Obama Torched After Claiming ‘We Don’t Have the Details’ About WHCA Dinner Shooter’s Motives
“He wanted to kill Trump and admin officials because he believed some of the unhinged lies put forth by left-wing extremists.”
It wasn’t a mystery. By 8 a.m. Sunday, major media outlets were reporting that, according to acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, the gunman accused of charging a Secret Service checkpoint and opening fire outside the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner the previous night was believed to have been targeting administration officials.
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche on NBC: “We believe the suspect was targeting administration officials.”
Blanche cited certain writings by the suspect and interviews with people who knew him. Blanche declined to be drawn on whether Trump was the target, saying only that he…
— Annmarie Hordern (@annmarie) April 26, 2026
Later that morning, any remaining doubts about the shooter’s motive were erased when The New York Post published a copy of a manifesto he had written and sent to family members roughly 10 minutes before he fired his first shot.
In the 1052-word document, the accused gunman, Cole Allen, 31, of Torrance, California, stated that he was indeed targeting administration officials “prioritized from highest-ranking to lowest.” For some unknown reason, FBI Director Kash Patel was excluded from his list of targets.
Regarding President Donald Trump, Allen wrote, “I am no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist, and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes.”
From there, Allen ran through familiar progressive talking points and drew on Marxist rhetoric, framing the problems in America today as a struggle between the oppressors and the oppressed.
He signed the manifesto “Cole ‘coldForce’ ‘Friendly Federal Assassin’ Allen.”
To say the least, Allen was a Leftist, and his manifesto was only one piece of the evidence.
Fox News reported that Allen’s brother contacted the New London Police Department in Connecticut after the shooting.
According to Fox, his sister, Avriana Allen, informed authorities in Rockville, Maryland, that her brother “had made increasingly radical statements and often spoke about doing ‘something’ to address issues in the world.”
She told investigators he had bought two handguns and a shotgun, which he kept at their parents’ home without their knowledge, and that he regularly practiced at a shooting range. She also said Allen was connected to a group called “The Wide Awakes” and had attended a “No Kings” protest in California.
Additionally, Allen’s lengthy history on the social media platform Bluesky demonstrates his left-wing ideology.
Cole Allen, the gunman from last night’s WH Correspondents Dinner, maintained an active online presence, especially on the leftwing social media platform Bluesky where he went by the handle https://t.co/bpKnhC8M5a with multiple references violence and guns.
In one post he calls… pic.twitter.com/mvFBE0FAl7
— Andrew Kolvet (@AndrewKolvet) April 26, 2026
But none of that mattered to former President Barack Obama, who pretended in an early evening post on X that “details about the motives” were still unknown. He tried to frame the violence as a “both sides” issue, warning followers, “It’s incumbent upon all [of] us to reject the idea that violence has any place in our democracy.”
Although we don’t yet have the details about the motives behind last night's shooting at the White House Correspondents Dinner, it’s incumbent upon all us to reject the idea that violence has any place in our democracy. It’s also a sobering reminder of the courage and sacrifice…
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) April 26, 2026
Backlash to his attempt at gaslighting was swift and fierce. Here are a few responses:
Stop lying. We know the full motive. The shooter wrote a manifesto. The shooter wanted to kill President Trump and his cabinet. Why are you lying?
— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) April 26, 2026
We literally have the entire manifesto and know exactly why he did it. pic.twitter.com/qdMvJzUrtc
— Matt Van Swol (@mattvanswol) April 26, 2026
You are a disgusting liar https://t.co/p7o0YiIqBY
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) April 26, 2026
He has no trouble lying. Here he was sharing the easily debunked 'very fine people' hoax during Kamala's campaign. He has no shame. https://t.co/1qeXozTkT0
— julie (@Omnidwell) April 27, 2026
Obama wasn’t alone. The Left was clearly struggling to craft a coherent response to the third assassination attempt on Trump.
Neither the New York Times nor CNN would acknowledge the shooter’s motives on Sunday.
CNN: The shooter’s motive is unknown. We have heard sources say he was MAGA.
