Manifesto Reveals Alleged Gunman Picked One Trump Official to Spare

The gunman who attempted to storm the White House Correspondents’ Association planned to spare one of Trump’s appointees during his attack: FBI Director Kash Patel.

The New York Post was the first to reveal that Cole Thomas Allen, 31, had sent a lengthy manifesto to his family moments before engaging in a shootout on Saturday with Secret Service agents at the Washington Hilton hotel in the nation’s capital.

In the document, Allen referred to himself as “Cole ‘coldForce’ ‘The Friendly Federal Killer’ Allen” and outlined his plan to assassinate Donald Trump as well as high-ranking officials within his administration—with the notable exception of Patel.

He wrote: “Administration officials (not including Mr. Patel): they are targets, prioritized from highest-ranking to lowest,”

The reason he spared Patel remains unexplained; yet the latter had faced a wave of criticism for appearing to wander aimlessly—at least outwardly—in a video clip recorded shortly after gunfire erupted outside the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.

The Washington Post reported that Patel was seen being escorted out of the Hilton hotel through the main lobby at 10:02 p.m.—approximately 90 minutes after the sound of gunshots rang out. Furthermore, the New York Times reported that his girlfriend—who was also a guest of the Daily Mail—had taken shelter in a room while holding hands with another man, before subsequently leaving in Patel’s company.

Later, Patel joined Trump and other administration officials at a White House press conference, during which he heaped praise upon them, telling Trump—during the briefing—that he “inspires” law enforcement.

“You give them the resources that they need, and you know, they know that you have their back” Patel told Trump, who gave him a pat on the shoulder. “that is a changing dynamic in this country,”

In a 1,052-word statement, Allen wrote to his family members that, as a “citizen of the United States of America,” he was “no longer willing to let a pedophile, a rapist, and a traitor stain [his] hands with his crimes.” He further added that he sought to minimize human casualties as much as possible, targeting Secret Service agents only “when necessary,” and avoiding other members of law enforcement and security personnel “unless they opened fire on me.”

He emphasized that guests and staff were never his targets. “I would still go through most everyone here to get to the targets if it were absolutely necessary (on the basis that most people *chose* to attend a speech by a pedophile, rapist, and traitor, and are thus complicit) but I really hope it doesn’t come to that”.

Allen—whose identity has not yet been officially revealed by authorities—reportedly traveled by train from his home state of California (where he resides in the Los Angeles area and works as a teacher) to Washington, D.C.

On his LinkedIn profile, this graduate of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) describes himself as follows: ”mechanical engineer and computer scientist by degree, independent game developer by experience, teacher by birth.”

A White House source told National Public Radio (NPR) that Allen’s sister had informed law enforcement that her brother “had a tendency to make radical statements and his rhetoric constantly referenced a plan to do ‘something’ to fix the issues with today’s world,”

For his part, Jeff Carroll—acting chief of the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Police Department—stated that the suspect was armed with a shotgun, a handgun, and several knives. Allen is expected to face two charges: the first for using a firearm during the commission of a violent crime, and the second for assaulting a federal officer with a dangerous weapon.