The gunman arrested at Saturday night’s White House Correspondents Dinner has been identified by authorities as a Donald Trump-hating and Kamala Harris-supporting video game developer who was a member of a far-left activist movement and his college’s Nerf Club.
Cole Allen, a 31-year-old teacher from California, attempted to sprint through security at the Washington Hilton on Saturday night in what authorities believe was a bid to murder Trump administration officials.
Allen’s own words — in a purported manifesto and in deleted social media accounts — show that he was far-left, virulently anti-Trump, and had a conspiratorial mindset, and participated in far-left movements like "No Kings" and "The Wide Awakes."
Federal Elections Commission filings from October 2024 show that Allen donated $25 earmarked for the Kamala Harris for President campaign sent via the ActBlue online fundraising site. He also sent a tweet from his since-deleted X account in early November 2024 saying he had recently voted for Harris and urging others to do so too.
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