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In the wake of Saturday’s most recent assassination attempt on the life of President Trump, former President Barack Obama posted on Sunday a social media statement in which he declared that “we don’t yet have the details about the motives behind [the] shooting.” Apparently he didn’t read the failed assassin’s manifesto, which The New York Post published in full – 1052 words he sent to family members just 10 minutes or so before he barreled through a security cordon toward the room in which Trump, administration officials such as Pete Hegseth and Stephen Miller, and other guests attended the White House Correspondents Dinner.
Cole Allen, 31, began what he expected might be his final message to the world with a cheery “Hello everybody!” then proceeded to lay out a carefully articulated statement, in a curiously jokey tone, that demonstrated he was far from crazy – although only a serious sufferer of Trump Derangement Syndrome would have been driven to commit such a desperate and potentially suicidal act, with the full awareness that nearby innocents were likely to die in his rampage as well.
After his greeting, Allen presented a series of “sincere apologies” to “everyone whose trust I abused” – again with a touch of the incongruously comic:
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.)
He also apologized to anyone he might have put in danger simply by being near, and to “all those who suffered before I was able to attempt this,” suggesting that he felt guilty for not killing Trump sooner. “I don’t expect forgiveness,” he states, “but if I could have seen any other way to get this close, I would have taken it.”
Then he moved on to “why I did any of this” (take note, Barack Obama): “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.”
Apart from the fact that Trump is neither a pedophile, rapist, nor traitor (all tired Democrat tropes), as a U.S. citizen Allen should know that in this country we remove leaders we don’t like from office through a peaceful democratic transition called voting.
Next he laid out his “expected rules of engagement,” listing his targets: Trump administration officials first (“prioritized from highest-ranking to lowest”), then Secret Service agents (but “only if necessary, and to be incapacitated non-lethally if possible,” though Allen didn’t seem to have a plan for how to achieve this). He noted that any hotel security, Capitol police officers, and National Guardsmen were not to be targeted “unless they shoot at me.”
Hotel employees and guests at the event also were not to be targeted at all; in fact, Allen stressed that he intended to use buckshot rather than shotgun slugs “in order to minimize casualties” because the former ammunition meant “less penetration through walls.”
But lest the reader get the impression that Allen was honorably mindful of the safety of innocents, he added that he “would still go through most everyone here to get to the targets if it were absolutely necessary,” because they “chose” to attend “a speech by a pedophile, rapist, and traitor, and are thus complicit.”
So much for carefully avoiding innocent casualties.
Allen even considered rebuttals to any objections anyone might have, such as “As a Christian, you should turn the other cheek.” He observed that turning the other cheek
is for when you yourself are oppressed. I’m not the person raped in a detention camp. I’m not the fisherman executed without trial. I’m not a schoolkid blown up or a child starved or a teenage girl abused by the many criminals in this administration.
Apart from the fact that the Trump administration is not “oppressing” anyone, Allen believes that refusing to defend the oppressed “is not Christian behavior; it is complicity in the oppressor’s crimes.” Since he wants to be viewed as a good Christian, now might be a good time to remind him of the Sixth Commandment: thou shalt not murder.
Another objection he attempted to self-rebut was, “You didn’t get them all,” which he answered with a glib, “Gotta start somewhere.”
Allen goes on to thank his family (both his biological and his church families) for their love, his friends for their companionship, his colleagues for their “positivity and professionalism,” his students for their “enthusiasm and love of learning,” and acquaintances both “in person and online, for short interactions and long-term relationships, for your perspectives and inspiration.”
Too bad Allen didn’t seem to have any Republican family members, friends, colleagues, or acquaintances who might have offered a different perspective – not that he would have considered it impartially.
The manifesto closes with a polite “Sincerely” and is signed, “Cole ‘coldForce’ ‘Friendly Federal Assassin’ Allen.” Then he added a curious postscript in which he “dropp[ed] the formal tone” and expressed incredulity about the Secret Service’s “insane level of incompetence.” He expected “security cameras at every bend, bugged hotel rooms, armed agents every 10 feet, metal detectors out the wazoo.” Instead, he observed “No damn security” inside the hotel or the event:
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.
Allen concluded his statement on a personal, emotional note, assuring readers that he felt awful about what he was about to do – not because of the moral implications, but because he knew his end might be imminent: “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.” And then, “I experience rage thinking about everything this administration has done.”
There it is, the key that unlocks the mystery of Allen’s motive: the murderous rage that runs through the Trump-hating Left like a flaming locomotive. The rage that is stoked every day by the Trump-hating media, the Trump-hating Democrat leadership, Trump-hating celebrities, Trump-hating academics, and Trump-hating activists like Allen.
As a California teacher (is anyone surprised?), Cole Allen was likely a product of a hermetically-sealed, Democrat bubble in which Trump and the entire MAGA movement are viewed by Progressives as a greater threat to their democracy than Hitler, the man almost universally considered the embodiment of evil. In this worldview, assassinating the President seems not only just, not only imperative, but an heroic act of martyrdom. Allen made what he thought was a perfectly rational, righteous choice.
Somewhat let Barack Obama know.
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“And I am no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist, and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes.”
Oh the horror. THE HORROR!!!
A little overly dramatic, isn’t he.
So, no actual security and he still couldn’t get off an aimed shot. Typical fa**ot lib.
He forgot to tell us A: what evidence there is of his accusations, and B: how it somehow “coats HIS hands”?
Well, psychologically one might opine that it “coats his hands’ ( dont want to think about that in detail) because he has the deep dark desire to be what he accuses Trump of being.
People keep claiming Allen is sane but nothing he said, wrote or did is. He’s an obvious lunatic but he still deserves to be executed. Lunatics can be quite violent.
If I were to ever run into him I would pound his face in.
