So a Caltech-educated, Kamala-donating, “Teacher of the Month” tried to assassinate the President of the United States at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner last Saturday — and the media’s first instinct was to float the idea that maybe the Secret Service agent just accidentally shot himself. You know, friendly fire. Happens all the time at black-tie dinners.
U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro wasn’t having it. She released the high-definition video on Wednesday showing the exact moment Cole Tomas Allen — armed with a shotgun he carried across state lines from California — sprinted past the magnetometer at the Washington Hilton and opened fire on a Secret Service officer. On camera. In high resolution. Slowed down so even the dumbest CNN anchor can follow along.
“There is no evidence the shooting was the result of friendly fire,” Pirro said. Translation: stop lying.
We need to talk about this video, because it’s not just damning — it’s infuriating. You can see Allen bypass the metal detector, raise the shotgun, and fire at the officer protecting the checkpoint. The Secret Service agent — wearing a ballistic vest that saved his life — took a round to the chest and still managed to draw his weapon and return fire. Five shots. Allen hit the ground. The officer went to the hospital and was released. Allen got a scratch.
That officer is a hero. Period.
But the footage doesn’t stop there. Pirro’s office also released surveillance video showing Allen casing the Washington Hilton the day before the attack. Just strolling through the hotel, scouting entry points, checking sight lines — the whole thing planned out like a homework assignment. Which, given his background, tracks perfectly.
About that background. Cole Tomas Allen, 31, from Torrance, California. Mechanical engineering degree from Caltech. Master’s in computer science from Cal State Dominguez Hills. Named “Teacher of the Month” in December 2024 by a national tutoring company. Oh — and he donated to Kamala Harris through ActBlue that same year. Registered as “no party preference” in California, which is what every liberal in a blue state puts down when they want to pretend they’re independent thinkers.
He also left behind a manifesto. Called himself a “friendly federal assassin” — his words, not ours — and laid out his hatred for Trump and his desire to target administration officials. A manifesto, a political donation trail, and a Teacher of the Month plaque. That’s quite the résumé.
Now here’s what should make your blood boil. Within hours of the shooting, before any video was released, the “friendly fire” narrative was already circulating. Not from some random guy on Reddit — from blue-check journalists and political operatives who saw an opportunity to turn an assassination attempt against the president into an indictment of his own security team. They wanted this to be the Secret Service’s fault. They NEEDED it to be the Secret Service’s fault, because the alternative — that another left-leaning maniac tried to murder the president — is a story they absolutely cannot tell.
Three assassination attempts. Three. And every single time, the media treats it like an inconvenient footnote instead of the defining scandal of the decade.
Pirro shut that nonsense down with a press conference and a video file. That’s what happens when you put actual prosecutors in charge instead of political hacks who spend their time investigating parents at school board meetings. Pirro looked at the conspiracy theories, looked at the footage, and said: here, watch it yourself. Case closed.
Allen is sitting in federal custody right now facing three charges: attempting to assassinate the president, transporting a firearm across state lines with intent to commit a felony, and discharging a weapon during a crime of violence. President Trump and First Lady Melania were safely evacuated from the dinner. No attendees were seriously injured beyond the heroic officer who took that round to the chest.
So we’ve got the video. We’ve got the manifesto. We’ve got the Kamala donation receipt. We’ve got the pre-attack surveillance footage of the guy literally walking through the hotel the day before with murder on his mind. And we’ve got a DOJ that — for the first time in recent memory — actually released the evidence to the public instead of burying it in a classified file cabinet for three years.
Remember when the FBI sat on the Pulse nightclub shooter’s wife for months? Remember when we had to pry every detail about the congressional baseball shooting out of a DOJ that acted like the public had no right to know? Those days are over.
Pirro dropped the video. The “friendly fire” lie is dead. And Cole Tomas Allen — Caltech grad, Teacher of the Month, aspiring presidential assassin — is going to spend the rest of his miserable life in a cell. We’d say that’s a win, but honestly? The fact that we keep having to celebrate “they didn’t manage to kill the president this time” is a pretty low bar for a civilized country.