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2026-04-26 -Land of the Free

Day 2: White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooting live updates: Gunman had shotgun, handgun and ‘multiple knives;’ charged with firearms and assault

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Posted by trailing wife 2026-04-26 2026-04-26 01:53|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [1892 views ] Top

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Videos of the incident are flowing in.

It is clear it was a pre-planned attempt and not a last minute after thought.
Given the shooter, checked into the hotel as a well armed guest prior to the event in DC.

An interesting collection of weapons for a Teacher of the month for C2 Education Dec. 2024 to have. However, the actual execution of the attack wasn't even grade school levels.

Cole Tomas Allen's LinkedIn profile was still open when last checked.
Note the places of employment and etc...

BTW:
Yes! The Left TDS mouthpieces are already trying to pass this off as a possible "Trump Staged" media event.

Posted by NN2N1 2026-04-26 04:11|| 2026-04-26 04:11|| Front Page Top

2 it does appear he is a lone actor, a lone gunman

... from California.
Who wrote the script for this puppet.

Posted by Skidmark 2026-04-26 05:46|| 2026-04-26 05:46|| Front Page Top

3 As usual the media vultures will 'report' a lot that will be found to be wrong or inaccurate. It'll be a good 48 hours before we get a clearer picture.

Political assassination is wrong regardless of party. I have no doubt a great many people on the left are very unhappy the shooter failed, but they are not thinking things through.

Disclaimer: I have ZERO knowledge of ANY planned assassinations, but I make a prediction: If someone succeeds in assassinating President Trump, we will numerous assassination attempts on prominent left Democrats, some of which will be successful.

Posted by Chantry 2026-04-26 08:43|| 2026-04-26 08:43|| Front Page Top

4 The wonderment of ineptitude.

Posted by Skidmark 2026-04-26 08:53|| 2026-04-26 08:53|| Front Page Top

5 I'm assuming the 2027 Correspondent's Dinner will not be on the President's 'to do' list ?

Posted by Besoeker 2026-04-26 08:54|| 2026-04-26 08:54|| Front Page Top

6 An interesting collection of weapons for a Teacher of the month for C2 Education Dec. 2024 to have. However, the actual execution of the attack wasn't even grade school levels.

He's also apparently a game programmer with a FPS on Steam... no doubt confused his game rules with reality.

Posted by Mercutio 2026-04-26 09:03|| 2026-04-26 09:03|| Front Page Top

7 Too bad DC and CA don't have common sense gun control laws to prevent stuff like this. /s

Presumably

Posted by Glenmore 2026-04-26 09:47|| 2026-04-26 09:47|| Front Page Top

8 Too bad DC and CA don't have common sense gun control laws to prevent stuff like this. /s

Presumably

Posted by Glenmore 2026-04-26 09:47|| 2026-04-26 09:47|| Front Page Top

9 Dunno what glitched on me.

Presumably will be found not guilty by reason of insanity, and the insanity part is probably correct.

Posted by Glenmore 2026-04-26 09:48|| 2026-04-26 09:48|| Front Page Top

10 I didn't see the chunky lady agent who couldn't handle her weapon at Butler. Times change.

Posted by Matt 2026-04-26 09:49|| 2026-04-26 09:49|| Front Page Top

11 I don't think anybody cares. Butler sure was a relatively quiet "investigation".

Posted by DooDahMan 2026-04-26 09:51|| 2026-04-26 09:51|| Front Page Top

12 "Revenge of the Nerds?"

Posted by JohnQC 2026-04-26 10:39|| 2026-04-26 10:39|| Front Page Top

13 Right now the headline of the NYT is: "Search For Motive of Gunman Who Charged Press Gala". Gee, maybe he was just dissatisfied with the press coverage of the Boston Red Sox.

Posted by Matt 2026-04-26 10:45|| 2026-04-26 10:45|| Front Page Top

14 Boston Red Sox fire manager Alex Cora

The reported firing came hours after Boston's largest margin of victory this season, a 17-1 win over Baltimore

Posted by Skidmark 2026-04-26 11:24|| 2026-04-26 11:24|| Front Page Top

15 ^ I had the Mets Manager being fired first

Posted by Frank G 2026-04-26 11:30|| 2026-04-26 11:30|| Front Page Top

16 And here's CNN really going out on a limb: "Suspect at White House Correspondents’ Dinner may have been targeting Trump officials, Blanche says"

He's just a suspect, screw the video. And he may or may not have been targeting Trump.

Posted by Matt 2026-04-26 11:30|| 2026-04-26 11:30|| Front Page Top

17 It could have been worse, Matt. The description could have been alleged suspect, just to cover the entirety of a very large ass. At any rate, he said he was targetting “Trump officials,” so clearly (!!!) he did not have the president in his sights.

Posted by trailing wife 2026-04-26 11:59|| 2026-04-26 11:59|| Front Page Top

18 Hot take: Mechanical engineer degree but a teacher @ age 31? DEI loser. Angry at the world.

Is the federal firing squad taking volunteers? If so need to get some range time.

Posted by Regular joe 2026-04-26 12:00|| 2026-04-26 12:00|| Front Page Top

19 The web is full of politicians saying "Violence is never the answer!" What they mean is "Violence is never the answer if it can be blamed on me!"

I expect a Gofundme for this guy to be started any minute now.

Posted by Matt 2026-04-26 12:07|| 2026-04-26 12:07|| Front Page Top

20 I had a similar thought. ME degree from Cal Tech, then a masters in CS from some regional CalState university. This guy must have some serious social skills issues to not be fully employed. One neighbor who met him once thought he was on the spectrum (the current way to describe someone who’s overtly weird).

Posted by Remoteman 2026-04-26 13:32|| 2026-04-26 13:32|| Front Page Top

21
As I mentioned in Comment #1
The ANTI-TRUMPS area going full throttle with Memes.
https://9gag.com/interest/usa

Posted by NN2N1 2026-04-26 14:31|| 2026-04-26 14:31|| Front Page Top

22 That was the most H&K MP7s I’ve ever seen in one place

Posted by Clem+Elmish4239 2026-04-26 14:45|| 2026-04-26 14:45|| Front Page Top

23 CTH Article on Shooter's Manifesto. A really key point, this guy had a hotel room at a the Hilton, which should have been sold out many months in advance for the event. Not cheap and curiously, he checked in, by his own admission, the day before and clearly brought the weapons in his luggage, yet obviously no screening of his luggage was done, the day before the President and Cabinet were to be in a single location, a mandatory National Special Security Event.
What hotel guest screening was done by the USSS, given that he clearly must have booked the reservation months in advance, since his online presence should have had triggering indications that would have marked his as a person of interest. Finally, the suspect was not deceased, not even shot, is very troubling indictment of the USSS marksmanship program to say the least.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Special_Security_Event

Posted by NoMoreBS 2026-04-26 16:26|| 2026-04-26 16:26|| Front Page Top

24 ^^^^^

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2026/04/26/attempted-assassin-cole-tomas-allens-manifesto-revealed/comment-page-1/#comments

Posted by NoMoreBS 2026-04-26 16:27|| 2026-04-26 16:27|| Front Page Top

Once again pic.twitter.com/q5ZEFqjDGF
— LetsGoGifs (@LetsGoGifs) April 26, 2026

Posted by badanov 2026-04-26 16:48|| 2026-04-26 16:48|| Front Page Top

26 #23 -A hotel room? I was certain he was staying at DNC headquarters, in the Obama Suite.

Posted by Matt 2026-04-26 19:12|| 2026-04-26 19:12|| Front Page Top

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