Trump Says Suspect Wrote Anti-Christian Manifesto

Trump Says Suspect Wrote Anti-Christian Manifesto (NewsCentral TV) Trump Says Suspect Wrote Anti-Christian Manifesto (NewsCentral TV)
President Donald Trump. Credit: Punch Newspapers.

U.S. President Donald Trump has said that the suspect accused of trying to attack administration officials at Saturday night’s White House Correspondents’ Association dinner had an anti-Christian manifesto and “a lot of hatred in his heart” but was stopped before the White House dinner ballroom.

The president said this on Sunday, April 26, when speaking with Fox News. He described the suspect as “a sick guy” and stated that the individual’s family had previously expressed concerns about him to law enforcement. The suspect, identified by an official as 31-year-old Cole Tomas Allen of Torrance, California, was arrested at the scene of the Washington, D.C. event.

“When you read his manifesto, he hates Christians,” Trump said. The manifesto was sent to Allen’s family members shortly before the attack. In it, the suspect called himself the “Friendly Federal Assassin. “Turning the other cheek when someone else is oppressed is not Christian behaviour, it is complicity in the oppressor’s ​crimes,” the manifesto read, according to the law enforcement official.
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Donald Trump shared an image of the alleged gunman, who was arrested at the Washington Hilton. Credit: Truth Social.

Targets listed in the manifesto included administration officials, although not FBI Director Kash Patel, prioritised from highest-ranking to lowest. The manifesto mocked the “insane” lack of security at the Washington ​Hilton, where the dinner was held, the official said.

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“Like, the one thing that I immediately noticed walking into the hotel is the sense of arrogance,” the manifesto’s author reportedly wrote. “I walk ⁠in with multiple weapons and not a single person there considers the possibility that I could be a threat.”
The chaotic events raised fresh questions about the security of top U.S. officials, many of whom were gathered in the hotel’s expansive ballroom. Trump ​used the attention brought by the incident to promote his planned White House ballroom as a safer, more secure alternative for such events.
Trump wrote on his Truth Social page, “While beautiful, it has every highest level security feature there is… there are no rooms sitting on top for unsecured ​people to pour in, and is inside the gates of the most secure building in the World, The White House.”
Acting U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche said on multiple talk shows that the suspect travelled by train from Los Angeles to Chicago and then to Washington, checked into the Hilton on Friday, and that Trump and top administration officials were the likely targets.

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