President Trump’s appearance at the White House Correspondents Dinner was interrupted when the president and other key members were rushed out by the Secret Service after shots were fired.
The gunman has currently been identified as Cole Thomas Allen, a part-time teacher in California who uses the He/Him pronouns and had been named ‘Teacher of the Year’. Initial records (and these can be mistaken due to database mix ups or similar names) appear to show him donating to the Kamala campaign through the radical leftist ActBlue platform which is currently under investigation.
Protesters at the WHCD had called and continued to call for President Trump’s murder even after the shooting, holding up signs calling for “Death to all of them”.
While Dems are formally condemning political violence they, including Mamdani, had hosted Hasan Piker, a Turkish Muslim streamer, who had called for the murder of conservative elected officials.
Daniel Greenfield
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism. Daniel became CEO of the David Horowitz Freedom Center in 2025.
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