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The suspected shooter at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner reportedly sent a manifesto critical of President Donald Trump to his family before he allegedly opened fire at the Washington Hilton, The New York Post reports.
Authorities identified the shooter as 31-year-old Cole Allen, a teacher from Torrance, California. The Post reported that the manifesto showed that Allen wanted to kill officials from the Trump administration.
“Turning the other cheek is for when you yourself are oppressed,” he said. Allen would proceed to list out some of the actions from the Trump administration that allegedly drove him to open fire.
“I’m not the person raped in a detention camp. I’m not the fisherman executed without trial,” he said. “I’m not a schoolkid blown up, or a child starved, or a teenage girl abused by the many criminals in this administration. Turning the other cheek when *someone else* is oppressed is not Christian behavior; it is complicity in the oppressor’s crimes.”
Allen said that officials from the Trump administration–with the exception of FBI Director Kash Patel–were targets for his alleged rampage.
“I am no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist, and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes,” he wrote in reference to the president.
Allen also laid out how he planned to stage his attack.
“In order to minimize casualties, I will also be using buckshot rather than slugs (less penetration through walls),” he wrote. “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.”
The manifesto also highlighted the “insane” lack of security at the Washington Hilton, saying that Iranian agents could have come to the dinner with more lethal weaponry and “no one would have noticed s***.”