Alleged WHCD Gunman Charged With Attempted Assassination Of The President
How Men Think
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🗓️ 27 April 2026
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Top DOJ officials just wrapped a news conference following the arraignment of alleged shooter, 31-year-old Cole Tomas Allen. Allen is charged with the attempted assassination of President Trump in addition to firearms charges, including discharging a firearm during a crime of violence. More charges are coming his way, but acting Attorney General Todd Blanche couldn’t say whose bullet hit the secret service agent wearing his bulletproof vest, or exactly how Allen was brought to the ground before being arrested.
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| 0:36.2 | It is Monday, April 27th, and we just got a whole lot new detail about what happened at the Washington, D.C. event over the weekend at the White House correspondent's dinner, the suspect, has made a court appearance, and we just listened to a press conference by the top Justice Department officials. With that, |
| 0:55.0 | welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ. What, I guess what jumped out in me immediately, |
| 1:00.2 | Robes, was that they are making clear, mincing no words and wondering, this was a bona fide assassination attempt. |
| 1:07.9 | Yes, I felt like that was the main objective of this press conference was to, |
| 1:12.1 | I'm sure they have read all of the chatter online. Some folks saying it's staged, some folks saying |
| 1:20.9 | that it's not what it is being made out to be. They made it very clear that Cole Thomas Allen was targeting the president |
| 1:30.0 | of the United States first and then had the intent to kill to take out members of his |
| 1:37.0 | cabinet from top to bottom in terms of rank. So Cole Thomas Allen, the suspect 31 year old |
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