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The Philip DeFranco Show

The Trump Gala Shooting Fallout is Pathetic

The Philip DeFranco Show

philip defranco

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🗓️ 27 April 2026

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Visit Medexpress.co.com.ukuk slash podcast to get started today. Donald Trump's streak of being targeted by the dumbest half-baked amateur assassins continued this weekend at the White House Correspondents dinner with this time the shooter not even getting anywhere close to the president. Though understandably, everyone in the room still ran and hid except this guy who just wasn't going to let anyone fluck with his dinner. But looking at the video that Trump released, it looked like the would-be assassin was using the run as far as he can into the Scientology building TikTok strategy, which then got him arrested face-down ass up ASAP. But then, or maybe because of that, almost immediately, before we really knew much anything about what happened, the conspiracy theories were rolling in. Literally, hundreds of thousands of posts on social media debated whether or not the attack was a false flag,

0:56.0

whether it was staged by the Trump administration for some reason or another, some theorizing that maybe it was to boost his poll numbers, or maybe to distract from the Iran war, maybe perhaps the most popular theory to justify building the White House ballroom. Last one, it was connected to Trump himself, an army of right-wing influencers, and John

1:10.7

Fetterman, who might as well be one at this point, taking the opportunity to argue that the Democrats

1:14.3

state need to back that ballroom now. It's drone proof. It's bulletproof glass. We need the ballroom. That's why Secret Service. That's why the military are demanding it. And then also, you know, a lot of people jump in these clips that make it seem like some folks, like they knew that the shooting was going to happen in advance. Or like this one where a Fox News reporter got cut off right as she was describing a conversation

1:30.1

she had before the shooting with White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt's husband. He kind of leaned over and said, you know, I watched you on TV, you're a great job. You need to be very safe. And he was very serious when he said that to me. and he kind of looked around the room and he said, you know, there are some...

1:45.4

But with that she later explained that our kind of looked around the room and he said, you know, there are some...

1:45.0

But with that she later explained that her call got dropped because the room had notoriously bad reception and she added. To finish the story, he was telling me to be careful with my own safety because the world is crazy. But you also had plenty of people jumping on this comment that Caroline Levitt herself made earlier that night. There will be some shots But it's pretty clear from the full context there that she's talking about Trump taking metaphorical shots at the press during his speech.

2:03.7

Though interestingly, someone that was not on board the false flag narrative was Alex Jones. And he's someone who still thinks that there was a second shooter at the Butler rally, and he thinks that the false flag narrative's bullshit. No. You had too many of the DC police, secret service, all of them involved. The very small percentage of those guys are corrupt, something like that, right out in the open, a registered Democrat, Trump derangement syndrome, 30-year-old teacher. Now, with all that said, as far as the guy who got arrested, we know that his name is Cole, Thomas Allen, and yes, he's alive, despite additional rumors that he got killed. He's also not been charged with using a firearm during a crime of violence and with assaulting

2:35.0

a federal officer using a dangerous weapon,

2:36.6

though I will say additional charges are expected. As far as what we've learned from people who know him, they've described him as a smart, kind, seemingly normal guy and many were shocked to learn that he did this. We also know that he's 31 years old. He lived in Torrance, California, went to Caltech for engineering and he just finished his master's in computer science.

2:50.6

He even developed his own video games and was a part-time tutor for high school kids.

2:53.4

As far as his motive, Alex Jones does appear to be right, at least in one regard, right? He does appear to be, if not a Democrat, at the very least, anti-Trump. You've got federal records showing that he donated $25 to the fundraising platform Act Blue for Kamala Harris. Also, according to a White House official, Alan's sister told authorities that he attended to

3:08.3

no Kings protest in California and belonged to a social justice activist group called the Wide Awakes.

3:12.3

She also reportedly said that he had a tendency to make radical statements and his rhetoric constantly referenced a plan to, quote,

3:17.3

do something to fix the issues with today's world, which is pretty consistent with a manifestor that Alan supposedly sent to a family member about 10 minutes before the shooting signed Cole Cold Force friendly federal assassin Alan.

3:28.0

And then it he apologizes to his parents, his students and colleagues, hotel staff and bystanders, and in his words, all those who suffered before I was able to attempt this and all who may still suffer after regardless of my success or failure.

3:39.0

With him that making it clear that his targets were administration officials, though, strangely,

3:41.8

he excluded FBI director Cash Patel.

3:44.2

And as far as why he said he did this, he explained, I am a citizen of the United States

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