Detained, for now
Posted By: Dreadnought, 4/28/2026 11:33:05 AM
From the New York Post, Defiant WHCD shooting suspect Cole Allen charged with trying to assassinate President Trump. Allen appeared before a (lower-level) magistrate judge today on a criminal complaint (which can be read here). He was ordered detained pending a full detention hearing on Thursday. The next step will be for the Dept. of Justice to seek a formal indictment by a grand jury, in order to proceed with felony charges against Allen. Forgive me if I have grown completely cynical about federal district courts in blue locales
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Detained, for now
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From the New York Post,
Defiant WHCD shooting suspect Cole Allen charged with trying to assassinate President Trump.
Allen appeared before a (lower-level) magistrate judge today on a criminal complaint (which can be read here). He was ordered detained pending a full detention hearing on Thursday.
The next step will be for the Dept. of Justice to seek a formal indictment by a grand jury, in order to proceed with felony charges against Allen.
Forgive me if I have grown completely cynical about federal district courts in blue locales
DUBAI - The United Arab Emirates said on Tuesday it was quitting oil-producers' group OPEC, as an unprecedented energy crisis triggered by the Iran war exposes discord among Gulf nations.
The loss of the UAE, a longstanding OPEC member, could create disarray and weaken the group, which has usually sought to show a united front despite internal disagreements over a range of issues from geopolitics to production quotas. UAE Energy Minister Suhail Mohamed al-Mazrouei told Reuters the decision
Republicans may soon need to write a thank-you note to Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy.
By convincing American business that a Democrat-controlled government is an existential threat, Murphy could be the guy who wins the midterms for the GOP.
The senator posted his latest anti-business broadside on X the other day, targeting Paramount head David Ellison by name.
“Ellison and the information oligarchs should enjoy it while they can,” he sneered, “because when Democrats win power we are going to break these anti-consumer, anti-free speech media conglomerates into pieces.”
Earlier, RedState reported on a statement made by Democrat House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (NY-08) a day after the third assassination attempt on President Donald Trump in less than two years.
In a Sunday night tweet, Jeffries wrote that "America will not be lectured about civility by far-right extremists in Congress. Particularly those who provide aid and comfort to hundreds of violent rioters who brutally beat police officers on January 6." He added, "Now is a time to unify," which was a rather strange remark considering he just called his political opposition, which has legit concerns about incendiary Democrat rhetoric, "far-right extremists."
President Trump refused to hold back during his explosive "60 Minutes" interview with Norah O’Donnell on Sunday, torching the veteran CBS anchor after she shamelessly read aloud vile excerpts from the White House Correspondents’ Dinner (WHCD) shooter’s manifesto.
This clip is incredible on so many levels. O'Donnell reads a statement from the would-be assassin, 31-year-old Cole Allen. She does not question what he's espousing. She does not denounce his absurd claims. She repeats an assassin's words. From his manifesto. Verbatim.
"The so-called manifesto is a stunning thing to read, Mr. President," she begins. "He appears to reference a motive in it."
Saturday evening's White House Correspondents' Dinner was bound to make headlines, if for no other reason than that President Donald Trump was attending the event for the first time in his presidency (either one). News would be made.
What wasn't anticipated was the dark turn that news took as a would-be assassin attempted to shoot his way into the event. The blessing in all of that is that all in attendance, including the President and First Lady, the Cabinet, members of Congress, and members of the media, escaped unharmed, with the exception
After hearing the news about the shooting at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, most people responded with concern for President Donald Trump and the other people who were in danger at the event.
Trump himself held a briefing a half hour later, spoke about unity, and called on people to be committed to acting. Hell froze over as even the media seemed to acknowledge his humanity and strength, including reaching out to a reporter to see how he was. But in a moment where so many came together in concern for the president and others, there was immediately craziness from some on the left and the anti-Trump crew.
The suspected White House Correspondents' Association Dinner shooter, Cole Tomas Allen, signal boosted posts on the left-wing social media platform Bluesky arguing that President Donald Trump should be "immediately removed from office and tried for high crimes" and criticizing a "Freedom of the Press" pocket square that many journalists donned at last night’s dinner as "a white flag that no one can read unless you pull it out and wave it in defeat," a Washington Free Beacon review found, suggesting he thought a stronger message of opposition to the president was called for.
