Cole Tomas Allen, the man accused of opening fire at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, sent a 1,052-word manifesto to his family just 10 minutes before the attack. The document, signed “Cole ‘coldForce’ ‘Friendly Federal Assassin’ Allen”, called the president a “pedophile, rapist, and traitor” and laid out his “rules of engagement” for the shooting. It also included a scathing rant about Secret Service incompetence.
According to the NY Post, Cole’s manifesto opens with a series of apologies to family, colleagues, and even strangers he put in danger. He writes that he doesn’t expect forgiveness but insists he saw no other way to get close enough to his targets. His primary motivation, he explains, is that he’s “no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist, and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes.” He says while he’s felt this way for long, the correspondents’ dinner was his first opportunity to act.
