Man charged with attempted assassination of Trump in White House correspondents' dinner shooting

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: AP

Updated 2:29 PM EDT, April 27, 2026


WASHINGTON (AP) — The man who authorities say tried to storm the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner with guns and knives was charged Monday with the attempted assassination of President Donald Trump and will remain at least temporarily behind bars as the case moves forward.

Cole Tomas Allen appeared in court Monday to face federal charges in a chaotic encounter that resulted in shots being fired, Trump being rushed off the stage and guests ducking for cover underneath their tables. He was taken into custody after the shooting on Saturday night and sat beside his lawyers in a brief appearance Monday in Washington’s federal court.

Besides being charged with attempting to assassinate the Republican president, Allen also faces two firearms charges. He did not enter a plea.

A judge granted a prosecutor’s request Monday to keep Allen, 31, of Torrance, California, detained pending additional hearings. One of Allen’s lawyers, Tezira Abe, asked for a detention hearing and noted Allen has no criminal record. “He also is presumed innocent at this time,” she said.

Read more: https://apnews.com/article/trump-correspondents-dinner-shooting-suspect-d4111facf965aaaa10334eb5c12901db

[pfitz59]

1. Jury nullification?

Will the courts find enough MAGA to convict?

[cstanleytech]

11. Unlikely as the evidence is pretty clear on him trying to do it.

Question is was he mentally competent? Seeing how he went about this I would say that he isn't.

[LeftInTX]

16. I don't know what federal guidelines are

He was gainfully employed.

Ryan Routh tried and that guy was certified nuts. He even tried to represent himself, then tried insanity. He's serving a life sentence for peeking through Trump's Palm Beach golf club.

[LeftInTX]

15. Heck that guy at Trump's golf course

is serving a life sentence just for peeking through the bushes!

[pcdb]

20. He wasn't just "peeking through the bushes."

[LeftInTX]

24. That's what everyone here said at the time! "That was no assasination attempt"

"This is the most bogus thing ever"....

Ryan Wesley Routh Sentenced to Life in Prison for Attempted Assassination of President Donald J. Trump and Assault of a Federal Law Enforcement Officer
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/ryan-wesley-routh-sentenced-life-prison-attempted-assassination-president-donald-j-trump-and


I know he never fired his gun at the golf course, he was looking through a scope. Then, I believe, he then took off.

Everyone, "That's not attempted murder!!!"

I figured he would get about 10 years at the most. But he got a life sentence.

[SunSeeker]

25. The judge on his case was Eileen Cannon. She gave him a life sentence. nt

[LeftInTX]

26. But the jury found him guilty on all five counts

[SunSeeker]

28. But there's a big difference between being found guilty and getting a life sentence.

The jury found him guilty, but they did not hand down the sentence, nor probably even know what the sentence could be. Indeed, when I served on a jury in a criminal case two years ago, we were told not to speculate or even consider what the sentence might be.

The life sentence was all Eileen Cannon’s doing.

[Fiendish Thingy]

17. They could draw the jury from DU and have a good chance at an acquittal

You know, since he’s just a crisis actor, or so I have read.

[The Grand Illuminist]

21. This new trend...

I would not doubt he would be found not guilty.

[Polybius]

29. So you're saying that you have to be MAGA to convict?

That's not how juries are supposed to work. You simply vote on what the evidence is.

[pwb]

2. Strange after firing his weapon he was not shot?

Weapons came out pointed at him and he is unharmed? Was he tackled? Poorly staged again pukes.

[SunSeeker]

6. I just watched the DOJ presser and what Jeanine Piro described indicates the SS keystone copped this whole thing.

She said one of the SS officers fired 5 shots, none of them hit Cole Allen, but one SS agent was hit with a bullet in his bullet proof vest. Blanche said Cole Allen fired one round of buckshot out of his shotgun, with the spent cartridge of that one round still in his shotgun when he was apprehended. It doesn’t sound like shotgun buckshot was what hit the SS agent. And Piro and Blanche refused to say who shot the bullet that hit the SS agent, and Allen was not charged with assault on an officer. Sure looks like the agent was hit with friendly fire.