Some people confuse evil with insanity, maybe someone can be both. Both will qualify him as a modern day dumbocrat.
His dash through the magnetometers and the response it provoked from multiple agencies reveals there was “actual,” if flawed security. Had there been a skilled (IRGC trained) team, rather than one individual, the outcome would probably have been horrific. Whatever Allen’s proclivities, the action of the security team to keep him alive to testify will prove a watershed in fighting back against the deluge of lies that he quoted in his “manifesto.”
Will you ever stop bloodletting and revenge? I see no peace in your words; maybe peace doesn’t sell. There is a time to take up the sword, but you refuse to see a time when it should be laid down.
The time to lay down arms isn’t while someone is actively trying to kill you. It’s time for the Republicans to wake up, realize that we’re in a fight for the survival of the nation, and that we’re losing!
To whom do you refer?
Aside from the horror of what this individual chose to do, he appears to be highly intelligent, well educated and from a caring family….RARE in the liberal world to have all those positives in one person.
That said, if he had chosen any other way to oppose this administration, he could have been accepted….INSTEAD he chose violence….something which libs always fall down on.
NOW, this nitwit will spend the rest of his miserable existence in a jail cell….
I have no pity.
Not so intelligent if he couldn’t see that his accusations against the President wer e not true.
Yes, exactly. I know people who believe every word, every false accusation, trope, nasty joke they hear read or see. It must be true if their favorite station presented it, or favorite website or the radio or podcaster said so.
The more hateful and accusatory the message the more they buy in.
Propaganda works so well!
I don’t know if the human race can survive this or deserves to.
There are still good people out there.
“Hard times make strong men. Strong men make good times. Good times make weak men. Weak men make hard times.”
It’s a repeating cycle and we’re near the end of the era of good times make weak men (and women.) This guy is an example of that as were the first two would be assassins. Further proof is that the secret service fired several shoots at this guy but failed to hit him let alone kill him. Trump should be very troubled by this.
Wiley Coyote take down. These wack jobs live a fantasy and get the quarterly product catalogue from Acme Rocket Shoes, Inc.
Lone “wolf”? I don’t think so Skippy.
The average, everyday democrat agrees with everything written in this idiotic manifesto, except most of them are more extreme and don’t want to limit collateral damage.
I wonder what “church” he attended? Was it the one where the “pastor” says the chickens are coming home to roost?
No, actually. He (his family) attend a conservative Reformed church in Torrance, CA. I won’t name the specific church, but it’s a good, gospel-preaching church. His family and the church members are devastated by this. This guy had been/has been emersed in online leftist propaganda for a very long time. He IS 31 years old! I don’t personally know his family, or how it came about that their son could be swimming in that kind of influence without them being aware of it — but that’s not that uncommon these days, even when parents try to do the right thing. (I myself have two brothers who for years defied everything my Christan parents tried to teach them — but they both eventually repented, thank God.) Maybe Cole Allen’s parents were aware to at least some extent but couldn’t successfully do anything about it. I don’t know the exact situation. It’s perplexing to me, but I’m not in their shoes.
Let me get this straight: he was calling Trump a series of vile labels that apply to him? He is the criminal. He is the one offending the Law of the USA. He is a typical Dem hypocrite. All lies and no truth. Who enraged him to the point where he was acting out his criminal fantasies? I blame two organizations: the media and the Democratic party who constantly fantasizes about murdering the greatest president in the history of America. The other blame goes to the media. If Trump doesn’t sue people for calling him a pedophile and rapist I will be surprised. The media deserves no respect. They have no integrity.
The force behind the unrest in America is evil and wicked. They dress in suits but in their minds, they are full of hate. They are the cause of the unrest in America for the last fifty years. The media and Dems are inherently evil. They want murder and destruction of all things that are good. If we didn’t know who is behind it would seem to be random paranoia by the sheep that bow to the throne of communism and revolution.
There is a revolution, not of a good sort, but of a wicked and seditious sort. They attack the family and want nothing more than to destroy it. The family is the foundation of a nation, so what does that say about their motives? The sooner we see them as a threat to America the sooner we can restore peace.
Satan is behind this.
It is interesting to know what this bumbler Cole Allen was
thinking although the words of his manifesto themselves
are quite trite and uninteresting. And typical contorted
Leftist thinking.
Speaking of thoughts, it’s wonderful to think of him rotting
in jail for the rest of his miserable life.
Allen is just a foot soldier in the army of the deluded who have been convinced by conspirators that traditional American values are evil and that those who advocate them must be eliminated. These conspirators trade on the gullibility and absence of real religious grounding that our schools – and now many churches – cultivate in children, from the moment their working parents turn them over to day care, through the hours those children spend consuming media, and up through the last day of their “higher” education.
We focus on Obama as a titular head of this conspiracy, but he is just a talisman. Big money drives the kaleidoscope of lies that dehumanize traditional Americans and slander and libel public figures like Steve Scalise and President Trump. It’s not enough to point out the two big names we associate with this Cloward-Piven assault, because their fellow travelers in insurance, health care, big agriculture, armaments, technology, and the NGO-immigration complex are all willing co-conspirators to attack anyone who gets in their way.
We need to build the legal case that this conspiracy violates American law, prosecute the principals behind the foot soldiers, and restore decency to the public square. Every bit of attention focused on that brainwashed fellow from Torrance distracts from defending against our real domestic enemies.
I bet Norah O’Donnell loved the apologies.
Coming to see you hakeem
If he wrote this ridiculous manifesto prior to the attack, how did he know the layout so intimately? Who fed him the security arrangements?
It should be a felony for any person to use any form of mass media to call for, or condone the first degree murder of any person, and it is long past time to clean the people who have encouraged such action, out of the white house press corp, and bar such people from working in the movie industry all together!