us the wisdom to choose results over rhetoric, strength over sentiment, and pragmatism over paralysis.

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This is a HUGE breaking news week. Because I’m exhausted and don’t want to re-invent the wheel, I’m leaning heavily on Childers’ sharp coverage of this week’s explosive news cycle for this newsletter. With so much breaking at once, it makes sense to build on his solid reporting rather than duplicate the effort.

That said, let’s expand on some of the key developments he highlighted, add some important context and implications, and fold in several major threads from the last 48 hours that didn’t make the initial cut—especially Dan Bongino’s revealing interview with Sean Hannity, new information on Cole Allen and the calling out of Jimmy Kimmel by Melania Trump and the FCC.

The Justice Department Means Business

Jeff nailed two big legal thunderclaps: the indictment of Dr. David Morens, a senior advisor to Anthony Fauci, and the re-indictment of former FBI Director James Comey.

Morens: The 78-year-old was hit with conspiracy, destruction and alteration of records, and concealment charges for allegedly using his personal Gmail to dodge FOIA requests and help suppress the fact that the COVID virus was leaked from the a lab in Wuhan, China (that Fauci & Gates helped build under Obama) while protecting controversial COVID research grants from the Obama administration.

The DOJ highlighted Morens’ efforts to conceal information and falsify records. Unindicted co-conspirators were described by the DOJ in ways that strongly point toward Peter Daszak of EcoHealth Alliance and Ralph Baric of UNC.

This isn’t just about sloppy email hygiene. It exposes how public health officials allegedly coordinated to shield funding for gain-of-function research for the COVID virus while demanding the public “trust the science.” Morens reportedly received modest kickbacks like wine deliveries—classic cheap D.C. corruption. With Fauci covered by a prior pardon, pressure is building for broader accountability on the origins story and related grants.

Will Morens and Daszak flip on Fauci and Gates for helping build the Wuhan lab? What about on Obama for promoting the virus in advance on Netflix in a documentary in December 2019? Time will tell.

Comey: Round two on the former FBI boss, this time for the infamous Instagram “86 47” seashell post, which the DOJ treats as a threat against the 47th President. Comey’s defense is that it was some abstract or literary reference (never mind that he was promoting a novel about stochastic terrorism and coded incitement at the exact same time—talk about terrible optics). The quick deletion after blowback doesn’t help. The grand jury was told he deleted it but they indicted anyway!

People are calling this indictment frivolous. I don’t buy it. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche made clear today that the DOJ and FBI have been working on the Comey case for a year—not two days. That timeline required going after Comey’s devices and those of his lawyers, setting up privilege walls, and moving carefully because the statute of limitations is five years. They brought it well inside that window.

I guarantee they have the goods on Comey—maybe texts to his lawyers laughing about the Instagram threat, or worse, something tying it to deeper misconduct. Witnesses may have seen him arranging those shells with clear intent.

Pam Bondi must have laid serious groundwork here; she had been working on Comey-related matters for a long time. This looks like a superseding indictment that builds on prior efforts (remember the indictment for lying under oath that was thrown out on “standing” just like they did to Trump’s election fraud cases?)

Bongino put it bluntly on Hannity: “That Comey indictment, if you think that was the end, you’re out of your mind.”

This case could tie into a larger RICO-style grand conspiracy view of the Russia, Russia era. The arrogance on display is breathtaking.

Kimmel, ABC, Comey, and the Pattern of Incitement

On Thursday, April 23—just two days before the third alleged attempt on President Trump’s life—Jimmy Kimmel delivered a fake White House Correspondents’ Dinner speech on ABC in which he said First Lady Melania Trump has “the glow of an expectant widow.”

President Trump and Melania rightly called it out as corrosive, hateful rhetoric that goes far beyond comedy. Melania stated plainly: “His monologue about my family isn’t comedy—his words are corrosive and deepens the political sickness within America.”

Jimmy Kimmel isn’t just calling for the death of President Trump - he’s calling for the genocide of the 75 million plus people - like you and me - who voted for him. Kimmel’s tactics against MAGA are no different than what the NAZIs and the fake news did 100 years ago to vilify the Jews before the Holocaust. Don’t be naive.

MELANIA TRUMP: Kimmel’s hateful and violent rhetoric is intended to divide our country. His monologue about my family isn’t comedy - his words are corrosive and deepens the political sickness within America.

People like Kimmel shouldn’t have the opportunity to enter our homes each evening to spread hate. A coward, Kimmel hides behind ABC because he knows the network will keep running cover to protect him.

Enough is enough. It is time for ABC to take a stand. How many times will ABC’s leadership enable Kimmel’s atrocious behavior at the expense of our community.

Kimmel’s ratings continue to slide—he’s third in late night, with Gutfeld! beating him by a massive margin. His contract runs through 2027, but at this point the only reason to keep him appears political, not financial.

The pattern is clear: late-night “comedy” that mocks threats against Trump, celebrates violence in coded ways, and normalizes stochastic terrorism. Comey gets indicted for seashells. Kimmel gets a monologue. The double standard is glaring.

Jimmy Kimmel, Melania & the FCC

Adding fuel to the fire: Cole Allen was featured on ABC TV in a 2018 special.

Thomas Crooks (from the first attempt) appeared in a BlackRock ad that aired on ABC and other broadcast networks.

What are the odds? Is this how they “pick” potential vulnerable assassin candidates and patsies to be groomed and activated? I have no doubt.

The FCC has now ordered a broadcast license review of ABC’s eight owned-and-operated stations. Since these are over-the-air licenses granted by the taxpayers, ABC has obligations that go beyond “entertainment.”

This follows Jimmy making jokes about Charlie Kirk’s death last year. The message from the new DOJ/FCC posture is unmistakable: coded threats and broadcast-level incitement won’t get the free pass they once did.

Deep State Cleanup: Bongino Lifts the Veil

In a must-watch interview with Sean Hannity, former FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino described what he encountered when he arrived at the Bureau. He bluntly called it “two FBIs.” One side consists of agents doing the hard, honorable work Americans expect. The other? A nest of internal saboteurs leaking to the press and undermining the mission from within.

Bongino explained the terrifying reality new leaders face: “You’re trying to figure this out, and you’re asking someone for advice, you’ve only been there a couple weeks, and you don’t know if that person is part of the good FBI or the bad FBI.”

To separate the good guys from the bad, he set traps. He began planting harmless, fake details—like an innocuous schedule item—and sharing them selectively with specific individuals. Then he watched. If that exact detail showed up in the press, he had his answer.

Even more chilling, Bongino gave additional detail about that old post where he said he saw something that “shocked him to his core.” They had just found a document in a hidden room—an explosive, roughly 100-page document (plus footnotes) that outlined the entire Russiagate plan, including players and details even he didn’t know at the time. “We were never meant to find it.”

Those people were so arrogant they wrote the whole conspiracy down in black and white. Bongino said what he read scared him—not just because of what happened, but because he knows that if those forces ever regain power, they will double down and finish the job this time.

This is the mess the Trump administration inherited. Imagine having to do this vetting process across every department, when 2.9 million people work for the federal government. The scale of the cleanup operation is staggering. No wonder the pace of accountability feels both urgent and methodical.

Update on the Cole Allen Story

Andy Ngo is reporting, via a confidential source, new background on Cole Tomas Allen—the 31-year-old charged with attempting to assassinate President Trump at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on April 25.

Allen’s pro-Obama sister, Avriana Allen (27), was apparently very liberal and started calling Trump “Hitler” back in 2016 at the Christian school they both attended. That’s likely where the radicalization began—when she was just 17.

Prior to that, Cole was active in his church and Christian school. Avriana later worked as a reporter for the progressive (Communist election outlet) CalMatters and joined the left-wing Pew Research Center as a junior engineer. She is reportedly cooperating with authorities and blaming her brother while taking zero responsibility for her alleged own role in the family dynamic.

Now add social media and the dark web and MKUltra coercion to a vulnerable autistic mind like Cole’s and you’ve got the makings of an assassin.

Fraud Crackdowns Accelerating

Federal agents raided over 20 locations in Minneapolis targeting businesses and individuals with ties to the Somali community, including autism centers, daycares, and other entities suspected of welfare and relief fund fraud. This builds on Minnesota’s prior “Feeding Our Future” scandal and shows how America’s welfare programs of every stripe (food stamps, daycare, hospice, home care, etc.) all became magnets for abuse by pirates from other countries who shouldn’t even be here in the first place.

On the SNAP front, Secretary Brooke Rollins exposed that in one state alone, roughly 14,000 food stamp recipients were registered to luxury vehicles most taxpayers could never afford. DOGE-style data matching made it obvious. Blue states are suing to block transparency of fraud over “privacy” concerns—ironic, to say the least.

Meanwhile, Ilhan Omar, the pirate queen of fraud, showed her lack of knowledge by calling World War II - World War Eleven on the floor of Congress. Seriously, this is the Minnesota Somali pirate who says “dumb people” voted for Trump. Ahem.

Consumer Confidence Up

Despite the ongoing conflict with Iran and higher gas prices, consumer confidence actually went up this month, the stock market has climbed back to record highs, and the U.S. dollar remains strong. Once again, the so-called experts who predicted economic disaster are scrambling to explain why their forecasts were wrong.

Lithium Find

The U.S. Geological Survey dropped some genuinely historic news: they’ve discovered a massive lithium deposit in the southern Appalachians. This single find contains enough recoverable lithium to cover 328 years of America’s recent lithium imports. This is a game-changer for American energy independence. Instead of relying on China and other foreign countries for this critical mineral, we can now produce it right here at home.

The discovery lines up perfectly with President Trump’s use of the Defense Production Act and the recent decision to lift the long-standing mining ban in Minnesota. After decades of economic hardship, this is a much-needed lifeline for Appalachia — good jobs, new investment, and real hope for a region that’s been struggling for generations.

UAE exits OPEC

Geopolitically, the UAE’s abrupt exit from OPEC (effective May 1, with very short notice) is a seismic shift. It weakens the OPEC cartel’s pricing power and signals the potential erosion of the petrodollar system. The timing aligns with U.S. diplomatic and currency-swap efforts—classic bilateral deal-making.

Here’s the bigger picture the media is downplaying: The UAE leaving OPEC and increasing production weakens the cartel’s ability to keep prices high once the Iran war ends. Non-OPEC producers like the U.S., Brazil, and Guyana are already adding supply. Add UAE’s extra barrels and analysts project a surplus of 2+ million barrels per day. That points to global oil prices dropping significantly, potentially toward $50 a barrel due to excess supply.

For American drivers, that could mean gas prices falling 20–30%—down to the $2.50–$2.80 range in many places. If Iran stubbornly resists peace and lets its own oil infrastructure suffer, the UAE can help fill the gap. China would pay more, Iran would face bankruptcy pressure, the UAE would thrive, and the U.S. would benefit from lower energy costs. As Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent put it: “We expect gas back under $3 this summer. We’ll be watching ALL gas stations closely. They raised prices VERY quickly.”

The American economy’s underlying resilience—fueled by deregulation and pro-growth signals—continues to defy the pessimists.

Political Realignment Accelerating

Google co-founder Sergey Brin has been openly shifting right: praising Trump, donating to Republicans, and slamming California’s proposed “billionaire tax” as a penalty on success. He’s part of a noticeable Silicon Valley migration away from the Communist wing of the Democrat party.

In Appalachia, the “VEXIT” movement is picking up serious steam. Thousands of voters are actively switching their registrations from Democrat to Republican. The recent lithium discovery and the Trump administration’s pro-energy policies are making the GOP’s message very real and tangible for a region that has been ignored and lectured for years by coastal Democrats.

Redistricting and Mid-Terms

Meanwhile, a redistricting battle in Virginia has been put on hold after a court ruling delayed the process for the egregious attempt by Virginia Democrats to disenfranchise ALL Republicans in Virginia and basically shift the entire state to Democrat control in the US House.

Recent Harvard CAPS/Harris polling shows the congressional races for the midterms essentially in a dead heat. However, these polls have historically undercounted Republican support by several points. When you factor in higher Republican enthusiasm and independents breaking toward the GOP, the ground reality suggests Republicans are in a much stronger position heading into the midterms than the raw numbers imply.

On April 29, 2026, the Supreme Court in Louisiana v. Callais (6-3) struck down Louisiana’s congressional map as unconstitutional racial gerrymandering, ruling that race cannot dominate redistricting over factors like compactness.

SCOTUS basically ruled that the Voting Rights Act of 1965 is unconstitutional and the Democrats’ long-standing scheme of dividing voters by race is WRONG.

The ruling could net Republicans 15-19 House seats by enabling redraws that eliminate ALL districts created by Democrats solely based on race.

Changes might start within weeks via special sessions with maps enacted in 1-3 months before mid-terms - although litigation could delay to 6-12 months or beyond 2026 midterms. BUT, the changes could definitely be in place before the 2028 Presidential election - which does NOT bode well for the Democrats.

One detailed analysis suggests that 5–8 House seats nationwide could plausibly shift to Republicans before the November 2026 Mid-Term elections if the states move quickly.

Mike Davis says 12 seats before Mid-terms: “If Republicans in the South move now, they can flip twelve seats in the next midterm. Twelve seats could decide everything. If Republicans keep the House, they will secure the border, restore affordability, and protect Americans.”

The SCOTUS ruling basically says the VRA is unconstitutional. The Voting Rights Act (VRA) has been in force since August 6, 1965, so it has governed federal and state elections for about 61 years as of 2026. There is no exact single number of “seats created by the VRA that went to Democrats,” but analysts estimate that roughly 100 Democrat seats in the US House may be unconstitutional. WOW.

The King is here and the hypocrisy is glorious

Yesterday, King Charles III addressed a joint session of Congress and received a hearty standing ovation from pretty much all the Democrats in the room. President Trump was NOT in the room for security reasons which I found interesting. He watched from the Oval Office.

At the exact same time Democrats were standing for a REAL KING, left-wing protesters are out in the streets with “No Kings” signs aimed at President Trump. The cognitive dissonance is something to behold. Democrats love a king—just not an American one who dares put America First.

And here’s the detail revealed yesterday that the fake news conveniently omits: genealogical research shows that President Trump and King Charles are 15th cousins, sharing a common ancestor in the Scottish nobility (the 3rd Earl of Lennox). Trump is “no king,” but he’s actually related to one. The silence from corporate media on this fun little fact is deafening.

Hypocrisy at its finest.

What we’re witnessing isn’t random chaos—it’s convergence.

Legal accountability is no longer theoretical. It’s here. The walls are closing in on figures and institutions that operated for years under the assumption they would never be questioned, never be challenged, and certainly never be prosecuted. That era is ending.

At the same time, the information monopoly is cracking. The same media ecosystem that normalized dangerous rhetoric, buried inconvenient truths, and protected its political allies is now being forced into the open—whether through FCC scrutiny, public backlash, or its own collapsing credibility.

Inside the federal government, the cleanup is deeper than most people can comprehend. Bongino’s “two FBIs” isn’t just a soundbite—it’s a warning. What’s being uncovered suggests coordination, intent, and a level of institutional rot that goes far beyond partisan politics. The implications of getting rid of the embedded Deep State in our government will reshape how Americans understand the last decade.

Meanwhile, the economic and geopolitical shifts underway—from domestic resource breakthroughs like lithium to fractures in global energy cartels—are quietly reinforcing something much bigger: the United States is repositioning itself for independence, leverage, and durability in a rapidly changing world.

And through it all, the political realignment continues. Voters are moving. Narratives are collapsing. Old coalitions are breaking apart. What once looked permanent now looks fragile.

This is the part of the story where things accelerate.

The next few months won’t just be about headlines—they’ll be about consequences. Who gets exposed. Who gets charged. Who flips. Who survives.

Stay sharp. Stay skeptical. And pay very close attention to what happens next—because this isn’t the end of the story.

It’s the beginning of the part they never thought we’d see.

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The White House Correspondents’ Dinner (WHCD) is a black-tie banquet in Washington, DC. that’s organized by a group of reporters assigned to the White House. The annual event is held at the Washington Hilton, which has hosted the dinner for decades.

The Washington Hilton is also where John Hinckley shot Reagan in 1981. President Trump has boycotted the WHCD during all of Trump’s first term and last year, so this dinner would have been his very first as Commander in Chief and it was a big deal.

Before we go on and discuss the shooting, I want to remind people WHY President Trump had boycotted the WHCD dinner so far. This background is crucial context, because it shows how DC elites went from seeing Trump as a potential savior in 2011 to a punchline.

Many Republicans are not aware that in 2011, at the WHCD, President Obama and Seth Meyers mercilessly roasted and mocked Donald Trump for considering a GOP Presidential run. It was humiliating and degrading.

They laughingly announced, to the world, THAT DONALD TRUMP WOULD NEVER BE PRESIDENT.

MEYERS: “Donald Trump said that he was running for president as a Republican. That’s funny, because I thought he was running as a joke.”

Many people believe, including me, that this was the pivotal moment when Donald Trump decided to run for President in 2016 and prove them ALL wrong. Which he did.

"Remember when Obama said I would never be president? Well, I became president — twice."

Also, two weeks before that WHCD in 2011, Ben Shapiro wrote an article calling Donald Trump the most “magical” Presidential candidate the Republicans could ever ask for. Ben’s glowing critique of Trump literally painted him as the “savior” of the Republican party. That must have really irked Obama and the Democrats and the GOP political elite.

After Obama’s and Meyer’s roast of Trump at the WHCD, Shapiro buried his views, put his tail between his legs and, afraid he would lose his place at the cool kid’s media table, turned on Trump.

What did Ben Shapiro say in 2011 about Donald Trump? Read on. It’s important for you to know what DC thought about Trump before they turned on him.

“For well over a year, I, along with the rest of the conservative base in America, have lamented the lack of decent possible Republican presidential candidates. Despite the fact that he has run the most incompetent administration in history, President Obama remains a solid bet for re-election in 2012. Obama’s frontrunner status springs from two crucial facts: first, by overexposing himself in the public eye, he has made himself larger than life; second, the Republican field is pathetically weak.

Mitt Romney has about as much charm as a Ziploc bag, and his support for Romneycare in Massachusetts should immediately put him out of the running. Though brilliant, Newt Gingrich is chameleonic and impossible to peg down to principle; therefore, he’s unacceptable to many primary voters. Sarah Palin is polarizing; Haley Barbour bears too strong a resemblance to Deputy Dawg; Mike Huckabee isn’t interested in running, and his religious background makes him a beloved target of the secular press; Tim Pawlenty makes Ben Stein seem colorful. The Republican field has not been this wide open since ... well, since 2008. Sadly, the intervening three years have not cleared up any questions.

If Republicans were to construct an ideal candidate, he would have to be rich beyond belief -- Obama is going to raise $1 billion for his next election campaign, and no Republican candidate has the ability to come close to those numbers without deep pockets. The ideal Republican candidate would have significant name recognition with the general public -- no Republican candidate has ever won the presidency without significant name recognition going into the primaries since Warren G. Harding in 1920. The ideal Republican candidate would have stage presence, an intimidation factor, and a willingness to play dirty.

In the last several weeks, that ideal Republican candidate has materialized. His name is Donald Trump. His slogan is ready-made: “You’re Fired.” He does not give a damn what the media thinks of him -- he steamrolled Meredith Vieira during his NBC interview with her last week. He can self-fund to the tune of $1 billion. And what’s more, he can win.

Pay no attention to the recent polls showing Obama crushing Trump by 20 points in a head-to-head matchup. That disparity is attributable to the public perception that Trump is a loudmouth with no true interest in running. The moment he declares in earnest and gets on the campaign stump, his numbers will rise dramatically.

Trump has across-the-board appeal. His show, “The Apprentice,” routinely draws nearly 9 million viewers per episode. Blue-collar workers identify with Trump’s rough-and-tumble attitude. He even has union support -- he’s made a political mint bashing outsourcing, and he recently told Human Events that he has made “many billions of dollars working with the unions,” though he does not disagree that public sector unions bilk taxpayers.

Trump’s image boils down to this: he’s a no-nonsense businessman who is brash enough to take on Obama directly. He’s big enough to stand toe-to-toe with Obama and slug it out.

The biggest question that surrounds Trump of late is his focus on the question of Obama’s birth certificate. Trump has stated routinely and openly that he wonders whether Obama was born in the United States, and he has called on Obama to release his birth certificate. This has earned him the ire and scorn of Obama’s lackeys, who say he has “zero chance” of getting elected.

In reality, the birth certificate issue is specifically geared toward certain political ends for Trump. First, it is obviously calculated to attract the most anti-Obama segment of the conservative base -- and it has already succeeded, if primary polling is any indicator. Second, it is designed to force Obama into defending his character -- Trump has already suggested that at best, Obama refuses to come clean with the American people. Finally, it shows Obama that if Trump is nominated, the campaign will not be a McCain-style hands-off lovefest. It will be a knockdown drag-out brawl. Trump will stop emphasizing the birth certificate issue, to be sure, but not until he’s milked it for all it is worth.

Is Donald Trump the best Republican candidate for president out there? It would be tough to argue otherwise. He’s got all the makings of a breakout star; he’s got bravado and the cash to back it up. If he really runs, he won’t have any trouble finding supporters. And as he puts it, he is the Obama administration’s “worst nightmare.” So far, who can argue with him?”

So Ben Shapiro proclaimed that Trump was a Republican dream candidate and then Obama & Seth Meyers roasted Trump at the 2011 WHCD to make sure everybody knew he was persona non grata. That’s the reason Trump stopped going. And, I guarantee that President Trump intended to remind them all of that night!

Now, let’s review the shooter and examine the details of his scheme.

The shooter, Cole Tomas Allen, a 31‑year‑old from Torrance, California, was a Caltech graduate who earned a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering in 2017 and a master’s degree in computer science in 2025. He had been part of Caltech’s “Blitzkrieg Bots” robotics team, which won a robotic vehicle design competition in March 2016.

He has no known prior criminal history publicly detailed at this time. A neighbor reportedly described him as possibly “on the spectrum.” His LinkedIn profile describes him as a “game dev, engineer, scientist, teacher.”

He was also featured on the local ABC station in 2018.

I'm sorry, but Thomas Crooks being in a BlackRock Commercial, Ryan Routh being in an Associated Press B-roll and Cole Allen being in an ABC News segment is more than just a coincidence.

Allen worked as a part‑time SAT/ACT prep instructor and tutor at C2 Education, where he was named “Teacher of the Month” in December 2024.

Colleagues and students described him as polite, enthusiastic, and well‑liked. He was also an amateur game developer. He had interned at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and lived with his parents in Torrance.

A registered Democrat, Allen donated 25 dollars to ActBlue in 2024 with the memo “Earmarked for Harris for President.”

His family grew concerned about his behavior, rhetoric, and frequent visits to gun ranges. His brother reportedly contacted police with worries about him, and family members had previously flagged his actions to law enforcement. Despite these concerns, Allen was able to purchase two handguns and a shotgun, which he stored at his parents’ home without their full knowledge of his intentions.

How Cole Allen Obtained and Stored the Guns

Cole Tomas Allen legally purchased the firearms used in the attack over a period of roughly two years in California. On October 6, 2023, he bought a .38‑caliber Armscor (Rock Island Armory) semi‑automatic pistol from CAP Tactical Firearms, a small family‑owned gun store in Lawndale, California. On August 17, 2025, he purchased a Maverick 12‑gauge pump‑action shotgun from Turner’s Outdoorsman in Torrance, California—a store located very close to the Allen family home. Both purchases were made legally.

Allen passed the required FBI National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) in each case, as he had no prior criminal record, no felony convictions, and was not subject to any known restraining orders or prohibitions under federal or California law at the time of purchase.

According to statements from his sister, Avriana Allen, to federal investigators, Cole had purchased two handguns and a shotgun in total. He stored the weapons at his parents’ home in Torrance without their full knowledge or consent. His parents were reportedly unaware that he was keeping firearms in the house, even though his father, Thomas Allen, served as a ruling elder at Grace United Reformed Church.

Family members had expressed general concerns about Cole’s increasingly radical behavior and visits to gun ranges, but they did not realize the extent of his armament or his specific intentions. Allen regularly trained at shooting ranges, which helped him become proficient with the weapons.

He booked the room at the hotel in advance on April 6, 2026 for three days.

He transported at least some of the firearms across the country by train from Los Angeles to Chicago (home of Obama and the Black Panthers) and then onward to Washington, D.C. Once at the Washington Hilton, he checked into the hotel on April 24 and assembled the shotgun in an unsecured side or back room near a terrace‑level entrance (next to where bar carts were stored).

He carried the shotgun, the pistol, and multiple knives in a bag when he left his 10th‑floor room and ran down ten flights of stairs and charged the Secret Service checkpoint.

PAUL SPERRY: “According to FBI affidavit, Cole Tomas Allen--who was duped by the Obama/MSM-generated Russiagate hoax, calling Trump a "traitor" and parroting John Brennan's "treason" epithet--bought his 12-gauge pump-action shotgun from a Torrance, CA firearms dealer *just two (2) days after* Trump's Alaska summit with Putin to end the war in Ukraine.”

Manifesto

Before he ran down those stairs, he sent a copy of his manifesto to his family.

Cole Allen’s manifesto in full:

Hello everybody!

So I may have given a lot of people a surprise today. Let me start off by apologizing to everyone whose trust I abused.

I apologize to my parents for saying I had an interview without specifying it was for “Most Wanted.”

I apologize to my colleagues and students for saying I had a personal emergency (by the time anyone reads this, I probably most certainly DO need to go to the ER, but can hardly call that not a self-inflicted status.)

I apologize to all of the people I traveled next to, all the workers who handled my luggage, and all the other non-targeted people at the hotel who I put in danger simply by being near.

I apologize to everyone who was abused and/or murdered before this, to all those who suffered before I was able to attempt this, to all who may still suffer after, regardless of my success or failure.

I don’t expect forgiveness, but if I could have seen any other way to get this close, I would have taken it. Again, my sincere apologies.

On to why I did any of this:

I am a citizen of the United States of America.

What my representatives do reflects on me.

And I am no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist, and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes.

(Well, to be completely honest, I was no longer willing a long time ago, but this is the first real opportunity I’ve had to do something about it.)

While I’m discussing this, I’ll also go over my expected rules of engagement (probably in a terrible format, but I’m not military so too bad.)

Administration officials (not including Mr. Patel): they are targets, prioritized from highest-ranking to lowest

Secret Service: they are targets only if necessary, and to be incapacitated non-lethally if possible (aka, I hope they’re wearing body armor because center mass with shotguns messes up people who *aren’t*

Hotel Security: not targets if at all possible (aka unless they shoot at me)

Capitol Police: same as Hotel Security

National Guard: same as Hotel Security

Hotel Employees: not targets at all

Guests: not targets at all

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.

Rebuttals to objections:

Objection 1: As a Christian, you should turn the other cheek.

Rebuttal: 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. 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.

Objection 2: This is not a convenient time for you to do this.

Rebuttal: I need whoever thinks this way to take a couple minutes and realize that the world isn’t about them. Do you think that when I see someone raped or murdered or abused, I should walk on by because it would be “inconvenient” for people who aren’t the victim?

This was the best timing and chance of success I could come up with.

Objection 3: You didn’t get them all.

Rebuttal: Gotta start somewhere.

Objection 4: As a half-black, half-white person, you shouldn’t be the one doing this.

Rebuttal: I don’t see anyone else picking up the slack

Objection 5: Yield unto Caesar what is Caesar’s.

Rebuttal: The United States of America are ruled by the law, not by any one or several people. In so far as representatives and judges do not follow the law, no one is required to yield them anything so unlawfully ordered.

I would also like to extend my appreciation to a great many people since I will not be likely to be able to talk with them again (unless the Secret Service is *astoundingly* incompetent.)

Thank you to my family, both personal and church, for your love over these 31 years.

Thank you to my friends, for your companionship over many years.

Thank you to my colleagues over many jobs, for your positivity and professionalism.

Thank you to my students for your enthusiasm and love of learning.

Thank you to the many acquaintances I’ve met, in person and online, for short interactions and long-term relationships, for your perspectives and inspiration.

