Trump WHCD shooter slapped with a FOURTH charge as he faces life in prison
Donald Trump’s alleged White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner attacker has been indicted by a grand jury on four counts, including a new indictment.
Cole Tomas Allen, 31, was armed with a shotgun, handgun and knives when he ran into a security checkpoint on April 25 and raced toward the ballroom of the Washington Hilton.
First, a criminal complaint was filed for attempting to assassinate the President, carrying a firearm with the intent to commit a crime, and using a firearm during a crime of violence.
Allen’s indictment, filed Tuesday by a federal grand jury in Washington, D.C., includes the same three charges but also adds a charge of assaulting a federal officer with a deadly weapon.
The addition of the new charge confirms Allen’s claim that he shot a Secret Service agent who was shot with his bullet-resistant vest on and was not seriously injured.
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche stated last week that investigators want to examine more ballistic evidence before making that decision.
Trump and most of his top cabinet secretaries met with thousands of journalists at the annual dinner.
Allen traveled by train from his home in California to carry out the attack and allegedly left a note stating that administration officials were his targets and that he was ‘prioritized from highest to lowest.’
Cole Tomas Allen was taken into custody after attacking security and opening fire at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner in Washington, DC, on April 25.
Four gunshots were heard at White House Correspondents after Allen sped past the Secret Service
Allen has not yet entered a plea.
The suspect, from Torrance, California, was injured but not shot in the alleged assassination attempt.
He was placed on suicide watch following his arrest, but prison officials removed him from that status over the weekend.
Allen’s lawyers complained that he was unnecessarily imprisoned in a constantly lit padded room, repeatedly strip-searched and placed in handcuffs outside his cell.
A liberal federal judge in D.C. sparked outrage Monday after apologizing for Allen’s 24-hour detention since his transfer to federal custody.
Magistrate Zia Faruqui criticized the lawyers and said: ‘I should have at least apologized to him. We have to make sure he’s well taken care of. Mr. Allen, I’m sorry things didn’t turn out the way they were supposed to.’
Faruqui went on to compare Allen’s prison sentence to those arrested for the riot at the Capitol on January 6, 2021.
“In my opinion, it is extremely disturbing that a person with no criminal history is subjected to a five-point restraint,” Faruqui added.
Cole Tomas Allen, 31, has been in 24-hour custody since being taken into federal custody
Magistrate Zia Faruqui harshly criticized the lawyers regarding the conditions of Allen’s detention during the hearing held on Monday afternoon. When Allen was first jailed, he was placed on suicide watch
‘This is disturbing. I have never heard of a defendant being placed in five-point handcuffs or a secure cell on January 6th. If the only way to keep him safe is the most punishing thing, that’s a problem.’
The judge ordered officials at the D.C. jail to notify him of the prison accommodation Allen requested by tomorrow morning. Allen’s attorneys filed a motion Sunday requesting that his prison suicide watch restrictions be lifted.
While Judge Faruqui warned the prison authorities, he emphasized that Allen will be presumed innocent until proven guilty.
But Allen released a manifesto admitting he planned the attack, and video footage captured the assassin running past the Secret Service, shotgun in hand, before agents opened fire.
Trump’s allies and online supporters reacted angrily to the judge’s apology to Allen, demanding his removal. Allen did not enter a defense in the case.
‘Dismiss this judge IMMEDIATELY!’ wrote MAGA phenom Eric Daugherty in X.
Nick Sortor, a popular online Trump supporter, also criticized Faruqui: ‘WTF? D.C. magistrate judge Zia Faruqui apologized to WHCA shooter Cole Allen for the “treatment” he has received so far in prison. DC judges are a JOKE.’
Last week, Allen appeared in court alongside public defenders wearing an orange jumpsuit and white tank top. He maintained his calm and emotionless demeanor throughout the hearing.
Allen charged Secret Service while carrying a shotgun, a handgun and multiple knives
Prosecutors say Allen was armed with seven knives during the attack
Federal prosecutors released a chilling selfie of Allen in his hotel room, apparently covered in guns, moments before he stormed a security checkpoint in an alleged plot to kill Donald Trump.
Prosecutors say he took a mirror selfie in his hotel room in full evening gown at 8:03 p.m., just minutes before he arrived at the event armed with a shotgun.
‘He was wearing a black shirt, black trousers and a red tie tucked into his trousers,’ the court filing states.
He was also wearing a ‘small leather bag’ filled with ammunition, a shoulder holster, a sheathed knife, pliers and wire cutters.
Prosecutors say after taking the selfie, Allen called back to the President’s show at 8:13 p.m., then looked at the live video, which Trump arrived at at 8:27 p.m., and then sent the emailed confession to family and friends at 8:30 p.m.
