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-Lurid Crime Tales-

Day 3, Part 1: Trump's assassin flooded social media with messages in support of Ukraine

2026-04-28

Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited

See Day 3 Part 2 here.

by Malek Dudakov

[REGNUM] Assassination attempts on US leaders are becoming as commonplace as school shootings. The country continues to be engulfed by a wave of political violence comparable to that seen during the turbulent 1960s. The current war of all against all in American politics has led to a massive societal divide, resulting in attacks on the lives of elites.

Oddly enough, all the would-be assassins are either mentally ill or autistic, of the left, or both. Despite both sides rhetoric from the Democrats, this is not both sides phenomenon.
Once again, the ill-fated Washington Hilton Hotel has found itself at the epicenter of dramatic events. It was there, just months after his inauguration, that the assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan took place in 1981. Back then, the perpetrator was declared insane, and political motives were demonstratively denied. Such a stunt is unlikely to work now—it's clear to everyone that the third assassination attempt on Donald Trump was certainly politically motivated. This wasn't just the act of a psychopath out of nowhere.

Indeed. He appears to be a plain vanilla Progressive Democrat: bright, highly educated, underperforming, and living at home with his parents because he failed to fully launch. Possibly autistic — that part remains speculation.

The attack was carried out by 31-year-old video game developer and part-time teacher Cole Allen

…more fully Cole Tomas Allen…

from California. He was even named Los Angeles County Teacher of the Month in 2024.

Not of the County of Los Angeles public school system, but of a private SAT and subject matter tutoring service. Given his background — BS in engineering from CalTech, Masters is computer science — he is vastly overqualified for the work, though it sounds like he enjoyed it.

Police believe he acted alone, breaking through the hotel's security checkpoint with a shotgun, a pistol, and a collection of knives. Allen managed to fire the shotgun at one of the Secret Service agents before being subdued and subdued. He is now available for questioning.

In a manifesto published after the crime, the shooter mentioned both the victims of Jeffrey Epstein's pedophilia and the dead children in Iran, for whom he sought revenge against members of Trump's team. This is somewhat reminiscent of the recent attempt by another American—a 21-year-old artist from North Carolina—to enter Mar-a-Lago with a shotgun and a can of gasoline.

That was Austin Tucker Martin of Cameron, North Carolina killed in the attempt on February 22nd. He lived at home, worked at a nearby golf course, and spent his free time drawing and painting scenes from its landscape.

He was a former Trump supporter who broke down over the Epstein affair and wanted to get even with the president. Now, the surge in anti-war sentiment has also played a role. Over 70% of Americans have a negative view of the war in Iran and advocate for its immediate end, without preconditions.

They do? I must be seeing different polls.

There are also differences from the first assassination attempt on Trump, when the attacker was eliminated after several shots. The investigation into the July 2024 shooting in Butler, Pennsylvania, has effectively reached a dead end. Police and the FBI were unable to identify the perpetrators of the assassination attempt or their accomplices, of whom the shooter certainly had one. He had meticulously prepared the plot and even had a drone with which he monitored the crowd.

That was Thomas Crooks, 20, more fully Thomas Matthew Crooks. Registered Republican but donated via ActBlue to a Progressive voter turnout group, and highly active in the hateful corners of social media. Worked as a kitchen aide in a nursing home.

The investigation into the second assassination attempt, carried out by a man who had been to Ukraine and spent many hours ambushed the president in the bushes near the Mar-a-Lago residence, is progressing little better. He was labeled a lone wolf and sent to jail; the federal authorities were unwilling or unwilling to dig deeper into his connections to the Kyiv regime.

Ryan Wesley Routh, 59, of Hawaii. Eccentric and unstable, he had hung around the fringes of the Ukrainian war against Russia after he was rejected as a volunteer fighter.

Meanwhile, a hint of a "Ukrainian connection" was also revealed in a new incident. Media outlets quickly discovered that Allen frequently posted on social media fiercely criticizing the American government for cutting back on support for Ukraine. He left over a thousand angry messages.

The current assassination attempt raises many questions. For example, why was the Hilton Hotel chosen? Was this a deliberate historical analogy, or was it simply because it was easy to prepare in advance for the annual correspondents' dinner, which American leaders almost always attend?

The head of state's security has been beefed up after previous assassination attempts, and he is being moved between key locations like the White House and Mar-a-Lago. Last year, for example, a special shooter's seat was discovered in a tree near the airport where the presidential jet frequently landed. Clearly, someone was attempting to monitor Trump's arrivals and possibly preparing to attack him.

However, the actions of the Secret Service agents caught off guard at the Hilton party defy logical explanation. For some reason, they first escorted Vice President J.D. Vance out of the room and only then returned for Trump, who nearly fell during the evacuation. Although the President of the United States is their number one priority, the Vice President should come next.