Thank you all for everything.

Sincerely,

Cole “coldForce” “Friendly Federal Assassin” Allen

PS: Ok now that all the sappy stuff is done, what the hell is the Secret Service doing? Sorry, gonna rant a bit here and drop the formal tone.

Like, I expected security cameras at every bend, bugged hotel rooms, armed agents every 10 feet, metal detectors out the wazoo.

What I got (who knows, maybe they’re pranking me!) is nothing.

No damn security.

Not in transport.

Not in the hotel.

Not in the event.

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.

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.

Like, if I was an Iranian agent, instead of an American citizen, I could have brought a damn Ma Deuce in here and no one would have noticed shit.

Actually insane.

Oh and if anyone is curious is how doing something like feels: it’s awful. I want to throw up; I want to cry for all the things I wanted to do and never will, for all the people whose trust this betrays; I experience rage thinking about everything this administration has done.

Can’t really recommend it! Stay in school, kids.

Church and Family Religious Background

Allen came from a devout, church‑going family. His father, Thomas Allen, served as a ruling elder at Grace United Reformed Church (Grace URC) in Torrance, California—a small, theologically conservative evangelical congregation affiliated with the United Reformed Churches in North America. The church describes itself as a “Bible‑believing church” that preaches “a gospel that is Christ‑centered, covenantal and confessional” and follows the “infallible Word of God.” It is located less than a mile from the Allen family home.

During his time at Caltech (2013–2017), Cole Allen was actively involved in the Caltech Christian Fellowship (CCF), a non‑denominational evangelical student group. He served as a large‑group coordinator, leading discussions on topics such as the Apostles’ Creed and forgiveness. A former member of the fellowship described him as “definitely a strong believer in evangelical Christianity at the time.”

In his manifesto, Allen specifically thanked his church community, writing thanks to “my family, both personal and church, for your love over these 31 years.”

President Trump later commented on Allen’s shift away from faith, stating: “He was a Christian—a believer—and then he became an anti‑Christian. He had a lot of change. He has been going through a lot based on what he wrote. He now hates Christians.” Trump described him as radicalized and noted that he had gone from believer to someone who “hates Christians.”

Online Activity and Involvement with “The Wide Awakes”

After the 2024 election, Allen became increasingly active on Bluesky, a social media platform popular among left‑leaning users. His account, under the handle “coldForce,” featured posts that repeatedly attacked President Trump.

He called Trump a “known traitor” who ran his campaign “on revenge,” “f‑cked up the covid response,” and had “known connections [to a] murderous fucker in the kremlin.” He also referred to Trump as “basically a sociopathic mob boss” in connection with the Epstein files and posted content that appeared to endorse or mock violence against Trump and his supporters.

Allen was a member of “The Wide Awakes,” a loosely organized progressive group that draws its name from the original 1860 Wide Awakes. Allen’s family told investigators he was part of a Connecticut‑based chapter and had attended “No Kings” protests in California. Here are many of his archived posts.

Discord Connection

Federal investigators routinely examine Discord in lone‑actor cases like this because it allows private, invite‑only group chats (called “servers”) that can foster intense ideological echo chambers. Some early reporting and social media commentary noted that Allen was “big into Discord,” but official releases have focused more on his Bluesky posts and ties to “The Wide Awakes.” The Department of Justice is still investigating his full digital footprint, including possible private chats on Discord, Telegram, or other platforms.

Comparison to Tyler Robinson

Tyler Robinson, the 22‑year‑old charged in the September 2025 assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, illustrates a clearer logistical role for Discord in a recent lone‑actor case. Robinson messaged his roommate on Discord about retrieving a rifle from a “drop point” and discussed where he left the weapon (wrapped in a towel under brush). Hours after the shooting, Robinson allegedly confessed in a group Discord chat with roughly 30 people: “Hey guys, I have bad news for you all. It was me at UVU yesterday. im sorry for all of this.” He also joked in the chat about his resemblance to the suspect photo released by authorities.

Discord stated that Robinson did not use the platform to plan the attack or promote violence beforehand, but the messages provided key evidence after the fact. The case led to increased scrutiny of Discord, with the House Oversight Committee calling executives from Discord and other platforms to testify about moderating online extremism.

How Discord Works

Discord is a free communication platform originally launched in 2015 for gamers. It allows users to talk in real time through text chat, voice calls, video calls, screen sharing, and file and media sharing. Users join or create servers—customizable group spaces that function like private or semi‑private communities. Inside a server, there are channels (separate rooms) for different topics, such as general chat, memes, voice discussions, or specific interests.

Key features that make it popular: it works on desktop, mobile, web, and consoles; servers can be public (discoverable) or private/invite‑only; it supports large communities but also very small, closed groups; and it includes tools like custom emojis, soundboards, and easy voice chatting while playing games or just hanging out.

Over time, Discord has grown far beyond gaming. It is now widely used by students, hobby groups, church youth groups, political activists, friend circles, and professional communities. Many churches and religious organizations use it for Bible studies, prayer groups, or youth fellowship because it feels more interactive and casual than traditional email or Facebook groups.

How Is Discord Used for Radicalization?

Discord itself is not designed for radicalization—it is a neutral tool, like a group chat app. However, its structure makes it particularly effective for creating echo chambers, where radical ideas can spread and intensify. People often start in mainstream or mildly political servers (gaming, memes, music, politics, or even church‑related groups). Once inside, they may be invited to smaller, more private sub‑servers.

Over time, users can “drift” into increasingly extreme channels or entirely new private servers. In closed servers, users are mostly exposed to similar views. Dissenting opinions can be quickly moderated or removed. Repeated exposure to the same grievances, memes, and narratives reinforces a shared worldview. Researchers describe this as following steps like validating feelings of injustice or anger, defining a clear “enemy,” and gradually normalizing violent or extreme responses as justified.

Voice chats create stronger personal connections than text‑only platforms. More radical members can act as “mentors,” guiding newer users. The combination of memes, humor, and serious ideological talk makes extreme ideas feel like inside jokes or cultural bonding rather than propaganda.

Servers can be invite‑only with minimal moderation, which gives anonymity and low oversight, making it harder for outsiders (including parents or authorities) to monitor content until something spills over into real‑world action.

In several cases, Discord has been used not for initial planning but for sharing manifestos, confessing after an act, or coordinating logistics.

For example, in the 2025 Charlie Kirk assassination case, suspect Tyler Robinson allegedly messaged his roommate on Discord about retrieving the rifle and later appeared to confess in a group chat with friends.

I wrote about Tyler’s use of the dark web too - which is a whole other topic:

Other high‑profile shooters or attackers (Buffalo 2022, Highland Park, etc.) left preparatory notes, violent memes, or warnings in Discord servers. Radicalization on Discord has been documented across ideologies—far‑right groups, Islamist extremists, accelerationists, and some left‑leaning anti‑fascist or progressive circles. It is not limited to one side.

The vast majority of Discord servers are harmless (gaming friends, study groups, church youth groups, etc.). Discord has banned thousands of extremist servers over the years, especially after high‑profile incidents like the 2017 Charlottesville rally, which was partly organized on Discord. However, new servers can quickly reform, and private ones are harder to detect. Like Bluesky, Telegram, or certain Reddit communities, Discord’s strength (private communities) is also its weakness for oversight.

Church Groups and Discord

Many churches and religious organizations (both conservative and progressive) use Discord, Slack, or similar apps for youth groups, Bible studies, prayer chains, and community organizing. This is common for younger members who grew up with gaming and online chat tools.

Conservative evangelical and Reformed churches (like the United Reformed Churches network that Allen’s father was involved with) sometimes have private servers for members. Progressive or “social justice”–oriented Christian groups also maintain Discord servers, often blending faith talk with political activism. However, radicalization more commonly occurs in secular leftist or “anti‑fascist” servers rather than official church ones.

Users can drift from mainstream progressive servers into more extreme private ones that justify political violence, dehumanize opponents (“fascist,” “pedophile,” “traitor”), or glorify “direct action.” In Allen’s case, his manifesto shows a clear break from his earlier evangelical Christian background. He rebutted Christian objections to violence (“Turning the other‑cheek when someone else is oppressed is not Christian behavior; it is complicity”) and President Trump publicly noted that Allen had gone from being “a believer” to someone who “now hates Christians.”

Bottom Line

Discord can accelerate radicalization because it offers anonymity or semi‑anonymity, closed groups with little oversight, voice chats that build emotional bonds, and easy sharing of memes, propaganda, and “rules of engagement.” It is not unique to the left or right—both sides have used it—but in recent high‑profile cases involving anti‑conservative violence (including Robinson’s), it has appeared as a coordination or post‑act communication tool.

For Cole Allen, the strongest evidence so far points to Bluesky plus “The Wide Awakes” as the main drivers of his visible radicalization, combined with his personal shift away from the faith of his family’s church. Investigators are still digging into whether private Discord (or similar) servers played a supporting role - and we don’t know yet if he was on the dark web - which is also possible.

However, Andy Ngo is reporting that a confidential source told him that Cole Allen’s pro-Obama sister was very liberal and started calling Trump Hitler in 2016 at the Christian school they both attended. Ah, that’s where it started. The liberal sister turned him to the dark side. Makes sense to me. I’ve seen that happen in families over and over again.

Avriana Allen is 27, and four years younger than her brother, Cole at 31. In 2016, she would have been 17.

Avriana worked as a reporter for the progressive election outlet called CalMatters and later joined the Pew Research Center as a junior engineer.

GAMER: “There is a 5% chance that Cole Allen did not have an anime/trans/furry porn addiction. The way he writes on BlueSky at 31 years old tells me everything I need to know.”

CHILDERS: “Cole Allen is performing for an audience he expects to approve. The whole letter was written as if there was, somewhere out there, a community of folks who will read it and think: finally, someone was brave enough to do it.

BlueSky isn’t 4chan, Discord, or a darkweb channel. BlueSky is where progressive journalists, academics, Democratic political operatives, and mainstream left-leaning professionals went after rage-quitting Twitter. BlueSky is also where Cole Allen lived. Collectively, BlueSky doesn’t just approve of Cole Allen. They’re constructing a complete permission structure for the next attempt. It invites copycats. It reassures anyone else who might be on the fence that their community will applaud them as well.”

In other words, these “assassins” are likely selected and groomed online - where they create new friends in new echo chambers that become their audience. I still believe this is part of the MKUltra indoctrination program - which has now moved online - to select, groom and activate bad actors.

The Attack – Saturday, April 25, 2026

On the evening of April 25, 2026, the White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA) Dinner was underway at the Washington Hilton in Washington, D.C. Around 8:30–8:36 p.m., shortly after attendees were seated and dinner service had begun, Cole Tomas Allen sprinted toward a Secret Service security checkpoint in the hotel lobby area near a terrace‑level entrance. He had assembled a shotgun in an unsecured side/back room next to where bar carts were stored.

Armed with a shotgun, handgun(s), and multiple knives, Allen charged past the checkpoint. Blurry hotel security footage captured Allen racing at full speed past agents. As he ran by the closest Secret Service agent, he opened fire, striking the agent in the center of mass. The agent’s ballistic vest stopped the bullet. Three or four additional shots were fired in rapid succession. Alert agents tackled and subdued Allen roughly 50 feet later, near the grand staircase that would have provided a clear line of sight into the ballroom and toward the stage. He never reached the main event space or set foot in the ballroom.

Downstairs, security personnel heard approximately five shots. They immediately rushed President Trump, Vice President JD Vance, and other protectees off the stage. Chaos erupted in the ballroom: attendees dove under tables as the room fell silent for a moment before panic set in. One officer reportedly threw CNN’s Wolf Blitzer to the ground for safety.

Broken glass and dishes littered the floor as the room was locked down. At approximately 9:00 p.m., a WHCA official announced that the program would resume. By around 9:20 p.m., however, attendees were told the event was canceled and instructed to go home. Allen was taken into federal custody alive and was not shot by agents. He sustained non‑gunshot injuries and was transported to Howard University Hospital for evaluation.

FRANKLIN GRAHAM: “After three assassination attempts, some people say that President Trump is one lucky man. I don’t think luck has anything to do with it—I believe it is the hand of God.”

The Manifesto

Approximately ten minutes before the attack, Allen sent the 1,052‑word manifesto to family members. He also left a copy in his hotel room.

Allen’s brother, upon receiving the manifesto, immediately contacted the New London Police Department in Connecticut, which helped authorities quickly identify him.

GLENN BECK: “𝘊𝘰𝘭𝘦 𝘈𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘯 𝘸𝘢𝘴𝘯’𝘵 𝘢 𝘣𝘢𝘴𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵-𝘥𝘸𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘯𝘰𝘣𝘰𝘥𝘺. 𝘏𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘊𝘢𝘭𝘵𝘦𝘤𝘩 𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘶𝘢𝘵𝘦, 𝘣𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘭𝘰𝘳𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘮𝘦𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘦𝘯𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 2017, 𝘮𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘶𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘴𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘊𝘢𝘭 𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦, 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘱 𝘢𝘵 𝘕𝘈𝘚𝘈-𝘑𝘗𝘓. 𝘏𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘮𝘦𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘦𝘯𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘦𝘳. 𝘏𝘦 𝘣𝘶𝘪𝘭𝘵 𝘷𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘰 𝘨𝘢𝘮𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦. 𝘏𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵-𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘶𝘵𝘰𝘳 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘦𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘵 𝘊2 𝘦𝘥𝘶𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯. 𝘏𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘯𝘢𝘮𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘦𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘩 𝘪𝘯 𝘋𝘦𝘤𝘦𝘮𝘣𝘦𝘳 2024. 𝘚𝘵𝘶𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘥 𝘩𝘪𝘮. 𝘊𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘨𝘶𝘦𝘴 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘩𝘪𝘮. 𝘊𝘩𝘶𝘳𝘤𝘩-𝘨𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘺. 𝘕𝘰 𝘤𝘳𝘪𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘳𝘥.”

BUT THE FAMILY SAW IT COMING.

GLENN BECK: “𝘏𝘪𝘴 𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘴𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘸 𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘧𝘪𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘩𝘪𝘮. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘺 𝘧𝘭𝘢𝘨𝘨𝘦𝘥 𝘩𝘪𝘮 𝘵𝘰 𝘭𝘢𝘸 𝘦𝘯𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘤𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵. 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘧𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘤𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘳𝘩𝘦𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘤 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘧𝘳𝘦𝘲𝘶𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘱𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘶𝘯 𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦. 𝘏𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘴𝘢𝘵 𝘥𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘦𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘵 𝘚𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘪𝘤𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘔𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘨𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘊𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘺 𝘗𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘦 𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘺 𝘩𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘙𝘰𝘤𝘬𝘷𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘦. 𝘓𝘢𝘪𝘥 𝘪𝘵 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘺 𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘴𝘭𝘺 𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘪𝘰𝘳. 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘱 𝘪𝘵. 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘤𝘢𝘮𝘦. 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘥. 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘥𝘪𝘥 𝘯𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨.”

𝐁𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐞𝐝, the shooting 𝐡𝐚𝐝 𝐚𝐥𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐲 𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐝. The brother, watching the manifesto land in his inbox ten minutes before the round was discharged, called the New London Police Department in Connecticut immediately.

𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐛𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫’𝐬 𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐅𝐁𝐈 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐲 𝐂𝐨𝐥𝐞 𝐀𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐚𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐤.

𝐂𝐨𝐥𝐞 𝐀𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐧 𝐝𝐢𝐝 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐧 𝐛𝐲 𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭. 𝐇𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐮𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐝 — 𝐛𝐲 𝐚𝐧 𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐬𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐲’𝐬 𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐇𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐲𝐰𝐨𝐨𝐝-𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐞-𝐧𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐦𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐞, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐮𝐬-𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐚𝐜𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐜 𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐬 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐞𝐧 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐛𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐝𝐞𝐟𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐫𝐞𝐟𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐞. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐧𝐞𝐱𝐭 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐥𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐲 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐢𝐩𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞.

Later that same evening, President Trump held a press conference at the White House. He praised the Secret Service, stating they “did a fantastic job” and “acted quickly and bravely.”

The WHCD was officially canceled for the night, with plans announced later to reschedule it within 30 days.

ROTHMAN: 𝐊𝐀𝐈𝐓𝐋𝐀𝐍 𝐂𝐎𝐋𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐒 𝐀𝐒𝐊𝐄𝐃 𝐏𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐈𝐃𝐄𝐍𝐓 𝐓𝐑𝐔𝐌𝐏 𝐀 𝐐𝐔𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐖𝐈𝐓𝐇 𝐂𝐈𝐕𝐈𝐋𝐈𝐓𝐘 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐅𝐈𝐑𝐒𝐓 𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐄 𝐈𝐍 𝐇𝐄𝐑 𝐂𝐀𝐑𝐄𝐄𝐑. 𝐈𝐓 𝐓𝐎𝐎𝐊 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐅𝐎𝐔𝐑𝐓𝐇 𝐀𝐓𝐓𝐄𝐌𝐏𝐓 𝐎𝐍 𝐇𝐈𝐒 𝐋𝐈𝐅𝐄 — 𝐀𝐓 𝐀𝐍 𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐍𝐓 𝐒𝐇𝐄 𝐀𝐓𝐓𝐄𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐃.

Collins, the CNN Chief White House Correspondent, has spent eight years performing prosecutor at every Trump press conference she has been given access to. 𝐒𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐧𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐬𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐖𝐚𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐭𝐨𝐧 𝐇𝐢𝐥𝐭𝐨𝐧 𝐛𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐫𝐨𝐨𝐦 when Cole Allen tried to ass∗ssinate the President. She was, by Cole Allen’s own manifesto language, “𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘵” for being there.

On Sunday, she stood up and asked the President this:

“𝘛𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘬 𝘺𝘰𝘶, 𝘗𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘛𝘳𝘶𝘮𝘱, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘬 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘶𝘱𝘥𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘶𝘴 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘶𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘵 𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘳. 𝘞𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘢𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘴? 𝘞𝘢𝘴 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘵𝘦𝘢𝘮 𝘢𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘥? 𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘥𝘰 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘣𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘷𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘨𝘦𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵?”

𝐂𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐥. 𝐒𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐝. 𝐒𝐮𝐛𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞. 𝐅𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐬𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠.

And the President, in his own characteristic way, gave her something most journalists never hear from him — operational detail:

“𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘴𝘦 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦, 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺’𝘳𝘦 𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘻𝘺. 𝘞𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘤𝘦𝘴 𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦𝘴, 𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺, 𝘪𝘯 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘨𝘶𝘪𝘴𝘦, 𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘮𝘢𝘺𝘣𝘦 𝘢𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘵𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦. 𝘞𝘩𝘰 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸𝘴? 𝘞𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘰𝘰𝘮, 𝘴𝘰 𝘩𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘢 𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘢𝘺 𝘵𝘰 𝘨𝘰.”

“𝘏𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘊𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘯𝘪𝘢.”

𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐜𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐒𝐞𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐭 𝐒𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐣𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐬. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐝𝐞𝐟𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐥𝐞 𝐀𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐧 𝐡𝐚𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐢𝐭𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟.

Collins finally treated him as the President. Trump finally answered her as a journalist. 𝐈𝐭 𝐭𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐚 𝟏𝟐-𝐠𝐚𝐮𝐠𝐞 𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐟𝐟 𝐚 𝐯𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝟑𝟎 𝐟𝐞𝐞𝐭 𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐢𝐫 𝐭𝐨 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐢𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐧.

The next day President Trump gave an interview to 60 Minutes where CBS’ Norah O’Donnell reverted right back to the old nasty fake news.

Subsequent Developments (April 27–28, 2026)

On April 27, Cole Tomas Allen made his first court appearance in Washington, D.C. He faces multiple federal charges, including attempted assassination of the President, using a firearm during a crime of violence, assault on a federal officer with a dangerous weapon, and interstate transportation of a firearm with intent to commit a felony. Additional charges are expected.

The investigation is being led by the FBI’s Washington Field Office and D.C. Metropolitan Police. Authorities searched his hotel room and residence in Torrance, California. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche confirmed that the DOJ is investigating Allen’s links to “The Wide Awakes” - his use of Discord & Blue Sky - and his connections to any other leftist groups like CodePink, BLM, Antifa, the Black Panthers and other Islamo-Communist entities who were protesting outside the hotel that night.

Blue Sky, Discord, the Dark Web & MKUltra

As I said earlier, the shooting caused the SPLC story to exit the news cycle quickly, the fake news was hoping an “assassination” would keep the King of England away, stop Trump’s blockade of Iran, stop work on the RICO grand conspiracy case against Obama and the left and the press were hoping to use Cole’s so-called manifesto, filled with lies, to paint Trump as Epstein’s BFF and a pedophile and rapist - post-mortem - for the history books. Chew on that!

The entire line of succession was in that room - and if they were all killed - Chuck Grassley would be our President right now! God had other plans!

My gut tells me that the investigation into Cole Allen will find ties to the SPLC and their donors and the investigation will help round out the final RICO grand conspiracy case. Cole Allen wasn’t supposed to survive. Thank goodness he did. Hopefully, through him they will even find ties to OTHER shooters or patsies like Thomas Crooks and Tyler Robinson and Luigi Mangione who have been groomed, funded, indoctrinated and activated the same way!

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I’m gathering information and working on an in-depth report of exactly what happened Saturday night, April 25, 2026, at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner (WHCD) at the Hilton in Washington, D.C.

A flood of false and conflicting reports circulated immediately afterward — including claims from CNN, TMZ, CBS, and others that the suspect was dead — before later reporting confirmed he was alive and in custody! I’m holding off until all the relevant facts are fully verified before publishing anything definitive, along with my views on what we’re still not being told.

In the meantime, here’s a complete transcript of the interview that President Trump gave CBS’ 60 Minutes the next day (they only aired and edited a part of this) which lays a good groundwork.

BTW - this interview shows us that Larry and David Ellison’s CBS is just as liberal and hostile as the previous CBS. The interview is a total trainwreck with hostile, gotcha questions, and reading the shooter's manifesto accusations like they were gospel. Larry and David Ellison's Skydance acquired Paramount (CBS's parent) in 2025, with promises to shift CBS News rightward under Trump ally Larry's influence. Bari Weiss took over as CBS News editor-in-chief in October 2025.

Unless Norah O’Donnell is removed completely from that network I won’t be watching CBS News any time soon again! I planned to give them a chance once Larry & David Ellison took over and Bari Weiss became editor in charge but she is making it worse than before! WTH is she doing?

NORAH O’DONNELL: Mr. President, thank you for doing this.

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Thank you.

NORAH O’DONNELL: I’m glad you are safe. I am glad that everyone is safe. How are you doing?

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: I’m doing well. It was quite an evening. It was a very-- difficult thing to watch, frankly. But-- doing very well.

NORAH O’DONNELL: Mr. President, do you know if you were the target of the gunman?

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: I don’t know. I read a manifesto, which is-- he’s radicalized. He was a Christian-- believer, and then he became an anti-Christian, and he had a lotta change. He’s been goin’ through a lot, based on what he wrote. His brother complained about him and I think reported him to the police. And his sister, likewise, complained about him. His family was very concerned. He was probably a pretty sick guy.

NORAH O’DONNELL: And I wanna get to all of those details and also walk through this, what happened last night. But first, this appears to be the third attempted assassination on your life, the first in Butler, the second, of course, on the golf course in Florida. Why do you think so many people may be trying to kill you?

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: So I’ve said it, and I’ve said it numerous times. And I actually because of the position I’m in, I’ve done quite a bit of research into the word “assassination.” Terrible word. And they go after consequential presidents. They go after presidents that get things done.

If you look at what I’ve done, we’ve turned this country around. We’ve taken a country that was actually a dead country, it was dying very rapidly, and it’s the hottest country anywhere in the world.

We had a skirmish, a war, whatever you wanna call it, with Venezuela. We won that very decisively, and we now have a great relationship with Venezuela. It’s been a very profitable relationship.

And we’re in Iran right now. Other presidents should’ve done it, but they never chose to do it. They should have. They made a terrible mistake by not doing it. It’s tougher now than it would’ve been ten years ago or even five years ago because you know, they had thousands and thousands of missiles and everything else. The B-2 bomber attack, last year, that alone was a big deal. The killing of Soleimani, which I did in my first term, was a big deal.

But when you’re a consequential president - when you do things, a lotta things, and things that work out very well for our country - they go after you. Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. McKinley was assassinated. McKinley made the country very rich and was assassinated. People don’t realize that. Then Teddy Roosevelt went out and spent the money that was made by McKinley, but he was very consequential, actually, but he was assassinated.

NORAH O’DONNELL: You mention, Mr. President, consequential. Your policies are also controversial. Is that part of it?

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Well, I don’t think of it that way. I just think of what they are doing to help our country. For instance - I inherited the worst border we’ve ever had in the history of our country, where 25 million people came in, 25 million people at least.

And many of them were hardcore criminals, and they were drug dealers, and they were from prisons. They emptied out prisons into our country, mental institutions, insane asylums into our country. And I don’t know if that’s “controversial” to say we have to move those people out, but we have.

We’re doing something that’s good for the country - like getting rid of men playing in women’s sports. I’m against that. Things like transgender for everyone. I’m against that. There’s so many things that I’m against.

I don’t think [my policies] are controversial. I think the other side is controversial. But I do a lot of things and I get things done. And, you know, we’re respected now as a country all over the world. And some people love that but some people probably don’t.

NORAH O’DONNELL: Mr. President, I’m sure you’ve now have the opportunity to see some of the pictures of what happened last night and I want to walk through that.

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Sure.

NORAH O’DONNELL: It was just around 8:30 p.m. You are sitting there next to the first lady. The entertainer named Oz Pearlman is talking to you. He’s known as The Mentalist. When did you know something was wrong?

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Right around that point. In fact, you can see the expression on the first lady’s-- face. And your president of the evening, chairman, or president, or both, who was doing a great job, by the way.

NORAH O’DONNELL: Weijia Jiang, CBS News

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Your-- your associate, yeah. She was a terrific person. And she was-- you know, she had this big smile. I mean, they were-- you know what they were doing? They were asking the name of Karoline’s child, that he didn’t know, I guess. But he was able to get it.

NORAH O’DONNELL: Your press secretary is expecting and he was trying to guess the baby’s name?

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: That’s right. And that was the question that was asked and what he was actually able to get it. I’m not sure I’m a believer in this, but he was able to get it. And the first lady and your associate were amazed.

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: But right after that we heard a big bang, and it was either a gunshot or it was a tray of dishes, which happens a lot in ballrooms. And I was hoping it was a tray, but it wasn’t.

NORAH O’DONNELL: You mentioned the first lady, her face. She looked very alarmed. Was she scared?

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Well, I don’t wanna say, and people don’t like having it said that they were scared. But certainly, I mean, who wouldn’t be when you have a situation like that? By that time I think she realized ahead of time that that was more of a bullet than it was a tray. I looked at her face just a little while ago before I came. I saw the scene. They played it for me and, you know, pretty good closeup. She looked very upset about what just took place, you know? Why not?

NORAH O’DONNELL: You see the security moving quickly, within seconds, grabbing the vice president by his coat, lifting him up, bringing him out. Then the counter assault comes in. Took ten seconds for them flank you, Mr. President, and then 20 seconds to get you out. It looked chaotic. At one point you were down. What was happening?

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Well, what happened is - it was a little bit [my fault.] I wanted to see what was happening, and I wasn’t making it that easy for them. I wanted to see what was going on. And by that time we started to realize maybe it was a bad problem, different kind of a problem, bad one.

And different than what would be normal noise from a ballroom, which you hear all the time. I was surrounded by great people. And I probably made them act a little bit more slowly. I said, “Wait a minute, wait a minute. Lemme see. Wait a minute.” So, you know, I’m telling guys to--

NORAH O’DONNELL: Just at that moment where it looks like you go sort of down with the Service, you were telling them to wait?

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: No, what happened is then I started walking with them. I turned, I started walking, and they said, “Please go down. Please go down on the floor.” So I went down and the first lady went down also. But we were asked to go down by the-- agents as I was walking.

NORAH O’DONNELL: They wanted you almost to crawl out…

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Pretty much. I was standing up and then turned around the opposite direction and started pretty much walking out pretty tall, a little bent over and about halfway there when they said, “Please go down to the floor. Please go down to the floor.” So I dropped to the floor. So did the first lady.

NORAH O’DONNELL: What was your thought at that moment? What did the first lady say?