"the president of the united states is personally looting the treasury
Defunding the Secret Service
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Naive me. I genuinely thought that the day after the night before would see more attention paid to the basic fact that the U.S. Secret Service (part of the Dept. of Homeland Security, DHS) has gone without funding for the past 71 days on account of Senate Democrats.
The only outlet that I’ve seen discuss the matter is Fox News.
A shooting near President Donald Trump and several Cabinet members Saturday night is putting a spotlight on the Secret Service’s funding shortfall amid an ongoing standoff in Congress.
To which a Democratic Fox News contributor replies
The Gunman’s Manifesto
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Cole Allen sent a “manifesto” to members of his family minutes before he launched his attack at the Washington Hilton. You can read it here, it isn’t long. Allen’s brother received a copy and turned it over to his local police department. I have two observations about the document.
First, it is entirely predictable. Allen recited the Democratic Party’s indictment of President Trump and his administration. This is how he described Trump:
I am no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist, and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes.
President Donald Trump has already released photos and surveillance footage of the shooter at the White House correspondents’ dinner, emphasizing the importance of transparency at this time.
The president confirmed during a press conference late on Saturday evening that the shooter was a man from California, that he was in federal custody, and that the video on the president's account does show him rushing a security checkpoint in the Washington Hilton hotel. Trump did not say specifically if the name released on several websites is the shooter's name, all PJ Media can confirm at this time are the photos and videos below.
A White House Correspondents’ Dinner volunteer said the suspected gunman appeared to assemble a “long” weapon in a lightly monitored area near the terrace-level entrance before opening fire and rushing toward the ballroom.
The witness, Helen Mabus, a volunteer working the event who said she is from Harrisburg, Pa., described a “makeshift room” near the entrance where bar carts were being stored and where “there was no security” at the time.
“He was in that room […] he grabbed it out of a bag or something,” Mabus said, adding that the weapon “was long” and “didn’t look like a typical gun.”
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The latest controversy hovering over liberal comedian Jimmy Kimmel is leaving a sour taste among those in ABC's orbit. Kimmel is under fire yet again, this time for a poorly-timed joke he made targeting President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump just two days before Saturday's shocking assassination attempt at the White House Correspondents' Association (WHCA) Dinner, where the Trumps and nearly the entire Cabinet were located.
On his own program, the late-night host depicted his own version of the WHCA Dinner where he emceed the annual gala, and leveled several jabs at both the president and first lady.
President Trump on Sunday evening blasted ’60 Minutes’ anchor Norah O’Donnell for reading portions of the White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooter’s manifesto.
A heavily armed man stormed the lobby of the Washington Hilton Saturday night, sprinted past a Secret Service checkpoint and shot at a Secret Service agent.
The shooter, identified as Cole Allen, 31, of Torrence, California, was taken into custody and charged with using a firearm during a crime of violence and assaulting a federal officer with a dangerous weapon.
On Sunday it was revealed that Cole Allen wrote a manifesto and expressed his hatred for “pedophile, rapist” Trump.
Former President Barack Obama claimed Sunday “details about the motives” of accused White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooter Cole Allen were still unknown despite the gunman confessing he was targeting top Trump officials in a raving manifesto.
“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 of us to reject the idea that violence has any place in our democracy,” Obama wrote on X Sunday afternoon.
“It’s also a sobering reminder of the courage and sacrifice that U.S. Secret Service Agents show every day. I’m grateful to them –
Rep. Ilhan Omar got dragged on social media Monday afternoon for an outlandish gaffe in which she referred to World War Two as “World War Eleven” in a statement opposing the implementation of the Alien Enemies Act by the Trump administration to deport narco-terrorists from the United States. Check out some of the best reactions from online:
I guess that it should comes as no surprise that the congresswoman who "mistakenly" claimed that she was worth $30 million when she apparently doesn't even tout a net worth of $100,000 couldn't tell the difference between two and eleven.
