Correspondents’ dinner shooter manifesto rips Trump as ‘pedophile, rapist, and traitor’

Published April 26, 2026 1:49pm ET | Updated April 26, 2026 1:49pm ET



The suspected gunman in the attack on the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner on Saturday suggested President Donald Trump was one of his top targets, according to his alleged manifesto.

“I am no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist, and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes,” Cole Thomas Allen, 31, wrote, according to the document published by the New York Post. The Associated Press has detailed a similar account of alleged writings sent by the suspect.

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