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Well, my thought was, “You know, I’ve been through this before a couple of times.” And she has not to this extent. She handled it great. I mean, she’s very strong, smart. She got it. She knew what was happening. She listened when they said: “Drop down,” that meant trouble. Then I got up and we went to a hold room for a while and I tried to get them to continue the event, if possible.

NORAH O’DONNELL: You wanted to go back in.

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: I did. I really did. Because I don’t like to have a criminal or a sick person or somebody, whoever he is, they’ll figure it out, I mean, I think we’re already figuring out. He’s a man with a lot of problems. But you don’t wanna have somebody like this, you know, essentially attacking our Constitution, attacking our country- changing events that are important. It was a very important event.

NORAH O’DONNELL: A night celebrating the first amendment and the freedom of the press.

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: That’s right. That’s right. This was a record setter. That dinner had some problems for the last nine years and I didn’t go to help them. This time I went and I felt really good being there.

There was a great camaraderie. It was, you know, a lot of press, a lot of media. And when I walked in I got a very nice applause. I wasn’t sure. I told my wife: “You know, I may walk in and they may give me a hard time. Or I may walk in and let’s see what happens.”

And I walked in and got very nice response - I think they were happy to see me there, actually. I say this being somebody that’s had a lot of-- well, let’s say we’ve argued a little bit to get things that I want done. I fight for a border and they fight for an open border. And, you know, we have a lot of differences. But this time, there was tremendous camaraderie. I mean, I saw Democrats. I saw senators. I saw congressmen and women. I saw people that weren’t necessarily on my side from the other party mostly. Pretty much the Republicans are on my side, so I’m not that, you know, surprised. And they were goin’, “Way to go. Way to”-- there was spirit in that room. I mean, it was like the whole country was together. It was pretty amazing. And it made a big impression. It was very nice to see.

NORAH O’DONNELL: Do you think this will change your relationship with the press?

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Well, look, for whatever reason, we disagree on a lot of subjects. We talk about crime. I’m very strong on crime. It seems like the press isn’t. It’s not so much the press, it’s the press plus the Democrats because they’re almost one in the same.

It’s the craziest thing. I have the strongest border we’ve ever had in the country where, as you know, it’s at zero people for nine months came into our country through our southern border. We have a very tough border. Before me, 25 million people came in.

So when you say get along, I can but I don’t think I could ever change my feelings on certain policies. I want strong borders. They want open borders. There’s such a difference. I will say this, though. After the-- event, meaning it looked like things were good, they-- we knew he was caught, I was given the information immediately, there was a camaraderie that you just have not seen in a while. It’s very nice to see.

NORAH O’DONNELL: The president-- Mr. President, the vice president, the speaker of the House, the secretary of state, Secretary Hegseth, almost the entire line of presidential succession was in that ballroom. Who was the designated survivor?

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Well, first of all, I have to say it’s not a safe ballroom. I’m building a safe ballroom. And one of the reasons I’m building it is exactly what happened last night. We’re building a room right there. If you walk out and move 20 yards to the left, you’ll be right at the entrance to the ballroom. And that ballroom is being built on the safest piece of property in this country, probably one of the safest pieces of land in the world.

NORAH O’DONNELL: I think that’s owned, that’s the White House. The White House Correspondents dinner can’t use White House property.

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: No, it’s able to be used by certainly the White House. It says the White House Correspondents. Well, that’s the White House press. I’m sure that it is available. You know, it’s up to the president. But that would be made available.

And this has bullet-proof glass. This is the highest level of security. Also, very importantly, I could’ve built suites on top. I could’ve done a lotta things, and I said, “No, no. We have-- this has to be pure. This has to be where people stay off property, and they go through one very impactful, very strong entrance, one very powerful entrance.”

There’s no games with this. This is the best, highest security equipment at levels that you could never have in a regular ballroom. And we’re ahead of schedule. We’re right on budget, ahead of schedule.

I wish it could be even sooner. But we’re, you know, months ahead of schedule. But it doesn’t open till ‘28. So, you know, that means you have another season and a half to go. But-- this is exactly why the military, and this is exactly why Secret Service and all law enforcement want it.

Because you have maybe 1,000 hotel rooms above the ballroom we were in last night. And I’m not knocking it. I’m just saying in terms of maximum security-- it’s not the best thing. You can do it, but you can have problems like this. They have an elevator that comes down from the rooms that’s very close to the ballroom. Which makes sense. So we’re doing-- we’re doing something that’s gonna have a tremendous impact on solving this problem.

NORAH O’DONNELL: In that video you can see the gunman running through the metal detectors. And he fired off one or two rounds.

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Yeah. His speed was rather incredible, actually. It was like a blur.

NORAH O’DONNELL: How did he get that close? With the place was swarmed with security?

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: I will say because I’m a big fan of the people, of law enforcement. And, you know, some of these people, they may be crazy, but they’re not stupid and they figure things out. You know, he ran 45 yards they say, and he just went to it, and then boom, he popped through it.

A thing like that could happen. I would say this. Having the equipment on the outside of the building maybe is better than having it on the inside of the building. Sometimes that’s tough. Sometimes it’s horrendous weather. Sometimes it’s pouring, it’s raining, lots of things happen.

He ran like - I think the NFL should sign him up. He was fast.

When you look at it on tape, it’s almost like a blur. But it was amazing because as soon as they saw that - you could see them draw their guns. They were so professional. Aimed their guns, and then they took him down immediately. The doors were sealed. The room was sealed. The ballroom itself, where the people were. I think they did a great job.

NORAH O’DONNELL: I was in the room not far from you, Mr. President. Could hear what sounded like gunshots or commotion. People nearby could smell the gun powder. Everybody hit the floor. There were a number of people who were very, very scared. How worried were you…

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: I wasn’t worried. I understand life. We live in a crazy world. You can really enhance your chances of having a perfect situation, but sometimes things will happen. I did wanna see what was happening because I’m the president. In one way I guess I should be hiding.

In another way, I wanna see if I can be helpful. I did watch because I could see what was going on at the door. I also saw a lot of very strong - physically strong law enforcement people come through those doors. And frankly, it made me feel very safe, very, very safe. There was nobody gonna get by them. And this was at the very back of the ballroom looking at the back of the ballroom, big room--

NORAH O’DONNELL: The counter assault team that comes in?

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Yeah, yeah. They were very impressive. I think they were very impressive. I think the whole operation was very impressive. The only thing you could say is maybe they could move that counterpoint out deeper. To the outside of the building.

NORAH O’DONNELL: Let’s talk about that. Mr. President, I wonder, how much has the Secret Service and the FBI briefed you about this suspect, Cole Thomas Allen? Have you read what a senior U.S. official is describing to us as a manifesto?

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Yeah.

NORAH O’DONNELL: Did you know that he emailed it to family members? Right before the attack.

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Yeah. We found that out this morning. And the family members were concerned. I think the brother called up the police. I think the sister may have called the police. The parents were rather devastated. He lived with the parents. I saw the parents last night on television opening the door.

I assume that was his parents. Look, you have sick people. And you have to mitigate the risk. But some of these sick people, it’s amazing. Some of the-- they’re very sick, but they’re also in some cases very, very smart. He went to a great school.

I can tell you the person in Butler-- I don’t know if you ever looked at his academic credentials. He had almost 1,600 on his college boards. 1,600. Nobody has. I mean, that’s-- the upper-- 99.9 percentile or something. And he was a crazy person. But a smart crazy person. I think the law enforcement did a great job last night.

I guess if they didn’t, I wouldn’t be here. But I think they really did a great job. Now, can you make adjustments? We’re also learning. Can you make adjustments? I think the only adjustment would be you move your security equipment further away.

It was back about 50 yards away. Fifty yards is a lot of yards – now, when a guy’s running at that speed, he was a very fast person-- and he got ‘em by-- a little bit by surprise. But that didn’t matter because he was totally subdued very shortly after he passed at one point.

NORAH O’DONNELL: The so-called manifesto is a stunning thing to read, Mr. President. He appears to reference a motive in it. He writes this quote, “Administration officials, they are targets.” And he also wrote this, “I am no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist, and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes.” What’s your reaction to that?

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Well, I was waiting for you to read that because I knew you would because you’re horrible people. Horrible people. Yeah, he did write that. I’m not a rapist. I didn’t rape anybody.

NORAH O’DONNELL: Oh you think he was referring to you?

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: I’m not a pedophile. Excuse me. Excuse me. I’m not a pedophile. You read that crap from some sick person? I got associated with all that stuff that has nothing to do with me. I was totally exonerated. Your friends on the other side of the plate are the ones that were involved with Epstein or other things. But I said to myself, “You know, I’ll do this interview and they’ll probably…”

I read the manifesto. You know, he’s a sick person. But you should be ashamed of yourself reading that because I’m not any of those things. Excuse me. You shouldn’t be reading that on 60 Minutes. You’re a disgrace. But go ahead. Let’s finish the interview. You’re disgraceful.

NORAH O’DONNELL: The other thing in the manifesto that I think is worth looking at in terms of determining his motive is he had been staying at the hotel since Friday. He checked in, he said he had cased the place, and he wrote, “What the hell is the Secret Service doing?” And he wrote this quote, “I expected security cameras at every bend, bugged hotel rooms, armed agents every ten feet, metal detectors out the wazoo. What I got is nothing.” He wrote, “Like, this level of incompetence is insane.” Sir, you have already had two attempted –

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Well, he was pretty incompetent too, because he got caught. And he got caught pretty easily. So I’d say he was pretty incompetent too. You know, I can take any event having to do with security or anything else. I can always find fault no matter what.

I can take a baseball team that won the game 18 to nothing and say they should’ve played better. Those guys did a good job last night. They did a really good job. Now, do they make adjustments? They do. They learn. They make adjustments. We’re living in a different world with the internet than we had years ago.

But even years ago is very dangerous. I mean, just ask Honest Abe Lincoln. Pretty dangerous. We are living a very dangerous time.The internet, I think maybe more than anything else, it’s radicalized some people. It’s made people mentally sick.

It’s also a great thing. It’s a phenomenal thing. We’re the leader in it. We’re the leader in AI. It’s a great thing. But you’ll always find problems. But it’s a different-- it’s a different age. It’s a very different-- it’s a very different time.

NORAH O’DONNELL: His motive. You brought this up. He had social media accounts that had anti-Trump and anti-Christian rhetoric. He had a lot of anti-Christian rhetoric. He was part of a group called the Wide Awakes. He had attended a No Kings protest in California.

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: No Kings, yeah.

NORAH O’DONNELL: What did security tell you about what may have been his motives?

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: The reason you have people like [the shooter] is because there are people doing things like No Kings.

I’m not a king. If I was a king, I wouldn’t be dealing with you.

I see these No Kings protests, which are funded just like the Southern Poverty Law scammers. Southern Poverty Law is financing the KKK and lots of other radical, terrible groups. And then they go out and they say, “Oh, we’ve gotta stop the KKK.” And yet they give, you know, hundreds of thousands and even millions of dollars.

It’s a total scam run by the Democrats. Charlottesville was all funded by the Southern Poverty Law. That was a Southern Law deal too. And it was done to make me look bad, and it turned out to be a total fake. It basically was-- a rigged election.

This was a part of the rigging of the election. And that’s what you really should be doing.

I mean, I hope one of your 60 Minute episodes, which really hasn’t changed very much for the last few years. I’m surprised. But one of those episodes should be on Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and the fact that they spent millions and millions of dollars on absolute far-right and just bad, bad groups.

And then they’d use those groups and they’d say, “These are Republican groups and the SPLC is coming to your rescue.” And they’re the ones that have funded it and they’re the ones that kept ‘em-- keep ‘em going. Pretty, pretty sad. Do you think it’s pretty sad, Norah?

NORAH O’DONNELL: The allegations and the indictment--

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: They’re not just allegations. These are--

NORAH O’DONNELL: It was an indictment…

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: These are facts, okay? These are facts. I mean, they have checks [from the SPLC] to the Ku Klux Klan and many others. And then they’re saying how bad they are and blaming the Republican Party and Republicans. These are not just allegations. But go ahead.

NORAH O’DONNELL: Well, as you know sir, you’ve been accused of things and were able to go to a court of law and adjudicate them, so.

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Yeah, after five years - it takes you about five years. I’ve also won a lot of money from fake news media where they write falsely about me. Not that I wanna sue people, ‘cause I don’t. But I bring lawsuits against the fake news. I brought lawsuits against the CBS network and you paid me $38 million because you did something that was so horrible with Kamala.

You put an answer down that wasn’t responsive to the question because her answer-- her real answer was so bad it was election-threatening. And you paid me a lotta money. And you tried to pull one off. It was terrible. It was a terrible thing that you did.

And, you know, when you say, “Can we all get along,” you can. But when people do things like that, where-- how about the BBC when the BBC has me-- actually AI. They had me saying a horrible statement. And I said, “I never said that.” It turned out they-- gave me a little AI treatment where they had my lips speaking words of hate, tremendous hate, that I never said.

They don’t know what to do. They’ve admitted they’re wrong, they just don’t know what to do. They actually had me making a major statement and it wasn’t me. It was my face. It was my lips. My lips were perfectly in sync with the words. I said, “I can’t believe it. I can’t believe it.” You know, so then when you say, “Can you get along,” I can get along with anybody. But if people are gonna cheat, if people are going to be-- fake - you sort of don’t wanna get along.

NORAH O’DONNELL: On that, what do you say to the people who are encouraging political violence or even cheering it on?

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Well, I think the ones that are doing that are much more far left than far right. Much more. One of the things this guy said in his manifesto which you didn’t read, you should have, is that he attended a No Kings rally recently and it probably it had an impact.

NORAH O’DONNELL: Also at the dinner last night was your Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. His sister, Kerry Kennedy was there. They’ve both witnessed their father and their uncle be assassinated.

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: That’s right.

NORAH O’DONNELL: Erika Kirk was there. The House Majority Leader Steve Scalise was there. Political violence has touched so many people in that room. Is there something that you as president can do? What can be done to change the trajectory--

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Well, you know, you go back 20 years, 40 years, 100 years, 200 years, 500 years, it’s always been there. People are assassinated. People are injured. People are hurt. And I’m not sure that it’s any more now than there was. I do think that the hate speech of the Democrats is very dangerous.

I really think it’s very dangerous for the country. I think the fact that I’ve accomplished so much-- I’ve made our country great again. I mean, this country was dead. Our country was dead. A year and a half ago sleepy Joe Biden had no idea what he was doing.

I don’t think it was him, either. I think it was the people that surrounded him in the Oval Office at the beautiful Resolute Desk. I don’t think he knew what he was doing. He didn’t sign anything. He used the autopen to sign 90% of the things. I think that they created a tremendous amount of anger and hate. Our country was dead and now we have the hottest country anywhere in the world.

As an example, investments in our country - for four years less than $1 trillion under Biden. In 11 months, $18 trillion under Trump. Now, most people are happy about that but some people are really angry about it. You know why? Because it means we should be around for a long time, and they don’t want that to happen.

NORAH O’DONNELL: Last night, you had very much a tone of unity —when you were in the White House Press Briefing Room.

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: I think so, yeah. I really felt very calm. I feel very calm right now other than a couple of your questions, which are meant to antagonize and are totally inappropriate. But I feel very calm.

I thought last night was a very important thing to do. Not an easy thing to do, you know? You leave a scene like that, and then you’re supposed to let our country and even the world know that it’s gonna be okay.

NORAH O’DONNELL: And what about when we’re talking about the division in this country, the political violence. Now many of your Cabinet secretaries live on military bases.

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Yeah.

NORAH O’DONNELL: In order to, because of potential threats against them.

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Well, they choose to. I’m not sure that they need to. They also have nice places, you know? Democrats did the same thing. Some of the housing on the military bases is very nice. I’m not sure they do it necessarily for violence. Look, we are consequential. This is a consequential presidency. I have a great Cabinet, and they do things that are very good for the American people.

Like, as an example, Iran. They’re not gonna have a nuclear weapon. They will not have. Iran will not be allowed to blow up the world. They’re crazy. They’re not gonna blow up the world. And therefore Iran [and the Democrats] are not happy. And when they’re not happy, people do things that are violent.

Now, I’m not tracing anything back to them, but certainly if they had a shot, they’d probably take it. So when you’re a consequential president or if you have a consequential administration, things happen that wouldn’t happen if you’re Sleepy Joe Biden.

Everyone was happy with Biden. The world was happy. You know why they were happy? Because they were taking advantage of us, because they treated the United States like we were stupid people, and they made a lot of money. But they don’t do that anymore.

NORAH O’DONNELL: Last night was gonna be your first attendance at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: That’s right. And I was lookin’ forward to making a speech. I was going to do a pretty rip-roaring speech. I won’t go into the total details, but I was gonna hit people really hard with humor. In other words, really hard with humor. And I thought it was good. When this happened, I wanted it to go forward, because I just didn’t want it canceled by a crazy person.

Our country’s too good for that. Our country’s too important for that and too powerful for that. I didn’t want that to happen. But I said to ‘em – and I still would go up. I was expecting until the last moment, when the military came, and Secret Service, and law enforcement, and they said because--

NORAH O’DONNELL: Why did they say you can’t go back? When you were saying “I want to go back…”

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Because we had a very sealed room. It was very airtight. Once the doors opened and the Secret Service, military, others came in, the police came in, the law enforcement, they came in, lot of them. We had a lot of law enforcement. And it was a wall.

But the doors were open. It was breached by them. If somebody happened to slip in. And when they said that, I said, “You’re right.” But I did want to go up. But it would have been a much different speech. I would have had to just get up and say, “I love you all.” And there was love in the room. It was amazing. There was love in the room.

NORAH O’DONNELL: And why do you think that is? Why do you think that the tone changed?

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: People came together. Democrats that truly can’t stand me were saying, “Sir, could I just shake your hand?” I mean, I’m leaving and I’m seeing people, you know, high-level people, and they’re saying, “Sir, great job.”

One of the Democrats said, “Could I hug you?” A big politician on the other side. There was love. It just all came together. It was very amazing to see. It was a very beautiful thing at a non-beautiful moment, really. But it was a very beautiful thing that was happening.

NORAH O’DONNELL: I hesitate to ask you about this but as you know, these conspiracy theories out there on the left and the right - that the event was staged or that it didn’t happen.

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: What? That last night didn’t happen?

NORAH O’DONNELL: That or that Butler didn’t happen. These conspiracy theories that are gaining traction --

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Wow, I know. The same people who say that say that October the 7th didn’t happen, and World War II didn’t happen, and the Holocaust didn’t happen, and many things didn’t happen.

I think people who say stuff like that are more sick than they are con people, but there’s a lot of con in it too. I haven’t heard that last night didn’t happen. Well, usually it takes a little bit longer. Usually they wait about two or three months to start saying that.

NORAH O’DONNELL: The King is coming here, the King of England.

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: I think it’s great. He’ll be very safe, yeah. You know, the White House grounds, yes?

NORAH O’DONNELL: So, no concerns about security going forward?

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: No. The White House grounds are really safe. This area - it’s really safe. And he’ll be staying here. Now, I believe he’s going to a couple of other locations ‘cause he’s here for a few days, and he’s a great guy. They called and they are so looking forward to being here. We spoke this morning.

NORAH O’DONNELL: So he’s-- the king is fine? He’s still coming?

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Yeah. He’s a good person.

NORAH O’DONNELL: There’s no indication from the Secret Service or the FBI that there’s an additional threat to you or other administration officials--

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: No, no, no. This was a lone wolf, in my opinion. No, but we may find out something else. This was a sick lone wolf. He’s a sicko and a very disturbed person. You could see it with his-- journey through life. I mean, he was a Christian. He was-- a member of the Christian club at his college, Caltech, which is a good college.

And I’m sure they’re very embarrassed by this, because, you know, it’s a great college. So that means he’s pretty smart, to be in. You know, you gotta get pretty good marks, gotta get pretty good board scores. It’s a hard school to get into.

So he’s a smart guy, but he’s a sick guy. Yeah, that’s the problem. I mean, it would be a lot easier if they weren’t smart. Some of ‘em are very smart. And-- they go around, and all they want to do is kill people. They’re sick, and they have to be put away.

NORAH O’DONNELL: I understand today is the first lady’s birthday? Is that right?

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Today is her birthday, yes. Happy birthday. Happy birthday, Melania. “Happy birthday, darling.”

NORAH O’DONNELL: And you were back here in the White House, I understand, in five minutes.

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Well, they-- they move fast, yeah.

NORAH O’DONNELL: Yeah. They move fast.

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: But think of it. The security of having this really perfect facility, built with the highes security levels on the grounds. By the way, other presidents will use the ballroom a lot more than me. I’m gonna have four or five months left. You can’t have thousands of rooms on top of a ballroom and have security, real security. Now, with that being said, I hope they do this event again, and I hope they do it again soon. I want them, because I don’t want to see it be canceled. I don’t want to have a crazy person-- I think it’s really bad for a crazy person to be able to cancel something like this. And when you cancel, you’re sort of playing right into the hands of these nutjobs, and they are. They’re really sick people.

People are fighting me. Not everybody, there are great people in the press too I can name. We have some great people in the press, some very fair people, and people that are just on my side.

But for the most part, it’s a very liberal or very progressive.

Now, the event turned out to be much less bad because nobody was killed. Nobody was hurt. The Secret Service agent - I spoke to him. He had a bulletproof vest on. Unbelievable.

NORAH O’DONNELL: He’s okay?

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Oh, he’s a hundred percent. Yeah, no. He was a 100%. He didn’t want to go to the hospital. He really didn’t. They asked him to go, and they-- he said-- he didn’t want to go. He said, “I don’t need to go to the hospital.” But he went because they asked him to go.

NORAH O’DONNELL: Well, I know the White House Correspondents’ Association very much appreciates you going last night and honoring the commitment to do it.

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: I hope we’re going to do it again. Norah, tell them to get it going, and we should do it within 30 days, and they’ll have even more security, and they’ll have bigger perimeter security. It’ll be fine. But tell them to do it again. It’s not that I wanna go. I’m very busy. I don’t need that. I think it’s very important that they do it again.

NORAH O’DONNELL: Well, thank you. Thank you, Mr. President.

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Thank you very much.

I’ll be issuing my in-depth report in a couple of day after I verify everything. But one big takeaway at this point - the shooting caused the SPLC story to exit the news cycle quickly, the fake news was hoping an “assassination” would keep the King of England away, stop Trump’s blockade of Iran, stop work on the RICO grand conspiracy case against Obama and the left and the press were hoping to use Cole’s so-called manifesto, filled with lies, to paint Trump as Epstein’s BFF and a pedophile and rapist - post-mortem - for the history books. Chew on that!

The entire line of succession was in that room - and if they were all killed - Chuck Grassley would be our President! God had other plans!

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FRANKLIN GRAHAM: After three assassination attempts, some people say that President Trump is one lucky man. I don’t think luck has anything to do with it—I believe it is the hand of God.

A 31-year-old man from Torrance, California, has been identified as the shooter at the WHCD. Cole Tomas Allen, also referred to as Cole Allen or Cole Thomas Allen, was taken into federal custody alive. He was not shot during the confrontation and was transported to Howard University Hospital for evaluation and treatment of non-gunshot injuries.

Allen charged the checkpoint armed with multiple weapons and opened fire. Secret Service agents intercepted and subdued him in the lobby area outside the ballroom. He never reached the main event space.

Allen was armed with a shotgun, a handgun, and multiple knives. He reportedly assembled the shotgun from a bag in an unsecured side or back room near the terrace-level entrance. He put the gun together in a cordoned-off area next to security, where the bar carts were. “We know that he traveled from Los Angeles to Chicago and the Chicago to DC. It appears he traveled by train during both those legs of his trip and checked into the Washington Hilton a couple of days ago on the 24th, and then obviously tried to breach the perimeter last night and was quickly subdued.”

Cole Tomas Allen was a part-time SAT/ACT prep instructor from Torrance, Calif., who graduated from Caltech with a mechanical engineering degree in 2017, specializing in robots, and later earned a master’s degree in computer science in 2025 from California State University Dominguez Hills. Cole Tomas Allen was a member of CalTech’s “Blitzkrieg Bots” team that won a robotic vehicle design competition in March 2016. He was no crazy person. He lives in Torrance, California, a suburb of Los Angeles, and worked as a teacher/tutor.

He was named “Teacher of the Month” by the company in December 2024 and was featured on ABC News in 2018.

He has no known prior criminal history publicly detailed at this time. A neighbor reportedly described him as possibly “on the spectrum.” His LinkedIn profile describes him as a “game dev, engineer, scientist, teacher.”

He’s a registered Democrat, donated to Kamala Harris, and is a part-time game developer with projects like “First Law” (top-down shooter/RPG) and “Bohrdom” (unique racing game).

Manifesto start

Cole Allen sent a 1052-word manifesto to his family 10 minutes before Saturday’s attack. It sounds like it was written by a man that was high on something and edited by Grok. Not kidding.

Hello everybody!

So I may have given a lot of people a surprise today. Let me start off by apologizing to everyone whose trust I abused.

I apologize to my parents for saying I had an interview without specifying it was for “Most Wanted.”

I apologize to my colleagues and students for saying I had a personal emergency. By the time anyone reads this, I probably most certainly DO need to go to the ER, but can hardly call that not a self-inflicted status.

I apologize to all of the people I traveled next to, all the workers who handled my luggage, and all the other non-targeted people at the hotel who I put in danger simply by being near.

I apologize to everyone who was abused and/or murdered before this, to all those who suffered before I was able to attempt this, to all who may still suffer after, regardless of my success or failure.

I don’t expect forgiveness, but if I could have seen any other way to get this close, I would have taken it. Again, my sincere apologies.

On to why I did any of this:

I am a citizen of the United States of America.

What my representatives do reflects on me.

And I am no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist, and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes.

(Well, to be completely honest, I was no longer willing a long time ago, but this is the first real opportunity I’ve had to do something about it.)

While I’m discussing this, I’ll also go over my expected rules of engagement, probably in a terrible format, but I’m not military so too bad.

Administration officials, not including Mr. Patel: they are targets, prioritized from highest-ranking to lowest.

Secret Service: they are targets only if necessary, and to be incapacitated non-lethally if possible, aka, I hope they’re wearing body armor because center mass with shotguns messes up people who aren’t.

Hotel Security: not targets if at all possible, aka unless they shoot at me.

Capitol Police: same as Hotel Security.

National Guard: same as Hotel Security.

Hotel Employees: not targets at all.

Guests: not targets at all.

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.

Rebuttals to objections:

Objection 1: As a Christian, you should turn the other cheek.

Rebuttal: 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. 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.

Objection 2: This is not a convenient time for you to do this.

Rebuttal: I need whoever thinks this way to take a couple minutes and realize that the world isn’t about them. Do you think that when I see someone raped or murdered or abused, I should walk on by because it would be inconvenient for people who aren’t the victim?

This was the best timing and chance of success I could come up with.

Objection 3: You didn’t get them all.

Rebuttal: Gotta start somewhere.

Objection 4: As a half-black, half-white person, you shouldn’t be the one doing this.

Rebuttal: I don’t see anyone else picking up the slack.

Objection 5: Yield unto Caesar what is Caesar’s.

Rebuttal: The United States of America are ruled by the law, not by any one or several people. In so far as representatives and judges do not follow the law, no one is required to yield them anything so unlawfully ordered.

I would also like to extend my appreciation to a great many people since I will not be likely to be able to talk with them again, unless the Secret Service is astoundingly incompetent.

Thank you to my family, both personal and church, for your love over these 31 years.

Thank you to my friends, for your companionship over many years.

Thank you to my colleagues over many jobs, for your positivity and professionalism.

Thank you to my students for your enthusiasm and love of learning.

Thank you to the many acquaintances I’ve met, in person and online, for short interactions and long-term relationships, for your perspectives and inspiration.

Thank you all for everything.

Sincerely,

Cole “coldForce” “Friendly Federal Assassin” Allen

PS: Ok now that all the sappy stuff is done, what the hell is the Secret Service doing? Sorry, gonna rant a bit here and drop the formal tone.