— Zombie John Gotti 🐗 (@ZombieJohnGotti) April 26, 2026
Some liberals claimed that the incident had been staged by the Trump administration to strengthen the case for the White House ballroom project.
Satire site The Babylon Bee published an amusing story on Sunday about the Left’s refusal to admit the truth. The piece was titled, “‘This Is A Both Sides Issue,’ Says Side That Shot President Trump, Assassinated Charlie Kirk, Tried To Assassinate Kavanaugh, Tried To Shoot Trump Again, Shot Steve Scalise, Firebombed Governor Shapiro, Tried To Shoot Trump A Third Time, (cont’d).”
'This Is A Both Sides Issue,' Says Side That Shot President Trump, Assassinated Charlie Kirk, Tried To Assassinate Kavanaugh, Tried To Shoot Trump Again, Shot Steve Scalise, Firebombed Governor Shapiro, Tried To Shoot Trump A Third Time, (cont'd) https://t.co/xtK8yqxvzK pic.twitter.com/rgFvPjz3iW
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) April 26, 2026
By the end of the day, there was no ambiguity left to hide behind. The manifesto, the comments from Allen’s siblings, and his social media history made his motives unmistakably clear. What followed wasn’t a search for truth, but a scramble to obscure it. In the end, the facts didn’t just tell the story; they exposed the lengths some were willing to go to avoid acknowledging it.
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I really want to miss Obama. Therefore he has to go away. Far far away. Maybe Elon Musk can help him become the Queen of Mars. His wife Mike will of course be the King.
Beau Biden put Larry Sinclair in jail because he could pick Barry out of a below-the-waist line up. This is who we are: a country of feeble minded emotional idiots who elected a phony lawyer and phony heterosexual with a dodgy birth certificate and selective service card. His grade reports are at Fort Knox.
Not a single word in that is true.
Want to take them one at a time? Biden son was AG of Delaware in 2008. This important man decided to pick up Sinclair in DC on a petty arrest warrant and jail him in Delaware during the election. Larry had to be shut up about his tender motel ministrations to the future and peculiar presidential pecker.
Yes, Sinclair was a cheap street hustler-just the type favored by our dope smoking bathhouse POTUS.
Evidence that this ever happened? Other than Sinclair’s word, which is utterly worthless?
You are a paranoid dumb shit. The Attorney General of the State of Delaware does not have jurisdiction to “pick up” anyone in the District of Columbia.
You are as much a stupid liar as the lefties who call Trump “Hitler”.
Moron.
It was widely reported at the time that the Delaware AG ordered this. Despite the usual scrubbing, I am sure a pretend lawyer like you can verify the basic facts. Of course, you will argue the only reasonable interpretation for government operatives colluding in this fashion cannot be “proven.”
Face it, the black Jesus is a drug addled homo.
Leave Milhouse alone. He’s required by contract to defend his masters even if that defense ruins his ‘I’m one of you’ act.
Mars is the wrong planet. Why not Neptune?
Because Mars is doable in the next 10 years or so,
Ah. I see. You’re imagining a two-way trip. We can already get to Neptune. We just can’t yet get back.
lol. I don’t want him to die on the way, I want him to have at least 20 years in exile.
Put Obama back in Uranus, where he belongs.
obama, member of the Bathhouse boys years ag0, is always ready for youranus.
Susan Rice probably believes the WHCA attack was carried out in response to a video . . .
In all fairness, it was a Jimmy Kimmel video.
American voters elected him twice. We are still suffering for it since he poured gas on the already smoldering political-cultural divide. He did so deliberately.
Not my monkey!
Barry needs to f88k off in to obscurity! 😡😡🤬
What a low class jerk thing to say.
Øbama has zero, character. Do you think he cares one iota if he gets torched?
Pul-eeze. He got his; the hell with the other guy.
I think it would be great if he got his. Then we could all miss him… NOT!
I’m waiting for Kimmel to say the shooter was a big MAGA fan because he once owned a pair of red socks.
Poor Barack. He took one look at the photograph of the shooter and said to himself, this could have been my son.
Poor Barack. He took one look at the photograph of the shooter and said to himself, “He’s a good little foot soldier; who can we find next to take his place?”
