What Do We Know About President Trump's Alleged Would-be Assassin? 4-27-26
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21 segmentsIt was a little bit of me. I wanted to see what was happening. And I wasn't making it that easy for him. I wanted to see what was going on. And by that time, we started to realize maybe it was... a bad problem. I'm a big fan of the people of law enforcement. And, you know, some of these people, they may be crazy, but they're not stupid, and they figure things out. He ran 45 yards, they say, and he just went to it, and then boom, he popped through it. This is New Hampshire Today. Acting U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche said on NBC's Meet the Press, the suspect Cole Allen was likely targeting administration officials, including the president. We know that... that there were some writings and we've already spoken with several witnesses who knew him. Todd Blanche adds he hopes the job's Secret Service did to help protect people Saturday night will also give a political push to fund the Department of Homeland Security. What we saw those men, those men and women doing last night should be a wake-up call to Congress and I hope that it is. DHS, which oversees Secret Service has not been funded since mid-February. Where the Granite State turns to get all the latest news and information. I was really concerned. I mean, I heard shots and everybody dove down. I was sitting next to the Homeland Security Secretary, Markwayne Mullin, his staff security secret service jumped on him and pushed him down. His wife was next to us. All the Fox security told everybody to get under the table. And you can imagine, you know, 2,000 people in that room really jam-packed in. There was mass chaos. But within seconds, the entire place was filled with Secret Service, guns drawn, and there were a lot of shaking up people. Now, New Hampshire today.
Good morning. This is the answer today. I am Chris Ryan. I appreciate you. Joining us for the show. This is the third attempt on President Trump, it would appear, in the last three years. And that certainly raises questions as to... whether or not the security was sufficient at this event and also whether how we've gotten to a place where there is this level of political violence in our country but for now we're going to focus on the details of this and fox news radios tony j powers joins us right now on the hrc urinary credit union guest on with the latest on the shooter who is due in court today good morning tanya Hey, good morning. Good morning. What can you tell us? Uh, he is due in court today, Cole Thomas Allen, who is 31 of Torrance, California. He is expected to be arraigned in federal court. According to Janine Piro, who is the US attorney for DC, uh, she says that he will be arraigned on two counts of using a firearm, one count of assault on a federal officer using a dangerous weapon. And she says additional charges are expected. I'm not sure what those additional charges might be. But if they do add more, that should not be a big surprise. It would appear that they will probably try to present a charge that indicates he was trying to assassinate the president or members of the cabinet. We heard initially that he was talking with investigators. So perhaps something was said there. Also, of course, witnesses are being interviewed. What do we know about the suspect? Well, quite a bit, actually. We know that he obtained a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from the California Institute of Technology in 2017. The master's degree, he obtained that in computer science from Cal State, Dominguez Hills in 2025. He was a member of the school's Christian Fellowship. According to his LinkedIn profile, he is, according to the Associated Press, a highly educated tutor and amateur video game developer. He describes himself as a mechanical engineer and computer scientist by degree. Um, a teacher, um, these are just kind of a few of the pieces of the background that we, that we know of at this point. I'm like I said, 31. Um, he is the oldest of four adult siblings. He has two younger sisters and a brother. Matter of fact, the brother contacted police in New London, Connecticut after he had received those writings, um, that we've heard a lot about, uh, that Cole Allen, uh, apparently put out.
prior to the incident at the dinner, the law enforcement officials there in the London, the police department said that it was contacted about 1049 p.m. about two hours after the shooting by somebody who wanted to share information related to it. They said they immediately notified federal law enforcement, which is one of the reasons that that his writing became public so quickly. Yes, indeed. And you mentioned the writings and they also lead to a potential motive. What do we see there? Yeah, it, it basically, he talks about President Trump, but does not name him directly. There are repeated references to him. You, there are allusions to grievances over several of the actions of the Trump administration, including U.S. strikes on drug smuggling boats in the Eastern Pacific. You know, there were, there were also apologies. to family members, coworkers and even strangers that he was worried might be caught up in the violence. Um, there were, you know, this kind of a farewell. He had political anger. Um, you know, this, this is, this is one of the things that, you know, we saw it was quite a, it was quite a. a good bit of writing. I think it gave us a lot more insight into his thinking. And he was, it was started out pretty casual. Like, hello everybody. You know, just sort of, here's why, here's why I'm doing this. Here's, here's what my thoughts are. Um, yeah, so it was, it was an interesting, um, it wasn't, it didn't seem like the, you know, the manifestos that we read a lot of times when, uh, these kinds of things happened. It was, it was, it seemed way more casual. He even talked about being able to check into the hotel and how nobody, you know, even bad at a night. I didn't, I mean, obviously he didn't come in there with a gun flung around his neck or anything, but I, you know, they didn't, there was no like security being had to go through, which. I mean, most hotels don't require you to go through security when you're going to stay at them. And, you know, the Washington Hilton is a, is a working hotel. It's a, you know, regular hotel just like, you know, anywhere else, which is that's one of the things that we've heard a lot about since then is, you know, the security surrounding getting into the hotel for the event versus, you know, like what the security looked like down a couple of floors below for the actual ballroom.