Like, I expected security cameras at every bend, bugged hotel rooms, armed agents every 10 feet, metal detectors out the wazoo.

What I got, who knows, maybe they’re pranking me, is nothing.

No damn security.

Not in transport.

Not in the hotel.

Not in the event.

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.

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.

Like, if I was an Iranian agent, instead of an American citizen, I could have brought a damn Ma Deuce in here and no one would have noticed shit.

Actually insane.

Oh and if anyone is curious is how doing something like feels, it’s awful. I want to throw up; I want to cry for all the things I wanted to do and never will, for all the people whose trust this betrays; I experience rage thinking about everything this administration has done.

Can’t really recommend it! Stay in school, kids.

Cole Allen also had a SPECIAL on ABC News a few years go. Hmm. What are the chances of that being a coincidence? Remember that Thomas Crooks was also in a BLACKROCK VIDEO when he was in high school. These things don’t just happen. I now have no doubt this was another MKULTRA activated assassin. They are CHOSEN, GROOMED AND COERCED to commit atrocities. If you still don’t know what MKULTRA is - here’s a primer on the topic:

Childers did a great recap so I’m not going to reinvent the wheel here. Some excerpts:

CHILDERS: “Well—it happened again. Thank heavens, they failed again.

The White House Correspondents’ Association dinner is a black-tie banquet in Washington, DC. Once a year, the President, political officials, and journalists gather for speeches, awards, and lighthearted roast-style humor. Organized by the WHCA, a group representing reporters assigned to the White House, the annual event is held at the Washington Hilton, which has hosted the dinner for decades.

Coincidentally, the Washington Hilton is also where John Hinckley shot Reagan in 1981.

The dinner event is usually widely covered by U.S. media, since they love talking about themselves.

President Trump boycotted the dinner during all of Trump 1.0 and last year. So last night’s WHCA dinner would have been his very first as Commander in Chief.”

Before we go on, I want to remind people WHY President Trump had boycotted the WHCD dinner so far.

Many Republicans are not aware that in 2011, at the WHCD, President Obama and Seth Meyers mercilessly roasted and mocked Donald Trump for considering a GOP Presidential run. It was humiliating and degrading. They laughingly announced, to the world, THAT DONALD TRUMP WOULD NEVER BE PRESIDENT. Many people believe, including me, that this was the pivotal moment when Donald Trump decided to run for President in 2016 and prove them ALL wrong.

Also, two weeks before that WHCD, Ben Shapiro wrote an article calling Donald Trump the most “magical” Presidential candidate the Republicans could ever ask for. Ben’s glowing critique of Trump literally painted him as the “savior” of the Republican party. That must have really irked Obama and the Democrats and the GOP political elite.

After Obama’s and Meyer’s roast of Trump at the WHCD, Shapiro buried his views, put his tail between his legs and, afraid he would lose his place at the cool kid’s media table, turned on Trump.

What did Ben Shapiro say in 2011 about Donald Trump? Read on. It’s important for you to know what DC thought about Trump before they turned on him.

“For well over a year, I, along with the rest of the conservative base in America, have lamented the lack of decent possible Republican presidential candidates. Despite the fact that he has run the most incompetent administration in history, President Obama remains a solid bet for re-election in 2012. Obama’s frontrunner status springs from two crucial facts: first, by overexposing himself in the public eye, he has made himself larger than life; second, the Republican field is pathetically weak.

Mitt Romney has about as much charm as a Ziploc bag, and his support for Romneycare in Massachusetts should immediately put him out of the running. Though brilliant, Newt Gingrich is chameleonic and impossible to peg down to principle; therefore, he’s unacceptable to many primary voters. Sarah Palin is polarizing; Haley Barbour bears too strong a resemblance to Deputy Dawg; Mike Huckabee isn’t interested in running, and his religious background makes him a beloved target of the secular press; Tim Pawlenty makes Ben Stein seem colorful. The Republican field has not been this wide open since ... well, since 2008. Sadly, the intervening three years have not cleared up any questions.

If Republicans were to construct an ideal candidate, he would have to be rich beyond belief -- Obama is going to raise $1 billion for his next election campaign, and no Republican candidate has the ability to come close to those numbers without deep pockets. The ideal Republican candidate would have significant name recognition with the general public -- no Republican candidate has ever won the presidency without significant name recognition going into the primaries since Warren G. Harding in 1920. The ideal Republican candidate would have stage presence, an intimidation factor, and a willingness to play dirty.

In the last several weeks, that ideal Republican candidate has materialized. His name is Donald Trump. His slogan is ready-made: “You’re Fired.” He does not give a damn what the media thinks of him -- he steamrolled Meredith Vieira during his NBC interview with her last week. He can self-fund to the tune of $1 billion. And what’s more, he can win.

Pay no attention to the recent polls showing Obama crushing Trump by 20 points in a head-to-head matchup. That disparity is attributable to the public perception that Trump is a loudmouth with no true interest in running. The moment he declares in earnest and gets on the campaign stump, his numbers will rise dramatically.

Trump has across-the-board appeal. His show, “The Apprentice,” routinely draws nearly 9 million viewers per episode. Blue-collar workers identify with Trump’s rough-and-tumble attitude. He even has union support -- he’s made a political mint bashing outsourcing, and he recently told Human Events that he has made “many billions of dollars working with the unions,” though he does not disagree that public sector unions bilk taxpayers.

Trump’s image boils down to this: he’s a no-nonsense businessman who is brash enough to take on Obama directly. He’s big enough to stand toe-to-toe with Obama and slug it out.

The biggest question that surrounds Trump of late is his focus on the question of Obama’s birth certificate. Trump has stated routinely and openly that he wonders whether Obama was born in the United States, and he has called on Obama to release his birth certificate. This has earned him the ire and scorn of Obama’s lackeys, who say he has “zero chance” of getting elected.

In reality, the birth certificate issue is specifically geared toward certain political ends for Trump. First, it is obviously calculated to attract the most anti-Obama segment of the conservative base -- and it has already succeeded, if primary polling is any indicator. Second, it is designed to force Obama into defending his character -- Trump has already suggested that at best, Obama refuses to come clean with the American people. Finally, it shows Obama that if Trump is nominated, the campaign will not be a McCain-style hands-off lovefest. It will be a knockdown drag-out brawl. Trump will stop emphasizing the birth certificate issue, to be sure, but not until he’s milked it for all it is worth.

Is Donald Trump the best Republican candidate for president out there? It would be tough to argue otherwise. He’s got all the makings of a breakout star; he’s got bravado and the cash to back it up. If he really runs, he won’t have any trouble finding supporters. And as he puts it, he is the Obama administration’s “worst nightmare.” So far, who can argue with him?”

So Ben Shapiro proclaimed that Trump was a Republican dream candidate and then Obama & Seth Meyers roasted Trump to make sure everybody knew he was persona non grata. That’s the reason Trump stopped going.

CHILDERS: “It went down around 8:30 pm, right after everyone had been seated and the dinner service had begun. Blurry hotel security footage on the floor just above the conference room showed a heavily armed black man racing past the Secret Service security checkpoint in a full sprint, heading for the staircase leading to the ballroom. As he sprinted past security officials at a dead run, he fired at the closest agent and hit him in the center of mass; the agent’s vest caught the bullet.

Three or four more shots were fired. It’s not yet clear who fired them, Allen or security. Alert agents tackled the would-be assassin about 50 feet later, near the grand staircase down to the ballroom, where he would have had a clear shot to the stage, where the President, Vice-President, their wives, and other officials were innocently dining.

Meanwhile, downstairs in the ballroom, Secret Service and other security personnel heard five shots in quick succession and sprang into action, rushing the Vice President and then the President offstage. The ballroom exploded in chaos and panic. A local DC reporter said, “You heard the pops, then a beat of silence, and suddenly everyone in tuxedos and gowns was under the tables.” Wolf Blitzer reported that an officer threw him to the ground.

The room was locked down while terrified attendees cautiously emerged from under their tables, and staff began clearing broken glasses and dishes destroyed in the race to the floors. Around 9 pm, a WHCA official said the program would resume; at 9:20 pm they changed their mind and told everyone to go home.

By 10:30 pm, the shooter had been identified, and President Trump held a press conference at the White House. “Some of these people are genius-level IQ, but they’re nuts,” Trump said plainly.

Cole Thomas, alternatively Tomas, Allen, 31, of Torrance, California, was quickly publicly identified. He was of the credentialed elite class and armed with a shotgun, a handgun, and an unspecified number of knives. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said, “It does appear that he, he did, in fact, set out to target folks that work in the administration, likely including the President.”

CBS reported that he told law enforcement he wanted to shoot Trump administration officials. He aimed for total mayhem.

For convenience, Allen also booked a room at the Washington Hilton in early April where the dinner was held.

The Wall Street Journal reported that Allen was registered with no party preference, according to voting records. But in 2024, he donated 25 dollars to ActBlue with the memo “Earmarked for Harris for President,” according to FEC filings. According to a recent LinkedIn post, he worked at C2 Education, a private tutoring and test-prep company, which had just awarded him Teacher of the Month only four months ago in December 2024.

Allen’s younger sister, Avriana Allen, is a journalist who lives in DC. She graduated in 2021 from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. Until just recently, she worked for progressive platform CalMatters as a voter-guide developer. Since September, she has appeared to work for the Pew Research Center, with an office within walking distance of the Hilton. So far, no evidence has been reported suggesting Avriana helped Cole.

US Attorney for DC Jeanine Pirro announced Allen will be arraigned on charges including using a firearm during a crime of violence and assaulting a federal officer with a dangerous weapon. For starters. Pirro promised, “There will be many more charges based upon the information that we are learning in this very fluid situation.” The WHCA and President Trump both said the dinner will be rescheduled within the next 30 days.

KARI LAKE: “To get into the lobby of the hotel, they simply looked at the email confirmation.

Anyone could have shown a screenshot and got into the lobby.

There were protestors right across from the hotel screaming and yelling at attendees.

They had no scanning or metal detectors until you walked two flights down to the ballroom where the president would be.

The entire time I was questioning why the security was so relaxed.”

BILL MELUGIN, LA TIMES & FOX NEWS: My thoughts on the security at the WHCD last night.

The first exterior security for me was on the street outside of the hotel. I flashed my ticket and was waved through in one second. My name was not checked against any list, I showed no ID, I was not patted down and did not go through a metal detector. I probably could have shown a ticket from a prior year or a fake one as they barely looked at it. (I don’t know who that exterior security was, they were guys in suits).

From that point, I walked into the hotel with no further security check, and I walked down to the Fox pre-party where there were multiple ballrooms that were absolutely PACKED with attendees. Still did not go through any security at that point.

Hypothetically, If I had hidden an explosive in my shoe or my jacket, I would have had no problem getting into one of those ballrooms.

Only once it was time to get into the main ballroom for the dinner did we pass through magnetometers, empty our pockets, and get a pat down. And even that checkpoint was just outside of the dinner room.

Two things can be true at the same time.

Secret Service reacted quickly to an active armed threat and prevented that threat from getting into the ballroom. But the security leading up to that point, in my opinion, appeared to be lacking severely.

Media and pattern

Corporate media is already downplaying the story. Though headlining it with multiple stories, outlets like PBS and the awful New York Times are calling it “an incident” instead of an “assassination attempt.” They are one euphemism away from calling it a spirited disagreement.

Independent researchers are hard at work, digging into the internet, scouring public records, and harvesting historic social media posts. One of the most eerily mysterious items they’ve found was an anonymous X account, created in 2023, that has posted exactly one thing in its entire existence: the two words “Cole Allen,” and then went dark. Independent investigators have already located a Henry Martinez who worked at NASA at the same time Cole Allen interned there. I would not be surprised if it turns out the men were romantically involved. If that is the same guy, why would he post Allen’s name on X as his only social media activity? It’s hard to guess.

You needn’t believe in a grand conspiracy to notice that these random loner shooters keep showing up exactly where the professionals left the door cracked open.

Correspondents’ Dinner

Somehow, Allen from able to accelerate from out of view, around the corner, roughly 50 yards away, sprint straight past that knot of security, and close the distance without colliding with a single person, as if the lane in front of him had been cleared just in time for his dash.

In the case of Trump assassination attempts, we’ve now reached three—three gunmen, three lone wolves, three times the system somehow accidentally left the exact wrong piece of ground uncovered.

Until accountability happens, we shouldn’t be asking whether or not there will be a fourth attempt. We should be asking why, given the incentives we’ve created, there wouldn’t be one.

Trump’s response was gracious and presidential. But a nation cries out for accountability. Three strikes is supposed to mean you’re out. We have got to start asking who’s pitching.

Cole Allen called Trump and his administration the Antichrist, pedophiles, rapists, etc.

Marjorie Taylor Greene, Carrie Prejean, Candace Owens, Tucker Carlson, and Nick Fuentes have said the exact same things about Trump and his administration.

TODD STARNES: Hundreds of journalists demanded that President Trump be confronted forcefully at the White House Correspondents Dinner. Their hatred of this man is really at demonic levels. It’s unhinged. And yet, when the gunman attacked, President Trump ordered the Secret Service to protect the journalists. He was deeply concerned about their safety and well-being. And he was determined to stay and resume the program to accommodate the reporters. That notion was quickly dismissed by the Secret Service. But it shows you the heart of this man - a good and decent man who has been maligned by the media and the DC establishment. The unthinkable almost happened - for a third time. We thank God once again that he spared the life of our president and our lovely First Lady. God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble and he will protect us from the evil one.

TERRENCE: CNN is already blaming “gun violence” for the shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. No, CNN — maybe it’s time to look in the mirror.

When the media spends years pushing fear, hysteria, and nonstop lies about President Trump and his supporters, unstable people hear it. This is what reckless propaganda does. Stop pretending your rhetoric has no consequences.

So, Thomas Crooks was in a BLACKROCK AD & Cole Allen was in an ABC NEWS SPECIAL? Come on! MKULTRA is obvious! Chosen & coerced!

The Trump DOJ just wrote a SCATHING demand to the activist attorneys suing to stop Trump’s ballroom after last night’s shooting

“Put simply, your lawsuit puts the lives of the President, his family, and his staff at GRAVE risk.

I hope yesterday’s narrow miss will help you finally realize the folly of a lawsuit that literally serves no purpose except to stop President Trump no matter the cost.

Enough is enough.

Your client should voluntarily dismiss this frivolous lawsuit today in light of last night’s assassination attempt on President Trump.

If your client does not dismiss the lawsuit by 9:00 AM on Monday, the government will move to dissolve the injunction and dismiss the case in light of last night’s extraordinary events.

We will state your position as opposed if we do not hear back from you by 9:00 AM on Monday.”

“Yesterday’s assassination attempt on President Trump proves, yet again, that the White House ballroom is essential for the safety and security of the President, his family, his cabinet, and his staff.

When the White House ballroom is complete, President Trump and his successors will no longer need to venture beyond the safety of the White House perimeter to attend large gatherings at the Washington Hilton ballroom.”

> Donald J. Trump: What happened last night is exactly the reason that our great Military, Secret Service, Law Enforcement and, for different reasons, every President for the last 150 years, have been DEMANDING that a large, safe, and secure Ballroom be built ON THE GROUNDS OF THE WHITE HOUSE. This event would never have happened with the Militarily Top Secret Ballroom currently under construction at the White House. It cannot be built fast enough! While beautiful, it has every highest level security feature there is plus, there are no rooms sitting on top for unsecured people to pour in, and is inside the gates of the most secure building in the World, The White House. The ridiculous Ballroom lawsuit, brought by a woman walking her dog, who has absolutely No Standing to bring such a suit, must be dropped, immediately. Nothing should be allowed to interfere with with its construction, which is on budget and substantially ahead of schedule!!! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP > Donald J. Trump: I will be interviewed on 60 Minutes tonight at 7 P.M. EST — CBS Television Network. Enjoy! President DONALD J. TRUMP

President Trump tells Fox News his ballroom will be ready in 2028, which he says will prevent any more assassination attempts.A 31-year-old man from Torrance, California, has been identified as the shooter. Cole Tomas Allen (also referred to as Cole Allen or Cole Thomas Allen), was taken into federal custody alive. He was not shot during the confrontation and was transported to Howard University Hospital for evaluation and treatment of non-gunshot injuries. Allen charged the checkpoint armed with multiple weapons and opened fire. Secret Service agents quickly intercepted and subdued him in the lobby area outside the ballroom. He never reached the main event space.

Allen was armed with a shotgun, a handgun and multiple knives. He reportedly assembled the shotgun from a bag in an unsecured side or back room near the terrace-level entrance. He put the gun together in a cordoned off area next to a security, where the bar carts were.

He lives in Torrance, California (a suburb of Los Angeles) and worked as a teacher/tutor, including part-time at C2 Education, a private tutoring and college prep company in Torrance. He was named “Teacher of the Month” by the company in December 2024.
A federal law enforcement source confirmed he is a teacher.

Cole Tomas Allen was a part-time SAT/ACT prep instructor from Torrance, Calif., who graduated from Caltech with a mechanical engineering degree in 2017, specializing in robots, and later earned a master’s degree in computer science in 2025 from California State University Dominguez Hills. Cole Tomas Allen was a member of CalTech's "Blitzkrieg Bots" team that won a robotic vehicle design competition in March 2016. He was no crazy person.

He has no known prior criminal history publicly detailed at this time. A neighbor reportedly described him as possibly “on the spectrum.” Some social media mentions reference a LinkedIn profile describing him as a “game dev, engineer, scientist, teacher.”

He's a registered Democrat - donating to Kamala Harris - and game developer with projects like “First Law” (top-down shooter/RPG) and “Bohrdom” (unique racing game.)

Was he radicalized on the dark web - was he activated by MKUltra? If he was on the spectrum he could have been groomed for this. ABC: The WHCD shooting suspect is believed to have booked a room in the Hilton in early April, law enforcement officials tell me. He is declining to answer questions but allegedly made some reference to targeting administration officials but was not specific. Sounds activated to me.

Allen was also a registered guest at the Washington Hilton, the venue for the WHCD. Police secured and searched the room he had booked. Investigators believe he assembled at least one weapon in an unsecured area of the hotel before approaching the checkpoint.

Preliminary federal charges include using a firearm during a crime of violence and assault on a federal officer using a dangerous weapon. Additional charges, possibly including terrorism-related offenses, are expected. He is scheduled to be arraigned in federal district court on Monday. The FBI’s Washington Field Office, along with D.C. Metropolitan Police, is leading the investigation.

President Trump publicly described the suspect as a “lone wolf,” “sick person,” and “whack job,” and shared photos and video of Allen in custody - shirtless and handcuffed on the ground.

Avriana F. Allen, 27, of Washington, D.C., is the confirmed sister of Cole Tomas Allen. Public records link them through their shared mother, Kathleen A. Allen, and prior family addresses in Torrance, California.

Avriana Allen has a background in journalism and statistics (double major from Northwestern University and she works on election-related matters. She currently works (or has worked) as a Junior Tooling and Support Engineer at the Pew Research Center in Washington, D.C.

She is specifically noted for developing voter guides for CalMatters, a California news organization focused on state politics and policy. She currently works (or has worked) as a Junior Tooling and Support Engineer at the Pew Research Center in Washington, D.C.

Norm Eisen, Mr. Lawfare, was at the WHCD - is he tied to Allen's sister?

BTW: The Secret Service agent shot has been working without pay for over a month because the Democrats refuse to fund DHS. Ronald Reagan was shot in the same area. Kari Lake said security at the hotel was very lax. There are several Communist organizations protesting around the hotel and some CodePink activists were dressed in ball gowns and wandering around the venue.

For the two weeks before the shooting at the White House Correspondents' dinner, the Secret Service had been investigating a mystery shooting that took place near the White House the morning after Easter Sunday around 1-2 a.m.

The White House/President Trump has been demanding answers from the Secret Service - but the USSS has been at a loss. Is there a mole in the USSS?

Cole Allen sent a 1052 word "manifesto" to his family 10 minutes before Saturday’s attack.

It sounds like it was written by a man that was high on something and edited by Grok. Not kidding.

Cole Allen also had a SPECIAL ON ABC NEWS a few years go. Hmm. What are the chances of that being a coincidence? Remember that Thomas Crooks was in a BLACKROCK VIDEO. These things don't just happen. I now have no doubt this was another MKULTRA activated assassin.

Hello everybody!

So I may have given a lot of people a surprise today. Let me start off by apologizing to everyone whose trust I abused.

I apologize to my parents for saying I had an interview without specifying it was for “Most Wanted.”

I apologize to my colleagues and students for saying I had a personal emergency (by the time anyone reads this, I probably most certainly DO need to go to the ER, but can hardly call that not a self-inflicted status.)

I apologize to all of the people I traveled next to, all the workers who handled my luggage, and all the other non-targeted people at the hotel who I put in danger simply by being near.

I apologize to everyone who was abused and/or murdered before this, to all those who suffered before I was able to attempt this, to all who may still suffer after, regardless of my success or failure.

I don’t expect forgiveness, but if I could have seen any other way to get this close, I would have taken it. Again, my sincere apologies.

On to why I did any of this:

I am a citizen of the United States of America.

What my representatives do reflects on me.

And I am no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist, and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes.

(Well, to be completely honest, I was no longer willing a long time ago, but this is the first real opportunity I’ve had to do something about it.)

While I’m discussing this, I’ll also go over my expected rules of engagement (probably in a terrible format, but I’m not military so too bad.)

Administration officials (not including Mr. Patel): they are targets, prioritized from highest-ranking to lowest

Secret Service: they are targets only if necessary, and to be incapacitated non-lethally if possible (aka, I hope they’re wearing body armor because center mass with shotguns messes up people who *aren’t*

Hotel Security: not targets if at all possible (aka unless they shoot at me)

Capitol Police: same as Hotel Security

National Guard: same as Hotel Security

Hotel Employees: not targets at all

Guests: not targets at all

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.

Rebuttals to objections:

Objection 1: As a Christian, you should turn the other cheek.

Rebuttal: 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. 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.

Objection 2: This is not a convenient time for you to do this.

Rebuttal: I need whoever thinks this way to take a couple minutes and realize that the world isn’t about them. Do you think that when I see someone raped or murdered or abused, I should walk on by because it would be “inconvenient” for people who aren’t the victim?

This was the best timing and chance of success I could come up with.

Objection 3: You didn’t get them all.

Rebuttal: Gotta start somewhere.

Objection 4: As a half-black, half-white person, you shouldn’t be the one doing this.

Rebuttal: I don’t see anyone else picking up the slack

Objection 5: Yield unto Caesar what is Caesar’s.

Rebuttal: The United States of America are ruled by the law, not by any one or several people. In so far as representatives and judges do not follow the law, no one is required to yield them anything so unlawfully ordered.

I would also like to extend my appreciation to a great many people since I will not be likely to be able to talk with them again (unless the Secret Service is *astoundingly* incompetent.)

Thank you to my family, both personal and church, for your love over these 31 years.

Thank you to my friends, for your companionship over many years.

Thank you to my colleagues over many jobs, for your positivity and professionalism.

Thank you to my students for your enthusiasm and love of learning.

Thank you to the many acquaintances I’ve met, in person and online, for short interactions and long-term relationships, for your perspectives and inspiration.

Thank you all for everything.

Sincerely,

Cole “coldForce” “Friendly Federal Assassin” Allen

PS: Ok now that all the sappy stuff is done, what the hell is the Secret Service doing? Sorry, gonna rant a bit here and drop the formal tone.

Like, I expected security cameras at every bend, bugged hotel rooms, armed agents every 10 feet, metal detectors out the wazoo.

What I got (who knows, maybe they’re pranking me!) is nothing.

No damn security.

Not in transport.

Not in the hotel.

Not in the event.

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.

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.

Like, if I was an Iranian agent, instead of an American citizen, I could have brought a damn Ma Deuce in here and no one would have noticed shit.

Actually insane.

Oh and if anyone is curious is how doing something like feels: it’s awful. I want to throw up; I want to cry for all the things I wanted to do and never will, for all the people whose trust this betrays; I experience rage thinking about everything this administration has done.

Can’t really recommend it! Stay in school, kids.

ABC VIDEO:

So, Thomas Crooks was in a BLACKROCK AD & Cole Allen was in an ABC NEWS SPECIAL? Come on! MKULTRA is obvious! Chosen & coerced! https://tierneyrealnewsnetwork.substack.com/p/what-is-mkultra

The fact that two Trump assassins were featured on TV beforehand raises questions. Thomas Matthew Crooks briefly appeared as an unpaid student in the background of a 2022 BlackRock advertisement filmed at his high school, and now Cole Allen appeared on ABC News.

White House Correspondents’ Dinner gunman Cole Allen sent a sprawling, crazed manifesto to family members 10 minutes before Saturday’s attack, sources told The Post.

In the 1,052-word missive obtained by The Post Sunday morning — signed Cole ‘coldForce’ ‘Friendly Federal Assassin’ Allen” — and outlined his “rules of engagement” for the shooting and stated he believed it was his righteous duty to target administration officials.

Cole Allen’s manifesto in full:

Hello everybody!

So I may have given a lot of people a surprise today. Let me start off by apologizing to everyone whose trust I abused.

I apologize to my parents for saying I had an interview without specifying it was for “Most Wanted.”

I apologize to my colleagues and students for saying I had a personal emergency (by the time anyone reads this, I probably most certainly DO need to go to the ER, but can hardly call that not a self-inflicted status.)

I apologize to all of the people I traveled next to, all the workers who handled my luggage, and all the other non-targeted people at the hotel who I put in danger simply by being near.

I apologize to everyone who was abused and/or murdered before this, to all those who suffered before I was able to attempt this, to all who may still suffer after, regardless of my success or failure.

I don’t expect forgiveness, but if I could have seen any other way to get this close, I would have taken it. Again, my sincere apologies.

On to why I did any of this:

I am a citizen of the United States of America.

What my representatives do reflects on me.

And I am no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist, and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes.

(Well, to be completely honest, I was no longer willing a long time ago, but this is the first real opportunity I’ve had to do something about it.)

While I’m discussing this, I’ll also go over my expected rules of engagement (probably in a terrible format, but I’m not military so too bad.)

Administration officials (not including Mr. Patel): they are targets, prioritized from highest-ranking to lowest

Secret Service: they are targets only if necessary, and to be incapacitated non-lethally if possible (aka, I hope they’re wearing body armor because center mass with shotguns messes up people who *aren’t*

Hotel Security: not targets if at all possible (aka unless they shoot at me)

Capitol Police: same as Hotel Security

National Guard: same as Hotel Security

Hotel Employees: not targets at all

Guests: not targets at all

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.

Rebuttals to objections:

Objection 1: As a Christian, you should turn the other cheek.

Rebuttal: 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. 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.

Objection 2: This is not a convenient time for you to do this.

Rebuttal: I need whoever thinks this way to take a couple minutes and realize that the world isn’t about them. Do you think that when I see someone raped or murdered or abused, I should walk on by because it would be “inconvenient” for people who aren’t the victim?

This was the best timing and chance of success I could come up with.

Objection 3: You didn’t get them all.

Rebuttal: Gotta start somewhere.

Objection 4: As a half-black, half-white person, you shouldn’t be the one doing this.

Rebuttal: I don’t see anyone else picking up the slack

Objection 5: Yield unto Caesar what is Caesar’s.

Rebuttal: The United States of America are ruled by the law, not by any one or several people. In so far as representatives and judges do not follow the law, no one is required to yield them anything so unlawfully ordered.

I would also like to extend my appreciation to a great many people since I will not be likely to be able to talk with them again (unless the Secret Service is *astoundingly* incompetent.)

Thank you to my family, both personal and church, for your love over these 31 years.

Thank you to my friends, for your companionship over many years.

Thank you to my colleagues over many jobs, for your positivity and professionalism.

Thank you to my students for your enthusiasm and love of learning.

Thank you to the many acquaintances I’ve met, in person and online, for short interactions and long-term relationships, for your perspectives and inspiration.

Thank you all for everything.

