The Trump official mentioned in the article is Kash Patel.
Federal-Resolution41 on
The one that paid him?
Keyai on
Oh my god, lmao. I could totally see Kash Patel, staging the operation and getting the manifesto on his desk for approval, then removing his name from it because it would make it seem like he is just doing such a good job the gunman couldn’t justify killing *him* specifically.
Getting real tired of the this shit show. I shouldn’t be able to, with so little effort, entertain the idea this was a staged false flag.
r4inbowgravity on
Oh, he said he would be sure not to hurt the guy who just happened to be just standing there looking unfazed when it went down? The guy who is desperate for any reason not to be fired?
No way.
TemporaryAsparagus89 on
Is that why Kash didn’t do anything. He was in on it.
Rough_Common6857 on
It’s such a coincidence that Trump’s first time there is interrupted by an “assassination attempt.” It seems to mimic Butler. Im surprised he didn’t get a flag draped over him as he was rushed off.
IdleRacey on
100% staged. Not even a chance this was real. Your looking at the most corrupt government in the world.
AuthenticAppalachian on
This is beyond conspiracy theories and just blatant incompetence to actually stage something lol
ArdaBerkBurak on
It appears to have been written by Chat GPT.
conr9774 on
I don’t know what makes me roll my eyes harder, that he was going to spare Kash Patel, or the title of this article.
Shiplord13 on
Did it say he doesn’t get shitface drunk and that the Atlantic should pay him for writing clearly false stories about him?
copyrider on
Most people just have a friend call and make up some reason to leave the dinner that you don’t want to be at, Trump uses another “assassination attempt”.
aradraugfea on
Does this guy also swing between writing like a soldier that died in Gettysburg and a Sitcom Gen Alpha kid?
ninjoid on
I like how at the end of the manifesto he just rants about the lack of security. Which just happily coincides with Trump’s pitch for the ballroom.
Darius2112 on
Everyone is saying this is staged. But has anyone considered that he thought Patel is so useless, he isn’t worth the effort?
Waramp on
>”His girlfriend was hiding in a room holding hands with another man but later left with Patel.”
I love that they added this just to get in another dig at him.
M4MRDR187 on
So conviently staged….
madasfire on
I’m happy to see everyone ready to *fall for it again*
BUYMEBONESTOORM on
Was the handwriting in the manifesto very sloppy? As if a drunk FBI agent wrote it?
_codes_ on
those american flag socks though 👀 these people are clowns
M0nk3yDLufffy on
At this point who gives a shit about these assassination attempts , these fucks are profiting off of insider trading, hiding child rapes and trafficking, accomplices to genocide and committing war crimes! Vote out the pedophile president and his goons, VOTE November
SEND_ME_PEACE on
Here’s a thing:
I bet the manifesto is fake, but they’ll use it as fuel to shame Kash Patel into retiring, or cast doubt on him into being a scape goated traitor.
HistoryAndScience on
The article gives all the reasons you need for why he decided to spare Patel. He was seen aimlessly wandering after the shooting besides being the FBI Director while his GF was seen holding another man’s hand in a closet. He’s a bigger threat to himself than the American public
WarbossTodd on
This reeks of bullshit.
Odd_Equipment2867 on
Serious question. Is he white enough for it to be purely “lone gunman” “mental illness” or is he too brown so a whole class/ group of people “must be dealt with”?
devilquak on
> Patel was seen being ushered out of the Hilton through the front lobby at 10:02 p.m., about 90 minutes after shots were fired, The Washington Post reported. His girlfriend, who was also invited by the Mail, was hiding in a room holding hands with another man but later left with Patel, the New York Times reported
brutal
Which cabinet members & white house lackies *aren’t* being cheated on these days? The number is dwindling… so much for house of the alphas, they can’t even hold down a relationship.
It’s understandable. It’s hard when you have the sex appeal of a damp piece of cardboard.
EdSpecialist21 on
“The gunman who tried to storm the White House Correspondents’ Association planned to spare one Trump appointee: FBI Director Kash Patel.
In the document, Allen referred to himself as the “Cole ‘coldForce’ ‘Friendly Federal Assassin’ Allen,” and outlined his plan to kill Donald Trump and his top administration officials, with the notable exception of Patel.
