Cole Tomas Allen, now officially a suspect until convicted but clearly the person armed to the teeth who ran past metal detectors, has managed to transform the annual White House Correspondents’ Dinner into the stuff of history. Some 36 hours later, the dinner and his interruption of it are still the lead stories on virtually every TV channel, at least the national ones.
Allen, in a memoir, even admitted to targeting Trump and Company (except Kash Patel for some reason) with his arsenal of weapons; the assailant-in-legal-waiting in his often tangled verbiage famously dubbed himself “Your Friendly Federal Assassin.” Now that’s a phrase that needs to go down in the history books. I can envision it as the title of a book or movie.
After-the-fact research shows that Allen had worried his family members by often uttering threatening statements. On the day of the incident, he sent his 1,000-word memoir to his family, and his brother promptly alerted police in Connecticut (where the brother lived). Of course, the event was taking place in New York City, not Connecticut.
The most interesting residue to me is how Demofiends are running from the rhetoric that creates monsters in the person of a Cole Allen. How quickly they forget calling Trump “Hitler” and “a fascist,” and shouting that he’s destroying democracy (which, of couse, is what they’re doing).
When will this end? At his court hearing today, will supporters show up with their love for him as they did for Luigi Mangione?