Sincerely,

Cole “coldForce” “Friendly Federal Assassin” Allen

PS: Ok now that all the sappy stuff is done, what the hell is the Secret Service doing? Sorry, gonna rant a bit here and drop the formal tone.

Like, I expected security cameras at every bend, bugged hotel rooms, armed agents every 10 feet, metal detectors out the wazoo.

What I got (who knows, maybe they’re pranking me!) is nothing.

No damn security.

Not in transport.

Not in the hotel.

Not in the event.

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.

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.

Like, if I was an Iranian agent, instead of an American citizen, I could have brought a damn Ma Deuce in here and no one would have noticed shit.

Actually insane.

Oh and if anyone is curious is how doing something like feels: it’s awful. I want to throw up; I want to cry for all the things I wanted to do and never will, for all the people whose trust this betrays; I experience rage thinking about everything this administration has done.

Can’t really recommend it! Stay in school, kids.

https://nypost.com/2026/04/26/us-news/read-whcd-gunman-cole-allens-full-anti-trump-manifesto/

Well— it happened again. Thank heavens, they failed again. As you almost certainly know by now, nearly every news platform in the world covered last night’s latest assassination attempt. After midnight, the Hill reported, “Trump’s WHCA dinner with the press turns into night of tears and terror.” President Trump is fine. The shooter is in custody. The attendees are traumatized.

The White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA) dinner is a black‑tie banquet in Washington, DC. Once a year, the President, political officials, and journalists gather for speeches, awards, and light‑hearted roast‑style humor. Organized by the WHCA, a group representing reporters assigned to the White House, the annual event is held at the Washington Hilton, which has hosted the dinner for decades. It mixes serious elements, like journalism scholarships and awards, with entertainment, jokes from the president, and a featured comedian.

Coincidentally, the Washington Hilton is also where John Hinckley shot Reagan in 1981. Having now been the scene of two attacks on a sitting or former U.S. president in 45 years, the Washington Hilton is rapidly accumulating the kind of reputation hotels usually only earn through radioactive bedbug infestations or hosting snuff films.

Nevertheless, Trump kept a positive attitude. “I was all set to really rip it,” the President said afterward. “I said to my people, this would be the most inappropriate speech if I said it now; I’ll probably be very nice, very boring next time.”

The dinner event is usually widely covered by U.S. media, since they love talking about themselves, and as a symbol of the close-but-sometimes-awkward relationship between the press and the presidency. President Trump boycotted the dinner during all of Trump 1.0 and last year. So last night’s WHCA dinner would have been his very first as Commander in Chief.

Now this.

It went down around 8:30 pm, right after everyone had been seated and the dinner service had begun. Blurry hotel security footage on the floor just above the conference room showed a heavily armed black man racing past the Secret Service security checkpoint in a full sprint, heading for the staircase leading to the ballroom. As he sprinted past security officials at a dead run, he fired at the closest agent and hit him in the center of mass (the agent’s vest caught the bullet).

CLIP: President Trump posts security footage showing assassin sprinting past security (0:24).

Three or four more shots were fired. It’s not yet clear who fired them— Allen or security. Alert agents tackled the would-be assassin about 50 feet later, near the grand staircase down to the ballroom, where he would have had a clear shot to the stage— where the President, Vice-President, their wives, and other officials were innocently dining.

Meanwhile, downstairs in the ballroom, Secret Service and other security personnel heard five shots in quick succession and sprang into action, rushing the Vice President and then the President offstage. The ballroom exploded in chaos and panic. A local DC reporter said, “You heard the pops, then a beat of silence, and suddenly everyone in tuxedos and gowns was under the tables.” Wolf Blitzer reported that an officer “threw him to the ground.”

The room was locked down while terrified attendees cautiously emerged from under their tables, and staff began clearing broken glasses and dishes destroyed in the race to the floors. Around 9 pm, a WHCA official said the program would resume; at 9:20 pm they changed their mind and told everyone to go home.

By 10:30 pm, the shooter had been identified, and President Trump held a press conference at the White House. “Some of these people are genius-level IQ, but they’re nuts,” Trump said plainly. And some of these people have unaccountable weapons skills and security knowledge.

Early this morning, the Wall Street Journal reported, “Caltech Grad, ‘Teacher of the Month’ Named as Washington Shooting Suspect.” The subheadline said, “‘I’m in shock,’ says former classmate of Cole Allen, who is in custody after attack outside White House correspondents’ dinner.”

Cole Thomas (alt. ‘Tomas’) Allen, 31, of Torrance, California, was quickly publicly identified. Allen graduated from Caltech in 2017 (the same campus where they filmed exterior shots for The Big Bang Theory) with a degree in mechanical engineering, interned at NASA’s JPL, and in 2025, he got a master’s degree in computer science from California State University. In other words, he was of the credentialed elite class.

When caught, the Teacher of the Month was found armed with a shotgun, a handgun, and an unspecified number of knives. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said, “It does appear that he, he did, in fact, set out to target folks that work in the administration, likely including the President.” CBS reported that he “told law enforcement he wanted to shoot Trump administration officials.” He aimed for total mayhem.

For convenience, Allen also booked a room at the Washington Hilton where the dinner was held, so he wouldn’t have to run too far. We don’t know yet whether he used the baggage cart to get all the weapons to his room. (And presumably, he collected his Honors points and his free chocolate-chip cookie.)

The Journal reported that Allen was registered with no party preference, according to voting records. But in 2024, he donated $25 to ActBlue with the memo “Earmarked for Harris for President,” according to FEC filings. I wonder what his politics are. According to a recent LinkedIn post, he worked at C2 Education, a private tutoring and test-prep company, which had just awarded him ‘Teacher of the Month’ only four months ago in December, 2024.

Somewhere right now, an HR Director at C2 Education is prying a laminated certificate from a lobby wall.

Allen’s younger sister, Avriana Allen, is a far-left journalist who lives in DC. She graduated in 2021 from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. Until just recently, she worked for progressive platform CalMatters as a ‘voter-guide developer.’ Since September, she has appeared to work for the PEW Research Center, with an office within walking distance of the Hilton. So far, no evidence has been reported suggesting Avriana helped Cole, such as by providing him details about the WHCA dinner or the layout of the DC Hilton, both of which she was almost certainly familiar with.

US Attorney for DC Jeanine Pirro announced Allen will be arraigned on charges including using a firearm during a crime of violence and assaulting a federal officer with a dangerous weapon. For starters. Pirro promised, “There will be many more charges based upon the information that we are learning in this very fluid situation.”

The WHCA and President Trump both said the dinner will be rescheduled within the next 30 days.

Corporate media is already downplaying the story. Though headlining it with multiple stories, Outlets like PBS and the awful New York Times are calling it “an incident” instead of an “assassination attempt.” They are one euphemism away from calling it a “spirited disagreement.” As of going to press, the Times refused to name the shooter, babbled about how the president was never in danger, and basically called it a mostly peaceful shooting. PBS:

Overseas, the coverage was closer to what we would expect. One European outlet dryly noted that the Washington Hilton attack “brings the number of attacks suffered by the current president to three in just two years.”

Social media hot takes are also exploding, as you would rightly expect. Independent researchers are hard at work, digging into the internet, scouring public records, and harvesting historic social media posts. They are uncovering dots and speculating wildly.

One of the most eerily mysterious items they’ve found was an anonymous X account, created in 2023, that has posted exactly one thing in its entire existence —the two words ‘Cole Allen’— and then went dark. This is the social-media activity of either a retired intelligence officer, a deeply committed haiku poet, or someone who mistook X for Venmo.

Independent investigators have already located a “Henry Martinez” who worked at NASA at the same time Cole Allen interned there. I would not be surprised if it turns out the men were romantically involved. If that is the same guy, why would he post Allen’s name on X— as his only social media activity? It’s hard to guess.

Some curious patterns are emerging from the three shooters. All three episodes share a common shape: a lone, heavily armed man, apparently motivated at least in part by politics, probing the edges of Trump’s protective bubble and exploiting a specific vulnerability in the environment. When does a ‘lone wolf’ become a pack?

In Butler, Pennsylvania, shooter Thomas Matthew Crooks climbed onto an unsecured rooftop just outside the rally perimeter; in Florida, Ryan Wesley Routh built a sniper’s hide along the fence line of Trump’s golf course; and at the Correspondents’ Dinner, Cole Thomas Allen tried to blast through the Secret Service checkpoint just outside the ballroom.

Each time, the attack emerged from just beyond what security planners assumed was “good enough” standoff distance— high ground outside the venue fence, a concealment point just beyond the fairway boundary, or a magnetometer line that turned out to be just spread-out enough for a rapid charge from around the corner.

I’m not saying all three attacks suggest deep, intimate knowledge of presidential security strengths and weaknesses. I’m just saying.

Taken together, the three attempts highlight a paradox: the protective apparatus keeps evolving— and so do the shooters’ tactics. It’s almost like each successive shooter knows how the Secret Service’s protocols have changed.

In the most recent two, the attacker was successfully neutralized before Trump was physically harmed, and in the latest, the suspect never made it to the final stairway. Yet, in spite of increasingly paranoid and enhanced security, each incident exposed a brand‑new seam — an unguarded rooftop, a gap in a golf‑course fence, a “layered security” perimeter that still allowed an armed man to sprint the last 50 yards.

This, agencies assure us, is fine. What can you do?

Politically, that narrative pattern feeds two competing stories: one, of a president repeatedly targeted and miraculously spared, which can be framed in almost providential terms; the other, of a security system that keeps being surprised by shooters who seem to know exactly where the gaps are, keeping Trump’s public appearances in a permanent state of high‑alert brinkmanship.

Three different venues, three different attackers, three different sets of local circumstances— yet in each case the gunman materialized precisely where the security architecture was thinnest, as if he’d been handed a highlight reel of the weak spots. An unsecured rooftop in Butler, a scrubby fence line along a golf course, and now a magnetometer choke point close enough to allow a 50‑yard sprint at a black‑tie dinner where the president, vice president, Cabinet, and much of Washington’s press corps were all in the same room.

You needn’t believe in a grand conspiracy to notice that the “random loner” keeps showing up exactly where the professionals left the door cracked open.

At a minimum, the now-clear pattern poses uncomfortable institutional questions. Who, exactly, signed off on a rally site that left a clear shot from a low commercial rooftop directly into the candidate’s stage and moved the rooftop agents into the building because it was “too steep?”

Who decided that a former president under active threat should play golf on a course where a man with a rifle could dig into the foliage just beyond the fence line and wait for hours— and fail to screen the perimeter?

And **who approved the WHCA security plan that routed the top political and media elite of the United States through a screening funnel that still allowed a heavily armed shooter to get within sprinting distance of the ballroom doors?

Those aren’t “acts of God.” They’re choices, made by specific people, inside specific agencies, under specific pressures.

Once you start asking these kinds of questions, the official narrative —lone wolves, no broader plot, nothing to see here, just move along— begins to sound less like a conclusion and more like a reflex. Investigators insist that Crooks, Routh, and Allen were all acting alone, with no evidence (so far) of any coordinating hand.

Maybe that’s true. But even if you take them at their word, you’re still left with a different kind of coordination problem: a security culture that keeps treating each near‑miss as an isolated fluke instead of a connected stress test of the system. The result is a protection posture that hardens yesterday’s failure point while leaving tomorrow’s gap wide open.

Trump’s critics mostly yammer about rhetoric, polarization, and staged attacks, not about how three successive attackers all managed to find the one tiny pixel in the security perimeter that would give them a shot. Meanwhile, the agencies in charge issue boilerplate statements about reviewing procedures, enhancing coordination, and moving forward— language that has, so far as I can tell, was cut and pasted directly from the agency’s response to the previous two attempts.

As if “more of the same” is any kind of adequate answer to a pattern that keeps repeating, with increasingly higher stakes each time. What do they think will happen if one of these attempts finally succeeds?

At some point, a serious country would stop treating these as three separate news cycles and start treating them as a single, very troubling data set. Even the New York Times is starting to notice a pattern. Headline this morning:

I don’t want to beat a dead horse here. But this is important. If this were just three different shooters exploiting three different weak spots, that would be bad enough. But when you look more closely at the details, the pattern gets even harder to wave away as “bad luck.”

First, Butler wasn’t just an overlooked rooftop; agents were assigned to that roof and then pulled off it, with the Secret Service cycling through goofy explanations it could not defend in public. Then-Director of the U.S. Secret Service, Kimberly Cheatle, told lawmakers, “That building in particular has a sloped roof, so, you know, there’s a safety factor that would be considered there that we wouldn’t want to put somebody up on a sloped roof.”

The initial claim that the roof was too steep to stand on was quickly walked back after we all saw photos of the FBI standing easily on the nearly flat rooftop, yet all we have been offered to replace Cheatle’s moronic initial excuse is the tailpipe of an industrial-grade fog machine.

It wasn’t just the failure to anticipate a vulnerability. It was the conscious decision to vacate the exact piece of high ground that turned out to be decisive— and then to stonewall when asked why. Isn’t that the most important question?

Florida shows a different but related flavor of failure. Routh did not teleport into position. He moved weapons and gear onto the course and sat in the brush along the fence line for hours, in brutal Florida sunshine, within sightlines that normal perimeter doctrines are supposed to check and re‑check before the protectee shows up.

If the Secret Service’s own “layered security” model means anything, it should mean that a guy with a rifle can’t lie motionless for half a day inside the outer ring of the bubble and still be there when the president walks into his field of fire. The fact that agents only engaged Routh once they happened to visually pick him up with a weapon, rather than because a sweep flushed him out long beforehand, is its own quiet indictment of how seriously those outer layers are being enforced (or not being enforced).

Again, the failure isn’t just that there was a blind spot; it’s that the part of the system designed specifically to catch that particular blind spot was never switched on.

Now we get to number three: Cole Allen at the Correspondents’ Dinner. It’s still early, of course, but the odds picture gets even weirder. Watch the security video that Trump released. You’ll see what looks like a secure choke point: multiple officers at the magnetometers, a tight cluster of bodies forming a bottleneck between the public space and the ballroom.

Yet somehow, Allen is able to accelerate from out of view, around the corner, roughly 50 yards away, sprint straight past that knot of security, and close the distance without colliding with a single person— as if the lane in front of him had been cleared just in time for his dash. That’s some pretty good luck right there. At that speed, just one agent shifting his stance, one officer stepping back half a step, one official walking to talk to another, should have been sufficient to produce a messy collision and a dogpile.

Instead, all six or so visible officials happen to be positioned just far enough off the through‑line to give Allen a clean shot at the stairwell. How did he know when to start running? There may be a good answer. But if so, we haven’t heard it yet.

Combine those three stories, and our N=3 dataset starts to look a lot less like three independent miracles of bad fortune and a lot more like a system that keeps failing in eerily specific ways.

One rooftop that was covered and then mysteriously uncovered. One would‑be sniper who spends hours inside the outer perimeter without any sweep pushing him out. One gunman who manages to pick the exact right moment when a half‑dozen security professionals aren’t physically in his way at a choke point designed precisely so that someone should always be in the way.

We can dismiss those questions as coincidence —as lottery-level luck— for three separate, consecutive “lone wolves.” If so, well, the crack where “incredible luck” lives is getting microscopically skinny. Or we can admit that, at a minimum, we’re looking at a protection culture that somehow keeps moving the wrong people off the wrong roofs, skipping the wrong sweeps, and leaving the wrong lanes open at the wrong time. And that the three shooters all somehow sensed right where the lapses would occur.

Did these shooters get help —active or passive— from people inside who know how the system really works? Remember the Ian Fleming chestnut: once is coincidence. Twice is happenstance. Three times is enemy action.

In the case of Trump assassination attempts, we’ve now reached three— three gunmen, three “lone wolves,” three times the system somehow accidentally left the exact wrong piece of ground uncovered. One hopes that the Administration knows its James Bond lore.

Finally, what’s equally troubling is the surge of recent left‑wing violence. You see partisan and ideological motives aimed up the food chain: at CEOs, presidents, political leaders, Tesla dealerships, ICE facilities, party headquarters, Supreme Court judges, and popular conservative activists. We have would‑be assassins like Ryan Routh, a man clearly helping the deep state with the proxy war, allegedly lying in wait on a golf course fairway because he decided Trump’s foreign policy justified a bullet.

You see a swelling catalog of plots and attacks that, taken together, suggest not random outbursts but an emerging permission structure: a belief that “stopping fascism” or “saving democracy” might require a rifle, a Molotov cocktail, or worse. Last September, in the difficult says following Charlie Kirk’s assassination, YouGov asked Americans whether political violence can sometimes be justified. Among self-described ‘very liberal’ respondents, one in four said yes. Among 18-to-44-year-old liberals, that number rose further to 26%, against just 7% of conservatives the same age.

The smallest group of agreers was the “very conservative.”

At some point, you would think a serious country would stop pretending this is just a law‑enforcement problem and start treating it as a political toxicity problem. The party supposedly opposed to “hate speech” is never accountable for its political and media elites who keep pouring gasoline on deranged minds and then acting surprised when it ignites.

In October, 2024, then-VP Kamala Harris said Trump fits the definition of “fascist.” In May, 2024, Biden responded to a Trump speech by mumbling, “That’s Hitler’s language. That’s not the language of America.” There are many more examples.

Until accountability happens, we shouldn’t be asking whether or not there will be a fourth attempt. We should be asking why, given the incentives we’ve created, there wouldn’t be one.

President Trump, the security officers, and the attendees were shaken. But everyone is fine.

In a remarkably dignified way, President Trump called for conciliation. “As you know, this is not the first time in the past couple of years that our republic has been attacked by a would-be assassin who sought to kill,” he said. “In light of this evening’s events, I ask that all Americans recommit with their hearts in resolving our differences peacefully.”

“Quite an evening in D.C. Secret Service and Law Enforcement did a fantastic job,” President Trump continued, praising his security team. “They acted quickly and bravely. The shooter has been apprehended, and I have recommended that we ‘LET THE SHOW GO ON’, but will entirely be guided by law enforcement.”

Trump’s response was gracious and presidential. But a nation cries out for accountability. Three strikes is supposed to mean you’re out. We have got to start asking who’s pitching.

TODD STARNES: Hundreds of journalists demanded that President Trump be confronted forcefully at the White House Correspondents Dinner. Their hatred of this man is really at demonic levels. It's unhinged. And yet, when the gunman attacked, President Trump ordered the Secret Service to protect the journalists. He was deeply concerned about their safety and well-being. And he was determined to stay and resume the program to accommodate the reporters. That notion was quickly dismissed by the Secret Service. But it shows you the heart of this man - a good and decent man who has been maligned by the media and the DC establishment. The unthinkable almost happened - for a third time. We thank God once again that he spared the life of our president and our lovely First Lady. God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble and he will protect us from the evil one.

TERRENCE: CNN is already blaming “gun violence” for the shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. No, CNN — maybe it’s time to look in the mirror.

When the media spends years pushing fear, hysteria, and nonstop lies about President Trump and his supporters, unstable people hear it. This is what reckless propaganda does. Stop pretending your rhetoric has no consequences.

So, Thomas Crooks was in a BLACKROCK AD & Cole Allen was in an ABC NEWS SPECIAL? Come on! MKULTRA is obvious! Chosen & coerced!

Cole Allen sent a 1052 word “manifesto” to his family 10 minutes before Saturday’s attack.

It sounds like it was written by a man who was high on something and edited by Grok. Not kidding. The whole “pedophile, rapist” thing is just BS and sounds like Epstein propaganda.

Cole Allen also had a SPECIAL ON ABC NEWS a few years go. Hmm. What are the chances of that being a coincidence? Remember that Thomas Crooks was in a BLACKROCK VIDEO. These things don’t just happen. I now have no doubt this was another MKULTRA activated assassin.

Hello everybody!

So I may have given a lot of people a surprise today. Let me start off by apologizing to everyone whose trust I abused.

I apologize to my parents for saying I had an interview without specifying it was for “Most Wanted.”

I apologize to my colleagues and students for saying I had a personal emergency (by the time anyone reads this, I probably most certainly DO need to go to the ER, but can hardly call that not a self-inflicted status.)

I apologize to all of the people I traveled next to, all the workers who handled my luggage, and all the other non-targeted people at the hotel who I put in danger simply by being near.

I apologize to everyone who was abused and/or murdered before this, to all those who suffered before I was able to attempt this, to all who may still suffer after, regardless of my success or failure.

I don’t expect forgiveness, but if I could have seen any other way to get this close, I would have taken it. Again, my sincere apologies.

On to why I did any of this:

I am a citizen of the United States of America.

What my representatives do reflects on me.

And I am no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist, and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes.

(Well, to be completely honest, I was no longer willing a long time ago, but this is the first real opportunity I’ve had to do something about it.)

While I’m discussing this, I’ll also go over my expected rules of engagement (probably in a terrible format, but I’m not military so too bad.)

Administration officials (not including Mr. Patel): they are targets, prioritized from highest-ranking to lowest

Secret Service: they are targets only if necessary, and to be incapacitated non-lethally if possible (aka, I hope they’re wearing body armor because center mass with shotguns messes up people who *aren’t*

Hotel Security: not targets if at all possible (aka unless they shoot at me)

Capitol Police: same as Hotel Security

National Guard: same as Hotel Security

Hotel Employees: not targets at all

Guests: not targets at all

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.

Rebuttals to objections:

Objection 1: As a Christian, you should turn the other cheek.

Rebuttal: 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. 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.

Objection 2: This is not a convenient time for you to do this.

Rebuttal: I need whoever thinks this way to take a couple minutes and realize that the world isn’t about them. Do you think that when I see someone raped or murdered or abused, I should walk on by because it would be “inconvenient” for people who aren’t the victim?

This was the best timing and chance of success I could come up with.

Objection 3: You didn’t get them all.

Rebuttal: Gotta start somewhere.

Objection 4: As a half-black, half-white person, you shouldn’t be the one doing this.

Rebuttal: I don’t see anyone else picking up the slack

Objection 5: Yield unto Caesar what is Caesar’s.

Rebuttal: The United States of America are ruled by the law, not by any one or several people. In so far as representatives and judges do not follow the law, no one is required to yield them anything so unlawfully ordered.

I would also like to extend my appreciation to a great many people since I will not be likely to be able to talk with them again (unless the Secret Service is *astoundingly* incompetent.)

Thank you to my family, both personal and church, for your love over these 31 years.

Thank you to my friends, for your companionship over many years.

Thank you to my colleagues over many jobs, for your positivity and professionalism.

Thank you to my students for your enthusiasm and love of learning.

Thank you to the many acquaintances I’ve met, in person and online, for short interactions and long-term relationships, for your perspectives and inspiration.

Thank you all for everything.

Sincerely,

Cole “coldForce” “Friendly Federal Assassin” Allen

PS: Ok now that all the sappy stuff is done, what the hell is the Secret Service doing? Sorry, gonna rant a bit here and drop the formal tone.

Like, I expected security cameras at every bend, bugged hotel rooms, armed agents every 10 feet, metal detectors out the wazoo.

What I got (who knows, maybe they’re pranking me!) is nothing.

No damn security.

Not in transport.

Not in the hotel.

Not in the event.

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.

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.

Like, if I was an Iranian agent, instead of an American citizen, I could have brought a damn Ma Deuce in here and no one would have noticed shit.

Actually insane.

Oh and if anyone is curious is how doing something like feels: it’s awful. I want to throw up; I want to cry for all the things I wanted to do and never will, for all the people whose trust this betrays; I experience rage thinking about everything this administration has done.

Can’t really recommend it! Stay in school, kids.

ABC VIDEO:

KARI LAKE: “To get into the lobby of the hotel, they simply looked at the email confirmation.

Anyone could have shown a screenshot and got into the lobby.

There were protestors right across from the hotel screaming and yelling at attendees.

They had no scanning or metal detectors until you walked two flights down to the ballroom where the president would be.

The entire time I was questioning why the security was so relaxed.”

BILL MELUGIN, LA TIMES & FOX NEWS: My thoughts on the security at the WHCD last night.

The first exterior security for me was on the street outside of the hotel. I flashed my ticket and was waved through in one second. My name was not checked against any list, I showed no ID, I was not patted down and did not go through a metal detector. I probably could have shown a ticket from a prior year or a fake one as they barely looked at it. (I don’t know who that exterior security was, they were guys in suits).

From that point, I walked into the hotel with no further security check, and I walked down to the Fox pre-party where there were multiple ballrooms that were absolutely PACKED with attendees. Still did not go through any security at that point.

Hypothetically, If I had hidden an explosive in my shoe or my jacket, I would have had no problem getting into one of those ballrooms.

Only once it was time to get into the main ballroom for the dinner did we pass through magnetometers, empty our pockets, and get a pat down. And even that checkpoint was just outside of the dinner room.

Two things can be true at the same time.

Secret Service reacted quickly to an active armed threat and prevented that threat from getting into the ballroom. But the security leading up to that point, in my opinion, appeared to be lacking severely.

Cole Allen called Trump and his administration the Antichrist, pedophiles, rapists, etc.

Marjorie Taylor Greene, Carrie Prejean, Candace Owens, Tucker Carlson, and Nick Fuentes have said the exact same things about Trump and his administration.

The Trump DOJ just wrote a SCATHING demand to the activist attorneys suing to stop Trump’s ballroom after last night’s shooting

“Put simply, your lawsuit puts the lives of the President, his family, and his staff at GRAVE risk.

I hope yesterday’s narrow miss will help you finally realize the folly of a lawsuit that literally serves no purpose except to stop President Trump no matter the cost.

Enough is enough.

Your client should voluntarily dismiss this frivolous lawsuit today in light of last night’s assassination attempt on President Trump.

If your client does not dismiss the lawsuit by 9:00 AM on Monday, the government will move to dissolve the injunction and dismiss the case in light of last night’s extraordinary events.

We will state your position as opposed if we do not hear back from you by 9:00 AM on Monday.”

“Yesterday’s assassination attempt on President Trump proves, yet again, that the White House ballroom is essential for the safety and security of the President, his family, his cabinet, and his staff.

When the White House ballroom is complete, President Trump and his successors will no longer need to venture beyond the safety of the White House perimeter to attend large gatherings at the Washington Hilton ballroom.”

CBS’ Face the Nation moderator Margaret Brennan asked Blanche about whether it was the gunman’s bullet that struck the agent, and Blanche said “that’s what we understand as of now.

President Trump’s security may RAMP UP in the coming days — including 47 possibly having to wear a BULLET PROOF VEST in public, per Fox

“We should expect in the coming days to hear about major security improvements.”

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Laura Loomer says the Trump assassin was an “Epstein and Israel conspiracy theorist” who was radicalized by podcasters.

"We know that he traveled from Los Angeles to Chicago and the Chicago to DC. It appears he traveled by train during both those legs of his trip and checked into the Washington Hilton a couple of days ago on the 24th, and then obviously tried to breach the perimeter last night and was quickly subdued."

President Trump tells Fox News his ballroom will be ready in 2028, which he says will prevent any more assassination attempts.

College student reveals the attempted Trump assassin and teacher Cole Allen was just an “AVERAGE GUY” who was his high school tutor. Our media is turning “normal” people into PSYCHOS through Trump derangement syndrome!

“Saint Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle. Be our defense against the wickedness and snares of the Devil. May God rebuke him, we humbly pray, and do thou, O Prince of the heavenly hosts, by the power of God, cast into hell Satan, and all the evil spirits, who prowl about the world seeking the ruin of souls. Amen.”

President Trump even called ABC’s Jon Karl early this morning to make sure he was OK after the shooting

"He was calling to see if I was ok with what happened last night.”

“He reiterated many of the things he said in his press conference last night, emphasizing the unity he felt in that moment...and he was quite firm about this: 'That dinner must be rescheduled.'

The Trump DOJ just FURIOUSLY DEMANDED the activist organization DROP their lawsuit that’s blocking the White House ballroom

If they refuse? The DOJ will surge to DISSOLVE and DISMISS THE CASE!

“Put simply, your lawsuit puts the lives of the President, his family, and his staff at grave risk.”

