Breaking Down the Would-Be Assassin’s Manifesto

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In the wake of Saturday’s most recent assassination attempt on the life of President Trump, former President Barack Obama posted on Sunday a social media statement in which he declared that “we don’t yet have the details about the motives behind [the] shooting.” Apparently he didn’t read the failed assassin’s manifesto, which The New York Post published in full – 1052 words he sent to family members just 10 minutes or so before he barreled through a security cordon toward the room in which Trump, administration officials such as Pete Hegseth and Stephen Miller, and other guests attended the White House Correspondents Dinner.

Cole Allen, 31, began what he expected might be his final message to the world with a cheery “Hello everybody!” then proceeded to lay out a carefully articulated statement, in a curiously jokey tone, that demonstrated he was far from crazy – although only a serious sufferer of Trump Derangement Syndrome would have been driven to commit such a desperate and potentially suicidal act, with the full awareness that nearby innocents were likely to die in his rampage as well.

After his greeting, Allen presented a series of “sincere apologies” to “everyone whose trust I abused” – again with a touch of the incongruously comic:

I apologize to my parents for saying I had an interview without specifying it was for “Most Wanted.”

I apologize to my colleagues and students for saying I had a personal emergency (by the time anyone reads this, I probably most certainly DO need to go to the ER, but can hardly call that not a self-inflicted status.)

He also apologized to anyone he might have put in danger simply by being near, and to “all those who suffered before I was able to attempt this,” suggesting that he felt guilty for not killing Trump sooner. “I don’t expect forgiveness,” he states, “but if I could have seen any other way to get this close, I would have taken it.”

Then he moved on to “why I did any of this” (take note, Barack Obama): “I am a citizen of the United States of America. What my representatives do reflects on me. And I am no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist, and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes.”

Apart from the fact that Trump is neither a pedophile, rapist, nor traitor (all tired Democrat tropes), as a U.S. citizen Allen should know that in this country we remove leaders we don’t like from office through a peaceful democratic transition called voting.

Next he laid out his “expected rules of engagement,” listing his targets: Trump administration officials first (“prioritized from highest-ranking to lowest”), then Secret Service agents (but “only if necessary, and to be incapacitated non-lethally if possible,” though Allen didn’t seem to have a plan for how to achieve this). He noted that any hotel security, Capitol police officers, and National Guardsmen were not to be targeted “unless they shoot at me.”

Hotel employees and guests at the event also were not to be targeted at all; in fact, Allen stressed that he intended to use buckshot rather than shotgun slugs “in order to minimize casualties” because the former ammunition meant “less penetration through walls.”

But lest the reader get the impression that Allen was honorably mindful of the safety of innocents, he added that he “would still go through most everyone here to get to the targets if it were absolutely necessary,” because they “chose” to attend “a speech by a pedophile, rapist, and traitor, and are thus complicit.”

So much for carefully avoiding innocent casualties.

Allen even considered rebuttals to any objections anyone might have, such as “As a Christian, you should turn the other cheek.” He observed that turning the other cheek

is for when you yourself are oppressed. I’m not the person raped in a detention camp. I’m not the fisherman executed without trial. I’m not a schoolkid blown up or a child starved or a teenage girl abused by the many criminals in this administration.

Apart from the fact that the Trump administration is not “oppressing” anyone, Allen believes that refusing to defend the oppressed “is not Christian behavior; it is complicity in the oppressor’s crimes.” Since he wants to be viewed as a good Christian, now might be a good time to remind him of the Sixth Commandment: thou shalt not murder.

Another objection he attempted to self-rebut was, “You didn’t get them all,” which he answered with a glib, “Gotta start somewhere.”

Allen goes on to thank his family (both his biological and his church families) for their love, his friends for their companionship, his colleagues for their “positivity and professionalism,” his students for their “enthusiasm and love of learning,” and acquaintances both “in person and online, for short interactions and long-term relationships, for your perspectives and inspiration.”

Too bad Allen didn’t seem to have any Republican family members, friends, colleagues, or acquaintances who might have offered a different perspective – not that he would have considered it impartially.

The manifesto closes with a polite “Sincerely” and is signed, “Cole ‘coldForce’ ‘Friendly Federal Assassin’ Allen.” Then he added a curious postscript in which he “dropp[ed] the formal tone” and expressed incredulity about the Secret Service’s “insane level of incompetence.” He expected “security cameras at every bend, bugged hotel rooms, armed agents every 10 feet, metal detectors out the wazoo.” Instead, he observed “No damn security” inside the hotel or the event:

I walk in with multiple weapons and not a single person there considers the possibility that I could be a threat.

The security at the event is all outside, focused on protestors and current arrivals, because apparently no one thought about what happens if someone checks in the day before.

Like, this level of incompetence is insane, and I very sincerely hope it’s corrected by the time this country gets actually competent leadership again.

Allen concluded his statement on a personal, emotional note, assuring readers that he felt awful about what he was about to do – not because of the moral implications, but because he knew his end might be imminent: “I want to throw up; I want to cry for all the things I wanted to do and never will, for all the people whose trust this betrays.” And then, “I experience rage thinking about everything this administration has done.”

There it is, the key that unlocks the mystery of Allen’s motive: the murderous rage that runs through the Trump-hating Left like a flaming locomotive. The rage that is stoked every day by the Trump-hating media, the Trump-hating Democrat leadership, Trump-hating celebrities, Trump-hating academics, and Trump-hating activists like Allen.

As a California teacher (is anyone surprised?), Cole Allen was likely a product of a hermetically-sealed, Democrat bubble in which Trump and the entire MAGA movement are viewed by Progressives as a greater threat to their democracy than Hitler, the man almost universally considered the embodiment of evil. In this worldview, assassinating the President seems not only just, not only imperative, but an heroic act of martyrdom. Allen made what he thought was a perfectly rational, righteous choice.

Somewhat let Barack Obama know.

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