FBI Director Kash Patel walks past after shots were fired during the White House Correspondents’ dinner.MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images
“Administration officials (not including Mr. Patel): they are targets, prioritized from highest-ranking to lowest,” he wrote.
The Daily Beast has reached out to the White House and the FBI for comment.
Patel was seen being ushered out of the Hilton through the front lobby at 10:02 p.m., about 90 minutes after shots were fired,[ The Washington Post](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/04/25/trump-whcd-evacuation-live-updates/) reported. His girlfriend, who was also invited by the Mail, was hiding in a room holding hands with another man but later left with Patel, the New York Times reported.
Later, Patel joined Trump and other administration officials for a press conference at the White House, where he lavished praise, telling Trump during the briefing he “inspire[s]” law enforcement.
Patel joined Trump and other top officials for a press briefing on Saturday, where he used the opportunity to butter the president up.MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images
“You give them the resources that they need, and you know, they know that you have their back, and that is a changing dynamic in this country,” Patel said to Trump, who patted him on the back.
In the 1,052-word manifesto, Allen wrote to his family members that as a “citizen of the United States of America” he was “no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist, and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes.”
He then said he was attempting to minimalize casualities, only targeting Secret Service agents “if necessary” and not targeting other law enforcement and security “unless they shoot at me.”
Guests and employees, he said, were not targets at all.
“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,” Allen wrote.
Allen, who has not been officially identified by authorities, is believed to have traveled by train from his home state of California, where he lives in the Los Angeles area and works as a teacher, to D.C.
The Caltech graduate describes himself on LinkedIn as a ”mechanical engineer and computer scientist by degree, independent game developer by experience, teacher by birth.”
Jeff Carroll, interim chief of the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department, said the suspect was armed with a shotgun, handgun, and multiple knives. Allen will be charged with one count each of using a firearm during a crime of violence and assault on a federal officer using a dangerous weapon.”[](https://www.thedailybeast.com/author/laura-esposito)
Melodic-Lingonberry7 on
Alpha man Miller using his pregnant wife as a human shield is a funniest part of this . A real man would actually using himself to cover his wife to make sure she isn’t harmed
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The Trump official mentioned in the article is Kash Patel.
The one that paid him?
Oh my god, lmao. I could totally see Kash Patel, staging the operation and getting the manifesto on his desk for approval, then removing his name from it because it would make it seem like he is just doing such a good job the gunman couldn’t justify killing *him* specifically.
Getting real tired of the this shit show. I shouldn’t be able to, with so little effort, entertain the idea this was a staged false flag.
Oh, he said he would be sure not to hurt the guy who just happened to be just standing there looking unfazed when it went down? The guy who is desperate for any reason not to be fired?
No way.
Is that why Kash didn’t do anything. He was in on it.
It’s such a coincidence that Trump’s first time there is interrupted by an “assassination attempt.” It seems to mimic Butler. Im surprised he didn’t get a flag draped over him as he was rushed off.
100% staged. Not even a chance this was real. Your looking at the most corrupt government in the world.
This is beyond conspiracy theories and just blatant incompetence to actually stage something lol
It appears to have been written by Chat GPT.
I don’t know what makes me roll my eyes harder, that he was going to spare Kash Patel, or the title of this article.
Did it say he doesn’t get shitface drunk and that the Atlantic should pay him for writing clearly false stories about him?
Most people just have a friend call and make up some reason to leave the dinner that you don’t want to be at, Trump uses another “assassination attempt”.
Does this guy also swing between writing like a soldier that died in Gettysburg and a Sitcom Gen Alpha kid?
I like how at the end of the manifesto he just rants about the lack of security. Which just happily coincides with Trump’s pitch for the ballroom.
Everyone is saying this is staged. But has anyone considered that he thought Patel is so useless, he isn’t worth the effort?
>”His girlfriend was hiding in a room holding hands with another man but later left with Patel.”
I love that they added this just to get in another dig at him.
So conviently staged….
I’m happy to see everyone ready to *fall for it again*
Was the handwriting in the manifesto very sloppy? As if a drunk FBI agent wrote it?
those american flag socks though 👀 these people are clowns
At this point who gives a shit about these assassination attempts , these fucks are profiting off of insider trading, hiding child rapes and trafficking, accomplices to genocide and committing war crimes! Vote out the pedophile president and his goons, VOTE November
Here’s a thing:
I bet the manifesto is fake, but they’ll use it as fuel to shame Kash Patel into retiring, or cast doubt on him into being a scape goated traitor.