“I hope yesterday’s narrow miss will help you finally realize the folly of a lawsuit that literally serves no purpose except to stop President Trump no matter the cost.”

“Enough is enough. Your client should voluntarily dismiss this frivolous lawsuit today in light of last night’s assassination attempt on President Trump.”

“If your client does not dismiss the lawsuit by 9:00 AM on Monday, the government will move to dissolve the injunction and dismiss the case in light of last night’s extraordinary events.”

The Senate is facing MASSIVE PRESSURE to FULLY FUND DHS and stop letting Democrats hold Secret Service paychecks hostage

Democrats defunded our security and now there was an assassination plot on President Trump

Just NUKE THE FILIBUSTER ALREADY

REP. EMMER: “Despite having their paychecks held hostage by Democrats, the Secret Service bravely defended President Trump, and thousands of others, against an evil gunman last night.”

“It's sad that the safety of the American people and our president has become partisan. It's past time to FUND DHS!”

CHARLIE KIRK WAS RIGHT ABOUT THIS

He posted last year: “Assassination culture is spreading on the left. Forty-eight percent of liberals say it would be at least somewhat justified to murder Elon Musk. Fifty-five percent said the same about Donald Trump.”

“The left is being whipped into a violent frenzy. Any setback, whether losing an election or losing a court case, justifies a maximally violent response.”

They just keep getting more and more violent

It’s getting worse.

The party of terror is going to strike and strike again until their own leaders MAKE IT STOP

He described himself on LinkedIn as a mechanical engineer, computer scientist, independent game developer, and “teacher by birth.”

As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, his manifesto, sent to family members shortly before the incident and left in his hotel room, used even stronger language, listing administration officials as targets and criticizing hotel security.

It has now been revealed that Allen was active on Bluesky under the handle “coldForce,” with eye emojis replacing the “o”s.

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The account’s bio described him as “a random Californian guy with posts about American politics, support for Ukraine, and observations of small creatures.”

The profile was suspended shortly after the shooting attempt.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/04/whcd-shooters-bluesky-account-reveals-violent-no-kings/

An administration official provided some of the posts from his account to Jack

Allen’s posts repeatedly attacked President Trump. He called the president a “known traitor” who ran his campaign “on revenge,” “f-cked up the covid response,” and had “known connections [to a] murderous fucker in the kremlin.”

Responding to a discussion about the Epstein files, Allen wrote, “from the epstein files that have been released, it’s public knowledge that he likely IS basically a sociopathic mob boss. like that’s just literally who he is. people gotta stop treating him like someone who honors agreements.”

In another post, the failed assassin stated, “Trump is literally one of those villains that if you beat his ass hard enough, he’ll join your team.”

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“I’m mostly suprised by this administration’s incompetence in fascism, I was expecting actual fighting to have started much earlier,” Allen wrote in another post.

Allen also used gifs and memes that appeared to endorse violence. He responded to a clip of President Trump with a GIF of an animated character delivering a violent slap.

In another instance, reacting to Trump criticizing Democrat-led cities, Allen shared a GIF of a man pumping a long rifle as if preparing to shoot.

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In response to reports that the Trump DOJ might consider restrictions on transgender people owning guns, Allen advocated for them to buy guns.

Allen also took issue with Vice President JD Vance, blasting him for saying he was proud the U.S. had stopped funding Ukraine. He expressed repeated frustration over what he saw as insufficient media coverage of the Ukraine-Russia war and the Trump administration’s response to the conflict.

“I choose my own battlefields. Not through my blood, but with my heart. I stand on the battlefield to protect what I want,” Allen wrote in his bio on the leftist platform.

On Thursday night, just two days before the nation would see the third attempt on President Donald Trump's life, late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel delivered a fake White House Correspondents' Dinner speech, saying that First Lady Melania Trump has the "glow of an expectant widow."

https://thepostmillennial.com/jimmy-kimmel-2-days-ago-melania-has-a-glow-like-an-expectant-widow?utm_campaign=6453

Last night, CNN, TMZ, CBS and others reported the dinner gunman was “confirmed dead.” In fact, he was alive and had not been shot. (Just shot at). At a dinner honoring White House reporting, the rush to be first instead of being accurate was on full display. Speaks volumes.

MELUGIN: A Daily Beast editor had the hotel room next door to the alleged WHCD attacker. “How on earth could someone with a disassembled long gun check into a room at a hotel where the president was going to speak? I can answer that: Nobody even looked at my luggage on Friday afternoon. Worse, my colleague arrived on Saturday at 5 p.m. Nobody looked at his luggage either: No magnometers, no hand checks, no I.D. checks. Nothing.”

A list of assassination attempts on President Trump that we know of: -June '16: pistol. -Sept. '17: forklift. -Oct. '18: ricin. -Sept. '20: ricin. -Oct. '20: hanging AND covid. -July '24: rifle. -Sept. '24: rifle. -Aug. ’25: handgun, rifle. -April ’26: knife, firearms. Pray for Trump.

The very media who were writing fake stories about Kash Patel having a drinking problem, were stealing bottles of wine after the attempted assassination event

OBAMA: Although we don’t yet have the details about the motives behind last night's shooting at the White House Correspondents Dinner, it’s incumbent upon all us to reject the idea that violence has any place in our democracy. It’s also a sobering reminder of the courage and sacrifice that U.S. Secret Service Agents show every day. I’m grateful to them – and thankful that the agent who was shot is going to be okay.

DATA REPUBLICAN: Stop lying. We know the full motive. The shooter wrote a manifesto. The shooter wanted to kill President Trump and his cabinet. Why are you lying?

LEE ZELDIN: Let’s not pretend to be this clueless about motive. The attempted assassin put out an anti-Trump manifesto about wanting to kill Trump Admin officials, minutes before trying to storm a ballroom filled with the President, VP, Cabinet, and many others from his Administration.

CBS: Cole Allen used an interior stairwell to run down ten flights, bypassing heavily monitored public areas of the Washington Hilton. He emerged yards from a primary access point and stairwell to the ballroom, per law enforcement sources.

PETER DOOCY just dropped the CHILLING details straight from President Trump! The shooter was trying to “break down the door, shoot his way through the door and then go right up that center aisle and shoot as many people as possible” at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner!

TRUMP: "I read a manifesto. He's radicalized. He was a Christian—a believer—and then he became an anti-Christian. “He had a lot of change. He has been going through a lot based on what he wrote.” “His brother complained about it him and I think reported him to the police.” “His sister, likewise, complained about him. His family was very concerned.” “He was probably a pretty sick guy.”he was probably a pretty sick guy."

"The guy is a sick guy, when you read his manifesto. He hates Christians, that's one thing for sure... and I think his sister or his brother actually was complaining about it. They were even complaining to law enforcement. He was a very troubled guy."

PRESIDENT TRUMP: "I read a manifesto. He's radicalized. He was a Christian—a believer—and then he became an anti-Christian.

He had a lot of change. He has been going through a lot based on what he wrote. His brother complained about it him and I think reported him to the police. His sister, likewise, complained about him. He now hates Christians. His family was very concerned. He was probably a pretty sick guy, a very troubled guy."

I guarantee he was radicalized on the dark web - just like Thomas Crooks, Tyler Robinson, Luigi Mangione, and Ryan Routh.

I just learned that many Christian youth groups are using the dark web to communicate. Perhaps that needs to stop!

If you don't know what that means - here's a primer as it relates to Charlie Kirk: https://tierneyrealnewsnetwork.substack.com/p/dark-web

JIM JORDAN: “I don’t think it should be LOST on anyone that we have a 3rd assassination attempt on Trump in the same week we learned that the Southern Poverty Law Center has been [exposed for] paying and generating hate!”

CHILLUM: Democrats and left-leaning commentators have drawn parallels between the original 1860 Wide Awakes and modern “progressive youth movements” like the one Cole Allen was a member of, and the 2020 Harris/Biden campaigns’ “voter enthusiasm” efforts.

Cole Allen bought two handguns and a shotgun from Cap Tactical Firearms and stored them in his parent’s house. Parents say they weren’t aware, but knew he was a member of a radical group who wanted to “do something.”

Michelle OBAMA’s tailor is the same person who designs clothing for the group The Wide Awakes, who Cole Allen was a member of. Cole Allen tried to k*ll the President and as many Trump officials as he could.

October 3, 1860, 10,000 Wide Awakes marched three miles through the city of Chicago. Cole Allen allegedly traveled from Los Angeles to Chicago, then to DC. What was he doing in Chicago?

Cole Allen was a member of The Wide Awakes, whose inspirations include the Chicago Black Panthers.

He left a manifesto in the hotel room that his brother had notified New London Police about prior to this incident...

@POTUS

: I heard about the New London situation, and I wish they would have told us about it a little bit, but it is what it is. We had a great group of people there last night. They were strong, and the Secret Service, I thought they were outstanding. They stopped him cold.

Cole Allen’s professor broke his silence and said: “He was a very good student indeed, always sitting in the first row of my class, paying attention, and frequently emailing me with coursework questions. Soft-spoken, very polite, a good fellow. I am very shocked to see the news.”

There is a 5% chance that Cole Allen did not have an anime/trans/furry porn addiction. The way he writes on BlueSky at 31 years old tells me everything I need to know. He was banned on BlueSky. The group Cole Allen was a member of has deep Secret Service connections. Cole Tomas Allen's Bluesky account. Anti-Trump Anti-Vance Anti-Elon Typical Luigi leftists.

A senior White House official tells

@FoxNews

that President Trump & the WH are standing by Secret Service leadership and a meeting will be held this week to review security protocols. Statement to FOX: “President Trump and the White House are standing by the leadership of Secret Service, and President Trump has said he personally thinks they did an excellent job neutralizing the shooter and moving the President, First Lady, Vice President and cabinet to safety. Nevertheless, Chief of Staff Susie Wiles is convening a meeting early this week with the White House operations team, USSS, and DHS leadership to discuss protocol and practices for major events involving POTUS. The meeting will discuss the processes and procedures that worked to stop Saturday’s attempt, while exploring additional options to ensure all relevant components are doing everything possible to secure the many major events planned for President Trump in the months ahead as he gears up to celebrate America 250.”

CHILDERS: If you want to know what’s really wrong with America today, look no further than our manifesto writers. There was a time when a proper manifesto had some heft to it. It was typed on a manual typewriter in a cabin with no electricity, walls lined with aluminum foil, and it usually involved a very detailed and complex (if mathematically questionable) explanation of why the industrial revolution was a bad idea.

But today? Today we get Cole Allen, 31, formerly a Los Angeles resident, but now permanently rehoused with the Bureau of Federal Prisons.

Right before he launched his failed attack, Cole, who uses the online nickname “coldForce” (which sounds less like an assassin and more like a brand of men’s body wash available at gas stations), released a 1,052-word document outlining his deeply held grievances. He signed it: Cole “coldForce” “Friendly Federal Assassin” Allen. (Quote marks in original. And yes, he gave himself two nicknames.)

To be clear, I did not make that up. He actually called himself the “Friendly Federal Assassin.” (For the record, that is also a good name for a Casper the Friendly Ghost reboot in which Casper gets very online and very angry about government policy. Or a good name for a punk rock band: The Friendly Federal Assassins. Either way.) It was the kind of title you give yourself when you are trying your best to murder high-ranking government officials— but you also want to make sure you get a good Yelp review. Four stars. He shot at the podium, but he was very polite and asked for consent first.

🔥 Cole’s manifesto reads less like a chilling declaration of ideological warfare and more like a passive-aggressive, virtue-signaling email dispatched to a homeowners’ association.

He starts off by apologizing. A lot.

“Let me start off by apologizing to everyone whose trust I abused,” he wrote. He apologized to his parents for lying about having an interview. He apologized to his colleagues for saying he had a personal emergency. He apologized to the people he sat next to on the train from LA (for not wearing deodorant? Cole didn’t say. It sounded embarrassing). He apologized to the people who moved his luggage.

Wading through this pointless litany of polite regret, I expected him to next apologize to the hotel front desk clerk, for not signing up for the Hilton Honors rewards program. I know I missed out on double points, and for that, I am truly sorry.

This is the problem with modern extremism: it’s entirely too concerned with fake etiquette. It’s downright unmanly, dammit. You can’t launch an armed assault on the highest levels of the federal government and then worry about whether you inconvenienced the bellhop. Pick a lane, Cole. Are you a fearless instrument of divine justice, or are you the guy who leaves a note on a parked car after lightly tapping the bumper?

As annoying as that was, Cole’s virtue-signaling nonsense quickly became even more exasperating. Cole, our Friendly Federal Assassin, then laid out his “Rules of Engagement.” The CalTech engineer and NASA intern actually typed the words: “(probably in a terrible format, but I’m not military so too bad.)” (Add to the long list of other mysteries that a man who presumably once calculated orbital insertion trajectories for spacecraft could not figure out how to format a bulleted list.)

This is like a bank robber handing the teller a note that says, Please give me all the money (sorry about the handwriting, I’m a Pisces).

His ‘rules of engagement’ were basically an overlong list of people he was not going to target. Hotel employees? Not targets. Guests? Not targets. Secret Service? Only if necessary. He even specified that he hoped the Secret Service was wearing body armor (they were), because he was using buckshot instead of slugs, “in order to minimize casualties.” Um.

For some reason that no one can yet explain, Cole specifically said FBI Director Kash Patel was not a target. Corporate media is having a field day with that one.

🔥 Cole Thomas Allen is, without a doubt, the most virtue-signaling domestic terrorist in American history. He’s like a compassionate vegan considerately telling everyone about the health benefits of organic carrot dogs at a church cookout— he wants to make the point, but he also doesn’t want to be blamed for ruining anyone’s afternoon.

Next came his overly defensive “Rebuttals to Objections” section, which was my personal favorite. Cole actually anticipated how people might complain about his ‘selfless’ actions, and pre-argued with himself in his ‘manifesto.’

For just one example: “Objection 2: This is not a convenient time for you to do this.”

Who does he think would make this objection? Who looks at a heavily armed man storming a hotel ballroom with murderous intent and says, “You know, Cole, this is a really inconvenient time for me. I have a Zoom call at 3:00, and I haven’t even had my coffee yet. Could we reschedule the assassination for Thursday?”

And Cole’s self-centered, ungrammatical, pre-rebuttal? “I need whoever thinks this way to take a couple minutes and realize that the world isn’t about them.” My plan is more important than YOUR silly problems.

That’s right. The guy who decided to take it upon himself to violently alter the course of American history is accusing other people of being self-centered. Cole “needs” people to consider his priorities.

Cole wrapped up his masterpiece as if he were a great artist accepting an award: with a boring but emotional thank-you speech. He thanked his family. He thanked his friends. He thanked his colleagues for their “positivity and professionalism.” He thanked his students for their “enthusiasm and love of learning.” He even thanked, and I quote, “the many acquaintances I’ve met, in person and online, for short interactions and long-term relationships.” Thank you, Circle-K clerk, for selling me those nicotine pouches.

It was an Orwellian Oscar speech from a man who, in his own deluded mind, had just won something important. As best I can tell, the award he envisioned was for Lifetime Achievements in Grievance. He’d like to thank the Academy. He’d like to thank his parents. He could not have done this without all of you. Please hold your applause.

What exactly was he thanking them for? Their love? Their companionship? Their perspectives and inspiration? Cole never said. But the implication was clear: somewhere along the way, his third-grade teacher’s encouragement, his college roommate’s friendship, and a stranger’s kind word on Reddit all combined to produce this.

You’re welcome, America.

When you read Cole’s thank-you section carefully, you notice something very unsettling beneath the ridiculous Oscar-speech format. Cole isn’t just saying goodbye to people he loves. He’s performing for an audience he expects to approve. The whole letter was written as if there was, somewhere out there, a community of folks who will read it and think: finally, someone was brave enough to do it. We’ll return to that thought in a moment.

This was without a doubt the most troubling part of the ‘manifesto.’ Is there a community of folks who are clapping right now, since, as Cole wrote, “I don’t see anyone else picking up the slack”? And if so, what should we do about that, if anything?

A coherent nation cannot long allow that malevolent spirit of violence and discontent to continue.

🔥 Then, at long, painful last, Cole finally signed off. But, just as the reader breathed a sigh of relief, Cole compulsively added a long postscript complaining about hotel security. (Unsurprisingly, a last-word freak.) Below his signature, Cole tacked on, again without demonstrating a shred of evidence of his postgraduate education: “PS: Ok now that all the sappy stuff is done, what the hell is the Secret Service doing? Sorry, gonna rant a bit here and drop the formal tone.”

What formal tone?

The “informal postscript” was, ironically, a scathing one-star review of the event’s security measures. “I expected security cameras at every bend, bugged hotel rooms, armed agents every 10 feet… What I got (who knows, maybe they’re pranking me!) is nothing.”

Well, Cole, it was not absolutely “nothing.” After all, you did end up shirtless, face down, hogtied on the carpet, having murdered nobody. Say what you like about the many inexcusable security failures (as I did yesterday), but the last person who should be bragging about that is Cole Allen. He made it about 75 feet —only because he was sprinting— and never even set foot on the staircase.

Either way, you could almost hear the disappointment in his voice. He went to all this trouble to become the Friendly Federal Assassin, and nobody even checked his bag. It must have felt like studying for weeks for his doctoral dissertation, only to find out the professor was grading on participation. I brought multiple weapons! he essentially complained. Notice me!

He ended, at last, for real this time, with a heartfelt message aimed at the youth of America: “Oh and if anyone is curious is how doing something like feels: it’s awful. I want to throw up… Can’t really recommend it! Stay in school, kids.”

Thank you, Cole. We’ll be sure to add that to the curriculum, right after the side effects of vaping.

We surely live in the most bizarre possible timeline. We now have virtue-signaling assassins who apologize to luggage handlers, write FAQs for their own crimes, and complain about the lack of security like a disappointed tourist at Islands of Adventure.

If this is the future of political extremism, we might not even need the Secret Service. We just need a really good customer service department to handle all the complaints. Oh well.

Casper the Virtue-Signaling Assassin can continue submitting his complaints from SuperMaxx, since his “manifesto” also counts as a confession.

🔥 Hopefully, now that we have rightfully mocked Cole’s moronic manifesto, you’ll allow me a few more serious comments. Cole Thomas Allen is not our biggest problem.

BlueSky isn’t 4chan, Discord, or a darkweb channel. BlueSky is where progressive journalists, academics, Democratic political operatives, and mainstream left-leaning professionals went after rage-quitting Twitter. It is, by design, a curated, credentialed, “respectable” space for progressive intellectual discourse. BlueSky is also where Cole Allen lived. Per the Washington Free Beacon, Cole signal-boosted posts on BlueSky calling for Trump to be ‘immediately removed from office and tried for high crimes’ — a fact corporate media has declined to dwell on or even mention.

So I dipped a tentative toe into BlueSky, hoping to find at least one good quote. What I found was a seething volcano of approval, defense, and justification for Allen’s assassination attempt.

BlueSky provides evidence of the real problem, a visible strain of cowardly but obvious approval. They aren’t even trying to hide it. It ranges from the carefully worded —“we condemn the violence but understand the frustration” to the openly celebratory in progressive social media. From BlueSky, this morning:

This is but one example of countless posts arguing that the assassination attempt was Trump’s fault. Another strain finds the political violence a perfectly natural and expected response from smart people like themselves:

Chillingly, the general and enthusiastic consensus from so-called “progressive elites” is that more political violence is coming:

Equally unsettling, the progressive left is starting to manufacture a pantheon of resistance ‘folk heroes,’ comparing Cole Allen favorably to the healthcare CEO assassin Luigi Mangione, for whom they’ve made t-shirts, mugs, memes, and filled Etsy to the brim. The obvious message: kill people who disagree with us.

In a CNN interview yesterday, Democrat strategist Van Jones saw what’s happening, too. “I’m starting to worry about something,” Jones said. “Which is that the shooter survived, which means on Monday he’s going to court, which means there is a danger that people try to make him some sort of hero.” He added, “You watch what happened with Luigi, who shot a CEO to death, and somehow became a hero.”

🔥 Even among the left’s more cautious political and media types, the word “but” has been doing enormous work over the last two days. “It’s deplorable but it represents a large group of unhappy Americans.” This is the rhetorical equivalent of, “I’m not saying he should have done it — I’m just saying I understand why someone would.” That’s not actually condemnation. That’s a permission structure dressed up in plausible deniability.

For instance, yesterday, while generally decrying political violence, former president Barack Hussein Obama mused, “We don’t yet have the details about the motives behind last night’s shooting at the White House Correspondents Dinner.” Meaning, let’s not judge him too hastily.

These few examples aren’t BlueSky outliers. They were the majority. What I found myself looking at in shocked horror was not random outrage. It was a complete rhetorical ecosystem — every possible angle of justification, minimization, and encouragement, all present in a single thread, all collecting likes. Someone normalizes him. Someone predicts more. Someone invokes Luigi to make it feel heroic. Someone denies it was even serious. Someone says the system started it.

Collectively, BlueSky doesn’t just approve of Cole Allen. They’re constructing a complete permission structure for the next attempt. They are answering every single objection in advance, exactly the way Cole’s own manifesto did— except they’re doing it for a world audience.

The unavoidable conclusion is that the radicalization pipeline is now fully normalized on the mainstream left. When BlueSky resoundingly celebrates Cole Allen within hours of the event, with no pushback of any kind —not despite their respectability but through it, using the language of trauma and systemic injustice and folk heroism— it means the permission structure for political violence has migrated out of the fringe and into the mainstream left’s social infrastructure.

The “more to come” posts are not predictions— they are invitations. When Dawn Humphrey said that more Cole Allens would emerge, she was not warning anyone. It’s not something that troubles her. She was describing an outcome she considers logical and, implicitly, deserved. When oakidoaki replied “More to come!” in enthusiastic agreement, that post was visible to everyone in the network.

It invites copycats. It reassures anyone else who might be on the fence that their community will applaud them as well. That is radicalization infrastructure, operating in the open, on a platform packed full of corporate media journalists who will never ever report on it because they all quietly agree.

🔥 BlueSky isn’t the canary. It’s the coal mine.

Actually, the coal mine is the broader left-wing media and cultural ecosystem, which spent years building the rhetorical conditions for this: the “by any means necessary” framing, the “this is literally fascism” escalation, the Luigi celebration, the normalization of “punching Nazis” as an ill-defined category that can expand to fit anyone the speaker dislikes. BlueSky is just where we can see the temperature most clearly, because the users there are less guarded than they would be on a platform with a mixed audience.

Here’s the problem. The next escalation in this logic is not a more competent Cole Allen targeting the same level. It’s some deranged leftist who reads the same permission structure and concludes: why aim so high when you can aim locally and actually succeed? Think of a Republican Congressman from a rural district who might tip the House scales were he gone. A conservative county commissioner. A school board member who voted the wrong way on segregating bathrooms. A judge who upheld parents’ rights.

These kinds of targets have essentially zero security. They are accessible. They live in neighborhoods. They have routines. The ideological framework being assembled on BlueSky —the system is violent, normal people have had enough, there’s more to come— does not specify a target level.

It just specifies the category: people who support the wrong side.

This progressive revenge fantasy is as delusional as it is wicked. The left’s pro-violence permission structure is being built entirely inside a fantasy of perpetual opposition— as if Republicans are a sleepy occupying force that can simply be disrupted into submission. What progressives fail to model is the response. They are not asking: if we succeed, then what? The answer is not the fall of the Trump regime.

It is the consolidation of it.

In America, political violence against a movement’s opponents has almost never weakened that movement. In the 1960s, leftist violence from groups like the Weather Underground, Black Panthers, and the SLA handed Nixon his mandate. McKinley’s assassination birthed Theodore Roosevelt. The attempted assassination of Reagan in 1981 generated a gigantic wave of public sympathy that helped cement his political dominance. Butler, Pennsylvania, almost certainly shifted votes, if not cemented Trump’s election.

But beyond that, Republicans currently grasp every lever of federal power. They have a Supreme Court majority that includes a justice who just survived a leftist assassination attempt and whose colleagues watched it happen. They have a president who has already survived three attempts (that we know of) and whose political identity is now substantially built around that survival. They have a base that is, by any measure, better armed than the opposition.

And they have —this is the part the left is not thinking about— the legitimate legal and constitutional machinery to respond to a pattern of political violence against local and federal government officials with overwhelming institutional force. Think Insurrection Act. Think martial law.

The people celebrating on BlueSky never ask themselves what happens if they succeed? Or, more to the point, what happens if enough people who read their posts try and fail. They are not the side holding the federal apparatus, the Supreme Court, the Insurrection Act, and three more years on the clock. They are lighting matches in a room they do not control, can’t clearly see, and they seem to think the room will burn in the direction they choose.

Is there anyone left in the Democrat party to recognize the danger and stop this runaway train? Because the old saw is true: something that can’t go on forever won’t. And this —whatever progressives believe they are doing— cannot go on for much longer. And runaway trains never stop gently.

The optimistic take is that, whatever happens, it will produce a long-overdue catharsis, a purge of hatred and violent impulses, ultimately delivering a new birth of harmony, civil engagement, and communal respect. But we might hit a few speed bumps first. So hang on to the armrest.

KANEKOA: He Tried to Kill the President. I Found His Tweets.

Cole Allen’s feed wasn’t extremism. It was mainstream Democrats.

Kanekoa

Apr 27, 2026

Cole Allen charged a Secret Service checkpoint with a shotgun, willing to die for a shot at the President.

Caltech graduate. Master’s in computer science.

From what looks like a good family.

His archived tweets tell the story of how he got there.

What radicalized him weren’t fringe accounts. They were the same talking points repeated every day on the left.

Before the Election

Leading up to November 2024, Allen repeatedly shared posts from Kamala Harris and MeidasTouch:

• “BREAKING: Taylor Swift ENDORSES VP Kamala Harris”

• “Trump’s Project 2025 would eliminate the independence of the DOJ”

He shared sitting Democrats — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, J.B. Pritzker, Elizabeth Warren, Sheldon Whitehouse:

• “Trump is already breaking the law.”

• “Prepare… for a tsunami of plunder and corruption.”

I’m the first person in the world to find and report on these archived tweets. This kind of reporting takes time, and I do it independently — funded entirely by readers. If you appreciate my work, please consider becoming a paid subscriber.

He retweeted mainstream Democrat commentators comparing Trump to Hitler. Jennifer Rubin: “Imagine obsessing over polls in the 1933 German election without covering Mein Kampf. That is what is going on now.” And: “Trump is instigating a pogrom. This is what fascists do.”

He retweeted a post saying “Voting for Jill Stein is such embarassing shit.” Another read: “We’ll either have the first woman president or the end of America.” He shared a Noah Smith post on Trump cancelling the CHIPS Act, and a YourAnonCentral post saying to “ground Trump’s planes and confiscate his passport” if he lost.

After the Election

Once Trump won, Allen accepted the framing that a “fascist convicted felon” had become president.

He shared Bill Kristol’s claim that “the Trumpist authoritarian project of personalized, concentrated, and arbitrary power is proceeding.”

He shared the conspiracy theories popular on X — that Trump staged the Butler assassination attempt, that Elon Musk’s Starlink stole the 2024 election. Andrea Chalupa: “This Starlink story is really taking off.” Allen called for a recount.

On Tulsi Gabbard, he shared posts calling her “a pure Russian asset” and warning that “the only way Tulsi gets confirmed is for the U.S. Senate to wholly abdicate its responsibility to maintain the safety and security of U.S. citizens.”

On Trump’s cabinet, he shared posts labeling them “rapist, spy, zealot, and antivaxer.” On RFK Jr., he worried people wouldn’t be able to get vaccines. The Lincoln Project: “Get your family vaccinated, while you still can.”

He shared post after post from popular Democrat influencers Will Stancil and MuellerSheWrote:

• “Trump is nominating the most corrupt, ethically compromised… incompetent cabinet.”

• “Trump was openly supportive of rioters ransacking the US Capitol.”

• “It’s a constitutional crisis.”

• “The evidence Jack Smith has is DAMNING.”

