Trump calls 60 Minutes reporter a ‘disgrace’ for reading manifesto from White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooter on air

Donald Trump told CBS News anchor Norah O’Donnell that Cole was a ‘disgrace’ for reading parts of Thomas Allen’s manifesto that included wild accusations against the President.

Allen, 31, made the outrageous claims to his family ten minutes before attempting to attack Trump’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner, his first in more than a decade.

In an interview with 60 Minutes on Sunday, O’Donnell read some of the most incendiary lines from Allen’s letter, which Trump slammed.

‘It seems to refer to a justification. In it he writes: Quote: ”Administrative officials, they are targets.” He also wrote: “I will no longer allow a pedophile, rapist and traitor to cover my hands with his crimes.” What’s your reaction to this?’

Trump responded: ‘I was waiting for you to read this because I knew you would. Because you are terrible people. Terrible people. Yes, he wrote this. I’m not a rapist. ‘I didn’t rape anyone.’

O’Donnell tried to interrupt Trump and asked: ‘Oh, you think he was talking about you?’

‘Excuse me. Excuse me. “I’m not a pedophile,” he said and cut the anchor.

Trump then appeared to address the connection Allen attempted to make between him and pedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein.

In an interview with 60 Minutes on Sunday, O’Donnell read some of the most incendiary lines from Allen’s letter, which Trump slammed

‘You read this nonsense from a sick person. I was associated with everything that had nothing to do with me. I was completely cleared. Your friends on the other side of the table are the ones who are involved with, say, Epstein or other things.’

Trump has never been charged with a crime in connection with Epstein, who he said kicked out of his Mar-a-Lago club decades ago.

The President continued to pursue O’Donnell and appeared to regret continuing the meeting.

‘But I said to myself, I’ll do this interview and they probably will too – I read the manifesto. He was a sick person. But you should be ashamed of yourself for reading this, because I’m none of those things.’

O’Donnell went on to explain that these were the gunman’s words, but he did not accept any of them.

‘Excuse me. Excuse me. You shouldn’t read this in 60 minutes. You are an embarrassment. But go ahead, let’s finish the interview,’ he said.

O’Donnell had asked Trump if he would try to improve his relationship with the combative press in the wake of the shooting.

‘Look, for whatever reason, we disagree on a lot of things. We talked about crime, I am very strong about crime. ‘The press doesn’t seem to be like that,’ Trump said.

Allen (pictured) may make lurid claims about President Trump in manifesto sent to family members

‘Not the press, but the press plus the Democrats. As if they were one and the same.”

Trump also told O’Donnell that the Secret Service may have slowed its response after the shooting Saturday night.

The President said he ‘wanted to see what was happening’.

“And I wasn’t going to make it that easy for them, I wanted to see what was going on,” he said of the Secret Service.

But soon security ‘started to realize that maybe this was a bad problem,’ he said. [the] The normal noise you hear from the ballroom and hear all the time.

‘I was surrounded by wonderful people and I probably made them take it a little slower,’ he continued. ‘And I said, ‘Wait a minute, wait a minute, let me see.’

Trump said he then began walking out of the ballroom with the agents.

He said they were halfway there when agents told him and First Lady Melania Trump, “Please get on the ground, please get on the ground.”

Trump also told O’Donnell that the Secret Service may have slowed its response after the shooting Saturday night.

‘I fell to the ground, too, and the First Lady fell to the ground, too,’ the President said.

Trump also called those who questioned the attack “sick.”

‘I think they’re sicker than they are scammers,’ he said. ‘But there are scammers.’

He later denied that political violence was worse than in previous generations but chastised Democrats for their rhetoric.

“You go back 20 years, 40 years, 100 years, 200 years, 500 years, he was always there, people were assassinated, people were injured, people were injured,” Trump told O’Donnell.

But he later accused Democrats of using inflammatory language.

“I think the Democrats’ hate speech is much more dangerous,” Trump said. ‘I think this is really dangerous for the country.’

He said the alleged attacker looked “almost a blur” as he ran down a hotel hallway Saturday night and joked that “the NFL should have taped him.”