The article gives all the reasons you need for why he decided to spare Patel. He was seen aimlessly wandering after the shooting besides being the FBI Director while his GF was seen holding another man’s hand in a closet. He’s a bigger threat to himself than the American public
This reeks of bullshit.
Serious question. Is he white enough for it to be purely “lone gunman” “mental illness” or is he too brown so a whole class/ group of people “must be dealt with”?
> Patel was seen being ushered out of the Hilton through the front lobby at 10:02 p.m., about 90 minutes after shots were fired, The Washington Post reported. His girlfriend, who was also invited by the Mail, was hiding in a room holding hands with another man but later left with Patel, the New York Times reported
brutal
Which cabinet members & white house lackies *aren’t* being cheated on these days? The number is dwindling… so much for house of the alphas, they can’t even hold down a relationship.
It’s understandable. It’s hard when you have the sex appeal of a damp piece of cardboard.
“The gunman who tried to storm the White House Correspondents’ Association planned to spare one Trump appointee: FBI Director Kash Patel.
Cole Thomas Allen, 31, sent a sprawling manifesto to his family moments before he exchanged gunfire Saturday with Secret Service agents at the Washington Hilton in D.C., the [New York Post](https://nypost.com/2026/04/26/us-news/whcd-gunman-cole-allen-sent-anti-trump-manifesto-to-family-just-before-opening/) first reported.
In the document, Allen referred to himself as the “Cole ‘coldForce’ ‘Friendly Federal Assassin’ Allen,” and outlined his plan to kill Donald Trump and his top administration officials, with the notable exception of Patel.
FBI Director Kash Patel walks past after shots were fired during the White House Correspondents’ dinner.MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images
“Administration officials (not including Mr. Patel): they are targets, prioritized from highest-ranking to lowest,” he wrote.
The Daily Beast has reached out to the White House and the FBI for comment.
It’s unclear why he made an exception for Patel, who [faced backlash for appearing to linger aimlessly in a video captured after gunfire erupted](https://www.thedailybeast.com/kash-patel-ripped-for-just-standing-there-after-white-house-correspondents-association-dinner/) outside the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.
Patel was seen being ushered out of the Hilton through the front lobby at 10:02 p.m., about 90 minutes after shots were fired,[ The Washington Post](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/04/25/trump-whcd-evacuation-live-updates/) reported. His girlfriend, who was also invited by the Mail, was hiding in a room holding hands with another man but later left with Patel, the New York Times reported.
Later, Patel joined Trump and other administration officials for a press conference at the White House, where he lavished praise, telling Trump during the briefing he “inspire[s]” law enforcement.
Patel joined Trump and other top officials for a press briefing on Saturday, where he used the opportunity to butter the president up.MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images
“You give them the resources that they need, and you know, they know that you have their back, and that is a changing dynamic in this country,” Patel said to Trump, who patted him on the back.
In the 1,052-word manifesto, Allen wrote to his family members that as a “citizen of the United States of America” he was “no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist, and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes.”
He then said he was attempting to minimalize casualities, only targeting Secret Service agents “if necessary” and not targeting other law enforcement and security “unless they shoot at me.”
Guests and employees, he said, were not targets at all.
“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,” Allen wrote.
Allen, who has not been officially identified by authorities, is believed to have traveled by train from his home state of California, where he lives in the Los Angeles area and works as a teacher, to D.C.
The Caltech graduate describes himself on LinkedIn as a ”mechanical engineer and computer scientist by degree, independent game developer by experience, teacher by birth.”
Allen’s sister told law enforcement that he brother “had a tendency to make radical statements and his rhetoric constantly referenced a plan to do ‘something’ to fix the issues with today’s world,” a White House source [told NPR.](https://www.npr.org/2026/04/26/g-s1-118807/trump-white-house-correspondents-dinner)
Jeff Carroll, interim chief of the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department, said the suspect was armed with a shotgun, handgun, and multiple knives. Allen will be charged with one count each of using a firearm during a crime of violence and assault on a federal officer using a dangerous weapon.”[](https://www.thedailybeast.com/author/laura-esposito)
Alpha man Miller using his pregnant wife as a human shield is a funniest part of this . A real man would actually using himself to cover his wife to make sure she isn’t harmed