He retweeted mainstream Democrats Fred Wellman, David Frum, JoJoFromJerz, and Don Winslow:

• “Truly fascist.”

• “Just name Putin as director of national intelligence.”

• “Biden should nullify the election to save our democracy.”

• “THERE. IS. NO. LAW. ANYMORE.”

He shared a Mary Trump post: “Democrats: Stop playing by the rules that no longer exist.” He retweeted Black Knight 10K: “The Supreme Court just made him king.” And: “Immediately hires Himmler, Goebells, and Heydrich.” He retweeted Richard Stengel: “This is what an oligarchy looks like.”

He shared posts from MSNBC contributors Malcolm Nance and Elie Mystal claiming Trump’s policies would lead to widespread deaths and the end of elections:

• “Daughters, wives, children… will die.”

• “Free hunting season for blacks.”

• “We are a one-party state now.”

In His Own Words

Allen wasn’t just amplifying. He was writing.

On November 4, 2024, the day before the election: “Go vote tomorrow. I voted Kamala a week ago cause Cali mail-in ballots.”

The next day, he quote-tweeted Tiffany Trump’s post about her father, replying with scripture: “You belong to your father, the devil…”

On November 7, when Biden congratulated Trump on the win, Allen wrote: “And thus he completes his role of Hindenburg, an old, well-respected politician who through careful adherence to rules walked fascism into power.”

That same day, he posted: “the positive of having elected someone who will accelerate climate change and either give putin america’s nukes or set them off randomly:” He linked a YouTube video of Tom Lehrer’s “We Will All Go Together When We Go.”

On the Routh Assassination Attempt

When Ryan Routh attempted to assassinate Donald Trump, Allen shared posts downplaying, questioning, and justifying the attempt:

• “fake assassination gimmick”

• “Pray for Trump? Why would I pray for the Antichrist?”

• “numb to them like school shootings”

• “Sorry I don’t believe him”

A passionate online defender of Ukraine, Allen also shared posts working to distance Routh from Ukraine while connecting him to Russia, and even to Michael Flynn:

• “Routh was never in the Ukraine military”

• “Routh has no connetion to Azov”

• “Routh was groomed by the Kremlin”

In the days that followed, he shared content from Rick Wilson, Joe Walsh, Hakeem Jeffries, and Adam Kinzinger:

• “Trump is a fascist… autocrat, traitor, danger to the nation.”

• “Don’t normalize him. He’s a lawless, un-American psychopath.”

• “They have a detailed plan to control your life. It’s called Project 2025.”

The Pattern

These are not fringe accounts. They are mainstream Democratic voices, MSNBC contributors, sitting members of Congress, the most-shared political commentators on social media.

Cole Allen looked like he came from a good family. Caltech. Master’s in computer science. His political beliefs mirrored mainstream Democrat talking points — the same ones repeated every day on cable news, in congressional speeches, in viral social media posts.

And he charged a Secret Service checkpoint with a shotgun, willing to die for a shot at the President.

This is why the left constantly calls Trump “Hitler,” ICE the “Gestapo,” and us “fascists.” That rhetoric is how violence gets justified — against Trump, against Charlie, against any of us.

And It’s Escalating

Cole Allen is not an aberration.

A 2025 study by the Network Contagion Research Institute, conducted with Rutgers University’s Social Perception Lab, found that 55% of left-of-center respondents said the murder of Donald Trump was “at least somewhat justified.” 48% said the same of Elon Musk. Roughly 60% of left-of-center respondents said it was at least somewhat acceptable to destroy a Tesla dealership in protest.

These were not abstract numbers.

Throughout 2025, Tesla dealerships, vehicles, and charging stations were attacked with Molotov cocktails, arson, and gunfire. By late March, there had been at least 80 reported cases of vandalism or arson against Tesla. The FBI launched a dedicated task force. The Attorney General called it domestic terrorism. Federal indictments stacked up across Colorado, Oregon, South Carolina, Texas, and Nevada.

In September 2025, Tyler Robinson shot Charlie Kirk in the neck at Utah Valley University. Robinson told family he had “had enough of [Kirk’s] hatred.” Utah Governor Spencer Cox said Robinson was “deeply indoctrinated with leftist ideology.” Robinson’s mother told investigators that over the past year, her son had become more political — and started leaning further to the left.

And now: Cole Allen. The fourth assassination attempt against Donald Trump.

Butler, Pennsylvania — Thomas Crooks, July 2024. West Palm Beach — Ryan Routh, September 2024. Mar-a-Lago — Austin Tucker Martin, armed with a shotgun, February 2025. The Washington Hilton — Cole Allen, April 2026.

Four attempts. One pattern. The same talking points feeding all of it.

The “Luigi left” is growing.

Even Caltech grads from good families, repeating mainstream Democrat talking points, are willing to die for a shot at the President.

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GLENN BECK: 𝐆𝐋𝐄𝐍𝐍 𝐁𝐄𝐂𝐊 𝐎𝐍 𝐂𝐎𝐋𝐄 𝐀𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐍: “𝐇𝐄 𝐖𝐀𝐒𝐍’𝐓 𝐁𝐎𝐑𝐍 𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐒 𝐖𝐀𝐘. 𝐇𝐄 𝐖𝐀𝐒 𝐑𝐀𝐃𝐈𝐂𝐀𝐋𝐈𝐙𝐄𝐃, 𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐏 𝐁𝐘 𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐏, 𝐏𝐎𝐒𝐓 𝐁𝐘 𝐏𝐎𝐒𝐓. 𝐇𝐈𝐒 𝐅𝐀𝐌𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐒𝐀𝐖 𝐈𝐓. 𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐘 𝐓𝐑𝐈𝐄𝐃 𝐓𝐎 𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐏 𝐈𝐓. 𝐇𝐎𝐖 𝐌𝐀𝐍𝐘 𝐎𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐑𝐒 𝐀𝐑𝐄 𝐎𝐔𝐓 𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐑𝐄 𝐑𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐓 𝐍𝐎𝐖?”

Beck delivered the most operationally precise breakdown of the Cole Allen radicalization timeline anyone has aired this week. The opening:

“𝘊𝘰𝘭𝘦 𝘈𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘯 𝘸𝘢𝘴𝘯’𝘵 𝘢 𝘣𝘢𝘴𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵-𝘥𝘸𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘯𝘰𝘣𝘰𝘥𝘺. 𝘏𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘊𝘢𝘭𝘵𝘦𝘤𝘩 𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘶𝘢𝘵𝘦, 𝘣𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘭𝘰𝘳𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘮𝘦𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘦𝘯𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 2017, 𝘮𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘶𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘴𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘊𝘢𝘭 𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦, 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘱 𝘢𝘵 𝘕𝘈𝘚𝘈-𝘑𝘗𝘓. 𝘏𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘮𝘦𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘦𝘯𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘦𝘳. 𝘏𝘦 𝘣𝘶𝘪𝘭𝘵 𝘷𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘰 𝘨𝘢𝘮𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦. 𝘏𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵-𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘶𝘵𝘰𝘳 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘦𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘵 𝘊2 𝘦𝘥𝘶𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯. 𝘏𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘯𝘢𝘮𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘦𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘩 𝘪𝘯 𝘋𝘦𝘤𝘦𝘮𝘣𝘦𝘳 2024. 𝘚𝘵𝘶𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘥 𝘩𝘪𝘮. 𝘊𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘨𝘶𝘦𝘴 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘩𝘪𝘮. 𝘊𝘩𝘶𝘳𝘤𝘩-𝘨𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘺. 𝘕𝘰 𝘤𝘳𝘪𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘳𝘥.”

𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐒 𝐈𝐒 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐏𝐑𝐎𝐅𝐈𝐋𝐄 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐋𝐄𝐅𝐓-𝐖𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐑𝐀𝐃𝐈𝐂𝐀𝐋𝐈𝐙𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐏𝐈𝐏𝐄𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐄 𝐏𝐑𝐎𝐃𝐔𝐂𝐄𝐒 𝐈𝐍 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔. Not the wild-eyed loner. The high-achieving, credentialed, professionally respected young man who has been steadily marinated in a media environment that tells him every day his political opponents are “𝘧𝘢𝘴𝘤𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘴, 𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘴, 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥 𝘳∗𝘱𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘴, 𝘱∗𝘥𝘰𝘱𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘦𝘴” — and that violence against them is morally permitted.

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𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐅𝐀𝐌𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐒𝐀𝐖 𝐈𝐓 𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐈𝐍𝐆.

Beck:

“𝘏𝘪𝘴 𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘴𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘸 𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘧𝘪𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘩𝘪𝘮. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘺 𝘧𝘭𝘢𝘨𝘨𝘦𝘥 𝘩𝘪𝘮 𝘵𝘰 𝘭𝘢𝘸 𝘦𝘯𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘤𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵. 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘧𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘤𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘳𝘩𝘦𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘤 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘧𝘳𝘦𝘲𝘶𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘱𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘶𝘯 𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦. 𝘏𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘴𝘢𝘵 𝘥𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘦𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘵 𝘚𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘪𝘤𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘔𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘨𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘊𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘺 𝘗𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘦 𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘺 𝘩𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘙𝘰𝘤𝘬𝘷𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘦. 𝘓𝘢𝘪𝘥 𝘪𝘵 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘺 𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘴𝘭𝘺 𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘪𝘰𝘳. 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘱 𝘪𝘵. 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘤𝘢𝘮𝘦. 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘥. 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘥𝘪𝘥 𝘯𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨.”

𝐁𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐞𝐝, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐡∗𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐡𝐚𝐝 𝐚𝐥𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐲 𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐝. The brother, watching the manifesto land in his inbox ten minutes before the round was discharged, called the New London Police Department in Connecticut immediately. 𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐛𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫’𝐬 𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐅𝐁𝐈 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐲 𝐂𝐨𝐥𝐞 𝐀𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐚𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐤.

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𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐖𝐈𝐃𝐄 𝐀𝐖𝐀𝐊𝐄𝐒.

Beck identified the specific radicalization pipeline:

“𝘏𝘦 𝘧𝘦𝘭𝘭 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘢 𝘨𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘱 𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘞𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘈𝘸𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘴. 𝘏𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘧𝘪𝘹𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘪𝘴𝘴𝘶𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘰𝘥𝘢𝘺’𝘴 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯. 𝘙𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘴𝘭𝘺 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘩∗𝘰𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦. 𝘏𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘸𝘢𝘵𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘯.”

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐖𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐀𝐰𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐬 — 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝟏𝟖𝟔𝟎 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐑𝐞𝐩𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐲 — has been resurrected as a brand by the radical-left online ecosystem of 2024-2026 as a paramilitary aesthetic for what they explicitly call “𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘪-𝘧𝘢𝘴𝘤𝘪𝘴𝘵” militancy. The same iconography. The same uniformed nighttime marches. The same explicit framing of political opposition as an existential threat that must be physically confronted. 𝐂𝐨𝐥𝐞 𝐀𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐧 𝐣𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐝.

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𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐌𝐀𝐍𝐈𝐅𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐎.

“𝘛𝘦𝘯 𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘶𝘵𝘦𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘩𝘦 𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘦, 𝘩𝘦 𝘦𝘮𝘢𝘪𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘢 1,052 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘥 𝘥𝘰𝘤𝘶𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘧𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘺. 𝘏𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘩𝘪𝘮𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘭𝘺 𝘧𝘦𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘢𝘴𝘴∗𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘯. 𝘏𝘦 𝘢𝘱𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘪𝘻𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘵𝘶𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴, 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘨𝘶𝘦𝘴, 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘩𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘭 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘧𝘧, 𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘪𝘯𝘯𝘰𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘣𝘺𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘩𝘦 𝘬𝘯𝘦𝘸 𝘮𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘣𝘦 𝘬!𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘥. 𝘏𝘦 𝘴𝘢𝘪𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘤𝘵 𝘮𝘢𝘥𝘦 𝘩𝘪𝘮 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘸 𝘶𝘱. 𝘉𝘶𝘵 𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘦𝘭𝘵 𝘳𝘢𝘨𝘦 — 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘢𝘥𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘧𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘱∗𝘥𝘰𝘱𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘦𝘴. 𝘞𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘥𝘰 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘨𝘦𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵?”

𝐁𝐞𝐜𝐤 𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧:

“𝘏𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘻𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘺 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘯 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘻𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰𝘥𝘢𝘺. 𝘕𝘰𝘵 𝘣𝘺 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘪𝘨𝘯 𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘳𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘵 𝘨𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘱. 𝘉𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘰𝘹𝘪𝘤 𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘸 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘈𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘱𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘴 𝘪𝘯 2026 — 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘦, 𝘰𝘯 𝘮𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘢, 𝘪𝘯 𝘱𝘰𝘥𝘤𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘴. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘮𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘢 𝘩𝘺𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘢. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘦𝘤𝘩𝘰 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘮𝘣𝘦𝘳𝘴. 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘺’𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥 𝘱∗𝘥𝘰𝘱𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘦𝘴. 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘺’𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘧𝘢𝘴𝘤𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘴. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘱𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘰𝘱𝘱𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘯’𝘵 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘸𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘨, 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺’𝘳𝘦 𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘭.”

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𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐇𝐈𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐑𝐈𝐂𝐀𝐋 𝐇𝐎𝐎𝐊.

Beck closed with a comparison the audience needs to sit with: 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐲’𝐬 𝐧𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐚𝐬 “𝐦𝐮𝐝”.

“𝘛𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘱𝘩𝘳𝘢𝘴𝘦 — 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘯𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘮𝘶𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘰𝘸𝘯 — 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘴 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘋𝘰𝘤𝘵𝘰𝘳 𝘚𝘢𝘮𝘶𝘦𝘭 𝘔𝘶𝘥𝘥, 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘵 𝘑𝘰𝘩𝘯 𝘞𝘪𝘭𝘬𝘦𝘴 𝘉𝘰𝘰𝘵𝘩’𝘴 𝘭𝘦𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘯𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘓𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘯 𝘢𝘴𝘴∗𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯. 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘥𝘪𝘥𝘯’𝘵 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘪𝘧 𝘔𝘶𝘥𝘥 𝘬𝘯𝘦𝘸 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘯. 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘧𝘪𝘨𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘵 𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘰𝘰𝘵 𝘔𝘶𝘥𝘥 𝘱𝘶𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘧𝘧 𝘉𝘰𝘰𝘵𝘩’𝘴 𝘭𝘦𝘨 𝘴𝘢𝘪𝘥 𝘑𝘰𝘩𝘯 𝘞𝘪𝘭𝘬𝘦𝘴 𝘉𝘰𝘰𝘵𝘩 𝘰𝘯 𝘪𝘵. 𝘔𝘶𝘥𝘥 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘭𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨. 𝘏𝘦 𝘬𝘯𝘦𝘸 𝘦𝘹𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘭𝘺 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩. 𝘠𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘯𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘮𝘶𝘥 — 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵’𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘵 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘴 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮.”

𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐧 𝐟𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐲’𝐬 𝐧𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐛𝐞 𝐦𝐮𝐝? 𝐈𝐭 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝𝐧’𝐭 𝐛𝐞. 𝐁𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧’𝐭 𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠. 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐧. The system received the warning. The system did nothing. The brother had to call New London PD ten minutes before the round was discharged because the system Beck describes as 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐨𝐱𝐢𝐜 𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐰 had already metastasized into another lone-actor attack.

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𝐁𝐄𝐂𝐊’𝐒 𝐂𝐋𝐎𝐒𝐄.

“𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘤 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘥𝘪𝘦. 𝘞𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘢𝘴𝘴∗𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 — 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘧𝘪𝘹𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥 𝘮𝘦𝘢𝘯𝘴 𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘵 𝘢 𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘳 — 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵’𝘴 𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘤 𝘶𝘯𝘳𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘭𝘴. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘯𝘦𝘹𝘵 𝘴𝘩∗𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘯𝘴 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘰𝘯𝘦’𝘴 𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘨𝘦𝘵𝘴 𝘤𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘦𝘳. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘱𝘢𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘯’𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘪𝘳𝘦𝘴. 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘺’𝘳𝘦 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘴 𝘰𝘯 𝘛𝘝 𝘰𝘳 𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘰 𝘰𝘳 𝘪𝘯 𝘱𝘰𝘥𝘤𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘴. 𝘐𝘵’𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘴. 𝘐𝘵’𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘴. 𝘐𝘵’𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘴.”

𝐂𝐨𝐥𝐞 𝐀𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐧 𝐝𝐢𝐝 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐧 𝐛𝐲 𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭. 𝐇𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐮𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐝 — 𝐛𝐲 𝐚𝐧 𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐬𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐲’𝐬 𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐇𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐲𝐰𝐨𝐨𝐝-𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐞-𝐧𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐦𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐞, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐮𝐬-𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐚𝐜𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐜 𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐬 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐞𝐧 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐛𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐝𝐞𝐟𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐫𝐞𝐟𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐞. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐧𝐞𝐱𝐭 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐥𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐲 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐢𝐩𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞.

𝐁𝐞𝐜𝐤’𝐬 𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐲 𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐬 𝐡𝐢𝐦 𝐚 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠.

𝐊𝐀𝐈𝐓𝐋𝐀𝐍 𝐂𝐎𝐋𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐒 𝐀𝐒𝐊𝐄𝐃 𝐏𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐈𝐃𝐄𝐍𝐓 𝐓𝐑𝐔𝐌𝐏 𝐀 𝐐𝐔𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐖𝐈𝐓𝐇 𝐂𝐈𝐕𝐈𝐋𝐈𝐓𝐘 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐅𝐈𝐑𝐒𝐓 𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐄 𝐈𝐍 𝐇𝐄𝐑 𝐂𝐀𝐑𝐄𝐄𝐑. 𝐈𝐓 𝐓𝐎𝐎𝐊 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐅𝐎𝐔𝐑𝐓𝐇 𝐀𝐓𝐓𝐄𝐌𝐏𝐓 𝐎𝐍 𝐇𝐈𝐒 𝐋𝐈𝐅𝐄 — 𝐀𝐓 𝐀𝐍 𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐍𝐓 𝐒𝐇𝐄 𝐀𝐓𝐓𝐄𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐃.

Collins, the CNN Chief White House Correspondent, has spent eight years performing prosecutor at every Trump press conference she has been given access to. 𝐒𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐧𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐬𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐖𝐚𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐭𝐨𝐧 𝐇𝐢𝐥𝐭𝐨𝐧 𝐛𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐫𝐨𝐨𝐦 when Cole Allen tried to ass∗ssinate the President. She was, by Cole Allen’s own manifesto language, “𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘵” for being there.

On Sunday, she stood up and asked the President this:

“𝘛𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘬 𝘺𝘰𝘶, 𝘗𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘛𝘳𝘶𝘮𝘱, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘬 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘶𝘱𝘥𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘶𝘴 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘶𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘵 𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘳. 𝘞𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘢𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘴? 𝘞𝘢𝘴 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘵𝘦𝘢𝘮 𝘢𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘥? 𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘥𝘰 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘣𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘷𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘨𝘦𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵?”

𝐂𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐥. 𝐒𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐝. 𝐒𝐮𝐛𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞. 𝐅𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐬𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠.

And the President, in his own characteristic way, gave her something most journalists never hear from him — operational detail:

“𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘴𝘦 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦, 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺’𝘳𝘦 𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘻𝘺. 𝘞𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘤𝘦𝘴 𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦𝘴, 𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺, 𝘪𝘯 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘨𝘶𝘪𝘴𝘦, 𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘮𝘢𝘺𝘣𝘦 𝘢𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘵𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦. 𝘞𝘩𝘰 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸𝘴? 𝘞𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘰𝘰𝘮, 𝘴𝘰 𝘩𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘢 𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘢𝘺 𝘵𝘰 𝘨𝘰.”

“𝘏𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘊𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘯𝘪𝘢.”

𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐜𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐒𝐞𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐭 𝐒𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐣𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐬. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐝𝐞𝐟𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐥𝐞 𝐀𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐧 𝐡𝐚𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐢𝐭𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟.

Collins finally treated him as the President. Trump finally answered her as a journalist. 𝐈𝐭 𝐭𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐚 𝟏𝟐-𝐠𝐚𝐮𝐠𝐞 𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐟𝐟 𝐚 𝐯𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝟑𝟎 𝐟𝐞𝐞𝐭 𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐢𝐫 𝐭𝐨 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐢𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐧.

If you’ve never cracked open a history book, the mess coming out of Iran right now probably looks like total chaos with no pattern to it. You’ve got top officials posting contradictory things on social media. You’ve got wild accusations flying back and forth about spies and traitors inside their own government. And you’ve got this desperate scramble to keep Iran’s oil moving toward Communist China while Iran’s entire economy falls apart at the seams. None of this is random. These are the classic signs of a regime that’s cracking under real pressure—the same exact pattern we saw with the Barbary Pirates more than 200 years ago.

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps—the IRGC—and the hardline Shia Twelver Muslim clerics who run things there are behaving like modern-day pirates. They’ve hijacked their own country, holding their own people hostage, just like those North African corsairs once held American sailors captive on the high seas. A corsair was basically a state-backed pirate—not just some random criminal on the high seas, but a sailor who had official permission from his government to attack enemy ships and coastal towns.

President Trump sees it clearly, and he’s responding the same way Thomas Jefferson did back then: with a naval blockade and absolutely no willingness to pay tribute or give in to blackmail. The end is near for this terrorist regime. Let me explain exactly what’s happening, step by step, so you can see how history is repeating itself and Trump is holding the line just like Jefferson did.

What’s Really Going On in Iran Right Now

Iran’s leaders are falling apart at the seams. They reached out through Pakistan, practically begging for face-to-face peace talks in Islamabad. The White House didn’t hesitate—they sent Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner and VP JD Vance right away, and Karoline Leavitt, the White House Press Secretary, came out and said the Iranians had asked for this themselves and that the early conversations had been productive.

But then Iranian state media, places like Tasnim News, turned right around and denied that any real talks were even happening. They accused American media of making the whole thing up. Finally, President Trump came out and said we’re not flying 18 hours for no reason anymore. We’re done playing these pirate games. We can do this by phone. So what gives? Why the sudden one-eighty? It’s simple: the IRGC has taken complete control of Iran. They are literally Iran’s modern-day pirates that only answer to the hardline faction.

They’ve pushed aside anyone more reasonable, like Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf and the President of Iran, Masoud Pezeshkian, who were previously part of the negotiation.

If you don’t believe me - the proof is right there in front of us all on X: Iran’s president and their parliament speaker posted identical messages on social media, exactly one minute apart. That’s not a coincidence. That’s someone, almost certainly an IRGC handler, dictating both accounts. There is no internet in Iran for the people and the IRGC controls ALL the media - so that’s the ONLY story they let you see.

Picture President Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson putting out the exact same tweet at the exact same moment. That’s the kind of grip the IRGC pirates have right now in Iran.

Things on the ground are even worse—they’re paranoid out of their minds. The same IRGC channels that used to brag about hunting down protesters under “jihad” orders from the old Ayatollah are now turning on each other, throwing around accusations of coups, spies, and outright treason.

For years, they’ve been bringing in millions of Afghan Shia fighters, groups like the Fatemiyoun Brigade. They trained these guys in Syria to fight for Bashar al-Assad, then shipped them back home to crush protests inside Iran. But after Assad fell and after Israel’s Twelve-Day War last summer, the regime panicked and deported 1.5 million of them overnight, calling them Israeli spies.

Now a whole new wave of these Afghan militias is slipping back in, and they haven’t been touched by American or Israeli strikes at all. Even the regime’s own street-level thugs, the Basij militias, are starting to put two and two together. They’re whispering to each other, “Those Afghans weren’t here for the protesters—they were here for us.” When you rely on mercenaries, loyalty isn’t guaranteed. A coup from the inside feels closer every day.

The economic picture is where it really hurts. President Trump’s naval blockade has turned their oil industry into a nightmare. Kharg Island handles 90% of Iran’s crude exports, and once the U.S. Navy locked that down, their onshore storage tanks filled up in 12 days. In pure desperation, they’re dragging a thirty-year-old rust bucket of a supertanker—the NASHA, built back in 1996—out of retirement. It’s taking four full days to tow it on a trip that should last a day and a half, all just to squeeze in forty-eight more hours of oil production.

Petroleum engineers are warning that if this keeps up, the underground reservoirs will suffer permanent damage—things like water coning, fines migration, and formation compaction. Iran could lose 300,000 to 500,000 barrels a day forever. Right now, they’re hemorrhaging five hundred million dollars every single day.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent isn’t letting up either. He’s frozen $344 MILLION in Iranian cryptocurrency wallets linked to regime officials. He’s sanctioned more than 40 Chinese refineries and tankers that were helping smuggle their oil. And he’s even gotten Gulf nations—still furious over Iran’s past attacks on their neighbors—to start opening up hidden Iranian bank accounts. People like Joe Hoft over at Gateway Pundit, Glenn Beck, Victor Davis Hanson, and Marc Thiessen are all saying the same thing: Iran’s GDP is in freefall, their storage is maxed out, and total collapse could hit in a matter of weeks. Victor Davis Hanson even put a number on it—maybe six days before it all comes crashing down.

On top of everything, there’s this huge question mark hanging over their new Supreme Leader. After the February 2026 strikes took out the old Ayatollah Khamenei, his son Mojtaba got bumped up to the top spot. But U.S. and Israeli intelligence say he’s incapacitated right now—maybe unconscious, maybe worse—laid up in a hospital in Qom - disfugured and with an amputated leg. The official line from Iran is that he’s just a “wounded veteran” still calling some shots, but nobody believes it. His absence has left a massive power vacuum, and the IRGC has rushed right in to fill it. The Iranian people are paying the price—they’ve become hostages in their own country, trapped by the very force that’s supposed to protect them.

The Barbary Pirates: The Time America Told Pirates “Enough”

All of this feels eerily familiar if you know the story of America’s first run-in with pirates—and most people don’t. Back in the early 1800s, Muslim pirates operating out of North Africa’s Barbary Coast—places like Tripoli, Algiers, Tunis, and Morocco—made a business out of capturing American merchant ships. They’d enslave the crews, with more than a million Europeans taken captive over the years, and then demand “tribute” payments just to let U.S. ships sail safely. Once America won its independence, Britain stopped protecting American vessels anymore, leaving the young country wide open. For fifteen years, weaker American leaders just paid up. By 1799, the U.S. was shelling out $18,000 a year to Tripoli alone.

Then Thomas Jefferson took office as president. The Pasha of Tripoli jacked up the demand to $225,000 —twelve times what they’d been paying. Jefferson said no way. On May 10, 1801, Tripoli declared war the old-fashioned way: they chopped down the flagstaff at the U.S. Consulate. Five days later, Jefferson sent three frigates and a schooner under Commodore Richard Dale to blockade the port of Tripoli. His orders were straightforward: stop the pirate ships from getting out, protect American commerce, and fight back if they attacked. Congress got behind it with authorizing legislation in 1802. The First Barbary War dragged on until 1805, when Lieutenant Stephen Decatur led some daring raids that forced a treaty. That treaty ended the tribute payments for good and freed the American prisoners.

Jefferson wasn’t guessing about any of this. Back in 1786, he’d met with a Tripolitan diplomat who laid it out plain: under their view of Islamic law, any nation that didn’t pay tribute was fair game—their sailors could be enslaved legally. Jefferson came away with one conclusion: “Nothing short of force” would change their behavior.

Europe had a different approach—they’d been paying those pirates off for centuries because it seemed cheaper than mounting a real fight. Britain, France, and the Dutch cut tribute deals and weak treaties, which let the pirates go after their rivals while leaving their own ships alone.

America had to go it mostly alone, though the Kingdom of Naples did help out with naval bases and some gunboats. What came out of it was a big deal: America’s first war on foreign soil, its first fight against state-sponsored terrorism, and its first conflict with a Muslim power intent on controlling the entire world.

The Cuban Missile Crisis: When Another Blockade Won the Day

Fast forward to 1962, and you see the same kind of smart pressure working again. The Soviet Union had snuck nuclear missiles into Cuba, just ninety miles off the coast of Florida. President Kennedy didn’t order an all-out invasion. Instead, he put a naval quarantine in place—what was basically a blockade—to keep more missiles from coming in. The world held its breath for thirteen tense days. Soviet ships turned around and went home. The missiles got pulled out. Not a single shot was fired, and the crisis ended.

President Trump is running a page from that same book right now. Iran’s long push for nuclear weapons, combined with their threats to shipping lanes, called for a response. Instead of sending in ground troops, Trump slapped on this naval blockade that’s squeezing their oil exports—the one thing keeping the regime afloat.

The IRGC hardliners, who are calling all the shots now, have started pleading with Russia and Communist China to build some kind of “multipolar world” that pushes America out of the picture. It’s the pirate playbook through and through: when your own threats stop working, call in bigger muscle.

