THE BIG STORY
On Saturday night, a lone gunman, Cole Allen, attempted to storm The Westin hotel in Washington, D.C., where President Donald Trump and several of his top Cabinet officials had gathered for the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. Allen’s goal, which he outlined in a manifesto, was to kill “administration officials.” The attempt was amateurish, and Allen was detained before getting past the magnetometers that controlled access to the ballroom where the guests had gathered.
Ideologically, Allen appears to have been a liberal “normie.” His manifesto cites a familiar litany of complaints against the administration, including its alleged abuse of illegal immigrants; its attacks on drug boats in the Caribbean; its bombing of (presumably Iranian) schoolchildren; and, of course, widespread “pedophilia” and “rape” among its top officials, as allegedly revealed in the Epstein files. Trump has claimed that Allen “hates Christians,” but there is no evidence this is true. According to...
