The attacker who broke into the White House correspondents’ dinner venue, identified as Cole Tomas Allen, shared his intentions with his family shortly before committing the assassination attempt against Trump. In the letter of just over a thousand words he recounts his intentions to assassinate members of the republican government and his plan to kill officials of the Republican Administration.
In the full document, obtained by the New York Post, Allen calls himself the “Friendly Federal Killer” and establishes his “rules of engagement” to follow during the shootout.
“I am a citizen of the United States of America. What my representatives do affects me. And I am no longer willing to allow a pedophile, rapist and traitor to stain my hands with his crimes.“Allen argues in the letter in which he also apologizes to his family, friends and students, as well as to all the people he may have encountered.
The “rules of engagement”
In the manifesto, Allen includes as main objectives for Trump’s cabinet. “Administration officials (not including Mr. Patel [director del FBI]): they are objectives, prioritized from highest rank to lowest“, he writes. In the second place he places the secret service agents, whom he will only attack “if necessary.”
Even so, the suspect assures that “would go through almost everyone present to reach the objectives if absolutely necessary (assuming that most people *chose* to attend a speech of a pedophile, rapist and traitorand, therefore, they are accomplices)”, although he claims not to want to “go to that extreme”.
The justification for the attack
In the text, as if it were an essay, Allen specifies five “objections” to his actions, that is, reasons why he should not commit the crime and responds to them with five other “rebuttals” or justifications. The first of them is about how Allen, as a Christian, should “turn the other cheek.” “Turning the other cheek is for when oneself is oppressed. I am not the person raped in a detention camp. I am not the fisherman executed without trial. “I am not a student who died in an explosion, nor a child who died of hunger, nor a teenager abused by the many criminals of this administration,” he justifies. “Turning the other cheek when *another person* is oppressed is not Christian behavior.; It is complicity in the crimes of the oppressor,” he adds.
In the other objections to his behavior, he uses arguments of not being the time, not being able to “finish everyone” or not being the right person because he is a mestizo. He responds to all of them with the idea that his actions are a necessary means to achieve the ultimate goal of ending what he considers the moral corruption of the government. “The United States of America is governed by the law, not by one or more people. To the extent that representatives and judges do not abide by the law, no one is obligated to abide by any order issued illegally.“concludes the manifesto.
In the manifesto shared by the New York Post, Allen takes advantage of the addendum to ridicule the security of the event. “I walk in with multiple weapons and not a single person there considers the possibility that I could be a threat,” he says. And he adds: “This level of incompetence is insane.and I sincerely hope that it will be corrected by the time this country has truly competent leadership again.”