But history doesn’t lie. The Barbary tribute system collapsed. The Soviets backed down in Cuba. Strength gets results.

Why Falling Regimes Always Get Louder Before They Collapse

Here’s something you see over and over in history: weak regimes don’t just fade quietly—they get louder, more erratic, more desperate right before the end. Those disjointed tweets coming out of Iran? That’s the IRGC showing its fractures.

The stalled peace talks, where they only sent a foreign minister and then bailed? That’s hardliners shutting down any compromise. The flip-flopping with those Afghan fighters—deport one minute, bring them back the next? That’s proof even they know mercenaries can’t be trusted. The frozen crypto accounts and the Gulf countries turning on them? They’ve got no way out.

Joe Hoft puts it best: the regime that’s been terrorizing Iran is deathly afraid of a coup from within. Glenn Beck lays out how Trump is choking off their oil production without putting a single American boot on foreign soil. Marc Thiessen says sometimes the best deal is no deal at all—knock out their key targets, then tell them to hand over the nuclear program or watch Kharg Island go up in smoke. Karoline Leavitt nails the bottom line: America is strangling their main revenue source, and they can’t even pay their own people anymore.

The Lesson That Pirates Keep Forgetting

Europe spent centuries trying to buy off the Barbary Pirates with tribute (blackmail) payments. Today, you’re seeing the same thing—European leaders whispering backroom deals and pushing for sanctions relief instead of standing up to the threat.

President Trump isn’t playing that game. He’s channeling Jefferson with a simple message: call us when you’re ready to talk seriously. We hold all the cards.

Pirates have always worked the same way—they keep demanding payment until someone finally has the guts to say no. The IRGC figured they could just wait Trump out. This blockade has shown them otherwise. Defectors are starting to talk. A coup is taking shape inside the regime itself. And the Iranian people, who are every bit as trapped as those American sailors were under Jefferson, might finally get a shot at freedom.

Strength puts an end to piracy. History keeps repeating itself because too many weak leaders forget that basic truth. Trump hasn’t forgotten. Get ready—regime change is coming. The end is near.

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We all know that many of the hate-crime “incidents” we see on the news are false flags engineered by the left to push a narrative. Well, yesterday, the DOJ and FBI announced 11 indictments against the SPLC—a group of race-baiting frauds—that prove it happens.

The "hate-crime" narrative has officially fractured. On April 21, 2026, the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the FBI announced a massive 11-count federal indictment against the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). What was once dismissed as a conspiracy theory is now a matter of federal record: a prominent left-wing “civil rights” nonprofit is accused of "manufacturing racism" to drive a multimillion-dollar fundraising machine.

On April 21, 2026, a federal grand jury in Alabama indicted the SPLC on 11 counts including wire fraud, false statements to banks, and conspiracy to commit money laundering. The DOJ alleges the SPLC secretly funneled over $3 million (2014–2023) to paid informants linked to extremist groups (KKK, Aryan Nations, etc.) without disclosing this to donors, while raising money by claiming to fight the very extremism it was allegedly funding.

Acting AG Todd Blanche and FBI Director Kash Patel described it as “manufacturing racism” for fundraising. In short: The SPLC is one of the most prominent (and controversial) civil rights nonprofits in America, known for aggressive anti-hate work since 1971, and they are now facing serious federal fraud allegations!

The DOJ is saying that the SPLC invents racism and stages racist acts so they can fundraise off it!

MAGA is watching a long-awaited moment unfold: The Justice Department’s indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center, coupled with new reporting on ActBlue, has convinced many MAGA voters that these are the first steps toward a much larger accountability campaign tied to a RICO grand conspiracy case. Taken together, these stories are fueling a growing belief on the right that the era of one-sided political immunity may finally be ending.

The New York Times reported that the SPLC indictment accused the organization of financial crimes tied to payments to informants connected to extremist groups, including allegations that one informant helped coordinate the 2017 Charlottesville “Unite the Right” rally.

The government says the SPLC used the donations it solicited to support a mission of dismantling hate while allegedly channeling money in ways donors were never told about.

At the same time, House Republicans are pressing ActBlue over allegations involving illicit foreign donations, weakened fraud-prevention rules, and a wave of depositions in which employees reportedly invoked the Fifth Amendment repeatedly. That reporting matters because ActBlue is not just another nonprofit; it is a central artery of Democratic fundraising.

That is where the broader “RICO grand conspiracy” theory enters the conversation.

Journalist John Solomon says that prosecutors are not looking at one scandal in isolation but at several connected tracks that may eventually fit together into a larger case. In that framing, the SPLC indictment, the ActBlue probe, and other investigations are not separate headlines—they are early pieces of a much larger mosaic.

America has been played for suckers too long by the Southern Poverty Law Center’s racist grift, and now the DOJ has finally dropped the hammer with 11 federal indictments that prove it.

A federal grand jury in Alabama charged this so-called “civil rights” outfit with wire fraud, false statements to banks, and conspiracy to commit money laundering—because they secretly funneled over $3 million from 2014 to 2023 to KKK leaders, Aryan Nations thugs, National Socialist Movement goons, and even the American Front.

The Sham Empire Crumbles

The SPLC hid every penny of that dirty money through laughable fake companies like “Fox Photography,” “Tech Writers Group,” “Rare Books Warehouse,” and—get this—the “Center Investigative Agency (CIA).” They loaded up prepaid cards with cash from unsuspecting donors, ensuring that grannies wiring their Social Security checks had no idea their hard-earned money was bankrolling the very hate the SPLC pretended to fight.

Acting AG Todd Blanche nailed it perfectly when he said the SPLC was manufacturing racism to justify its existence. One of their paid “informants”—a key organizer of the Charlottesville “Unite the Right” rally—pocketed a staggering $270,000 while helping coordinate tiki torches, racist social media posts, and even transportation for attendees to that 2017 setup the media weaponized against Trump for years.

Right after that rally, SPLC donations doubled overnight, jumping from $65 million to $130 million.

Big names poured in cash: $1 million from George and Amal Clooney, another $1 million from Apple and Tim Cook, and $500,000 from JPMorgan Chase. Pure coincidence, right? Meanwhile, their infamous “hate map” pressured corporations like AmazonSmile, PayPal, Visa, and Mastercard to debank conservatives and patriots like you and me.

All the while, the SPLC was paying actual neo-Nazis—like the American Nazi Party leader, a former KKK member and Aryan Nations director—$70,000, even listing him as an “extremist” on their own website.

This isn’t some noble infiltration operation; it’s a sick, twisted racket.

The SPLC is the largest known financial backer today of the KKK. Not kidding. They were paying the KKK and other hate groups to launch fake attacks against black people!

PAUL SPERRY: “The indictment shows they HID over 2000 reports of anti-white racist attacks in their reports.”

They delivered zero arrests and no scalps from decades of these so-called “field sources.” Instead, they just scared donors into wiring cash while smearing groups like Turning Point USA right next to the KKK—days before Charlie Kirk’s brutal murder.

Both Charlie and Ben were on the SPLC hate hit list!

SPLC also wrongly targeted Prager U, Moms for Liberty and the Family Research Council.

Biden’s DOJ Covered It Up

The corruption didn’t stop there. The Biden DOJ didn’t just partner with the SPLC—they actively shut down bank fraud investigations when red flags popped up on those sham accounts.

The SPLC and Biden’s crew worked hand-in-glove, targeting pro-life Catholics and citing their smear lists to harass everyday conservatives. FBI Director Kash Patel finally cut ties, blasting them as a “partisan smear machine.” Now, under Trump’s DOJ, the script is flipping hard. No more immunity for these fraudsters.

The entire “alt-right” & NAZI white supremacist movement in the US is fake & was literally created and funded by the SPLC & their left-wing foreign Islamo-Communist donors!

The SPLC literally bought these clothes so they could stage hate crimes!

Patriots across social media erupted in cheers.

Elon Musk called it out: “SPLC funded a large number of false flag ‘right wing’ organizations and events. Total scam. The left quickly realized that if the boogeyman of white supremacy disappeared, so did their power. So they literally funded it. SPLC is an evil crime syndicate.”

Andy Ngo drove the point home: “If the allegations are true, the SPLC is the largest funder of American neo-Nazis and KKK members.”

Jesse Watters of Fox News pointed out that the SPLC held large amounts of money in offshore accounts overseas! The Washington Free Beacon has previously reported that these holdings included accounts in the Cayman Islands and British Virgin Islands. That’s rather odd for a non-profit watchdog.

ActBlue: The Democrat Cash Artery Cracks

But the SPLC is just the appetizer in this feast of accountability. House Republicans are torching ActBlue, the Democrats’ central fundraising artery, for rampant illicit foreign donations and fake vetting processes that allowed illicit gifts WHILE their employees invoked the Fifth Amendment a jaw-dropping 146 times during depositions.

ActBlue is a major Democratic fundraising platform founded in 2004. It processes billions in small-dollar donations for Democratic candidates, PACs, and progressive causes.

PAUL SPERRY: According to a just-released House Judiciary report:

“Every member of ActBlue’s legal and compliance team appears to have left ActBlue after the 2024 election because of its ‘knowing and willful’ acceptance of illegal foreign contributions.

There was a subsequent cover-up by “ActBlue CEO Regina Wallace-Jones who is under subpoena but may have deliberately withheld responsive material to impede our investigation.”

This is important to the stolen election because they stole millions in small donations and laundered that money plus illegal foreign donations back to the Democrats through ActBlue.

Remember when Rudy Giuliani stood in front of the Four Seasons landscaping business in Philadelphia and exposed ActBlue in 2020 and they mocked him? He was the FIRST one to find receipts of these scams through ActBlue. That’s why the Democrats disbarred him! Well, his day of reckoning is coming.

ActBlue’s general counsel got fired, interim counsel resigned amid warnings of “legal compliance disasters,” and five top lawyers scattered like roaches. Texas AG Ken Paxton slapped them with a lawsuit over straw donor scams that funneled a whopping $19 billion to Democrat coffers. This isn’t some side hustle—it’s the lifeblood of the left’s political machine, and it’s cracking wide open under scrutiny.

Solomon’s Bombshell: Four RICO Tracks Unleashed

Journalist John Solomon dropped the real bombshell straight from White House sources: Four separate grand jury prosecutions are rolling out right now, building toward the mother of all RICO cases—“eating the corruption elephant one bite at a time.”

He’s calling it MAAA: Make America Accountable Again.

The first track is the SPLC fraud, with donor cash vanishing into hate groups through elaborate shell games.

The second targets ActBlue’s money laundering, from lax fraud controls and foreign cash floods to those pleading executives.

The third goes after RussiaGate conspirators, the crooks behind the fake dossier and illegal spying on Trump’s campaign.

And the fourth—the absolute jaw-dropper—is “Operation Round River,” a deep-state plot to neutralize Biden-Ukraine-Burisma probes by targeting Trump allies who dared expose the rot. Solomon reports that insiders call Round River potentially the most explosive, connecting deep-state dots from coast to coast.

When you follow the money trails, the fake narratives from Charlottesville to the “No Kings” riots, the shell companies, and the cover-ups, it all screams RICO conspiracy meat. The left didn’t just fund the torches—they amplified the panic, smeared half of America as racists, and laughed all the way to their $800 million war chest.

Past SPLC Scandals: A Pattern of Lies

This isn’t the SPLC’s first rodeo of lies—it’s a decades-long pattern. Remember the Family Research Council shooting? An SPLC-inspired gunman targeted them after their smears. They’ve hoarded $800 million in their lavish Montgomery “Poverty Palace” while begging for more and crying poor.

Laurene Powell Jobs, who owns The Atlantic through her Emerson Collective, launched her entire philanthropic career with an SPLC donation. Former staffers have blown the whistle, calling the whole operation a “con.”

The SPLC even funneled cash to the Proud Boys, which explains why no real patriot ever trusted them. The entire “alt-right” and Nazi white supremacist myth in America? SPLC-funded from the jump.

President Trump himself weighed in: “Finally, the scam artists face justice—no more faking hate to rule us.”

Penalties: Crippling Fines, Frozen Assets

The hammer comes down hard on penalties. Each count of wire fraud carries up to 20 years in prison and $1 million in fines. The money laundering conspiracy? Another 20 years, plus full forfeiture of all ill-gotten gains—that $800 million war chest could vanish before midterms even heat up. Treasury is eyeing crippling anti-money laundering (AML) fines, potentially bankrupting the SPLC by classifying them as a rogue “money remitter.”

“Today is just the beginning—stay tuned.”

The Reckoning Dawns

The left spent years inventing the “hate crisis” out of whole cloth—they funded the tiki torches, amplified the media panic, smeared patriots as fascists, and hoarded their war chest to buy elections. The Biden DOJ shielded them at every turn.

Patriots, April is turning into our October surprise season. The SPLC squid is thrashing on the deck, ActBlue is bleeding out, Round River is about to explode, and Trump is cleaning house like never before.

Justice is here, it’s glorious, and it’s only getting started. Share this far and wide, be positive, follow the money, and let’s Make America Accountable Again!

PS: I’ve seen all sorts of political corruption over the years, and I thought nothing could shock me anymore - I bet you feel the same.

But when schemes as evil as the SPLC’s are finally dragged into the light, it still hits me hard.

The level of dishonesty and rot from the Democrats and RINOs and fake news is downright disgusting, It turns my stomach when I think about how deep it goes and how long it’s festered for decades!

I hope and pray to be a witness to a great reckoning once and for all. We’ve been given a great gift: the gift of awareness and a platform to share the truth with thousands of others. What a time to be alive.

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The influencers have been reporting on several developments lately that, taken one by one, might look unrelated. But taken together, they point in the same direction: the finale of a RICO grand conspiracy case that the Trump administration is preparing against Obama’s Deep State establishment and the media apparatus that has spent years weaponizing government power against him. I’m going to try to connect some dots for you and show you why I think that endgame is near.

If you haven’t read my previous report on the RICO grand conspiracy case, you might want to read that again to refresh your mind before we continue.

So, what has been going on lately?

Tulsi Gabbard is declassifying documents and making criminal referrals tied to Trump’s 2019 wrongful impeachment. Pam Bondi is being moved off the board, with Trump publicly saying he loves her, but also quietly recognizing that she’s not that good on TV and that she’s already done the leg work. Todd Blanche is stepping in to push the pieces forward, remove obstruction, and bring in new players to close the case. Kash Patel is on TV saying arrests are coming soon and that the stolen‑election claims are being folded into the broader RICO conspiracy case. And journalists like John Solomon and Dan Bongino are signaling that the next phase is already underway.

This isn’t just a series of personnel moves. It’s the endgame of a long chess match.

Bondi Was the Rook, Not the Queen

Trump has always been honest about what he values: battlefield presence, TV “central casting” presence, and the ability to sell his strategies to the public and keep the base fired up.

Pam Bondi did her job — she empaneled grand juries, put boots on the ground in Florida, and set the stage for the prosecutions Trump wanted to see. Ultimately, her track record in cases is the best the DOJ has seen in 50 years. But she never really learned how to play the media board. She is better in a courtroom than on TV.

Bondi is good at the mechanics of the job. She lined up cases. She did her best to put the right prosecutors in place. She cleared the way for the kind of RICO‑style grand conspiracy work now targeting figures like John Brennan. In that sense, she was the perfect rook: you move her straight into the right squares and then let someone else handle the finishing moves.

Trump loved Pam Bondi enough to put her in the Attorney General’s chair, but he also found out she’s not built for the TV war — so he’s moved her to the private sector, where she can amplify his message like Dan Bongino is doing right now - rather than slow‑walk it from inside the DOJ. Remember, President Trump said nobody knows how someone will perform until they are tested. Correct!

Now Tulsi Gabbard, Todd Blanche, Kash Patel, and Joe diGenova are lining up the pieces for what could be the biggest legal reckoning in the deep state’s history.

Trump still loves her, but he’s not blind. He knows that if you’re going to run the Justice Department in a hyper‑visible political war, you need someone who can show up on TV, talk directly to the camera, and keep the Fox‑News‑and‑talk‑radio‑aligned audience engaged. That’s not Bondi’s strength. That’s Blanche’s role now.

Her move to the private sector could be a lot more useful than harmful. She can go out and talk, write, build a media presence, and operate like Dan Bongino — not from inside the bureaucracy, but as an outside voice that amplifies what the administration is doing. That’s often more powerful than a hesitant, over‑cautious mouthpiece in a government chair.

Tulsi Opens the File

Tulsi Gabbard’s latest move is the one that should make the most noise but hardly anyone is reporting on it.

According to ODNI’s newly declassified material, Gabbard submitted criminal referrals to the Justice Department tied to what she says was a conspiracy around the 2019 impeachment of President Trump. The heart of the allegation is that Intelligence Community Inspector General Michael Atkinson mishandled, and perhaps deliberately weaponized, the whistleblower process by forwarding a complaint built on secondhand information and political bias.

The ODNI position is blunt: Atkinson ignored DOJ guidance, exceeded his jurisdiction, and pushed a complaint forward without a fulsome investigation. The office also says the whistleblower had partisan ties, including working closely with Joe Biden on Ukraine issues and having Democrat affiliations that were hidden or minimized during the impeachment process.

Gabbard’s framing is even sharper. She says “deep state actors” inside the intelligence community manufactured a false narrative that Congress used to overturn the will of the voters and impeach the duly elected president. That is not bureaucratic language. That is an accusation of institutional sabotage.

The Atkinson Story Matters

Michael Atkinson matters because he was supposed to be neutral.

He was the gatekeeper, not a political actor. Yet ODNI now says he took a complaint that lacked firsthand evidence, shaped it into a formal “urgent concern,” and routed it to Congress and the FBI in a way that gave the impeachment effort its legal and political cover.

That’s important because the entire public case against Trump in 2019 rested on the idea that the whistleblower process was legitimate, careful, and independent. If that process was manipulated from the start, the impeachment was built on a contaminated foundation.

The newly released material also raises questions about the layering of witnesses. The complaint did not come from someone on the Trump–Zelensky call. It came through a chain of people reading transcripts, interpreting context, and making political assumptions. ODNI’s argument is that the process was not just sloppy — it was strategically engineered.

Brennan, Florida, and the Grand Jury

At the same time, the Justice Department appears to be tightening the circle around John Brennan.

Reporting from outlets like Just the News suggests that Bondi’s grand jury in South Florida is hearing a grand conspiracy RICO case involving Brennan and other figures tied to Russiagate and the anti‑Trump apparatus. That’s serious. If true, the government is not just looking at one‑off mistakes; it’s looking at a coordinated network of abuse.

Bondi did her part here. She helped set up the Florida machinery, got the right prosecutors in place, and kept the pressure on. There are also reports of cooperating witnesses. But once the grand jury was running and the case was stacked with evidence, the next move was to hand the baton to someone who could push the narrative harder and keep the TV‑war caliente.

That’s where Blanche and diGenova come in.

Blanche, diGenova, and the “Counselor” Move

Joe diGenova is 81 years old, but he is one of the few experienced conservative prosecutors who actually knows how to handle this kind of high‑stakes, high‑profile work. He ran the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia under Reagan, supervised hundreds of attorneys, and built RICO, corruption, and espionage cases at the highest level. That kind of background is exactly what you want when you’re trying to pull apart a years‑long conspiracy across the intelligence community and DOJ.

The problem is that Obama and Biden spent years clearing out people like diGenova. They replaced them with loyal‑to‑the‑establishment prosecutors who were more comfortable running the same old institutional playbooks than going after the permanent class. That’s why Blanche bringing diGenova in now is such a signal: it’s not just a staffing decision; it’s an ideological reset. diGenova is also close to Rudy Giuliani - who basically invented RICO to take down the New York mob.

There is also confusion about who blocked what when. Paul Sperry says Blanche allegedly blocked an earlier move to bring in diGenova. diGenova, on Rudy Giuliani’s podcast, says the opposite: that Bondi was the one who held it up. The DOJ backs up diGenova. That contradiction is worth noting because it suggests there are still nefarious leakers inside the DOJ - where infighting, competing power centers, and a lot of jockeying behind the scenes happens every day. The Trump administration has removed THOUSANDS of harmful deep state actors but there are THOUSANDS to go.

But the real story is that the administration finally forced the move: diGenova is now counselor to the acting attorney general - Todd Blanche - operating out of the Southern District of Florida, where the Brennan‑linked grand conspiracy case is running. That’s a signal: the old guard is being pushed out, and the new team is told to act.

Blanche is the one who can now say, “We’re not waiting. We’re not hesitating. We’re moving the case forward — and when the time comes, arrests will follow.”

Bondi Made the Field, Blanche Runs the Game

Jason Quiñones, the Trump‑nominated U.S. attorney in Southern Florida removed the Obama prosecutor - Maria Medetis Long - from the Brennan‑related work - likely for obstruction - and is now working under special Sec. 515 authority. That means he’s operating under a direct Justice Department mandate to push cases that the administration wants to see action on. Long’s removal was the administrative broom‑sweeping; Quiñones is the guy tasked with actually swinging the bat.

Bondi got the field ready. She allowed the Florida grand jury to form, she blessed the RICO‑style structure, and she gave the legal green light to some of the more aggressive moves. But once the case was loaded and the evidence lined up, Trump’s instinct was to hand it to someone who can talk, fight, and sell the story in real time.

It looks like Blanche is that guy - backed by diGenova. He’s the chess master who finishes the endgame that Bondi laboriously set up. And if he’s running over the RICO wall, it’s because Bondi already built the battering ram.

Kash Patel Turns Up the Heat

And Kash Patel is making it very clear that he is not just watching the board — he’s part of the offensive.

He has gone on television to say that arrests are coming soon in the grand conspiracy case and that evidence related to the stolen election is being folded into the broader investigation. That’s significant because it means the administration is not treating the post‑2020 election claims as a separate political issue. It’s treating them as part of the same suspected network of misconduct.

His recent defamation suit against The Atlantic over stories about his drinking is part of the pattern too. It’s a way of fighting back against the media‑smear machine that spent years trying to delegitimize Trump’s inner circle. When Patel says, “we’ve got all the evidence,” he’s not describing a slow‑motion investigation. He’s describing a case that is ready to move. The fake news is desperate to smear and discredit the entire Trump team at this point to stop the inevitable.

And the stolen‑election story is no longer just a talking point — it’s being folded into the same criminal‑case mindset as the RICO conspiracy. The 2020 election, particularly the Georgia ballot procedures, has become a live investigative file, not just a partisan talking point. Tulsi Gabbard showed up at the center of that storm: she was on the ground in Georgia for the FBI’s search of a key election facility in Fulton County, where voting materials from 2020 were seized under a judge’s order.

Trump himself has said Gabbard was there “working very hard on trying to keep the election safe,” and that federal agents were finally getting to digital files and ballot records that he claims were rigged to flip the state. From the ODNI standpoint, that’s framed as an election‑security and foreign‑interference probe.

But in the larger picture, it’s clear they’re using the same forensic, criminal‑law lens on the 2020 vote as they’re using on the Russiagate and impeachment conspiracy: the idea that the Deep State and its media allies didn’t just smear Trump — they actively manipulated the outcome, and now the administration is trying to deliver the evidence in a way that will force the public to connect the dots.

Obama, Schiff, and the Larger Picture

The biggest implication of Gabbard’s disclosures is that the 2016 and 2019 battles are now being linked into one long chain.

According to the released material and the accompanying commentary, Obama‑era officials allegedly directed the creation of false intelligence to support a narrative that Russia wanted Trump to win. That includes names like Brennan, Clapper, Comey, and Susan Rice. Gabbard has also singled out Adam Schiff and House Democrats for working with intelligence figures to weaponize the whistleblower process and manufacture the basis for impeachment.

That’s why this isn’t just about impeachment. It’s about a pattern of behavior: using the intelligence community and the Justice Department as political weapons, shaping narratives, and then laundering them through Congress and the media.

If the administration can connect the 2016 intelligence operation, the 2019 impeachment, and the post‑2020 election fight into one story, the entire narrative of the last decade starts to flip. The threat is no longer coming from Trump; it’s coming from the permanent class inside the institutions that were supposed to protect the country.

SHADOWINTEL: “Dan Bongino had John Solomon on his show today and Solomon made an interesting prediction:

That Trump will soon unveil evidence that foreign powers meddled in the 2020 election, which will result in John Thune ultimately caving on the filibuster and the Save America act will get passed.

“I think Donald Trump is going to change the narrative in America. I think he is going to change some Senators minds. He is going to start revealing some of the intelligence that was kept from the American people. And we’re going to see that our foreign adversaries have monkeyed around with our (election) system more than we knew.

And I think when Senators realize their state could have been targeted, there is going to be a different debate in America. I think there’s some big, significant, and very troubling revelations about the vulnerabilities of our elections that the President is about to unveil on the American public.”

What Comes Next

The timing is obvious, and that’s part of why this feels serious.

The Florida grand jury is still active. The Justice Department has new leadership. ODNI has put criminal referrals on the table. Kash Patel is publicly promising arrests. Tulsi Gabbard is tearing open the intelligence files and naming names. And the media allies of the old regime are already doing what they always do: smearing, minimizing, and trying to flood the media zone before facts become charges.

Trump’s move with Bondi was part of the strategy too. He’s not throwing her away. He’s repositioning her — taking someone who did the bureaucratic heavy lifting and pushing her into the private sector, where she can become a media‑friendly, Trump‑aligned voice like Dan Bongino, rather than a tentative, TV‑reluctant attorney general.

For years, the accusation was that Trump was the threat. Now the evidence trail is pointing in the other direction.

It’s taken a long time, but you can’t just dump the biggest conspiracy in American history into people’s hands and start arresting high‑level officials overnight. You need to eat the elephant one bite at a time.

The public first has to see the pattern, piece by piece: the 2016 fake‑Russia narrative, the 2019 impeachment hoax, the attacks on Trump, J6 and the stolen election, and the post‑2020 election chaos all stitched together into one long coup attempt. The administration is delivering the evidence one blow at a time, letting the story unfold, and letting the rage build — and we’re almost at the point where the country won’t just watch. It will demand the arrests that Obama’s Deep State criminal enterprise has finally earned. Godspeed.

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I’ve been wanting to say this for a while to all of those who only reach out to me to complain about President Trump and never mention his victories - so here goes. I posted this last night on Facebook:

DEAR DOOMERS: “The mid-terms are only about six months away, yet President Trump decided to RISK EVERYTHING and go after the Iranian regime militarily and strategically.

Why? Because he learned that the terrorists running Iran had enriched enough uranium to make a nuclear bomb and put it on an ICBM to target Europe, Israel and our military bases in the region. He also knew that Iran, China, Russia and BRICS had plans to destroy America, destroy the dollar and replace us as the world leader.

So, Trump did what no other President in the past 50 years has dared to do - STOP Iran and their comrades from their plans to destroy the world. And he did it at huge risk to himself and his political party.

He did it even though he knew gas prices would go up, the stock market would go down, the fake news would vilify him, the Democrats and RINOs would call him a war monger and the Pope would mock him for not being a peacemaker.

How much courage did that take? How much resolve did that take? How much faith did that take? DOES ANYBODY REALIZE HOW COURAGEOUS THAT WAS? IT BLOWS MY MIND EVERY TIME I THINK ABOUT IT.

For those weak and whiny panicans and RINOs who can’t wait to wake up every morning and “scold” him for not being “appropriate” enough or moral enough or for not doing things the way they want him to - why don’t you first be honest with yourself and admit that you wouldn’t even have the courage to get out of bed if you had to face what that man has been through.

The fact that Trump stood up to Iran because it was the righteous move to make - to protect God’s people everywhere - even though many in his own party stood against him - even though many Libertarians and RINOs wanted him to roll over and play it safe - should be all you need to know about who he is.

God saved him for a reason - to save us from ourselves. That reason should be glaringly obvious by now. If you don’t see it - you don’t want to see it.

I THANK GOD FOR PRESIDENT TRUMP.”

After I wrote that, I woke up this morning to the news that oil prices were down to around $80 a barrel, and the stock market was back up at record highs again. That only took 6 weeks of “war” in Iran - not a FOREVER war like the panicans and doomers have claimed!