And they said Allen fell as he was running, then he was tackled and apprehended. So he did not fall because he was tackled, he was tackled after he fell.

[pwb]

7. If the shooter had a suit on

he would have fit right in. What a shootout eh?

[SunSeeker]

9. Yes. And Allen falling is probably what saved his life.

They said Allen was running and suddenly fell, either on purpose or he just tripped. I bet that’s why he missed getting hit by those 5 rounds.

[underpants]

18. Yeah that doesn't add up.

I can’t believe no one in the area got chipped up from a buckshot unless it was point blank into the SS officers chest.

[Whip-poor-will]

3. president blood lust

Here come's the firing squad

[SunSeeker]

4. Blanche just said at the DOJ presser that those who call Trump "names" are "just as guilty."

Fuck Blanche.

Oh, and what Jeanine Piro described indicates the SS keystone copped this whole thing. One of the SS officers fired 5 shots, none of them hit Cole Allen, but one SS agent was hit with a bullet in his bullet proof vest. Blanche said Cole Allen fired one round of buckshot out of his shotgun, with the spent cartridge of that one round still in his shotgun when he was apprehended. It doesn’t sound like shotgun buckshot was what hit the SS agent. And Piro and Blanche refused to say who shot the bullet that hit the SS agent, and Allen was not charged with assault on an officer. Sure looks like the agent was hit with friendly fire.

[dweller]

27. OMG

I call him Pisswig daily .

I feel so dirty … not

😑



✌🏻

[PSPS]

5. He wasn't even on the same floor as the WHCD

[BumRushDaShow]

12. He got the top of the steps closest the ballroom entrance

[Bengus81]

8. IMO I think the FBI had this guy on their radar for months and decided to use him

They might have got tips from those in California or relatives that he was getting in way to deep and he might take action. Trump has NEVER attended a Correspondents dinner as Pres but NOW poof,lets hold one. Hell...the FBI probably followed the guy from CA to DC and were ready knowing this guy could never make it all the way downstairs to Trump. Hell...this reminds me of Lee Harvey Oswald,they had a full dossier on this guy's life in 30 minutes after this happened.

That's my theory and I'm stickin' to it.

I think too the Fuhrer will cancel that next CD that he so adamantly claimed they would do in thirty days. They got what they wanted and were all smiles and yucking it up for a photo just thirty minutes later,they don't need another dinner.

[Ponietz]

10. Defendant's First Motion to Dismiss might read like this:

As a matter of law, acts in mere preparation to commit a crime do not constitute an attempt. It’s an interesting issue determining when preparation ripens into full-fledged criminal attempt. As a matter of law there was no attempt on Shitfly’s life.

This does not affect the attempted homicide of the SS agent and the other tangible crimes.

[eppur_se_muova]

13. "will remain at least temporarily behind bars as the case moves forward" to be pardoned after Trmp gets his ballroom. nt

He did his job.

[Bmoboy]

14. But not attempted assassination of JD, Hegseth, Rubio, etc

Or attempted murder of the hundreds of others at the dinner?

I guess they aren't as bigly special.

[msongs]

19. bogus charge they were never anywhere near each other. nt

[pecosbob]

22. So far it looks like the only shooting was by the SS. No report that the alleged assailant's weapons was ever fired.

[twodogsbarking]

23. He should say he was just a tourist. It might work. Again.

[Aussie105]

30. Unfortunately . . .

In a more lucid moment, Trump might question himself.

'Why are all those people trying to hurt me? Am I that much of a bad person?'

Unfortunately, Trump doesn't have lucid moments.

But he does have nightmares when the ghost of Epstein talks to him. Guaranteed.