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Cole Allen Pleads Not Guilty in Correspondence Dinner Shooting

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Cole Allen Pleads Not Guilty in Correspondence Dinner Shooting
Above: Jeanine Pirro, U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, at the Justice Department on April 27, 2026. Image credit: Valerie Plesch/Bloomberg/Getty Images

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Cole Allen's not guilty plea is a slap in the face to justice, as video footage, ballistic evidence and his own written manifesto prove he tried to assassinate Trump administration officials. Allen literally planned the attack for days and called everyone at the dinner 'complicit.' Leftist political rage drove this attack, and no courtroom theatrics should obscure what the evidence makes undeniable.

While the correspondents' dinner attack was terrifying, it only dominated headlines due to who was targeted. Meanwhile, three teenagers were shot dead that same weekend across Brooklyn,the Florida and North Carolinanation. Gun violence kills ordinary Americans every single day, hitting people who have no Secret Service detail or metal detectors protecting them. The real crisis isn't one dramatic incident, but it's the relentless, everyday toll that goes largely ignored.

This shooting has became another partisan blame game, hiding the deeper issue how how little trust the public has in the government to explain what actually happened. Officials gave conflicting descriptions of the shooter's writings, major security failures remain unanswered and the attack was immediately used to justify a controversial White House ballroom project — one that Trump himself suggested is tied to a much larger, secretive military construction effort underneath.


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