From DC Hilton to Fort Hood

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On April 25 at the Washington Hilton, Cole Thomas Allen broke through a barrier and ran toward the room where President Trump was hosting the Washington correspondents dinner. Minutes before, Allen posted a manifesto about killing administration officials right up to the highest, which would be President Donald Trump.

Allen came armed with a 12-guage Mossberg “Maverick” shotgun, an Armscor .38 caliber pistol, and knives. He shot one Secret Service agent but others tackled him before he could gain access to the ballroom where Trump held forth. Within hours, news reports revealed the shooter’s name as Cole Thomas Allen, 31, of Torrance, California. The next day, former president Obama posted this message:

Although we don’t yet have the details about the motives behind last night’s shooting at the White House Correspondents Dinner, it’s incumbent upon all of us to reject the idea that violence has any place in our democracy. It’s also a sobering reminder of the courage and sacrifice that U.S. Secret Service Agents show every day. I’m grateful to them – and thankful that the agent who was shot is going to be okay.

The message failed to name Allen or condemn the shooter, whose motive was clear from the start. Allen sought to kill President Trump and as many cabinet officials as possible. POTUS44 failed to cite any information from Allen’s manifesto and no mention of any “crime” or even “gun violence.” And it was “incumbent” on “all” to reject the notion that “violence has any place in our democracy.” That classic performance recalls the response to the assassin whose quest to kill succeeded, with aid from the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

In 2009, US Army Major Nidal Hasan had been communicating with al Qaeda terrorist Anwar al-Awlaki about killing Americans. The FBI was on to him but someone in the bureau’s Washington office judged that Hasan was not involved in terrorist activities and called off the surveillance.

On November 5, 2009 at Fort Hood, yelling “Allahu akbar” as he fired, Hasan gunned down Michael Grant Cahill, Libardo Eduardo Caraveo, Justin Michael DeCrow, John Paul Gaffaney, Frederick Greene, Jason Dean Hunt, Amy Sue Krueger, Aaron Thomas Nemelka, Michael Scott Pearson, Russell Gilbert Seager, Juanita Lee Warman, Kham See Xiong, and Francheska Velez, who pleaded for the life of her unborn child before Hasan shot her, bringing the death toll to 14. In his first public response to the massacre, POTUS44 said:

I want to begin by offering an update on the tragedy that took place at Ft. Hood. This morning I met with FBI Director Mueller and the relevant agencies to discuss their ongoing investigation into what caused one individual to turn his gun on fellow servicemen and women.

We don’t know all the answers yet and I would caution against jumping to conclusions until we have all the facts. What we do know is that there are families, friends and an entire nation grieving right now for the valiant men and women who came under attack yesterday in one of the worst mass shootings ever to take place on an American military base.

And so on. For the former Barry Soetoro, it was a “tragedy,” a term more suitable for an accident or natural disaster, and which only “took place,” as though without human agency. The president did not warn US soldiers against other assassins like Maj. Hasan, whom he failed to name or condemn. The president cautioned against “jumping to conclusions until we have all the facts,” which he already knew. The president failed to call the mass murder an act of terrorism or even “gun violence.” On November 10, 2009, the president showed up at Fort Hood for a memorial service.

“No faith justifies these murderous and craven acts,” the president told the crowd. “No just and loving God looks upon them with favor And for what he has done, we know that the killer will be met with justice, in this world and the next.” The president named the victims but again failed to name or condemn Maj. Nidal Hasan, a Muslim who called himself a “soldier of Allah.” The prediction that the murderer would be met with justice “in this world” was not fulfilled.

The president branded the attack “workplace violence,” not terrorism or even gun violence. This was a denial of Islamic terrorism and a bid to prevent the victims from gaining combat medals and benefits. Sgt. Alonzo Lunsford, who took seven bullets from Hasan, watched in horror as Hasan got better medical treatment than his victims. In 2014, Lunsford sought a brief audience with the president, who declined to meet with the soldier. Jump ahead to July 8, 2024.

Joe Biden, the last Democrat to occupy the White House, said it was “time to put Trump in the bull’s-eye.” Five days later, Thomas Matthew Crooks evaded the Secret Service and fired seven shots, one wounding candidate Trump in the ear. Jump ahead to April 25, 2026.

By all indications, Joe Biden issued no post after Cole Thomas Allen aimed to assassinate Trump. Take Obama’s post as another admission that, as David Samuels acknowledged in “The Obama Factor” in 2023, the hapless Biden was a puppet and the “fictional character” created in Dreams from My Father was still running the country and “responsible for the disaster that we are living through now.”

For all but the willfully blind, leading Democrats are now all-in on political violence. Obama serves as a pro-bono attorney for assassins like Cole Thomas Allen and jihadists like Nidal Hasan. The mass murderer was sentenced to death in 2013 but remains alive at this writing.

“He doesn’t deserve to breathe,” contends Secretary of War Pete Hegseth. President Trump, survivor of three assassination attempts, should give the order. Meanwhile, FBI director Kash Patel must reveal which FBI official dropped the surveillance on Nidal Hasan. Was it on the order of somebody in the White House? The people have a right to know.

Photo credit: Ft. Hood shooting ceremony, U.S. Army photo by Daniel Cernero at Wikimedia Commons.