Could Barry’s motive be to throw sand in everyone’s eyes to try to prevent them from seeing the obvious? We’ll never know. As if.
trump takes on the left and challenges them face-to-face
oblunder hides away and says what he wants to be b/c he is a narcissist and wouldnt know the truth if it went up his behind
Summary by Paula
In his manifesto, Allen goes into great detail explaining his obsession with Trump and for 1,000 pages lists numerous grievances viewing him as the central figure behind all the policies he opposes.
He refers to himself as the “Friendly Federal Assassin” and and says he intends to “purify” the government through what he terms “surgical removal” of the evils he has detailed in his manifesto.
Allen – Another narcissistic projecting demonrat-communist moron, who kisses the lying bums of Mr Rachel Madcow, Schmuck Schumer, Keith Ellison, Hakeem Jeffries, Kamala Harris, Hilldog Clinton, Wasserman-Schultz, Tampon Tim, Grabbin Newscum, Lurch Boasberg, Joyless Behar, Hoopy Goldberg, Mohammed Ghalipoof, and Madmax Waters.
The utterly vile, evil and contemptible Narcissist-in-Chief and Racial Arsonist-in-Chief.
I’d call the wretched Obama, “the half-black Nixon,” but that’s grossly unfair to President Nixon, given that Obama’s, Clinton’s and Brennan’s Crossfire Hurricane sabotage/subversion operation against candidate/President Trump, was one thousand times more brazenly lawless, subversive, anti-democratic and evil, than what happened in the Watergate incident.
At least Nixon’s team did the breakin to get actual personal dirt, not plant phony personal dirt.
Let us not forget Monkey and Eric Holder’s Fast And Furious Project to provide guns to drug cartels.
Well of course it’s a both sides issue: The left commits endless acts of violence on the right.
Without any conservatives to kill, they’d have to resort to just starving and torturing millions like their communist predecessors.
The Gaslighter-in-Chief is at it again. Ever notice that when a conservative is attacked, no one ever knows the motive, and we shouldn’t rush to judgement until all the facts are in? But if a leftist is so much as sneezed at, by golly, they have binders of talking points on how the right is so heinous and evil to do such a thing; to even try to dox anyone with a similar name.
And, the Democrats just have a grand jury mail their indictments in. No need to convene.
Obama is still the worst mistake the American people ever made. He may well be the mistake that kills the country
It seems the Nobel Prize committee had even less information when they awarded him the Peace Prize, yet he accepted it anyway.
Being half-black, moslem and communist was enough for the Nobel people to award him.
Obongo: I’se good. I’se deserves dis.
To be fair, Obama is incredibly stupid.
And that’s just scratching the surface.
Obama is the worst 21st century president, and the worst mistake America has made in the last 30 years.
One question is whether he’s competent to stand trial. His motives were clear, as were John Hinkley’s. In the latter case, he wanted to impress Jodie Foster. In Allen’s, it’s that he sees Trump and company as evil and that he will be the federal exorcist of that evil—not for his own benefit, but for that of an imaginary cast of oppressed characters.
This is all pretty delusional and looks paranoid schizophrenic to me. The proof will be in his plea.
I don’t see how any insanity plea would stick. I read his manifesto, and while he believes Trump is a monstrous dictator it’s pretty clear otherwise. He framed it as a necessary act and even went into the ethics from a Christian standpoint.
If anything he seems to be suffering from Main Character Syndrome. He’s the hero, making the necessary heroic sacrifice for the Greater Good™. I mean he signed it “Cole “coldForce” “Friendly Federal Assassin” Allen.”
He can distinguish between right and wrong; he chose wrong because the ends justify the means. He’s no more delusional than John Wilkes Booth or any other assassin who thought he was killing a supposedly tyrannical political leader.
He was a Kamala supporter. His intent, from what I’ve read was to start with Trump and work his down through Vance, etc.
The money trail is going to lead from the shooter back to Obama.
https://thechatter.info/Index.html#Julie27Apr26
The left and their “words are violence” and “silence is violence” rhetoric make it only a short step into actual violence as a responce to the “violence” of words they don’t like – because remaining silent isn’t an approved option.