WHCA Dinner Shooting Suspect Charged With Attempt to Assassinate the President
Cole Allen also faces two other charges.
The DOJ has pressed charges against White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA) Dinner shooting suspect Cole Allen, including attempting to assassinate the president.
Allen faces three charges:
- Attempt to assassinate the President of the United States (up to life in prison)
- Transporting a firearm across state lines (up to 10 years and $250,000 fine)
- Discharge of a firearm during a crime of violence (mandatory minimum of 10 years)
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Allen appeared in a federal court this morning:
During a brief preliminary hearing in the case, Magistrate Judge Matthew Sharbaugh discussed the charges with Allen, as well as his rights as a criminal defendant. Allen accepted the services of two veteran public defenders, Tezira Abe and Eugene Ohm.
U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro attended the hearing, along with the case’s lead prosecutors Jocelyn Ballantine and Charles Jones. They asked Sharbaugh to keep Allen detained through Thursday, when a hearing on his longer-term detention will take place before Magistrate Judge Moxila Upadhyaya — who once presided over Trump’s own criminal arraignment.
“We are asking the court to preventatively detain Mr. Allen,” Ballantine said. “He has been charged with a federal crime of terrorism.”
Jeanine Ferris Pirro, U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, said Allen made the reservations at the Washington Hilton on April before traveling to DC on April 21:
Those charges are only three charges that are in the complaint that has been presented in federal district court about an hour ago. There will be additional charges as this investigation continues to unfold. But make no mistake, this was an attempted assassination of the President of the United States, with the defendant making clear what his intent was, and that intent was to bring down as many of the high ranking cabinet officials as he could. This is the kind of situation that we cannot tolerate, and as the Attorney General has just indicated, it could have been so much worse, but for the reality that we had the Secret Service, as well as the Metropolitan Police Department and the FBI.
Now the facts make it very clear what this intent was. You may recall that it was on March 2 that the President indicated that he would be attending this public event at the at the Hilton, and on April 6, that’s when Cole Allen first made a hotel reservation at the Washington Hilton for three nights, the 24th the 25th and the 26th it was on April 21 that he traveled all the way from The west coast, from home, from his home near La, he gets to Chicago on April 23 and has been indicated he arrives in DC on the 24th and he checks into the hotel at about 3pm he stays overnight.
He is very much aware that the President and the First Lady entered the ballroom at 8 PM and it was at 8:40 that he made a decision to rush the ballroom. And thank goodness law enforcement, the Secret Service, was able to prevent him from getting into that ballroom.
.@USAttyPirro: "There will be additional charges as this investigation continues to unfold, but, make no mistake: this was an attempted assassination of the President of the United States, with the defendant making clear what his intent was… this is the kind of situation that… https://t.co/Ixv1KaRtLc pic.twitter.com/eLcBV0cuDs
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) April 27, 2026
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need a new medal coined… “Hero of the Precious Democracy”. “Honorary Member of The Temple of Democracy”. Actually, left over “Hero of the Soviet Union” medals will do.
As long as they’re all awarded posthumously I’d say that’s fine
They’d have ballast value.
We might need more, he looks like a floater.
I’ll be damned if the collective left are poor shots.
I could have taken Biden out with a single round…WTF?
Kind of like the medal regarding a significant 2018 military blunder in Syria—the Battle of Khasham, wherein Wagner group got their asses handed to them by the U.S. military.
Stupid to throw a life away for the slimmest chance to make your name for Marxism.
Just another sacrificial lamb on the altar of the Left.
Just another Useful Idiot™ that missed the mark when trying to take Trump out by “any means necessary”.
Nobody is accusing Communists of being smart
If the Democrats, their communist/socialist wings, and the radical Left are willing to die to assassinate Republicans like the President of the US, his cabinet, and their families, imagine what they will do once they regain power.
Ahh, yes! This judge and this hearing should be a thing of beauty.
Judge Tanya S. Chutkan: she was assigned to oversee the prosecution of Donald Trump on charges of alleged interference in the 2020 presidential election. During the arraignment, Upadhyaya accepted Trump’s plea, and cautioned Trump against influencing witnesses through direct communication or intimidation.
Too bad Allen can’t be tried in some other venue than DC. I fear that almost any DC jury will comprise individuals with TDS who will go easy on Allen.
to save time and money the left will combine Allens case with Luigis and just pronounce them innocent by reason of social murderers code
hard core leftists are in charge of america and growing
here come duh judge
here come duh judge
The NYT is calling him a white negro with strong views of the right wing.
He is a registered Democrat who donated to Kamala Harris’ campaign.
Yes, but that was during a passage of time that occurred as his lived experience before the period of the day of the dinner and after the period of time that predated those aforementioned moments of his experienced truth.
A couple of things here bother me.
– What is this charge of “Transporting a firearm across state lines (up to 10 years and $250,000 fine)”? When did it become unlawful/illegal to move a firearm across state lines? Did I break the law when we moved from MN to Wyoming and brought my rifles and shotguns with me? Or is this just a bad quote, and there’s some other mitigating factor about “for illegal purposes” that wasn’t included in the quote?
– Nice that they’re going to try to convict him of an assassination attempt, but that will fail since no one can read his mind. Maybe he’ll claim he didn’t care about shooting Trump, and was going to simply declare a manifesto on the spot, or that he wanted to kill one of the verminous reporters, or something equally ridiculous.
– It would seem to me to be a slam-dunk conviction to prosecute him on the attempted premeditated 1st-degree murder of the Secret Service agent. He actually DID (“allegedly”) try to kill him by A) Pointing a firearm at him, and B) Pulling the trigger, and C) Actually hitting him. There is video evidence of his (“alleged”) premeditation since he had the firearm in his hand before he even started his bums-rush of the security screening area. Maybe they’re just holding off on these charges to see how the other ones go.
Maybe our resident “IANAL, but…” apologist (Millhouse) can answer these questions for us.
You would be surprised at how many school teachers are as disconnected as this cat is..
My question is who the f shoots .38 Super? I know lots of people in the gun community, including many who compete, and none of them uses .38 Super.
.38 Super is (or was back when I was doing it) a popular caliber for IPSC, because the ballistics allowed you to “make major” (score more points per hit) as if you were shooting a more powerful .45, without the attendant recoil disadvantage.
I was also told that it was a popular caliber south of the border because of some loophole where it was NOT on the roster of calibers civilians were forbidden to own.
Other than those two, I don’t know of the caliber being popular for any other reason among any other community. It’s niche, and harder to find. ammo for.