Apparently VP Vance and his wife were closer to the exit, so they were moved out to leave President and Mrs. Trump a clear path of retreat.

This immediately sparked a slew of conspiracy theories. And the sight of confused federal agents aiming their guns randomly into the crowd of journalists and diplomats gathered for dinner was, to put it mildly, not reassuring.

It doesn’t sound like the crowd was concerned, many journalists among them being more interested in calmly rescuing bottles of excellent table wine than in crowding the exits.

The current assassination attempt is unlikely to have a positive impact on the current administration's approval ratings—a repeat of the events of 2024 is unlikely. Attempts to assassinate Trump are becoming so numerous that their political impact is being diluted. Furthermore, many external factors have emerged—such as the disastrous Iran War

…certainly one perspective of the situation…

and the accompanying economic problems with the energy crisis and inflation—that are putting pressure on the president. His approval rating in some polls has fallen to 33%, one of the lowest in modern American history.

A growing rift is also emerging within the MAGA camp. Many former Trump supporters are now actively discussing the theory that the first assassination attempt in the summer of 2024 could have been staged.

The word wanted there is some, not many, and we don’t take seriously the Tucker Carlson/Candace Owens/NeverTrump brand of grifters pretending to be conservative.

This was done by Israeli intelligence agencies, who are also accused of orchestrating the murder of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

Only by hate-filled idiots. Serious people don’t think such nonsense. Israeli intelligence would never attack one of their strongest supporters — Charlie Kirk’s death was mourned across Israel.

The investigation into that crime is also stalled, despite the FBI's promise to uncover a radical leftist plot against Kirk.

It's reaching the point of absurdity—certain religiously minded MAGA members are now brazenly claiming that Trump is the Antichrist, citing the rapid healing of his bullet-injured ear as "proof."

MAGA members or agitators in boiler rooms pretending to be MAGA members? They’ve been proved to be the basis for a bunch of conspiracy theories exploding across the internet over the past decade. Russia, China, Qatar and Pakistan — they claim to be one of us, but their language use and sentiments give them away.

They're tossed back and forth—they once seriously considered the politician a messiah, but now they see him as a fiend. This represents a profound rift in society. So, not everyone will believe the official version of what happened at the Washington Hilton.

Keep trying, Mr. Regnum man. Maybe you’ll persuade someone.

It's highly likely that in the upcoming election cycle, such attacks will finally become commonplace for the US political class. They are preparing for this, having increased their spending on private security fivefold over the past ten years. The situation within America is at its peak, with candidates for the House and Senate, as well as for various lower-level positions, becoming targets.

Immediately after the first assassination attempt on Trump, polls showed that the majority of Americans feared that a surge in political assassinations and murders would push the country to the brink of a new civil war. Since then, the situation has become even more volatile.

Just look at the recent clashes between liberal activists and federal agents in Minnesota.

They were Black Bloc/Antifa. Not liberal — rather they are revolutionary Communist-Anarchists and their fellow travellers continuing to violently undermine Western society as first established by Stalin’s agents in Weimar Republic Germany. The stated cause changes from day to day, but the intent is constant.

Or at the large-scale protests under the slogan "No Kings," which are already attracting tens of million people every couple of months.

Same people, different stated cause. Each one brings in its useful idiots, some of whom stay on, over time becoming cadres in the underlying structure funded by an incestuous snake’s nest of rich Progressive funders. They used to get government funding as well, but DOGE and related efforts have cut that flow to a trickle of what it used to be.

Ahead lies a turbulent summer—with the 250th anniversary of the United States and the World Cup—against the backdrop of the energy crisis, the war in Iran, and economic hardship. All of this will clearly trigger further mass unrest and clashes between citizens and immigration police officers who remain loyal to the authorities. In terms of scale, the summer of 2026 could even surpass the 2020 protest season, with BLM riots across the country.

Much lower probability than it was, given that the feds have turned their attention in that direction after finding the tentacles during the anti-ICE protests. Interesting times, for sure, for all involved.

And then there's only a short time left until the congressional elections, which, if current electoral trends are to be believed, should result in a Democratic Party victory.

Or not. We’ll see.

Rumors are already circulating about the possibility of sending federal agents to polling stations, which will provoke yet another round of clashes with dissenting voices.

Under these circumstances, America will only miraculously avoid assassinations of prominent politicians by radicals on both sides. Although right now, the violence is primarily being perpetrated by Democratic Party supporters driven mad by anti-Trumpism.

Lookit that: he got there, finally. Well done, Mr, Dudakov!

So the current assassination attempt could very well be another wake-up call for the very serious political upheavals awaiting the United States. After all, the semi-disintegration of the federal government structure, with more and more bureaucrats being laid off, is accelerating literally before our eyes.

I know. Isn’t it delightful!

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