Mamdani’s plan to delay pension payments
echoes the schemes that brought NYC to
near bankruptcy 20 replies
echoes the schemes that brought NYC to
near bankruptcy 20 replies
Despite a $7.1 billion hole, Mayor Zohran Mamdani has pushed back against any serious cutting to his budget and instead wants to delay required payments to city pension funds.
That’s precisely the kind of tactics that brought the city to the brink of bankruptcy in the ’70s.
At the least, it will saddle future taxpayers with unnecessary costs.
For the moment, the city is on-track to meeting its long-term pension-funding obligations by its 2032 deadline.
Yet to help close his budget hole, Mamdani would push $1 billion worth of payments into the 2040s.
That would be both costly and risky.
WASHINGTON — First lady Melania Trump savagely criticized ABC late-night host Jimmy Kimmel as a “coward” Monday after he referred to her as “an expectant widow” two days before Saturday’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooting. “Kimmel’s hateful and violent rhetoric is intended to divide our country. His monologue about my family isn’t comedy- his words are corrosive and deepens the political sickness within America,” Trump, 56, wrote in a post on X. The comic is facing severe backlash after the attack on the gala dinner, in which a Secret Service agent suffered minor injuries after a gunman charged a checkpoint
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) attacked White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt for criticizing Democrats for their violent rhetoric after a shooting took place in the vicinity of the White House Correspondents’ Dinner at the Washington Hilton Hotel.
During a press conference on Monday, Jeffries labeled Leavitt a “stone-cold liar,” and accused her of reading “talking points” and being critical of words Democrats had said.
“I know you said you stand by your comment, but at the same time you have been a subject of threats as well, so, with respect to this comment about maximum warfare, even if it’s about redistricting, why not tone down the language
Muslim voters are reshaping U.K. politics,
creating new challenges for Starmer government 19 replies
creating new challenges for Starmer government 19 replies
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Recent elections have shown the country's estimated 4 million people, or roughly 6.5% of the country's overall population, have been enough to determine electoral outcomes in specific districts and nudge national parties to re-calibrate their platforms.
Defiant WHCD shooting suspect Cole Allen
charged with trying to assassinate President Trump 17 replies
charged with trying to assassinate President Trump 17 replies
WASHINGTON — The suspected White House Correspondents Dinner shooter Cole Allen was charged with trying to assassinate President Trump on Saturday night — as he made a defiant first appearance in court.
The 31-year-old accused madman spoke loudly and confidently answering a judge’s questions in federal court in Washington, DC, as he was hit with the charges of attempted assassination of the president, transportation of a firearm across state lines to commit a felony and discharging a gun.
He faces life in prison if convicted of the top charge.
Allen — who walked into the courtroom unshackled with a somber look and wearing a blue jail jumpsuit — answered
Teachers’ unions have spent more than $1 billion in member dues and fees on political activism and left-wing social causes since 2015, according to a new watchdog report.
The spending captured in Defending Education’s report includes both national and local unions, including $669 million from national unions and $339 million at the local level.The American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and the National Education Association (NEA), two national teachers’ unions, spent a combined $669 million over the past ten years, including $44 million to For Our Future, a progressive political group focusing on social equity and climate justice in key battleground states;
Earlier, RedState reported on a statement made by Democrat House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (NY-08) a day after the third assassination attempt on President Donald Trump in less than two years.
In a Sunday night tweet, Jeffries wrote that "America will not be lectured about civility by far-right extremists in Congress. Particularly those who provide aid and comfort to hundreds of violent rioters who brutally beat police officers on January 6." He added, "Now is a time to unify," which was a rather strange remark considering he just called his political opposition, which has legit concerns about incendiary Democrat rhetoric, "far-right extremists."
There were a lot of reactions to the shooting at the White House Correspondents' Dinner on Saturday.
Some rose to the occasion, as President Donald Trump himself did, trying to reassure everyone and making sure people were okay.
Some, like unhinged Trump haters, did not, calling it "staged" or "false flag." Some had ridiculous takes, like Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin (MD-8), who asked, "What rhetoric?" when asked about the rhetoric Democrats have leveled against Trump for the past ten years. Then there was Barack Obama. What he posted late Sunday afternoon about the shooting was rather incredible. (X) Although we don’t yet have the details about the motives behind