Trump said the alleged attacker looked “almost a blur” as he ran down the hotel hallway on Saturday night and joked that the “NFL should book him.”

The Washington Hilton is also where a man tried to kill President Ronald Reagan.

‘But it was surprising because as soon as they [law enforcement] You could see them draw their weapons when they saw that. “They were so professional, they pointed their guns and then they just took him down,” Trump said.

Trump reiterated his call for the White House Correspondents’ Dinner to be rescheduled.

He said this would include ‘greater security’ and ‘greater perimeter security’.

“I think it’s important that they do this again,” Trump said about the dinner, adding that he didn’t want a “crazy person” to manage to cancel the dinner.

Allen, 31, sent the frightening anti-Trump text to family members just 10 minutes before opening fire at the Washington hotel where the lavish press gala was held on Saturday night.

A US official said the distressing letter was given to police by a relative.

According to the New York Post, Allen’s manifesto read: ‘Turning the other cheek is for times when you’re under pressure. I am not someone who was raped in a detention camp. I am not a fisherman who was executed without trial.

‘I am not a blown-up schoolboy or a starving child or a teenage girl abused by the many criminals in this administration. It is not Christian behavior to turn the other cheek when *someone else* is under pressure; It means being a party to the crimes of the oppressor.

Guests hid after US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump were hastily removed from the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner

‘To minimize damage, I will use lead instead of slug (less penetration through walls).

‘If it were absolutely necessary, I’d still call most people here to achieve the objectives (based on the fact that most people *choose* to attend the conversation of a pedophile, rapist and traitor and are therefore complicit) but I really hope it doesn’t come to this.’

His targets included (but did not include) administrative officials [FBI Director Kash] Patel): These are the objectives prioritized from highest to lowest.’

Allen wrote, allegedly referring to the president: ‘I will no longer allow a pedophile, rapist and traitor to cover my hands with his crimes.’

Trump spoke Sunday morning after a chaotic night at the dinner.

He told Fox that the attacker “had a lot of hatred in his heart” and that the attacker’s motivation for the attack was religion.

The President said this morning: ‘He had a lot of hatred in his heart for a long time.’

He added that the manifesto was a ‘religious thing’. It was strongly anti-Christian.’

Allen, who has no criminal record, may have planned to submit his manifesto based on how it was written

FBI members march to examine the neighborhood where Cole Tomas Allen’s home is located

‘He’s got some big problems for the rest of his life, but this is a very, very bad, very bad situation,’ the President continued.

Allen, a teacher from Torrance, California, had a manifesto and his brothers knew he had firearms and were worried about him.

Chilling security cameras captured the moment a gun-toting Allen charged past security at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Saturday night.

In the video posted by President Trump on Truth Social, Allen was seen wearing all black as he ran into the Washington Hilton hotel with a gun in his hand on Saturday evening.

Just moments before he ran, security guards were seen standing in the hallway, but as soon as he sped past, they immediately reacted and pulled out their firearms.

Police discovered that the suspect had several weapons on him, including a shotgun, a pistol and several knives.

President Trump shared a striking image shortly after the shooting showing the suspect shirtless and lying face down on the carpet.

Law enforcement confirmed he was not shot while he was stopped, but he was later taken to the hospital for evaluation.

Allen was a guest of the Hilton hotel where the event took place.

Surveillance video shows the suspect running through a security checkpoint and trying to reach the door of the ballroom where the president, along with top cabinet members and thousands of journalists, was gathered.

Evidence found on Allen’s electronic devices and writings points to the theory that he intended to target members of the administration who attended the dinner.

Family members told law enforcement that Allen had sent them some of his disturbing texts before the attack, prompting one of them to alert police. The articles did not specifically mention Saturday’s dinner.

Another family member also told investigators that Allen made radical statements and often talked about his plans to do “something” to solve problems in today’s world.

The family added that Allen regularly visited the shooting range to practice with his guns. A senior US official told CBS News that the suspected gunman was part of a group called The Wide Awakes and participated in the No Kings protest in California.