The Department of Justice just charged an FAA employee — a “faithful career public servant” on the federal payroll — for allegedly threatening to assassinate President Trump. That’s right. A guy who works for the agency that makes sure your plane doesn’t crash was apparently spending his off-hours fantasizing about killing the President of the United States.
Your tax dollars at work, folks. Truly inspiring stuff.
The charges were announced on May 5th, and separately, a lovely gentleman named Cole Tomas Allen was indicted on four federal counts for an alleged assassination attempt on the President. So we’ve got threats from inside the government AND outside it. Busy week for the Secret Service.
Now, we need to talk about what’s actually going on here. This wasn’t some random lunatic screaming at pigeons in a park. This was a federal employee. Someone who passed a background check. Someone who sat in a government office building, collected a government paycheck, enjoyed government benefits, and apparently decided that murdering the duly elected President sounded like a reasonable Tuesday.
(And Democrats wonder why we want to drain the swamp.)
Here’s what makes this even more infuriating. While the DOJ is — correctly — throwing the book at this FAA psychopath, we’ve got a prosecutor in Virginia who can’t even be bothered to charge people making threats against Stephen Miller. You read that right. Threaten the President? Federal charges. Threaten his senior adviser? The local DA shrugs and checks his watch.
It’s almost like there’s a two-tier justice system or something. Weird how that keeps coming up.
The feds deserve credit here — they moved fast and they moved hard. The DOJ announced these charges within days, and the message is crystal clear: threaten this President and you WILL be sitting in a courtroom explaining yourself to a judge. That’s how it should work. That’s how it ALWAYS should have worked.
But let’s zoom out for a second. How does someone like this get hired at a federal agency in the first place? The FAA controls American airspace. They’re responsible for the safety of every single person who boards an airplane in this country. And lurking somewhere in their ranks was a guy who allegedly wanted to kill the Commander-in-Chief.
Feeling good about your flight next week?
This is exactly why DOGE exists. This is exactly why President Trump has been cleaning house across the federal bureaucracy. Because the rot isn’t just incompetence and waste — it’s people who actively despise the President they technically work for, embedded in agencies that are supposed to serve the American people.
And Cole Tomas Allen — the guy hit with four federal counts for an actual assassination attempt — reminds us that this isn’t just angry talk. People are acting on it. The left-wing media spent years calling Trump “literally Hitler,” and now they act surprised when unstable people take that rhetoric seriously.
We’ve had multiple assassination attempts on this President. Multiple. And the media treats each one like a two-day story before going back to breathless coverage of whatever Trump said on Truth Social that hurt their feelings.
Imagine — just imagine — if a federal employee had threatened to kill Barack Obama. CNN would still be running the documentary. MSNBC would have erected a memorial. There would be a Netflix limited series starring someone from Hamilton.
But it’s Trump, so we get a news blip and a collective shrug from the same people who screamed about “stochastic terrorism” for four straight years.
The good news? This DOJ isn’t playing around. Attorney General Blanche has made it clear that threats against the President will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, whether they come from some random maniac or from inside the federal government itself.
The call is coming from inside the house. And for once, someone’s actually answering it.